HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: vpaf5@jane.uh.edu (Kal)
Subject: Re: Women in groups
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 13:32:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.210231.16303@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>, derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes...
>In article <13OCT199210412445@jane.uh.edu> vpaf5@jane.uh.edu (Kal) writes:
>>Well, there is a drug that is on the verge of being approved for birth control
>>called Depo-provera, that *does* stop menstration most of the time. Depo
>>provera has been used for *years* in most countries outside the US. Studies
>>here have shown it to cause ovarian (I think, maybe breast) cancer in beagle
>>dogs (and only in beagle dogs, the enclosed literature implies). 
> 
>Wait there is something wrong here.  Why were these whacky scientists testing
>female birth control drugs on dogs and how come these dogs have breasts to 
>get cancerous?  Probably explains why they didn't menstruate    . 
> 
>ObUL: There is a special invisible stealth smiley in the previous line.  These
>      have been specially designed by american scientists for use in posts
>      to A.F.U.
> 
>Derek "Life's a Bitch" Tearne
There it is again. Somebody denying the existance of canine titties.
I'm not gonna even bother.


Kal    vpaf5@jane.uh.edu            My opinions are almost, but not quite,
                                    entirely unlike those of my employer.




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From: tesco@bumetb.bu.edu (Dances With Babes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Bumper Sticker
Date: 14 Oct 92 19:07:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: bu.98650
Reply-To: tesco@bumetb.bu.edu (Dances With Babes)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Boston University

I've read on the net that there exists a bumper sticker that says:

Picard/Riker in '92 : Make it so!

Does anyone know where i can buy it in the Boston area??  Or mail order?

thanks....
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Subject: Re: Philadelphia Experiment
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 21:12:14 GMT

seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:

>	ObUL (Usenet Legend): FAQs help reduce the number of repetitious
>postings on newsgroups.

>	FACT: Most sites expire articles pretty fast -- all the ones I've
>seen have expiration in no more than a week, many in 2-3 days.

>	Most FAQs tend to be posted once per month (at least on the 
>groups I'm on.

[etc.]

>	In addition, FAQs tend to be very long indeed... and a lot of
>people may have patience to sit through a lot of short posts, but not
>to sit through 1,500 lines of one post.

Time for a lesson in "How to Use Your 'N' Key."  Should we put it in the
FAQ?

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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Collected Musical Factoids
Organization: Just put everything on the floor; I can find it.
Date:  8 OCT 92 07:54:05    


In article <1992Oct7.083220.2587@news.columbia.edu>, 
  lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes...

>Not quite, however, they did record with George Harrison on the song "If you
>want it here it is Come And Get It, but you better hurry 'cause it's going
>fast" which was written by Paul McCartney and was the theme song from the
>movie The Magic Christian starring Ringo Starr (and Peter Sellers).

No, I don't think so.  George Harrison didn't record with them until the
"Straight Up" album, a few years after "Come and Get It".

>Nora Dunn did the same. Dunn was fired.

Well, her contract had expired and wasn't renewed, but that may have been
her decision as much as SNL's.

>obComputer fact:  The DEC Multinational Character Set doesn't support the
>proper overstruck letter for properly stating the exact name of Spinal Tap.

Yes, it does, but how to use it is a trade secret.  I can tell you about it
after tomorrow.

 - snopes

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From: trif@bike.rad.washington.edu (To Run In Fear)
Subject: Re: Male Pregnancies
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle WA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 14:00:06 GMT

In article <1bd7erINNajq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt) writes:
   ObReallyHappenedUL - A nurse I worked with once came into work, in a state 
   of
   partial shock, as her embarassingly overweight daughter had just given birth
   to a 9-pounder that (so she claims) she didn't know she was carrying.

MoreUL:  When I was in high school, the story went around that a basketball
player from another school had just given birth on the court shortly after
she disrupted the game by going into labor, not ever having known she was
pregnant.  Possible, I suppose---there was a girl who was in two of my 
classes whom I did not know was pregnant (she sat next to me in one of those
classes!) until someone told me one day that she wasn't in class because she
had had her baby the night before.  The baby was a month premature, and she
tended to wear baggy clothing, but she sure never looked pregnant.
From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: William Safire and the Bee Gees
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:18:02 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com


In article <91856@netnews.upenn.edu>, crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
>Boy
>Girl
[again]

Reminds me of the column William Safire (a conservative newspaper
columnist, for the American-Culture-impaired) wrote some years back,
containing the UL or conspiracy theory or whatever that the rock
band "The Bee Gees" were an evil part of the drug culture because
"Bee Gee" was an abbreviation of an alleged slang term for heroin,
"Boy & Girl".  

Anybody know where he might have gotten this, or did he think it up
out of his own head?  Anybody with any familiarity with the Bee Gees'
music would know that the only drug they've ever experimented with is
Saccharine.

Bruce "They must have been on *something* to make their voices
do that" Tindall


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From: cardo@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Frederick Crabbe)
Subject: Re: nail in Coca-Cola
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 19:51:47 GMT

medic@hardy.u.washington.edu (Travis Lauricella) writes:
>Gummi Bears are tough lil' critters.  I could tell you stories.  But just two,
>for now.

>1. You can stick a Gummi Bear to just about anything, and it will stay until
>   you pull it off.  Just lick the back (with lots of slobber) and stick it!
>   Works better than paper clips, 'cause you can eat it when you're done (if
>   you dare.)  We stuck one to a tree out camping once, and it was there a week
>   later.  Untouched by any of the forest creatures.  They know better.

During my Freshman year among the frozen wastes of Dartmouth college, some 
friends and I stuck Gummi Bears to a series of lamp posts just before we went
home for Christmas break.  We were amazed to find every single Gummi Bear in
place upon our return(although somewhat frozen). We were even more surprised
when one of the bears managed to hang on through most of Feb.  Two months
isn't bad for something allegedly edible.

ric 'but that's nothing compared to the spaghetti we had stuck in a 
     restaurant awning for over a year'

cardo@cs.ucla.edu 
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From: dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca (Derek K. Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Language and wrongness (was Re: Metrication and "normal usage")
Date: 13 Oct 1992 22:38:40 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

The KIL-ometer/kil-OM-eter debate is yet another example of what I call
"linguistic democracy," in that, if enough people use a particular
linguistic device (split infinitives and "at this point in time" come to
mind), it becomes correct regardless of its previous incorrectness.

Other examples include the words "ombudsperson," which is theoretically
invalid because the original word is not sex-specific, but derived (I
have heard) from a Swedish verb meaning "to fight the government." Another
is the word "gender" when used with respect to people (eg. "gender
equity") when it originally had only to do wth linguistics.

KIL-ometer and kil-OM-eter are equally valid, and trying to use logic to
decide one over the other is futile. English is a highly illogical language
already, and that is part of its beauty.

      :=:=> Derek K. Miller                 dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca
      Researcher, Alma Mater Society        thegrodd@tz.ucs.sfu.ca
      University of British Columbia, Canada

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
From: ruthc@sco.COM (this space intentionally left blank)
Subject: counting on fingers (was Re: Possible UL alert(was Re: Videotaping rapes))
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 22:17:42 GMT


In article <1992Sep30.074733.29955@news.columbia.edu> slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg) writes:
 
>The first one had the left hand for tens and the right for ones.  Touching
>just the thumb against the desk was one, thumb and forefinger down was two,
>and so on to all five fingers on the desk.  Then I took my thumb off the desk
>for six, until ten was no fingers down and a carry to the left hand.

I also count on my hands using left hand as 10's and right hand as
one's, but can do so without a hard surface.

I use a fist as zero, extended index finger as one.  one through five
are basically "normal" counting on fingers.  then for 6-9, I touch the
tips of fingers with my thumb, so six is kind of like an "OK" gesture,
seven has my thumb touching the tip of my middle finger, eight has thumb
touching tip of ring finger and nine is thumb touching tip of pinkie.

I caught a woman in the office today counting on her hands in a rather
unique way - she's from India, and what she was doing involved touching
her thumb to the top, middle or bottom joints of each of her fingers
for 1 through 12, then 13, 14 and 15 were counted with her index finger
touching top, middle and base of her thumb.

-r
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Accuracy/Precision, just a simple correction
From: hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 22:06:54 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1992Oct12.105348.14903@hemlock.cray.com> davew@willow03.cray.com (Dave Wagner) writes:
>No, you will get a more precise measuement.  The best way I know of to think
>of this is imagine a piece of wood 110 centementers long, but marked off in
>1000 sections of all exactly the same size.  This is a very precise measuring
>instrament, but not very accurate.

But you told us to imagine a 110 centementer (sic) ruler, so we know exactly
its length.  It is no less accurate just because it measures in units of
.11 centementer.  What we really need to know are the conversions between
centementers, centimenters, and centimeters.

ObUL: US spelling checkers don't contain metric units

Hugh "more pedantic than k*bo" Grierson

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Subject: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Supersedes: <1992Oct8.070735.479@midway.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 07:12:57 GMT

In article <7035@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.171003.20704@sfu.ca>, pinette@fraser.sfu.ca (Gandolf the 2
3rd) writes:
>> Kirk is completely wreckless and if you don't believe me
>> ask anyone on the ship who wore a read shirt...you can't because Kirk
>> got them all killed! 
>
>Picard, a RED SHIRT, is just lucky he wasn't an ACTING ENSIGN in Kirk's day.
>
>Terry "Shut-up, acting ensign Picard!" Wood

Acting?  What acting?

Ted "Was James T. Kirk's middle name 'Terry'?" Frank
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From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:36:45 GMT
Organization: AT&T


In article <mcirvin.718583474@husc10> mcirvin@husc10.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:

>I didn't know what "Hotblack Desiato" was either until I saw it on
>a FOR SALE sign in London and stood there on the corner howling 
>like an idiot.  But I suspect I've mentioned that already.  Never mind.

So, don't keep the rest of us American Douglas Adams fans in suspense.
What does "Hotblack Desiato" refer to?

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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Liz Claiborne/Oprah Winfrey UL
Date: 9 Oct 92 02:26:40 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation -- NOT!!!


In article <1992Oct8.101728.12466@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, 
  wisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wisp) writes...

>Come on, snopes, you can do better than that. Details, details... Like when
>was it on? Can you get the producers to confirm it? Can you get the videotape?
>Then, maybe, we'll start to believe you...
>The Wisp. [who's been waiting *soooooooo* long...   ;-) ]

Please see Phil G.  Some diodes need adjusting.

 - snopes

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.women
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: Oscillators (Was: Re: Women in groups)
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 21:52:45 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.164342.4056@midway.uchicago.edu>, pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson) writes:
|> In article <1992Oct12.230913.19059@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris) writes:
|> 
|> >I tend to think of it as a simple case of 'injection locking' - a technical
|> >term for how two oscillators, running at the same frequency, will tend to
|> >oscillate at the same frequency given any means of coupling.  Rather than
|> 
|> I don't get it.  If the oscillators are (already) running at the same
|> frequency, why do you need coupling to make them run at the same
|> frequency?

Did any of you sleep when they defined the word `phase'?

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From: adamsd@crash.cts.com (Adams Douglas)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Error in FAQ: Gerbils
Keywords: FAQ, Gerbils, Law
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:17:30 GMT
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA

Referencing the FAQ:
 
>T. Gerbils are illegal in California. [CA Regs. Title 14, Sec. 260 (b)(10)(A)].
 
My roommate, a law librarian, says there is no such reference under
Title 14, Sec. 260 (which deals with hunting large game animals). She
has also looked through the rest of Title 14 and can find no
reference under any section likely to deal with gerbils, animals or
rodents. She asks that such citations be double-checked before being
posted.
 
Anybody have the correct citation, or better, the quote from the
relevant text?
 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.tasteless
From: schwae@barh1a.its.rpi.edu (Eric A. Schwartz)
Subject: Re: The End Of The World
Keywords: baptist, apocalypse
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 03:58:46 GMT

In article <Bw4M2z.Hun@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> ipgrier@compass.uwaterloo.ca (Iain P. Grier) writes:
>
>I also heard that only the good Baptists/misc. will be allowed to
>ascend into Heaven on this day, and all the pagans will remain on
>Earth until the actual destruction of the world in the year 1999 or
>something.  I guess that over the next 8 years we'll all be able
>to fuck like bunnies or whatever sinful activity gives you a rise,
>since we're going to Hell anyways.
>
Hell, we could actually fuck bunnies.  In the eye sockets.  How's that for
a draize test?

E.S.
From: sut@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Secure Unix Team KID01)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Craigy babes
Date: 7 Oct 92 09:39:55 GMT
Organization: ICL Bracknell, UK

In article <9210052328.AA05776@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> PCT601%SIRIUS.UKC.AC.UK@ib.rl.ac.uk (Robryche) writes:
>Hi there
>I dont know if anybody's mentioned this, but  recently over here
>(I'll work outh the date if anybody's interested), there was an article
>about Craig Shergold in the English rag 'The SUN'. Basically it said
>that Craig was 13 and just starting school after his brain-removing
>operation 

Can someone send me a Craig Shergold "don't send anymore cards" article as
we have just got a new outbreak here, he's changed his name to Craig Shepherd
, presumably 'cos other people called Shergold always got their post late cos
craig was filling up their little box at the post office.

Please mail to the address below 
thanks
calv
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 21:17:57 GMT

pynq@quads.uchicago.edu  writes:
> In article <2636@israel.nysernet.org> warren@nysernet.org writes:
> >In <1992Sep30.201015.27323@bradley.bradley.edu> death@buhub.bradley.edu (Dustin Slater) writes:
> >
> >    I admittedly haven't been following this string to closely, so i am
> >    wonderin if you have mentioned the Nova (car).
> >
> >I'm afraid not.
> 
> These 3 strings walk into a bar ... (*)
> 
> Anyway, one wonders why they don't just translate "Nova" into Spanish,
> and call it a "Nuevo".
> 
> (*) Write me if you don't get this.

Playboy Magazine  Party Jokes  July 1987 (?)  There it was one string.
> 
> ************************************************************************
> A note to new readers:  the weasely :-) symbol is frowned upon 
						    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
			Hyuk Hyuk!!

> in this
> group.  Any questions, see Phil Gustafson who will gladly rearrange your
> diodes for you.
> 			- From the AFU FAQ -
> 
> 	- pynq@quads.uchicago.edu, who is still costing the net
> 	  hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, every time he posts -
> ************************************************************************

	Actually, I use ":)" which is easier to type, and looks more like a 
smiley face.  Are all such "faces" banned from this newsgroup?  Fine with me.
It just means that people will have to learn to read the author's intent. 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: wmc@photon.com (Bill Cornette)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Organization: Photon Research Associates, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 21:14:04 GMT

: >Oh, by the way, I heard there was a computer program developed in the 
: >Fifties that was supposed to automate translation of Russian into English.
: >It rendered "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" into the Russian
: >for "The meat is rotten, but the vodka is holding out."  Is this true?

: It's every bit as True (TM) as the automatic translation program which
: when given "Out of sight, out of mind" to translate into Russian and back
: again came out as "Invisible idiot" ...

And for a third example, a technical paper on hydraulic rams came out a
a "water goat".
From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Hey! Check out this Frequently Asked Questions List or be FAQ'd!
Date: 12 Oct 92 22:08:00 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <26718@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (TWChan@lbl.gov) 
writes:
>   - Poinsettia salad

Please spell this as "Pointsetta" in future editions of the FAQ.  I need some 
nitpicking thing to correct.

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright)
Subject: Re: Really Bad Sports Teams (was Organ Theft)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: The Valley that Brigham Built
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 22:48:19 GMT

Scott Cromar  wrote:
:                                    Our friend was from Utah,
: where the high school system is set up with 1A being the best schools
: and 4A being the worst (or smallest).  Since we had told her that we
: weren't very good, she signed us up for 4A.

From its conception through 1971, the Utah system was: A = large schools,
B = small schools.  In 1972 and 1973, the system was: 3A = large schools,
A = small schools.  Beginning in 1974, and continuing to the present,
the system is:
4A - schools with population >= 1200
3A - schools with population <  1200 and >= 600
2A - schools with population <   600 and >= 175
1A - schools with population <  175

The High School Athletics Association of Utah has voted to change it.
The following system will be put in effect next year (1993):
4A - schools with population >= 1600
3A - schools with population <  1600 and >= 1000
2A - schools with population <  1000 and >= 175
1A - schools with population <  175

The backwards-thinking exhibited by Scott's friend from Utah can generally
be seen in many of Utah's natives.   There's a certain look that the more
fanatic momos wear, which has been described as "glazed-over eyes" by one
of my more articulate friends.

  -- Dan Wright
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Re: Truth or legend: parrot in freezer
Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Dallas, Tx.
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 03:25:48 GMT

>autopsied. When he brings the parrot in to the vet, he gets this news:
>the parrot froze to death.

>So, did this really happen to a Friend of a Friend of a Friend, or is
>it a legend?

He wasn't dead -- he was just pining for the fjords.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban