HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: terwill@arecibo.aero.org (Bill who?)
Subject: Re: Conspiracy
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Reply-To: terwill@arecibo.aero.org
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:11:00 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.122508.1532@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>, acadams@aplcen (Arthur C. Adams) writes...
>Has anyone ever heard this one:
> 
>H & R Block is secretly a part of the IRS.
> 
>They intentionally don't tell people about deductions they have a right to
>so the IRS will collect more money.
>-- 
>The world is not analog. The world is digital, just
>with an incredible number of bits.
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>Arthur C. Adams - E-Mail acadams@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu

It's true? Maybe. I went to H & R Block in 1981 (it was a very bad year)
and the initial assesment was that I would owe $300. federal, $175. state
and it would cost $75. for them to do my return. I was recently divorced
and 45% of my salary was going directly to my ex in the form of child
support but I was paying taxex on 100% out of my 55%! California.

Got a call a week later (about April 10th): Owed federal $830., owed
state $1,055., fee $125.!

Nancy Regan must have had stock in the company. You remember her, the
comedian who pulled all the strings on that dummy.....now what was his
name....Homer, no.....

Bill

"My opinions are my own and consistantly judged to be in error by others"
From: 00kncramer@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: talk.rumors
Subject: Re: BALL STATE 1992 election read
Date: 14 Apr 92 00:33:59 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.160550.6104@bsu-ucs.uucp>, 00jlrushton@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:
> Hey ball state has decided to not elect gay people instead the elect the
> president to be the one with the best boobs!
> 
First thing: Half, if not most, of the people on campus didn't know the guy 
was gay for starters! Don't go jumping to conclusions about people's opinions 
on one's sexual preference. If there are homophobic people that don't want to
vote for him...so be it. Who are you to tell people that they should have voted
for him? 

Another thing (Part 1): If you had any decency towards your own campus, you 
would have at least would have capitolized Ball State.

And Another thing (Part 2): I voted for the one with the nicest boobs and I am
proud to admit it!

Kevin "Stimpy" Cramer
albundy@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
00kncramer@bsu-ucs.bsu.edu
From: 00pebenson@bsu-ucs.uucp (Etrigan)
Newsgroups: talk.rumors
Subject: Jerry Brown gay? (was RE: Amelia Erhart)
Date: 15 Apr 92 03:03:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: bsu-ucs.1992Apr14.220328.6403
Distribution: talk

In article <1992Apr9.173833.10437@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, bdaher@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Brian D Daher) writes:
> In article <1992Apr9.125743.11607@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> y8zy@vax5.cit.cornell.e
> du writes:
>>    I have recently heard an interesting rumor.
>>Amelia Erhart, the female aviator, did survive the crash on the island in the
>>pacific ocean. She was part of the mafia and was given the new identity in
>>Calcutta of Mother Theresa. Jerry Brown has plans of making her first lady.
>                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> That will be hard to do since Jerry Brown is gay.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

what? where? when? how? who?



sorry,  i don't get out much.
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From: rl24@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Robert Lamoureux)
Newsgroups: talk.rumors
Subject: Re: Amelia Erhart
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:47:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: cunixf.1992Apr9.194736.14336
Reply-To: rl24@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Robert Lamoureux)
Distribution: talk
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Apr9.173833.10437@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> bdaher@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Brian D Daher) writes:
>In article <1992Apr9.125743.11607@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> y8zy@vax5.cit.cornell.e
>du writes:
>>    I have recently heard an interesting rumor.
>>Amelia Erhart, the female aviator, did survive the crash on the island in the
>>pacific ocean. She was part of the mafia and was given the new identity in
>>Calcutta of Mother Theresa. Jerry Brown has plans of making her first lady.
>                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>That will be hard to do since Jerry Brown is gay.

It'll be even harder to do since Jerry Brown doesn't stand a fart's chance
in a tornado of being elected President.  (of the U.S., anyway)
Newsgroups: talk.rumors
Subject: Re: Amelia Erhart
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 04:49:15 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <1992Apr9.173833.10437@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> bdaher@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Brian D Daher) writes:
>In article <1992Apr9.125743.11607@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> y8zy@vax5.cit.cornell.e
>du writes:
>>    I have recently heard an interesting rumor.
>>Amelia Erhart, the female aviator, did survive the crash on the island in the
>>pacific ocean. She was part of the mafia and was given the new identity in
>>Calcutta of Mother Theresa. Jerry Brown has plans of making her first lady.
>                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>That will be hard to do since Jerry Brown is gay.


So what was he doing with Linda Ronstadt?

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From: 00jlrushton@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: talk.rumors
Subject: BALL STATE 1992 election read
Date: 10 Apr 92 21:05:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: bsu-ucs.1992Apr10.160550.6104

Hey ball state has decided to not elect gay people instead the elect the
president to be the one with the best boobs!
Newsgroups: talk.rumors
From: cgw@sol.acs.unt.edu (christopher williams)
Subject: Re: Sam who?
Originator: cgw@sol.acs.unt.edu
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 15:38:26 GMT

In <199204130337.AA16839@tigger.jvnc.net> richh@TIGGER.JVNC.NET (RICHH) writes:
>died?

i wonder what he said as he saw the truck scant feet from his face?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

?

-cgw-

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From: y8zy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: talk.rumors
Subject: Amelia Erhart
Date: 9 Apr 92 12:57:43 EST
Distribution: talk
Organization: Cornell University


	I have recently heard an interesting rumor.
Amelia Erhart, the female aviator, did survive the crash on the island in the
pacific ocean. She was part of the mafia and was given the new identity in
Calcutta of Mother Theresa. Jerry Brown has plans of making her first lady.

	I hope that someone can confirm this rumor.

	Mark 
	Y8ZY@CRNLVAX5
From: tim@crash.canon.co.uk
Newsgroups: talk.rumors
Subject: Cher and Mount Rushmore
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:57:13 GMT
Organization: Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd

Did Cher really believe that Mount Rushmore was the result of natural
wind and rain erosion or was that an evil rumor spread by Sonny?

Tx? [I'd still sex her even if she did]
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From: drumm@crs.cl.msu.edu (Steve Drumm)
Newsgroups: talk.rumors
Subject: Re: weekly world news..............this one's a classic
Date: 14 Apr 92 20:31:31 GMT
Organization: MSU RoundTable

In article <1992Apr13.193720.26236@aero.org> shag@aero.org (Robert M. Unverzagt) writes:
>In article <1992Apr12.161549.23525@oz.plymouth.edu> michaelc@oz.plymouth.edu (Mike Clark) writes:
>> In article <1992Apr11.030856.16774@wam.umd.edu> spinoza@next03wor.wam.umd.edu (Prince Lev of the Domovoi) writes:
>> >
>> >The new Weekly World News is in, and its another classic!
>> >
>> >IN this issue, we have:
>> >
>> >the 300 pound ovarian cyst
>> >
>> I did not see this in the Weekly WOrld News, however this is A TRUE
>> story, there was a woman last fall who had a 300 pound ovarian Cyst
>> removed...I had to read the article twice and then show it to other
>> people just to see if I understood it...It was an Associated Press
>> story, and I saw it in more than one newspaper so I am certain that it
>> was not a tabloid story gone awry!  Can you imagine having a 300 pound
>> cyst in your body?  YUK
>> 
>
>I believe this was talked about quite a lot in alt.tasteless.  If
>I remember right, she weighed something like 700 lbs before the
>cyst was removed.  The docs had to remove several square feet of
>skin after the operation -- she shrank a bit when they removed the
>darn thing.  The cyst got its own gurney to be wheeled away.  And
>now a gross fact -- the cyst contained teeth and hair.


	NOT ONLY TEETH AND HAIR, BUT EYES TOO.
	   several of them in fact.
From: 00drkoch@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: talk.rumors
Subject: Re: BALL STATE 1992 election read
Date: 10 Apr 92 21:20:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: bsu-ucs.1992Apr10.162049.6109

In article <1992Apr10.160550.6104@bsu-ucs.uucp>, 00jlrushton@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:
> Hey ball state has decided to not elect gay people instead the elect the
> president to be the one with the best boobs!
> 
Personally from what I read in the Daily News Miss McMillian had a much better
platfrom then Mr. Speakman.  

Secondly I never knew Mr. Speakman was gay, nor consider that Miss McMillian
had nice boobs.  I voted for who I thought was the bes candidate.

Thrid, why did you post here?  No one but BSU people want to here your
bitching.


No flames please.  I don't respond to them.

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From: richh@TIGGER.JVNC.NET (RICHH)
Newsgroups: talk.rumors
Subject: Sam who?
Date: 13 Apr 92 03:37:50 GMT

died?
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
From: regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
Subject: Re: Back from Texas - 1 of 2
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 19:57:21 GMT

In article <31067@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> tk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Tommy Kelly) writes:
>And now the moment you've all been waiting for ... I'm back from Texas, and
>I've moved my office from Glasgow to Edinburgh.  I've also noted that
>in my new site, t.a posts are not expired as frequently as they were in
>Glasgow (thats what my expiry tests were for Drieux).

Uh, that office in Glasgow that *does* retain postings?

Therefore an office from which you could actually QUOTE other people's
arguments rather than make them  up to suit yourself?

>So, Adrienne, concerning your opposition to anti-abortion legislation...
>Adrienne, and a bunch of others, have frequently criticised proposed 
>anti-abortion legislation, not on the grounds that the foetus wasn't a person,
>but simply on the grounds that REGARDLESS of what the foetus was, it had
>no right to be where it was.
>
>The nature of the foetus is, to them, irrelevant.
>
>So in answer to my questions, "Even *if* the foetus was identical-bar-location
>to a baby...", they still said that they would condone abortion.

HORSESHIT.

A fetus isn't identical-bar-location to a baby.

A fetus is defined as a fetus BY VIRTUE of it's location.

LOCATION, dickweed equals WOMAN.

A fetus OUTSIDE of a woman is no longer impinging upon a woman and therefore
is not restricting the woman's use and access to her own body and therefore 
isn't within her jurisdiction.

One cannot 'condone' abortion for a fetus that is not located within a woman.
THAT is not 'abortion'.

Now, Tommy, I happen to have a pretty good idea that you aren't a complete
idiot, so I gotta wonder just what you figure you accomplished by such a 
futile and patently absurd misdirection.

>	(N.B. THIS, is the VERY IMPORTANT BIT.  THIS, is the keystone of
>	 Adrienne's stance)

Absolutely unsupported, we notice, by anything adrienne may or may not
have ACTUALLY said, or by any of the logic developed by adrienne.  Heck
no.  We are treated to TOMMY KELLY'S version of how the world turns and
you actually think anybody is going to take this seriously?!?!?!?!?

Tommy, I'm really worried about you.  Are you *really* this confused?
Or this desparate?

Adrienne Regard

Newsgroups: talk.abortion
From: decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz)
Subject: Re: The March in D.C.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 01:46:50 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.191258.12552@cs.dal.ca> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:
> In <1992Apr14.154129.251@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz) writes:
> >The problem with some children is they don't have a sense of history.
> >In article <18127@oasys.dt.navy.mil> bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense) writes:
> >> In talk.abortion, mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
> 
> >Quite right, Ron, although I am trying to be polite with Steve,
>                                                           ^^^^^^
> Yo, BUTTHEAD! ...

In this very forum you wrote a posting requesting more
courtesy and fewer insults and flames.  Now that I offer you what
you request you call me a "butthead."  You also imply that
I am stupid.  At no time have you posted an effective response
to any of my arguments.  If you truly mean it when you say:

>    I'd prefer to deal with intelligence...

then please respond intelligently to the arguments.  So far
you've used assertions, illogic, and insults.  I'm waiting
for something with substance from you.  I'm curious to see
if you can do it.

> >sign saying "The End is Near."
>    ONly if we leave our fate in the hand of the likes of you...

This is a useless insult on your part, Steve, and does not
answer any of the arguments presented.  

Dean Kaflowitz
Xref: sparky talk.abortion:14578 soc.men:8318 soc.women:8857
From: decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz)
Subject: Re: A Quick Proof
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 12:43:19 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.041544.6250@ncsu.edu> dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
> 
> Premise A: All human life should have the right to determine its own
>            set of morals, and no human life should physically force its 
>            morals on others. 
> 
> If you disagree with this statement, then you must agree that humans
> can force a woman to carry a pregnancy to term. 
> 
> 
> Premise B: A fetus is a human life, and therefore a fetus should have
>            the right to determine its own set of morals. 
> 
> Follows from premise A, and the observation that a fetus is a human life. 

Poor work, Doug.  You have not shown that a fetus is capable of
determining a set of morals.  Furthermore, even if it is, there
is no way of knowing what those morals are.  You undoubtedly will
assume what they are for the fetus, but then you don't know
and your assumptions merely reflect your own morals, thereby
violating the premises you have put forth.

No, not good work at all.  Stops right at the second premise.

Dean Kaflowitz


Newsgroups: talk.abortion
From: kevin@liebe.uucp (Kevin Brawley)
Subject: Re: THE IMPLICATIONS OF ABORTION ON OUR SOCIETY
Organization: Liebe Company
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 06:44:53 GMT

alyoung@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (amy young) writes:

>I'm sorry, but even though I'm female, I don't see my purpose for
>being on this earth is to simply pump out kids.  I do not want
>children, ever.  I enjoy sex quite a bit.  I don't want to sprain my
>ankle but I jog too, sometimes.  Why?  Because the benefits outweight
>the risks.  The enjoyment I obtain from sex, and the bonding it allows
>with the participants greatly outweight the risk of me becoming
>pregnant.  I use the highest level of protection one can to avoid
>pregnancy.  

If you "do not want children, ever." then make a responsible, adult decision
and seek a surgical procedure to keep yourself from thinking you have to
murder children.

"The benefits outweight the risks"???  The benefit for you is a fleeting bit
of pleasure.  The risk is YOUR MURDERED child's and NOT yours.

"Highest level of protection"?  You've had your ovaries removed!  How
commendable.  And just when I thought all pro-death people were hypocrites.

Kevin Brawley
From: emarsh@hernes-sun.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Marsh)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: THE IMPLICATIONS OF RON'S STUPIDITY!
Date: 17 Apr 92 19:10:06 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: hernes-sun

In article <1992Apr17.183525.29419@ncsu.edu> dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
>emarsh@hernes-sun.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Marsh) writes:

>> Have you considered the implications of what will happen if population
>> growth continues unhindered?

>That sounds like an argument for protecting the lives of humans
>who have yet to be born. Hmm, that argument sounds familiar...

Please explain yourself. It appears to me to be a good argument for
limiting the number of humans to be born.

Eric
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Newsgroups: talk.abortion
From: gordons@coopsol.com (Gordon Storga)
Subject: Re: THE IMPLICATIONS OF ABORTION ON OUR SOCIETY
Organization: Stay Awake Software
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 07:32:22 GMT

<1992Apr12.022226.7835@liebe.uucp> kevin@liebe.uucp (Kevin Brawley) said:
>kcochran@isis.cs.du.edu (Keith A. Cochran) writes:
>><1992Apr07.064453.7670@liebe.uucp> kevin@liebe.uucp (Kevin Brawley) writes:
>>>alyoung@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (amy young) writes:
>
...
>I get a chuckle out the way you people twist things around.  How long has
>"fetus worship" been your politically correct term for Pro-Lifers?  Might
>I suggest you open your mind?  Don't want me posting if I disagree with 
>you?  You object to me calling an unborn child a "child"?

There is technically no such thing as an unborn child.  Besides that, it
makes as much sense as calling you an "undead corpse".

>>And, I'll give you a warning.  If you decide that "pro-death" is an appropriate
>>term, then I think "pro-forced-female-slavery" is also accurate...
>
>The warning is mine to dish out.  Pro-Death is my response to being
>repeatedly referred to as "Anti-Abortion".  

Anti-abortion is a correct, specific term for your political view.  You
_are_ against abortion, aren't you?  That's literally what anti-abortion
means.

>                                            If you decide that
>"pro-forced-female-slavery" is the new term, so be it.  I will then
>become progressive myself in referring to the likes of you as the
>"new-age-neo-nazi-children-destroying-holocaust-creating-immoralists".

Just when I thought we'd seen the most moronic of morons, the lowest of
IQ's, the sleaziest of personalities...  Then Kevin Brawley shows up.


Gordon
Pro-abortion, Pro-person, Pro-women's-rights and ex-boyfriend of Susan,
Muriel, Cathi, and Nora, and married to the sweetest woman in the world,
and darn proud of it.
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From: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: The March in D.C.
Date: 14 Apr 92 14:28:05 GMT
Reply-To: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In talk.abortion, mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:

>in the not so recent past, married people have had so-called "accidents"
>and lived happy, productive lives afterwards. Is there anyone left
>to make small sacrifices???

Well, there was a time not so long ago when a single salary was more
than adequate to live off of. Nowadays, at least around here (DC) it
requires two incomes. There are your sacrifices.

>BTW, just how many abortions are done to married women???
>I'm sure the number of abortions by unmarried, perhaps promiscuous
>women is alot higher. Statistics anyone???

I believe it was around 30%. Someone has the list, please post for Matthew.

Ron
Xref: sparky talk.abortion:15748 alt.abortion.inequity:958
From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: The Right to Exist
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:30:50 GMT
Reply-To: margoli@watson.ibm.com
Organization: The Village Waterbed
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM

In  <1992Apr8.215255.24044@ncsu.edu>  dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
> mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson) writes:
>
> >Re: [the right to use lethal force]
> >> Rape implies the use of force, which may result in the death of
> >> the potential rape victim.
>
> > If the attacker makes it clear that he won't harm the victim, if
> > the victim does not resist, does the victim have the right to use
> > lethal force simply to prevent physical violation?
>
> If the victim uses lethal force, then they are resisting. Hence, you
> cannot say that the victim "does not resist."

1.  A third party has the (legal) right to use lethal force to prevent
    or terminate the rape.
2.  Imagine an unarmed rapist gasses or drugs a woman, and she wakes
    up tied to her bed.  She has a gun in reach under the pillow.  The
    attacker assures her that he's "just" going to rape her and then go
    away.  She still has the right to blow him away.  Legally and (IMO)
    morally.

Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)