HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: de@moscom.com (David Esan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Sorry to Inject Some FAQs
Date: 11 Nov 92 23:00:02 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corporation, Pittsford NY

In article <2566.434.uupcb@ehbbs.gwinnett.com> harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter) writes:
>>Fb.Driver runs over exotic animal,wraps in coat for fun photo;it revives
>>   off!  Similar story: A hunter poses for picture w/deer w/rifle in ant
>
>A variation on this is true - a guy hit a deer, stopped his car, got out
>and put the deer in his car.  The deer revived, bit him on the neck, and
>kicked the crap out of the interior of his car.  He killed the deer with
>his knife, and a big dog came up, and wanting the deer, also bit him.
>
>I've heard the tape of the driver's call to 911, with expletives bleeped.
>The caller sounded drunk, but sincere.  As a matter or fact, I have it as
>a digitized sound file.  It's a big 'un.

I have heard this tape as well.  The DJ on a local radio station (Brother
Wease on WCMF in Rochester, NY) plays it often.  He claims that it was 
sent to him from Georgia by a fan.  I am not quite sure if it is a real call
(can you trust anyone not named Terry? - hell Wease isn't even Kibo rot13ed),
but it sure sounds like it.

Whatever the source, it is hilarious.

"It bit my mother*ing shoulder!"
"Are you hurt?"
"It bit my mother*ing shoulder!"

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From: MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: RFD: rec.games.frp.campaign
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:56:45 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University

Okay, maybe it's not suitable for the AFU motto.-of-the-week
competition.  But do you think the folks over in news.groups
are looking for an all-purpose Usenet motto?  Here's my
suggestion:
 
In article <1da04lINN2a1@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>
randall-joshua@yale.edu (Joshua Randall) writes:
 
>I intend to vote no to this group, and I intend to stuff the ballot box
>if I get the chance.
 
ObUL:  A friend who used to work as a baggage handler for Flying
Tigers claims that one of that company's planes once crashed
because the cows weren't milked before being loaded.  It seems
that the pilot did not anticipate the weight of the udders shifting
when he banked the plane. . . .
 
maurice
                                                 Maurice Forrester
                                                 mjforres@suvm.syr.edu
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Seventh Circuit Bound)
Subject: Frozen Waste
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:44:33 GMT

Once, it's an accident.  Twice, it's coincidence.  Three times, it's
a conspiracy.

Notice that with both of these incidents, the object in question was
basketball sized.  In Seattle, it was blue.  In Florida, it was green
and brown.  Go figure.

In article <BxID0w.BCC@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> stcmille@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Stephen C. Miller) writes:
>Article 175 of clari.news.interest.quirks:
>
>	MELBOURNE, Fla. (UPI) -- The glistening green and brown frozen object
>that slammed through the roof of a house Monday fell from the sky, but
>was anything but a meteorite, investigators quickly learned.
>	Embarassed police and fire officials discovered the object, which was
>slightly larger than a basketball was in fact waste from an airplane
>toilet.
>	``It's by far the weirdest call I've done,'' said police officer
>Ralph Reichard, who has been a policeman for four months.
>	``We were on routine patrol, and several witnesses flagged us down
>and said a green and brown ball had fallen from the sky,'' he said.
>	Reichard said when he arrived at the home of Anthony and Jamie
>Perrie, he saw a 3-foot by 3-foot hole in the barrel tile roof.
>	Delores Wolfe, who works for the family as a nanny was surprised to
>see the police at the door, telling the officers she thought the noise
>was the ironing board falling over.
>	Reichard said he went upstairs to the master bedroom.
>	``There was a green sphere-like object that had entered the master
>bedroom, leaving a 12-inch by 12-inch hole in the ceiling,'' he said. 
>``The fire department's hazardous materials team was then requested.''
>	The team conducted several tests, including a test for radioactivity
>with a geiger counter.
>	Reichard was reluctant to reveal exactly when the real nature of the
>block became apparent, but admitted there was ``some laughing.''
>	Neither Wolfe nor the family's 16-month-old son were injured.
>	``Some softball-sized chunks also split off when it hit the roof, and
>damaged the screened porch as well,'' Reichard said.
>	As officers placed the mass into a cooler to preserve it, the Federal
>Aviation Administration was contacted.
>	``They said they didn't want it,'' the officer said. ``They are
>looking into it, but they told us if the aircraft was flying at more
>than 30,000 feet, they'd have no way of telling who dropped it.''
>	FAA officials were unavailable for comment late Monday.


-- 
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From: danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock)
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Reply-To: danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:09:28 GMT

In article <stovall.721500229@ficus.cs.ucla.edu>, stovall@ficus.cs.ucla.edu
(Steven Stovall) writes:

> Yeah, but we would have a hell of a lot more leverage in trying to
> marshall global financial resources toward the eradication of AIDS if
> we could prove that the bastards had something to do with this plague
> in the first place (instead of, say, "savages" eating raw monkey meat
> or using monkey blood in ritualistic sex).

   The "naturally occuring virus" theory is a real nice one.  It fits 
each and every fact.  You seem to demand that humans be responsible 
somehow.  Why?

> Not to mention the issue of
> reparations, if either polio vaccine experimentation or something
> more sinister turns out to have resulted in the deaths of tens of
> millions of third world people. But we all agree that our primary
> focus should be on "prevention, treatment, and cure."

   And if you're wrong we waste _home much_ resources in pointless 
litigation and stupid accusation shouting?  Since you _are_ wrong,
based on every shred of available evidence, you should think real
hard about doing anything more than collecting additional facts.

> steven stovall

Dan
Danwell@IASTATE.EDU
From: greg@perry.berkeley.edu (Greg Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Courgettes (was Re: doggy style)
Summary: mpython, conspiracy
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:34:41 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: andy.berkeley.edu

In article <6699@news.duke.edu> klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj) writes:
>>Please add to the list, from MRI cases I have seen ;
>> 
>>9/16" Crescent Wrench
>
>  The patient must have lied when the MRI techs asked if
>he/she had any metal objects on, in or about him.  Like they
>wouldn't eventually find out anyway.  Could have caused some
>nasty injury if the wrench decided to  migrate to the magnet.
>(Or is that just African swallows?)
>

Are you trying to imply that crescent wrenches are migratory?
Could be, considering the difficulty I have finding those damned
things in my toolbox...

On the other hand, maybe it's just the CIA and their sock-sucking
machine at work...

Would that be an African or European crescent wrench?

Greg Anderson
greg@perry.berkeley.edu

ObSmiley: ;-P
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Port Out Starboard Home -- That's the Life for ME!
Date: 6 Nov 92 00:03:03 GMT
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117


vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (vance kochenderfer) writes:
  
  +>Terry "Does anybody know what IBM and DEC stands for?" Wood
  + 
  + Well, DEC stands for Don't Eat Candy, a warning to children who might
  +otherwise unthinkingly bite into a gasoline (okay, petrol) soaked raison.

And IBM was Idiots Built Me?
  
  +Vance "raisin in the sun" Kochenderfer

I prefer "raison in the sun" myself.

Terry "Much more enlightening" Chan
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From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mr. Furr)
Subject: Re: FAQ Off!  (Was Re: furrfu??)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 13:06:08 GMT

In article <27348@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>manley@optilink.UUCP (Dave Manley) writes:
>  
>  +Dave "The originator of furrfu! Who's Terry and how do I get in the FAQ?" 
>	Manley
>
>Let's take this in order:
>
>Who's Terry?  All on a.f.u. are Terry and yet none are.
>
>You were the guy that chose to honor Joel Furr?  What's your 
>relationship with him?  Huh?!  'fess up!

Dave and I run blackmarket lemurs through the Port of New York three times
yearly.  We disguise them as Hungarian piccolo players and put dark shades
on them and we usually don't get caught.

Joel "But then there was that time the customs people had that big box of
Twinkies sitting next to the gate" Furr
jfurr@vtssi.vt.edu
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From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Subject: Re: DAMP Towel dries other clothes faster!
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 02:10:56 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

In article <1debqmINN8mg@moe.ksu.ksu.edu>, diverson@phys.ksu.edu (David Iverson) writes:
> Well, not exactly, but the way that I learned it from my mother was that
> since our dryer had a humidity sensor on it (would shut off below a certain
> humidity) if you had one shirt or one pair of pants that you wanted to get
> dry you should put a damp towel in the dryer with the garment.  That way the
> dryer thinks it still has a lot of drying to do and stays on.  Meanwhile the
> garment dries quicker than the towel and ends up bone dry, ready to be worn
> immediately.

More or less correct, at least in my personal experience.  First, very
few dryers actually have humidity sensors.  Rather, they have temperature
sensors -- when the vent temperature reaches a certain point, the timer
is moved one tick, and the heat is turned off for a while.  With very
small loads in the dryer, the output temperature stays high, so the
timer (pulse counter, actually) expires fairly quickly, leaving the load
damp.  With a damp towel in there, the timer doesn't tick as often, and
the dryer doesn't shut off as soon; additionally, there's a higher
duty cycle for the heat.
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From: pmmst8+@pitt.edu (Paul M Mweene)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Date: 9 Nov 92 06:03:22 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Observe also that sterilization would be biiger problem the rural areas..
 
)

 

Makala
From: dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Where can I look for any scholarly info....
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:33:00 GMT
Organization: Will pay money for food.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <BxDArB.9EM@rahul.net>, 
  phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes...

> We are basically nice people here, except maybe for snopes.

  F*ck you, *ssh*le; I'm as nice as the next guy.

  - snopes

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From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Usenetball
Organization: a2i network
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 01:42:16 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.010945.18048@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>: 
>: Now that I think of it, I know a Bill Nelson who was a big dumb crew
>: guy at MIT in the early 60's.  Are you him?
>
>Not that I remember. I was in high school in the early 60s. 

Sorry about that.  Anybody who can write intelligently about beekeeping
and pyrotechnics and lots of stuff in between is rather an asset to the
group. The Bill Nelson I remember was much more boring.  Get your company
to buy you a ticket for AFU \/, to be held at a sleazy tavern near me.


Phil "Terry will bring the chicken mole'" Gustafson




-- 
Phil Gustafson <phil@rahul.net>
From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Another Airport Urban Legend.
Date: 13 Nov 1992 09:48 PST
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: world
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

>There is a sign at Heathrow airport that says "Beware of
>Pickpockets".  It was not placed there, as you might expect,
>by the authorities, but rather by the pickpockets
>themselves.  You see, when people look at the sign, they pat
>their pocket to ensure that they still have their wallet.

I first saw this form of story in a Readers Digest anthology from the
1950s. Allegedly a popular modus operandi of a group of pickpockets 
working a crowd was to have one of the better actors in the gang jump 
up looking outraged and ripped-off and shout, "Watch out for pickpockets," 
whereupon people would feel their wallets.

I do wonder how much of the classical stealthy pickpocket's art survives. 
Today, one usually hears about schemes that are much more overt (e.g.,
stories about packs of brazen children, usually Gypsies if the story is
set in Europe, who divert your attention and figure you won't be seen in
public belting a kid even if one of them is plainly lifting your wallet).
Or plain old muggings, the worst case being a recent Berkeley incident in
which the victim was shot for handing over his wallet too slowly.

Joe "And guess what?  Carjacking isn't a UL anymore" Chew
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: gators 'r us
Subject: Re: Courgettes (was Re: doggy style)
	<1992Nov5.054351.2022@tamsun.tamu.edu>
	<1992Nov5.203113.4954@igor.tamri.com>
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep  5 1992
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 08:10:06 -0400

i'm sure i'm not the only one who had no idea what a courgette is.  so, for
the benefit of the ignorant(including me), i looked it up.  it's a brit 
word for what americans call zucchini("a summer squash of bushy growth with
smooth cylindrical dark green fruits.").

and all this time i thought it was a misspelling of corgi, which is why the
title includes the word "doggie".

-- 
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Subject: Re: Driving without shoes
From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Date: 16 Nov 92 03:42:56 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <k977TB1w165w@page6.pinetree.org>, fred@page6.pinetree.org (Fred Ennis) writes:

>> The best reason I know to wear shoes in the car is that if I need to get out

> The best reason I know to wear shoes in the car is so that Winston 
> Churchill (or was it Disralei?) doesn't puke on your bare feet.

> Fred "not another inside joke by a Terry" Ennis

I hope all of you following up to this from AFU know that IT IS A USENET LAW
that if you post or crosspost into "rec.nude", you MUST be nude while doing
the posting.  You are subject to "disiplinary action" if you are not!

If you all are REAL GOOD, I'll post in AFU about what happens when guys like
YOU get a hard-on at the nude beach.

Terry "An inside joke by a Terry" Wood
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"There should have been only one. I want my money back!"  - Terry
From: dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: RFD: rec.games.frp.campaign
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:00:00 GMT
Organization: Will pay money for food.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <16896D9B8.MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU>, 
  MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice) writes...

>ObUL:  A friend who used to work as a baggage handler for Flying
>Tigers claims that one of that company's planes once crashed
>because the cows weren't milked before being loaded.  It seems
>that the pilot did not anticipate the weight of the udders shifting
>when he banked the plane. . . .

It was an udder disaster.

 - snopes

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From: centaur@terminus.gatech.edu (Anthony G. Francis)
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Organization: Georgia Tech College of Computing
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:18:40 GMT

Having missed earlier portions of this thread, I'd just like to
point out that the earliest samples of the AIDS virus pre-date
the technology needed to perform genetic engineering. One tissue
sample preserved from a sailor who died in the 1950's contains the
AIDS virus. That puts it right at or before the discovery of the 
helical structure of DNA, which is a sine qua non for the fine-scale
genetic engineering it would take to produce AIDS. Earlier samples
have been found, and records of AIDS-like diseases are present
all the way back to the turn of the century. AIDS is at least
a hundred years old, if not far older. It just didn't reach
epidemic proportions until now.

And, as I'm sure someone has already pointed out, the bovine
virus that is the alleged source of AIDS bears no resemblance to
any of the HIV strains on a codon level. Despite the seemingly
suspicious suggestions to make a human immunodeficiency virus
that were bandied around in the 1970's, there is no evidence that
AIDS was the product of such research.

The evidence against such a theory is fairly convincing.
To borrow a page from another popular conspiracy, it's as 
if the sound analysis of the Kennedy assassination 
audio tapes revealed Lee Harvey Oswald's voice crying,
"Ha! Got the sucker in only three shots, all by myself!" 

There _was_ no conspiracy to produce the AIDS virus. It is a 
purely natural tragedy, an epidemic, like many others that
have devastated humanity throughout history.

-Anthony Francis
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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Courgettes (was Re: doggy style)
Date: 10 Nov 1992 01:59:32 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

reid@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Robert Reid) writes:

  +Ok., I've looked this up in two dictionaries and have been unable to find
  +a definition for the word courgette. My office mates and I are curious as
  +to just what it is.

The _Concise Oxford Dictionary_ (8th Edition) sez:

  "a small green variety of vegetable marrow.  Also called _zucchini_
   (foreign word)".

Under "vegetable marrow", we find:

  "a.  a large usu. white fleshed edible gourd used as food."
  "b.  The plant, Curcurbita pepo, yielding this Curcurbita pepo."


Terry "There are other kinds of marrow, but this isn't alt.chinese.food" Chan
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Courgettes (was Re: doggy style)
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:28:27 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.202523.23043@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> reid@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Robert Reid) writes:
>
>Ok., I've looked this up in two dictionaries and have been unable to find
>a definition for the word courgette. My office mates and I are curious as
>to just what it is.
>
>	thanks 

How does it compare to a full-size courge?

cj "How about Courge Extra Gold?" l
From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Courgettes (was Re: doggy style)
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:04:28 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com


In article <1992Nov9.213009.10762@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, foltz@as.arizona.edu (Craig B. Foltz) writes:
>Yes, those pesky Brits...
>Courgettes are zucchini.  Fyi, they refer to eggplants as 'aubergines.'
And I was taken aback to find a recipe in a British vegetarian 
cookbook calling for "marrow".  I've been told it's a squash.

Bruce "Ichthyo-lacto-ovo-bovo-gallo-capro-vegetarian" Tindall

-- 
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