HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: campus crimes (was Re: SURVEY:  Crime Stories)
Date: 18 Nov 92 21:22:50 GMT
Reply-To: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Richardson, TX
X-Disclaimer: This article was posted by a user at Ericsson.
              Any opinions expressed are strictly those of the
              user and not necessarily those of Ericsson.

Don't feel like filling out a survey, but I figured somebody might
like these crime stories from the University of North Texas:

True stories (at least in that they were documented in the school paper)
------------

* Several coeds, who left their dorm room doors unlocked for
an unknown reason, woke up in the middle of the night to find
a man tickling their feet.  This happened on three or four 
different occasions, each time to different women.

* A woman reported that she was raped on a dirt patch outside 
of her dorm.  It later turned out that there were heavy thunderstorms
the night of the rape and she was dry and clean when reporting
her story to the police.  (The initial reports of this got a
big write-up.)

* A student musician decided it would be good publicity for
his band if he wrote it's name with shoe polish on all the
campus signs and buildings.  Right.  (For the record, the band's 
name was "Redline.")

* A young couple claimed to have been forced to drive to Austin
(five hours away) at gunpoint and then had to call their parents
to bring them back because they were out of gas and money.  This
happened on a Friday, though, and they didn't call until
Sunday night.  They also apparently scraped together enough
money to rent a motel room.

* The campus chief of police had his car, equipped with an
alarm and locking car cover, stolen from his driveway while
he was at home and awake.  (The thieves only got a few miles
before they ran out of gas, though.)

Possible ULs
------------

* Two coeds wake up in the middle of the night to hear a man
banging on their apartment door "HEY, IT'S JOE!  LET ME IN!"
They let him in, he pulls out a knife, ties them up, and robs
the place.  The girls later reported "he sounded familiar."

* A woman studying in a library carroll is approached by a student
who claims to want to use her foot, while she studies, to
bone up for an anatomy exam.  At first he just looks at the
foot, unobstrusively, but he periodically asks more outlandish
things ("do you mind if I touch your foot") with the obvious
end result.

I could go on and on and on.

--
James Hague   
exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
From: judson@watserv.ucr.edu (Mike Judson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Cruel trick
Date: 21 Nov 92 19:28:26 GMT
Reply-To: judson@watserv.ucr.edu

In article <1992Nov20.194822.5634@exu.ericsson.se> exuhag@exu.ericsson.se  
(James Hague) writes:
>
> All safety and legal nonsense aside, I always found it hilarious
> when freshmen would get the same "brilliant" ideas year after year
> after year.  In addition to the penny-thing, there was "let's
> fill a room with newspaper," "let's order pizzas for people and
> not tell them," the shaving cream on the phone bit, etc.  There
> must be a book of these that they give people during orientation.

Hey, didn't you get the book when you were a freshman?  It was entitled,
"What every freshmen should know."  It's about 200 pages full of pranks.
Ours was issued by the dean of the college.  However, there was a ban
on the books the year following ours because, as it was sent through the
mail to the freshmen dorms, and not handed out during orientation, there
was a question of whether or not it violated the Comstock Law.

--
"It takes a big man to cry.
but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man."
				Jack Handy


judson@watserv.ucr.edu
From: henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Daemeon)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: I could've figured this would happen
Date: 17 Nov 1992 15:10:54 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Reply-To: henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.rose-hulman.edu

In article <BxuCAB.5Jy@cs.uiuc.edu>, stangel@cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Stangel) writes:
>Omar writes:
>
>>I just spent part of my afternoon reading this newsgroup...
>
>>seems like I've developed a following, although not a good one..
>
>> [snip]
>
>Well, I hope everybody's happy.  Whether or not Omar is this humble
>at all times, I think it's clear that he's capable of being hurt, and
>you all have done it quite nicely.
>
>Forgive me for sounding like a liberal-weenie-wimp-type (which I
>assure you I am not), but I felt that, after reading Omar's note,
>we need to be continually aware of what we're doing.  Yeah, the
>Walkman story was funny.  It gradually crossed that line that is
>NOT funny.
>
>Mike



	Someone from University of Chicago emailed Omar and told him to read

this group.  REAL nice thing to do to someone on finals week.

	Again, The jive filter is NOT racist.  I am not a racist.  If I find

Omar funny and others do then so be it.

	It is unfortunate that Mr.Frank stereotyped Rose students as racists.
Some, in defense, felt compelled to tell the real reasons for not liking
Omar.  It is unfortunate that some person with MOCK-sensitivity, who acted
under the pretense of helping the O-man, was the person who gave him the most
pain.  It is unfortunate that some university of chicago law school dick made
an issue where there was none.

	OH and by the way, Ted, is everyone at the University of Chicago a

dick, or just you?

					-Daemeon-not-a-racist-and-don't-ever-
					 accuse-me-of-being-one-or-you'll-
					 regret-it-because-I-am-taking-the-
					 month-of-December-off-because-my-
				         wife-is-having-her-baby-and-I'll-
					 find-you-because-I'll-have-some-time-
					 to-KILL....the operative word here is 
					 kill.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: rhino@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Lothar of the Hill People)
Subject: Re: alt.fan.omar
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:53:46 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.203131.1590@dct.ac.uk> mcramm@dct.ac.uk (McRamm) writes:
>In article <1e0q2eINN1su@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>, henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Daemeon) writes:

If you're going to start a newsgroup alt.fan.omar, DO IT!!!!!
I'm sick of reading 2 billion articles about some lame dork!
By the way  --Yes, I have heard of a kill file!!!!!

Flames appreciated!
-- 
Purdue University, Where the fun never begins!
rhino@sage.cc.purdue.edu
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:01:55 EST
From: <TWA101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: too much sex
Distribution: world

My ex roommate and I had very different ideas on howmuch privacy we should be r
equired to give the other.  He would really piss me off when I would come home
from work on a Friday night at 3am (After a full day of classes) after washing
dishes for 10 and a half hours and be expected to sleep elsewhere with no advan
ced notice.  There was also the time when he left a used condom lie on top of h
is desk when my parents came to visit (gee, I'm sorry mom, but I'm not going to
 pich it up).  The best one was when I came home after being up for about48 hou
rs in bad need of some sleep and I walk in on him and his girlfriend goin' at i
t.  He gets all pissed off and tells me that his grandmother whom he was very
close to died (she actually did) and there fore he should be entitled to have t
he room all to himself.  I guess it must be a family tradition to mourn the dea
th of someone by **&%$*! your girlfriend!
From: fass@bucknell.edu (david fass `93)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Racism at Rose?  What planet are you from (Was RE: omar *)
Date: 21 Nov 1992 07:52:54 GMT
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: vega.cs.bucknell.edu
Keywords: Omar's plan...


	Plan -- what plan -- he has no plan ...
I tried fingering him .. he has no plan ...

So guys .. some one post it for all us net-landers who missed it ...

*-------------------------------------------*   Appropriate quote of the day:
*	David Fass			    *   
*	fass@bucknell.edu                   *   ..would God the gifte gee us
*-------------------------------------------*   to see ourselves as others
                                                see us.
*-------------------------------------------*
* The moving finger writes and, having writ *
*  moves on                                 *   -- Robert Burns
*    -  The Rubiat Of Omar Kahyyam          *     "For A Louse"
*-------------------------------------------*********************************
    Kill file -- what's that ...
    Never plans to use a kill file -- 'cause who knows someone
    might have something interesting to say ...
=========================================================================
    For some fun and interesting conversation ...   EITHER :
    finger me as Druz on 129.16.50.30 1701 [Igor-Mud]
    or finger/talk fass@pleiades.cs.bucknell.edu
    or  "  fass@vega.cs.bucknell.edu           
    I'm usually on one of these ... 

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: thall@ducvax.auburn.edu (Teresa Hall)
Subject: Re: Some Real Folklore
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Auburn University--Auburn, AL
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:01:00 GMT

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--
> 
>-- 
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>| Jared Dahl             | "My heart is human, my blood is boiling, | 
>| Systems Programmer     |  my brain IBM"                           |
>| IBM - Rochester, MN    |              -- STYX,  "Mr. Roboto"      |
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>Opinions expressed are mine, not IBM's.

    Teresa Hall
    Auburn University
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:15:29 EST
From: Amy Antonucci <AEA1@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Folklore I remember

We have the same myth except it skips the Donahue/X-shaped hall part
probably because we don't have one.

...............................................................................
. Amy E. Antonucci .. aea1@psuvm.psu.edu .. "Heads up, citizens, mind my      .
...........................................  flying feet!" --Nightcrawler     .
. Fencers do it in the fleche! ................................................
................................."I am hope" --Dream .....Hva heter det?.......
From: v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (NOWHERE MAN)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Omar flames
Keywords: Lemur
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:45:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


	I think the postings directly related to Omar are funny. I
think we all need to realize and acknowledge the fact that someone
was offended by the altered form of Omar's plan file. If I remember
correctly, the person who posted this was not the same person who
started the Omar 'phenomenon', so Daemon shouldn't be held responsible
for the altered post. 
	With that out of the way, I would like to ask that those
involved in the ensuing flame war move their flames to e-mail so
the rest of us don't have to wade through 20 flaming posts 
(as I just did!) to find stuff relevant to a.f.c.  


	By the way, the lemur has struck Buffalo!

mike
From: andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Stadium seat patterns
Date: 16 Nov 92 03:18:41 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

I have some friends who, several years ago (long enough that almost all
of them are now gone) broke into Memorial Stadium, here at UT, and
reflipped many of the seats in the upper deck.  See, one of the Greek
organizations here goes through before every football game and flips the
seats into some (presumably) inspirational phrase.  We were playing TCU
(the Horned Frogs) that week, and they changed the seats from

                   SMASH the FROGS (not sure on the first word)

to
                   SMASH the FNORD.

There is photographic evidence, though I'm not sure how they got it,
since the entire upper deck disappeared.  ;-)

(It's not quite as good as the Caltech flash card prank, but it's closer
to home.)

--
--Andrew Hackard                                 If I spoke for UT, this post
  andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu                        would make even less sense.

"If we keep alienating those who are ignorant or meek, what are we
     becoming?"  
"Informed and assertive?"  -- Dave Hayes and Chip Salzenberg, in news.groups
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: dsblack@iastate.edu (Vilkata TDK)
Subject: Re: Uncool Pranks
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:18:59 GMT

Well, your title begs for other people's ideas of uncool pranks, so I hope 
you're ready for them!  Here's my contribution, which may or may not be common
other places; I don't know:

Here, the levers to the hot and cold water flow to the showers are behind the 
wall in the bathroom, which means in plain view in the kitchenette (where we
can nuke food and empty our garbage).  As a common practical joke, many people
often turn off the hot water, leaving the people in the shower at the time very
cold if they're not quick enough.  Unless the victim wants to instantly run
naked into the hallway, there is virtually no way to catch the person who shut
it off.  This is fine; no harm done.
But some stupid idiots sometimes turn off the cold water.  I'm not gonna preach
safety, but c'mon; this is dangerous!  I think if anyone was ever caught doing
that, the whole floor would "have a little talk" with him...

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: aelman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Adam Elman)
Subject: Re: The flame war...
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: 18 Nov 92 03:15:21 GMT

My two cents (ok, so I'm bored too...hey, our finals aren't for
another month. :-):

It seems to me that, in general, picking on someone behind his back is
a pretty lame thing to do.  If it's done among friends, that's one
thing -- I confess to doing that sometimes myself.  But I wouldn't
post stuff to a worldwide newsgroup without at _least_ deleting names
and other personal details.  Those posts really shouldn't have been
made to alt.folklore.college in the first place.  It's not that it's a
violation of netiquette, or clearly racist, or anything like that --
it's just _rude_.  

I know how I'd feel if I found out that people were posting stuff like
that about me to a newsgroup like this.  Nobody's perfect -- I know I
have a few personality defects, but I manage to avoid looking like an
idiot all the time.  Some people maybe aren't so good at it, but that
doesn't mean they deserve to have their personal lives posted like
this all over the world.

I'm not accusing Rose-Hulman students of being racist.  I am accusing
them of being jerks.

Adam Elman
aelman@cs.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
Subject: Re: Omar again!
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:35:07 GMT

In article <1e622qINNdur@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> swartzjh@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Nov15.113144.20178@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
>>
>>Not sure if this is an Omar story, but:
>>
>>Friday 11/13 at around 15:45 or so local time I was in the UTSA computer
>>lab and on a lark logged on the IRC and started checking out channels.
>>Well, I hit channel 3 and laneded right in the middle of a discussion
>>between a user named Pekka in Norway and a user named....OMAR!
>>The time this Omar gave as his local time was 14:45 (EST), so could this
>>have been the infamous Omar who is so often talked about in this
>>newsgroup??
>>Simon
>
>Hmmm... not sure...  If it was 15:45 in texas, it should have been 16:45 here
>in Indiana.  We do not do the daylight savings thing in this part of Indiana,
>so were are on central time during the summer, and eastern time during the
>winter.  Next time you see him, ask him where he is...  If he says Rose Hulman
>Institute of Technology, then it IS HIM!!!
>
>Hey Daemon...  This could be our first Omar sighting...
>
Sorry about the typo-I meant 16:45 as the time given by this 'Omar' on the
IRC.  I have trouble using the IRC when logged in from my home PC (bad modem
software, lousy terminal emulation) so I'll be in the computer lab on Friday.
Now, what do I do if it is indeed the infamous Omar?? Is he really as bad as
you all say he is??      Simon
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.culture.african.american
From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
Subject: Re: OMAR's bio : Jive version
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:35:37 GMT

In article <1ea7lqINNt7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
bm508@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Branimir Dokic) writes:

>Yep, because of your invite, I went over to soc.culture.african.american
>to see what they'd say about your post.  Seems like there was 
>no response, eh?

>Look at the [lack of] supportive response you got. 

>Anyway, sorry that it rained on your expectant parade of 
>band-wagon-jumping soc.culture.A.A'ers.

Uh, that's because that we are so sick and tired of assholes like yourself
who constantly show up in s.c.a.a that we tend to ignore you.

Now fuck off.

	-Kenny

-- 
Kenny Crudup, Contractor, OSF DCE QA
OSF, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142	+1 617 621 7306
kenny@osf.osf.org			OSF has nothing to do with this post.
	  Religion: The longest-running gag ever played on Mankind.
From: 2ck1racicr@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Cruel trick
Date: 18 Nov 1992 08:37:10 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2ck1racicr@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

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

Disclaimer | I accept no responsibility for any hilarious results

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From: v120qldp@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (JAY WALKER)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: j: Re: Omar: a recap of events
Date: 22 Nov 92 14:45:00 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.college
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <37696@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>, djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns) writes...
>In article <1eb8qoINNkgc@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bm508@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Branimir Dokic) writes:
> 


># What's the difference in humor between the jive filter and movies
># like "White Men Can't Jump?" Or Eddie Murphy suggesting that all
># white men are "small?"

The difference is that this country is consumed with political correctness and
that white male bashing is just fine.

>Eddie Murphy is funny.  You are not.  The "jive" filter is simply
>preadolescent, towel-snapping humor.  It wouldn't be any funnier if
>you had run that text through the "valley girl" or "yankee" filters.

Prehaps, but it certainly would not have received such a response.  What would
poor Ted Frank call the RH boys if they had used a Valley Girl filter?  Teddy
probably wouldn't have said anything.

My kill file is getting far too big, kiddies.  Let's put an end to this drivel.



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 If you've done six impossible things today, why not top it off by calling DA?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: res_ewv@exodus.valpo.edu
Subject: Halloween at Valpo
Organization: Valparaiso University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:57:33 GMT
X-Posted-From: exodus.valpo.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Just remebered two things.  1) If I was going to post, I should throw in my
obfolklore.  2) I promised to tell about my Halloween.  So, here it is:

First a little background.  Valparaiso University is a small, Lutheran, liberal
arts type school in northwest Indiana.  Not a very happening place.  However, we
just happen to be just down the road from Notre Dame, the bastion of
Catholoscism in the United States.

Now, if you know your church history (which many of us don't), you know that
Martin Luther, founder of the Lutheran church on Halloween night nailed his
famous 95 theses on the chapel door of Wittenburg.

Rumor has it that our student used to re-inact this in the sixties with a yearly
excursion to our neighbor to the east.  In any case, we decided last year that
it was time that this tradtion (real or not) was revived.

So, last year we began again this tradition of school vs. school.  Originally we
were going to use nails in playing this prank, but after seeing the doors of the
chapel at ND, we decided that Scotch tape was the way we should go.  (Not
wanting to cause physical damage).

This year marked the 2nd time we have done this.  We leave here at about
midnight local time and arrive at 2:00 their time (time zones are nice things).
Next year, the prank will be pulled again, but not by me since I will be in
graduate school.  (Unless I end up somewhere in the area, then I will return.)

Just thought I would share our little humor with you.



                              Eric W. Vaandering
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: greg@Quotron.COM (Greg "Maddog" Knauss)
Subject: Re: Crime Stories
Organization: Quotron System, Inc.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:37:32 GMT

pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes:

>>Ted "hey, at least I didn't complain about 'group of girls'" Frank
>
>Covey? Gaggle? Pride?

Batch.
--
Greg Knauss (greg@quotron.com)                       "Llamas, dammit!  Llamas!"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college