HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Missionary Position
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:29:03 GMT
Reply-To: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Object Technology Products
Originator: jlpicard@woofer.austin.ibm.com


The legend goes that african natives observed missionaries having
sex with the woman on bottom, lying on her back, with the man on
top, stomach down. Ever since, it's been called the "Missionary
Position."

A few questions:

1. What was it called before this?

2. If the legend is complete bull, then why is it still called
   "Missionary"?

3. How did the natives usually do it?

Craig

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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:54:32 GMT

vince@cadence.com (Vince Gibboni) writes:
: dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes) writes:
: >  pt@geovision.gvc.com writes...
: >
: >> Gee, I thought it was because the upper (and upper middle) class snobs who
: >> wrote the constitution wanted to give power to the masses, but not _too_
: >> much.  If the great unwashed voted for somebody who was obviously wrong, the
: >> upper class `Electoral College'' could set things right.
: >
: > Partly true.  If a populist unacceptable to the upper classes manages to 
: > gather broad national support, there's nothing they can do about it.
: 
:     Unless the populist candidate gathers broad national support among
:     people with lots of weapons he can't overcome the electoral college.
:     So long as the electoral college (as it was designed to be) is full
:     of fine upper class chaps, it can happily ignore any populist the 
:     muddled multitudes may have seen fit to select during their little
:     voting thing and go off and elect a proper candidate of its own. 
:     That was the whole idea. 
: 
:     It's really weird that almost no one seems to know about this...

Exactly. It is also why we have a Senate and House of Representatives.
The founders did not think the general populace would be intelligent,
or well enough informed, to make decisions on governing the country
on their own.

Also, back then, they could rely on the lack of communication between
various areas of the country pretty much allowing them to do whatever
they wished - regardless of the desires of the populace. After all,
how would anyone know how the other areas of the country actually
voted? These days, it is hard enough just trying to find out how your
own congresscreatures voted.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dlphknob@cs1.bradley.edu (Jemaleddin Cole)
Subject: Re: Calvin has MPD - or possibly something worse
Organization: Bradley University
Date: 19 Nov 92 05:52:27 GMT

In <1243.55.uupcb@hal9000.UUCP> bill.duetschler@hal9000.UUCP (Bill Duetschler)  writes:

>TP > Many newspaper readers will be shocked to have learned today that    
>TP > popular child comic star Calvin is manifesting the classic behavior  
>TP > of a schizophrenic.   
>TP >
>TP > Regular readers will be familiar with Calvin's usual antics as he play-acts
>TP > with his toy stuffed tiger.   Today, for the first time, Calvin's stuffed
>TP > tiger carried out not a joint activity, but an activity of which Calvin
>TP > was not aware.

>Having read the strip my armchair diagnosis is one of MPD.  Perhaps
>Calvin was traumatized by one or both parents.

Actually, I think that he may have even more problems.  It is obvious from
his schoolwork that he is of low general intelligence, with high creative
inteligence.  Maybe he is suffering from paranoid delusions.  Also, he
seems to suffer from 'borderline personality' syndrome.....just a guess
though....

>Bill "I'm not a shrink but I play one on TV" Duetschler

Jemal "I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV" Cole
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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: DIY porn UL comes alive
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:15:41 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.085232.227@nntp.nta.no> styri@nta.no writes:
(Nifty story about burglars, charges, and counter-charges - deleted...)

>Well, it's not that close to the UL. The burglars didn't sell the tapes to
>some porn prtoducer - or did they. Who knows if they made a copy before they
>started the blackmailing? Maybe an edited version _will_ come to your local
>video rental shop soon...  Maybe the burglars removed the child porn tapes
>and only returned the nice ones. (Of course the tape owners will not dare to
>report the missing tapes to the police, will they?)


I was *sure* you were eventually going to mention something about
toothbrushes...

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From: rkimm@ameris.ameritech.com (Robert L. Kimmel)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes (a different theory)
Organization: Ameritech, Hoffman Estates, IL
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:58:17 GMT
Keywords: aliens, voodoo

diverson@phys.ksu.edu (David Iverson) writes:


>Could it be that Hobbes is actually a manifestation of
>some alien entity (perhaps malevolent, perhaps misunderstanding of the
>human condition)?

Sounds more like Calvin to me.

BK
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From: robm@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Rob McCool)
Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATM's for $$$$
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Organization: The Castle aiiruuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrg
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:39:59 GMT

Wayne McDougall (system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz) wrote:
: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes:
: 
: > It seems unlikely. Comms between ATMs and the banks are encrypted, and (here
: > in Europe at least) ATMs can hand out money even if they can't contact
: > the cardholders bank, so some of the control must be excercised locally
: > by the ATM with the info that is on the card. If the card is encoded
: > with "$300 max per day" thats all the ATM will issue.
: 
: Well according to a Coopers & Lybrand case study on computer fraud, the 
: early ATM's weren't so smart. Literally. The central bank computer did 
: all the processing and the ATM was just a comms machine. The example 
: given was an ATM which used plain unencrypted ASCII. The command from 
: the bank computer to issue a $10 notes was ASCII 10. The story goes 
: that some gentlebeing strolled up to some ATM in the middle of nowwhere 
: on a highway, with the phone lines literally running down the pole to 
: the mATM. Inserted hi PC in the section and drained the machine by a 
: series of ASCII 10's.
: 
: Anyone else heard this version, or similar, or wish to comment?

Yes, I heard the same thing but was waiting for someone else to bring it up
  because I didn't remember where I had heard it. The story I heard is that the
  original ATMs were unencrypted until someone dug up the line in his/her/its
  backyard and put a PC into it, and "jackpotted" the machine. I think it was
  somewhere in New York. Anyway, I heard that that was why they started 
  encrypting the data.

--
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It was working ten minutes ago, I swear...
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: Smoke cigarettes -- leave early!
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:57:33 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.001333.7002@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes...
>In article <lh07esINN493@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Trelford Pinkerton) writes:
>>Many people have heard the old urban legend that
>>   "every cigarette you smoke takes N days off your life".
>>
>>But my question is, overlooking the flaws in the model, 
>>what is the value of 'N'?    I.e. can we say that 365 ciggies a day
>>takes 1 year off your life, so each cig is worth a day.  

I once heard 8 minutes, but this is old info.

>I heard N = 5 minutes.  So 288 cigarettes takes a day out of your life, and
>105408 cigarettes takes a leap year out of your life.  So, therefore, this
>generation of cigarette smokers is lucky, because the year 2000 isn't a leap
>year.                                                      -----------------
 ----

Yes it is.

uh-oh.

-Mike "if divisible by 4 except if divisible by 100 except if divisible
 by 400" Moroney
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:46:46 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.092401.20569@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>In many parts of the US, state lines are artificial boundaries relative to
>the community.  Should the voters of New York City be represented Electorally
>speaking by some Electors for NY State, while their neighbors, the commuters
>from nearby New Jersey, and close-by Fairfield County Connecticut be lumped
>together with their respective more rural states' population electorally?

Connecticut and New Jersey are actually each more urban than New York
state.

Even to win the electors of a state, someone has to have broad-based appeal.

>Also, have there ever been any Electoral situations where the state
>refuses to grant their votes for the leading candidate, and instead give them
>to a "favorite son" of the state? (similar to actions in primaries)

1960 and 1968 are the most recent examples, both taking place in the South.
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From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mr. Furr)
Subject: Re: Puff the Magic Dragon (was Calvin/Hobbes...)
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: Wed, 18 Nov 92 13:22:30 GMT

In article <17NOV199221162108@csa3.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:
>The double album "Peter, Paul, and Mary In Concert" is available
>on CD as Warner Brothers 1555-2, and is at least one of surely
>many sources of "Puff the Magic Dragon."  Including sheet music.
>This is a favorite of my wife and her friends when the second
>bottle gets drained, the ol' six-string comes out of the box,
>and the Folk Song Army gets mobilized.  I have, at best, one
>fleeting opportunity to steer the proceedings towards Warren Zevon.
>
>No idea why this is crossposted to sci.med, though one could 
>certainly think of a sardonic hypothesis or two.  Might want to
>followup to sci.military if you mean the *other* Puff the Magic
>Dragon.  :)

What, you mean Puff the Headless Thompson Gunner?
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From: rhadden@isdres.er.usgs.gov
Subject: RE: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:30:14 GMT

My reply was that several human diseases originated in animal species when
animal domestication first started. Because so few large animals were
domesticated in North and South America, and because the first people
to come here were immigrants who came through the Berring Striat before
the domestication of anuimals, they missed many of the original community
diseases that people of Asia, the Middle East and Afri-Europe had gone
though. Cow pox and smallpox can be traced to the domestication of cattle;
measles possibly from canine distemper or rinderpest, and influenza from
hog diseases (swine flu).
   An exellent article on this is printed in the Oct 10l 1992 issue
of _New Scientist_, pages 38-41.
   I was surprised to learn that Lewis and Clark took along some cowpox
vaccine to protect the natives they came in contact with. Unfortunately,
smallpox had already preceeded the explorers. However, it leaves Jefferson
in a much better light than I had known before.
   Appropos of nothing, the origin of "swine flu" must have come from
the expression "When pigs will fly."
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Driving without shoes
Date: 19 Nov 92 15:21:01 GMT
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

In <BxvGqq.6sz@egsner.cirr.com> datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri) writes:

>As far as I know, all Beetles have manual or effectively manual transmissions.

Is this why they are more popular than Buddha?
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Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 00:14:45 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <9651@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> pmmst8+@pitt.edu (Paul M Mweene) writes:
>In article <1992Nov9.220737.16282@walter.bellcore.com> kenl@origami.cc.bellcore.com (Ken Lehner) writes:
>>In article <rKB=qf-@engin.umich.edu>, dem@engin.umich.edu (Darryle E Merlette) writes:
>>
>>|> I'd suggest viewing "The Strecker Memorandum" video. In this video
>>|> a (white) doctor explains in scientific detail how the AIDS virus
>>|> 	Darryle
>
>Where can I get this video?

Yeah, sounds like a hoot.  We could all go round to someones place, have
a few beers and a highly amusing time.  

Derek "Well it beats Jeopardy" Tearne


-- 
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Some of the more aware dinosaurs were worried about the environmental
consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.  
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
From: henry@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Henry Bloomfield)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Courgettes (was Re: d
Date: 17 Nov 92 10:02:35 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London

In <1992Nov16.174348.21242@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:

>In article <1992Nov14.034909.12545@ultb.isc.rit.edu> jhh4889@ultb.isc.rit.edu
>(J.H. Huebner) writes:
>Liquified gases are pretty cool, though you do have to be careful around
>them.  I once saw a guy here dip a grape in it, pull the grape out and
>tap it...the grape shattered, as if it was made of glass.

...getting back to the original subject of this thread, in the
above anecdote read "courgette" for "grape"...



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From: seanna@bnr.ca (Seanna Watson)
Subject: Rumors and rumors et rumeurs (was Re: another UL
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:53:55 GMT

In article <DECHC00.92Nov12150111@tohi.DMI.USherb.Ca> dechc00@tohi.DMI.USherb.Ca (CHRISTIAN DECHAMPLAIN) writes:
>
>Well check your diodes because "rumour" is not french at all.
>The french word is "rumeur".
>
Well yes, but "rumour" is how English-speaking Canadians spell it (or at
least those who have not submitted to the American simplification rules).

-- 
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(seanna@bnr.ca) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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From: bill.duetschler@hal9000.UUCP (Bill Duetschler)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Calvin has MPD
Date: 15 Nov 92 13:02:00 GMT
Reply-To: bill.duetschler@hal9000.UUCP (Bill Duetschler)
Organization: HAL 9000 BBS, (313)663-4173, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

TP > Many newspaper readers will be shocked to have learned today that    
TP > popular child comic star Calvin is manifesting the classic behavior  
TP > of a schizophrenic.   
TP >
TP > Regular readers will be familiar with Calvin's usual antics as he play-acts
TP > with his toy stuffed tiger.   Today, for the first time, Calvin's stuffed
TP > tiger carried out not a joint activity, but an activity of which Calvin
TP > was not aware.

Having read the strip my armchair diagnosis is one of MPD.  Perhaps
Calvin was traumatized by one or both parents.

Bill "I'm not a shrink but I play one on TV" Duetschler

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From: manley@optilink.UUCP (Terry Manley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: furrfu??
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:34:08 GMT
Organization: DSC/Optilink Access Products

In article <2824@israel.nysernet.org> warren@nysernet.org writes:
>Why is it that when you rot-13 a messages in rot-n that contains the
>number n, it doesn't change to n+/-13?

rot-13 translates A-Z --> N-ZA-M and a-z --> n-za-m

Since it only includes the letters, the numbers (and all other
symbols) pass through unaffected (or is that uneffected?, uninfected??@!)

--
Dave "I'm not really Terry (or even Greel)" Manley
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:54:29 GMT

dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes) writes:
: In article <1992Nov17.010317.29039@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, 
:   billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes...
: 
: >Sure they could. I bet a fair share of the electoral college members could be
: >bought - one way or the other.
: 
: I seriously doubt committed members of the party of a victorious presidential
: candidate could be bought in sufficient quantity to sway a national election.
: If the outcome hinged on a single state, deal-making might carry the day, but
: not in a case where one candidate was a clear electoral winner.

It could be done. All it would take would be a few hundreds of millions of
dollars. 

Bill
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Proposed FAQ:  LSD Tattoo Urban Legend
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 09:21:37 GMT

dgross@zeus.calpoly.edu (Dave Gross) writes:
: 
: 	[Jean-Bruno RENARD, in "LSD Cartoon Stamps / Tattoo Transfers:
: An Extreme Case of Rumor about Contamination in France" alleges that
: another connection between stamps and LSD is that "it is a custom among
: LSD users to send small LSD tablets by concealing them underneath the
: postage stamps of the letters they send to foreign correspondents."  He
: also alleges, but doesn't footnote (dammit!), that "LSD tablets were
: found concealed beneath tattoo transfers in California."]

Shows that Renard doesn't really know what he was talking about either.
It was not the practice to put a tablet under the stamp. It was common,
to put a drop of acid on the envelope - where the stamp goes. The stamp
was then applied over it. To get their trip, the person simply chewed
the stamp, and portion of envelope containing the stamp. This has been
personally documented to me by Ken Kesey. His wife sent him lsd in that
manner when he was residing at a California work camp - courtesy of the
state of California.

The latter allegation listed above makes even less sense. I suspect that
he is simply spreading rumor. 

Bill
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From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Subject: Re: UL in a Time Warp!
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
Date: 15 Nov 92 21:07:33

Dan Wright wroght:
>In article <honk-if-you-care-about-the-article-number> Cynthia Kandolf
wrote:
>: Yes, i'm back.
>
>I'm a big Cindy fan and I'm glad she's "back".

You know, if i didn't know better, i would swear i was being mocked.

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway

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From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: More electrical no-no's
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:30:54 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <BxxFI7.329@rahul.net>, phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>Phil "Remember, kids, I = E/R" Gustafson

...where I = Intensity (or "clarity") of the mandate,
         R = Rhetoric volume, and
         E = candidate's share of the Electrical College vote.

This should knit up two threads' worth of ravelled sleave at once.

Bruce "No, not sleeve" Tindall

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From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Calvin/Hobbes diagnosed as clinical schizophrenic
Date: 18 Nov 92 20:45:08 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <Bxvt5K.Esy@unx.sas.com>, sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce 
Tindall) writes:
> Captain Kangaroo (tm) played the song, with still illustrations, on his
> children's TV show in the 1960s.  At the very end, there was a totally
> gratuitous illustration, not supported by anything in the text of the
> song, containing the words "BUT WAIT!" and showing a smiling Jacky 
> Paper returning the cave of the overjoyed Puff. 

That's not so different from certain Sumpreme Court opinions.

I realize I mispelled "Supreme" above, but I decided I liked it that way.  
Mumpsimus.


Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
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