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From: megazone@obsidian.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Ned Ames
Date: 22 Nov 92 15:59:06 GMT
Organization: WPI USAF -- United Society of Animation Fans
NNTP-Posting-Host: obsidian.wpi.edu

In article <1992Nov21.205724.14640@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg) writes:
>megazone@WPI.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23) writes:
>>          I have several weeks worth of stories about Ned and his lack of
>>contact with the environment. But this post is too long as it is...
>Alt.fan.ned, anyone? ... Ted? Put the gun down, Ted.

I'd second it... But I never, NEVER, want to be considered a fan of Ned Ames in
any way shape of form... If you are a fan, you've never met him....

Maybe alt.kill.ned.....

(If I ever see him again he either returns my mags, pays for them, or dies...)

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Some Real Folklore
From: cjones@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Oates)
Date: 22 Nov 92 15:29:50 -0500
Organization: Database Spammers, Inc.

In article <21NOV199200012770@ducvax.auburn.edu>, thall@ducvax.auburn.edu (Teresa Hall) writes:
> In article <1992Nov19.012349.16219@rchland.ibm.com>, jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes...
>>Do you think that college Deans and Presidents have the
>>power to cover up certain "unfavorable" incidents that
>>happen on campus?  
>> 
>>While I attended the University of North Dakota, I never
>>once heard of a student who committed suicide.  This 
>>seems strange since there are 11,000 students at UND and
>>I attended 5 years.  
>> 
>>I began to think that the university was keeping the news
>>out of the papers and off of the TV somehow, but don't have
>>any real proof.
>> 
>   Why would a suicide be news?  Unless the student killed
>   him/herself in a particularly spectacular way, like a
>   swan dive off the tallest campus building, or taking out
>   a few passersby before turning gun on himself, I would
>   think it would be handled quietly for the sake of the
>   victim's family and friends.
> 
>   Just curious--back to lurking--
> 
>     Teresa Hall
>     Auburn University

Last year at Miami Univ. a woman in Peabody Hall took a dive from a third
floor window (works out to be more like 4 stories in an OLD building...circa
1880).  I don't remember all the circumstances, but I want to believe that
she was a Western College major (interdiscplinary studies - you get a BA
in Philosophy when you matriculate).  Western is notorious for shoving P.C.
down the poor students' throats, so I can't say that I blame tis poor
woman.

She failed with a broken wrist.  I think it had been raining that week and
she landed in the grass.  The story did make the student paper (that's how
I found out about it).
-- 
Oates                          cjones@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
                               cj5jsanu@miamiu.bitnet
"The extreme always seems to make an impression."
  -- J.D., _Heathers_
From: megazone@obsidian.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Ned Ames
Date: 23 Nov 1992 04:58:41 GMT
Organization: WPI USAF -- United Society of Animation Fans
NNTP-Posting-Host: obsidian.wpi.edu

Hey, where's the rest of the Ned afflicted? Back me up people! 

Chadwick, Gryph, Haywire, Paladin, Paul, ReRob, Trish, Rich, just about anyone
that spent any time in my apt in B or C terms? Cheryl, Julia, Daver, Helene,
Logan, somebody has to be out there...

I mean we just spent an hour in the Wedge remembering the bad old days with him
today... Chadwick, I KNOW you read this. He left your apt for mine... You tell
your tale of horror of the man with no clue...

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Xref: sparky alt.folklore.college:3031 soc.culture.african.american:11220
From: rojohnso@libws3.ic.sunysb.edu (Ronald Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: Omar: a recap of events
Date: 17 Nov 92 20:33:16 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook

To your question...

Blacks have been stereotyped for years and you are crying about some stupidness
like "White Men Can't Jump" and Eddie Murphy calling white men "small"??!!
Ok....White men *can* jump....White men *arent* small...Feel better now?? You
dont seem to realize that these "racist" statements against whites stemmed from
your white forefathers own stereotypes of blacks! Granted, whites are a
minority in pro basketball...so whites gave blacks the stereotype that blacks
are all athletes, and that all black men play basketball...*I* dont play ball
but Im pretty damn sure Im black....and if you knew anything about the movie,
youd realize that the movie was an irony of the title...it had a white man who
could, in fact play basketball well...so the white man prove the title wrong,
you should be satisfied...Here, I give you the permission to produce a movie
named "Black Men Dont Putt" make yourself and all the other golfers feel spec-
ial, okay??

And onto your comment about Eddie Murphy calling white men small...Dont tell me
that you havent heard the stereotype that black men are well endowed and have
sexual prowess...white people came up with that stereotype, all he did was
playfully agree with it and take it one step further...If these white racists
were so insecure in their ...uh...size and they noticed a significant size
difference between them and the blackman, then you guys *must* be small.(This
is all done from the perspective of someone stupid enough to believe all this
 so dont quote me out of context and have me crucified like Sista Souljah). 
Like that Daemon person said, these are jokes...This is a harsh world and some-
times we need to laugh at the ignorance just to get us through each day..Theres
always going to be someone who is sensitive about something, but dont...dont
sit there and cry about whites being made fun in the media etc...If there was
ever a way that you could experience jokes and racist statements made towards
the black community, as a black person, seeing how sensitive you are about the
pettiness you are complaining about, youd probably be crying hysterically.

                                                        RJ
From: 2429oconnorw@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Uncool Pranks
Date: 19 Nov 1992 16:59:55 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2429oconnorw@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

In article <00963D7E.53512980@vms.csd.mu.edu>, 2b98pronovic@vms.csd.mu.edu (Ken Pronovici) writes:
>In article <1992Nov19.013202.21722@rchland.ibm.com>,
>>|> A somewhat less than mature resident of our wing recently found it
>>|> necessary to take a good healthy crap down the stairwell.  The happy little
>>|> turds reached their first-floor destination with a resounding *splat*.  The
>>|> unit director fined the entire hall $100 for each incident (there were
>>|> two).
>>|> Luckily for the most of us, the culprit was identified, and the city police
>>|> paid him a visit, and made his life shitty.
>>We had guys doing this in the elevator.  25 bucks a pop.  or
>>should I say plop!
>>We also had a guy dump in the oven in the common area.
>	I think I may be able to top that:
>			Our "mystery crapper" performed his deed in 
>			the common microwave.
>			Then he cooked it (for a fairly long time,
>			I might add). 
>			The hall director decided to replace the mic.
>    +=============================================================+
>    | M     M  U     U  |            Kenneth J. Pronovici         |
>    | M M M M  U     U  |        2B98PRONOVIC@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU      |
>    | M  M  M  U     U  |                                         |
>    | M     M  U U U U  | "To imagine is everything." -- Einstein |
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>    |        Marquette University  --  Milwaukee, Wisconsin       |
>    +=============================================================+

In the dorm (opps.. Residence Hall; must be PC) I was in last year, my room
was across the hall from the bathroom.  Some one decided to walk and dump
at the same time leaving a trail from the bathroom.  The stupid part
was, the trail lead to his room.  Still that does not beat the guy who
threw his entire loft out of his window....on the 11th floor.  It
killed one of the university vans parked below.  When public safety keyed
the room, they found him and his girl friend, um, busy. 
Bill O'Connor               | In the course of human events, there is
Marquette University        | always one person who will screw things
Milwaukee, WI               | up.
2429OCONNORW@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU |
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.college:3119 alt.folklore.urban:29237 alt.fan.lemurs:142
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban,alt.fan.lemurs
Subject: Re: lemurs!
Summary: lemurs are controlling your mind!
Date: 20 Nov 92 10:14:17 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <1992Nov16.155819.27393@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mr. Furr) writes:


>ObLemur: Lemurs are secretly controlling the minds of alt.folklore.urban
>and alt.folklore.college readers, forcing them to insert the word "lemur"
>into the keywords line of their posts.

Go to your nearest zoo.  Stand in front of the lemurs.  Juggle.
They will be fascinated by this action, but it's a waste of time trying to 
teach them how to do it.  The big cats quite like it as well, but they're 
not so impressed when you drop.

  From the UK phone book Yellow Pages:  BORING - see Civil Engineers   

  Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England   (44|0)61-275-6033  
  D.Budd@mcc.ac.uk                                          fax 6040
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:15:42 -0500 
From: Joshua Eli Schachter <jsct+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re:

Excerpts from netnews.alt.folklore.college: 18-Nov-92 Re: by Thomas W.
Strong@CMU.EDU 
> > Anyone come up with any ingenious ways to get a roomate/neighor move away?
> > 
> > I had bad problems with my roomate, so I moved to the next door apartment,
> > but still hate his guts and am pissed that he is still there AND
> > has the apartment all to himself. Any ideas? Really nasty ones would be
> > fine but I don't want to get in trouble.
> > 
> > The case goes before the Judiciary Housing Comittee in a week, too.
>  
> To begin with, don't do anything that might let him know that you are
> out for revenge, such as telling someone about it.
>  
>  -----------------------------------------------------------------
>   Tom Strong              N3NBB              ts49+@andrew.cmu.edu

It's okay, Tom, he doesn't read the internet.

I liked your previous suggestion though (12-gauge).
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From: kristyp@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: zb: Weird Building Names...
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:53:50 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <s+s1d4#@rpi.edu> kasprj@rpi.edu writes:
> Weird building names here at RPI:
> 
> The Greene building, which is made of red brick.
> 
> The George M. Low building, which is the tallest building on campus.
> 
> A dorm named Hall Hall.
> 
> Walker Lab, which sits on a granite outcropping and is definitely not moving.

There's a building under construction at the Tuck Business School at Dartmouth,
which caught fire TWICE in three days.  It's name (named before this occurred):

Byrne Hall.

-Kristy
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From: megazone@obsidian.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: OMAR's bio : Jive version
Date: 22 Nov 92 15:53:46 GMT
Organization: WPI USAF -- United Society of Animation Fans
NNTP-Posting-Host: obsidian.wpi.edu

In article <Mf3TIKq00WB9F6X9FH@andrew.cmu.edu> jsct+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joshua Eli Schachter) writes:
>If there's any more babble about this I will run Omar's Bio through
>valspeak and post it. This nifty little program converts it into

I know about Valspeak, but I haven't seen BORGspeak or PCspeak... They sound
intriguing...

I wonder what it would look like....

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Re: April Fool
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:55:30 GMT
Distribution: alt
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

In article <17NOV199210123564@mary.fordham.edu>, nissim@mary.fordham.edu (Leonard J. Nissim) writes:
|> In article <MARA.92Nov17175242@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz>, 
|> mara@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Mara) writes...
|> 
|> >I remember one of my friends here (Victoria University, Wellington,
|> >NZ) telling me that last April 1, his first year calculus class were
|> >all sitting ready to begin the day's lecture when a student came in
|> >the door of the lecture theatre and wrote on the blackboard "Mr X
|> >[lecturer] is sick. This lecture is cancelled".
|> > 
|> >`Yeah, sure, we're too old to fall for that', they all thought, and
|> >the vast majority stayed in their seats to await the lecturer who they
|> >felt sure was going to appear and teach them at any second, 
|> >congratulating themselves on their perception.  They had to wait a
|> >long time. He didn't turn up. He was sick.
|> > 
|> >Amy
|> >mara@kauri.vuw.ac.nz
|> 
|> When I was an undergraduate, there were fixed time limits that a class 
|> had to wait for a tardy faculty member, based on rank.  They ranged from
|> 8 minutes for an Instructor or Lecturer to 20 minutes for a full Professor.
|> 

I think that this is one of the famous "unwritten"
rules at most colleges.  At my school, if the prof
wasn't there by quarter after the hour, he could 
expect to find an empty classroom.

I even checked  with the Dean of Students.  He said 
there was no such policy.  They even tried to tell 
students that they had to stay in class, but it 
didn't work.

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From: DSCT@db1.cc.rochester.edu (DAVID SCOTT)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Cruel trick
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:05:23 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester, Rochester NY
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.11

In <00963C73.11583F20@vms.csd.mu.edu> 2ck1racicr@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:

> Being the recipient of these prank I must forewarn others of this
> dastardly deed. 
> Get a handful of pennies and put them in the doorjam. If you do
> this right the handle won't be able to turn from the pressure.
> Be forewarned This is a criminal act.... 
> 				Against fire codes or something like that
> 

	Yes, but it can be amusing to trap them in there with somone that
they did not want people to know was in there. If people make sure to let them
out if there is a fire, it can be hard to explain in the morning/later in the
day waht you were doing alone in the room with person X. Normal rebuttals
will be "We were just talking" or "We were studying". 
	to forestall moral outrage, yes these excuses may be true sometimes.
Frequently they are not.
From: v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (NOWHERE MAN)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: April Fools
Keywords: Lemur
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:57:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

At UB, we are also only required to wait a certain amount of time
for an instructor to show up. For hour long classes, it's 10 or
15 minutes, for hour and a half classes, it 20 minutes. I don't know
if this is just a commonlaw thing, or if it's actually supported by
the administration. I've only encountered a situation twice - the
first time, the TA came in just as half the class left; the second time,
the professor forgot about class. 

Would you people who insist on beating this jive-bio-omar thing into
the ground PLEASE TAKE IT TO PRIVATE MAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mike
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: thom@cac.washington.edu (Thom Roholt)
Subject: Re: OMAR's bio : Jive version
Organization: UW Networks and Distributed Computing
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:41:28 GMT

In article <1e143fINN2g1@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> cheesmna@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU writes:
>Sheeit, 
>	I decided t' t'row some biography uh myself, so's ya''d know who ya'
>are dealin' wid here
>*****************************************************************************
>Name, dig dis: Syed Omar Ali Zaidi
>Age, dig dis: 20 
>Birdday, dig dis:April 29,1972 (I wuz one uh de yungest sucka's in mah' high farm
>	class)
>
>Nickdojiggers, dig dis:Om, Ohm, Prince ("Syed" be de Arabic wo'd fo' prince), 
>	De Dungeon Masta' (I play  Advanced Dungeons and Dragons)
>	and De Texas All-State Sax Playa' (I won de State championship
>	fo' playin' some classical beat piece (one uh de few times its been
>	done))
>

[ Much "Jive" Deleted]

>Okay, so I was bored :)

Someone has way too much time on their hands!!
From: zaidioa@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: I could've figured this would happen
Date: 16 Nov 1992 21:24:19 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Reply-To: zaidioa@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.rose-hulman.edu

I just spent part of my afternoon reading this newsgroup...

seems like I've developed a following, although not a good one..

And to anyone that posted here from rose.. 

I wish you'd tell me when I do something you don't like..

It's not nice to know everyone's laughing at you behind your back. I've put up
with it for 3 yrs and HS wasn't any different..

as for the bio.. It was written for someone at IU that asked for it.. and she
told me what she wanted to know down to a Tnext time, get the facts straight
before you go making assumptions..
                                           
if I were to write it now, it would be different..

as for my hearing aids.. I haven't had time to get them fixed ryan, and they
are only 6 months old..  you think they're "old-style"? prove it to me and I'll
believe you..
                                           
As for the engineers in concert.. Demon.. that's what I was told by C Mallory
North himself.. he said if it hadn't been for my performance, he wouldn't have
agreed to put it together in 1992..

any more questions?

As my gf Jennifer tells me "You can't win"

she's right it seems..

god only knows why everything I do gets taken the wrong way..

It's not like I delibrately try to offend people or try to seem cocky..

I'm willing to change.. I want to, but if no one is going to tell me what they
don't like, then how can I? I can't read minds..


send flames to alt.dev.null.
From: serranrj@nyssa.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Robert J. Serrano)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: OMAR's bio : Jive version
Date: 16 Nov 1992 05:17:09 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: nyssa.cs.rose-hulman.edu

In article <1992Nov15.163526.6672@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
|> In article <1e55pdINNbvp@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> serranrj@k9.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Robert J. Serrano) writes:
|> >Gee, Mr. Something-up-your-butt, if you had ever actually bothered to read what
|> >has been posted about Omar, you will notice, that he is not black
|> >(African-American).  He is, by heritage, Pakistani, which is on the South Asian
|> >Continent (you know, with India and Afghanistan).
|> 
|> And if you bothered to read the post I'm complaining about, you'd see that
|> it's full of anti-black racist stereotypes.  Complain to the RHIT bozos who
			   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Jive _was_ one big black stereotype (though not necessarily racist, it's pretty 
much used strictly for humor purposes these days.  Besides, Omar is 
_not_ black (a fact he likes to point out on occasion).
If Omar was black, then it might be deemed offensive and your argument might be
justified.  Or, on the other hand, if someone had altered the bio (which is, for
those who doubt it, really his (I checked)) to include stereotypical Evil Muslim
Arab phrases, that most likely would be deemed offensive.  But neither of these
is true.

|> can't tell the difference between all of those non-whites.
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                

So, in other words, since your assertion of the racist content of the "Jive"
posting is correct and Omar is not black, this means that the posters of the
"Jive" bio just can't discriminate correctly from the different nationalities? 
Puhleeze.  Get a grip.  Has it ever occurred to you, that maybe, just maybe,
somone saw the original posting of Omar's bio, and said, "Oh, I think a really
neat thing to do would be to post a jive version of the bio."  Or do you just so
enjoy race-baiting that this thought never crossed your mind?

|> I challenge *anyone* who doesn't believe me or doesn't find the post offensive
|> to repost the "Jive" version to soc.culture.african.american.  Put your money
|> where your mouth is.  I'm sure the African Americans will find all the lines
|> about pink cadillacs and jive extraordinarily funny, don't you?

If it was sent to them along with the background information a few of them
(on s.c.a.a) might get a chuckle out of it, depends entirely on who reads it,
And how kindly they take to having irrelevant stuff posted to their group.  Or
are you trying to say that all African American's think in exactly the same way
about everything (got news for you, they don't).  So, who's stereotyping, here?

Rob
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