HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: carlos@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Carlos Borges)
Subject: Re: planes in rivers (was NEW UL!)
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:42:07 GMT

schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:

>As for the 7X7 designation of their commercial airliners, I've never
>heard an explanation for that.

Car manufacturers do this as well, don't they?

Mazda had 323, 626, etc.
Porche had 929, 959, etc.

Weird...
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From: sfleming@cs.hw.ac.uk (Stewart Fleming)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Cow Tipping/Alligators in Sewers
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:01:21 GMT
Reply-To: sfleming@cs.hw.ac.uk
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh


In article <1992Aug17.060659.29114@PA.dec.com>, snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:

>should see the look on their faces!  They don't know what happened to them when 
>they hit the ground.  Cow tipping is what we called it."

Now, there's an odd thing.  A newspaper report (British _Independent_)
during the Barcelona Olympics quoted an American swimmer who said one of
his hobbies was "cow tipping".

>|    David Mikkelson  Digital Equipment Corporation, Culver City, CA  USA     |

Sources ?  We don't need no steenking sources !
STF
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Errata: For "He shows promise as a software engineer",
   read "He is a very promising software engineer."
From: WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: UL's in Literature List
Date: 18 Aug 92 00:54:36 GMT
 <4730@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <Bszx6A.AsK@world.std.com>
 <16846BF18.MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU> <25551@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

_Alice in La-La Land_ by Robert Campbell has the detective Whistler on the
track of a maker of snuff films.  Dark, eerie atmosphere like all of his La-La
land books.  Damn good read.

Brian Waugh                       |    "What's for dinner?"
WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU    |       Jimmy Flannery
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: KFC
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 06:23:54 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.044515.17227@PA.dec.com> snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
>
>In article <1992Aug17.153427.11356@rchland.ibm.com>, 
>  pooder@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Don Fearn) writes...
>
>>Somewhere (FOAF maybe??) I heard that Harlan Sanders, upon sampling a
>>drumstick of the then new "extra crispy" KFC said, "Like a grease-ball
>>on a stick."  I'm sure KFC would hate something like this to get out, 
>
> As a consumer, *I'd* certainly hate for a "grease-ball on a stick" to
> get out (and into my bucket o'chicken), but KFC doesn't seem too concerned 
> about it.
>
> - snopes  (beat Lasner to it)

But does it taste like chicken

cjl (beat a Terry to it)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Faces of death
From: frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz (Bruce Clement)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 08:19:47 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Private System

sparky@polari.online.com writes in article <1992Aug11.042908.1442@polari>:

> Do you ever learn?  The murder in a snuff film is the PURPOSE FOR THE
> MOVIE ITSELF.  Yes, murders and executions have been taped.  (Think of
> JFK.) 

But if he hadn't wanted to film it, would Zapruder (sp?) have paid all
those gunmen to dress up as Senator Oswald & unleash the hail of
magic bullets? 

--
Bruce "Setting the cat amongst the pigeons ... pictures at 10" Clement    

(frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz  SNEWS/2,  UUPC 1.11q)
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Penicillin Priorities
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:01:11 GMT
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates

In article <25582@dog.ee.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov writes:

>>c)  the act of rubbing the garlic onto the ball (using dirty hands, maybe
>>    including some grime & bacteria during the process) made the wound that
>>    much more septic, causing infection and producing the desired result
>
>>Incredible though it may seem to us, I wouldn't swear that people back
>then had come up with a germ theory of disease, or had even causally 
>associated grime and infection.

That's exactly the point.  They didn't know about germs, etc.
The idea is that somebody tried it (out of boredom - there not being
much to do out there...) and, let's say, observed that it "worked".
The supposed reason (at the time) probably had more to do with witches and
spirits than anything to do with the chemical properties of garlic *or*
germ theory.

But the arg is that c) above may well have been the most likely actual
explanation.

>The classic example is doctors going 
>straight from the morgue to the delivery room without stopping to wash,
>hands, thereby causing "pupereal fever" -- one more little bit to help
>make childbirth a leading cause of premature death.

Panati makes the point that it was only in the last hundred years that
doctors could make the claim of doing more good than harm.

>Medicine in general had less to do with science than with 
>(what else?) folklore.
This is a good quote!

>You were probably better off curling up under 
>the porch like a sick dog than going to the doctors of that era.
And probably as true today as then; we still have quack medicine in
various flavors - that hasn't changed.

>These gruesomely fascinating tales are told well in Jurgen Thorwald's 
>books. Try first "The Century of the Surgeon," then "The Triumph of 
>Surgery." 

I'll have to check these out.

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From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Help me identify this Mcdonaldland character
Date: 14 Aug 92 23:07:59 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

I once heard the _original_ Grimace had something like 6 arms, and was made
less monster-like because he was too scary for small children.

The "Policeman" was definitely Big Mac.  The local McDonald's here just
replaced their entire playground, removing a Big Mac jail/junglegym.

In article <1992Aug14.132849.1857@ra.msstate.edu>, cee1@ra.msstate.edu (Charles Evans) writes...
>Someone previously said that the Hamburgler's name was Hamrobber.. NOT
> 
>its definaties Hamburgler.

The NAME is definitely Hamburgler, but on the commercials he was a robber.
The post was trying to point the misuse of the word burglar.

-Mike
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: Gulf Vet Illness
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 16:31:47 GMT

In article <59680@mimsy.umd.edu>, biow@cs.umd.edu (chris biow) writes:
> In article <1992Aug14.142930.10165@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> aj336@cleveland.Freenet.
> Edu (Pat Weber) writes:
> 
> >Some Gulf vets are complaining of a mysterious virus
> >beleived to come from inhaling the oil smoke. The Pentagon apparently
> >did studies of this prior to the war, but never revealed the results.
> 
> Pat, you posted to the wrong newsgroups. alt.conspiracy and alt.folklore.urban
> are more appropriate groups. I suppose there is a sci.something that might
> find an oil-smoke borne virus interesting, too.
> 
> But, if you repeat it enough, the press will pick it up, just as they
> did the one about the soldier/marine having to call his headquarters in
> the US with an ATT calling card.                                                

Didn't CNN (at least) do a story on desert storm vets having some unknown
viral infection. I even remember, though vaguely, a reference made to the
national (US that is) blood supply and the threat of a new virus.

Didn't hear anything more, however. Guess the govt. stopped any more broadcasts.

---
YuNoHoo
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:54:38 GMT

In article <CKD.92Aug10010002@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:

>cel> == clayton EDward LEIHY iii <cel@nsscmail.att.com> 
> cel> It seems to me that the ones I remember said somewhat the following:
> cel>    Four out of five doctors *who expressed a preference*
> cel>    preferred Brand X  
> cel>    (or "prescribed" Brand X, or whatever)
>

Did you ever notice how much free advertising that Brand X has gotten
over the years?  And the amazing thing is their incredibly diverse
product line.  _Everybody_ compares their product to Brand X.  Bleach,
soap, chewing gum, diskettes, you name it and you can be certain that
Brand X makes their own version of the stuff.

Who are these guys?  They're marketing gods!
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From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Eskimo words for snow
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:37:48 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

>
> +It's not yet time to change the FAQ.  Here's why.  If you pronounce 
> +all of the Eskimo snow "words", you'll probably hear them fall into 
> +two classes.  One bears some similarity to 'qanik' (snow in the air),  
> +the other to 'aput' (snow on the ground).  Linguists say that the 
> +words in the two classes are related morphologically to one of those 
> +two roots.  This is the heart of the argument that debunks the Eskimo 
Sort of like checking "rice" and getting "fried rice, rice
pilaf, spanish rice, rice-a-roni, rice pudding, riced farina,
rice pasta," etc., huh?  Well, I guess it all depends on
whether you think "rice" is a different product from spanish
rice, I guess.  One thing they all have in common is that they
are all rice (except the riced farina and rice pasta, which
only look like rice).

I think it's whether you're a lumper or a splitter.  Regarding
such, when I was in bio sci in college, lumping and splitting
classifications was something folks almost came to blows
about, each convinced *they* were right.

--
  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

I've worn high-heeled pointed-toed fashionable shoes for the past 
twenty years, and you ask me about if *getting tattooed* hurt?!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Re: apples to teachers - idea why
Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Dallas, Tx.
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 06:03:56 GMT

>"What? Over? Did you say it's over? Nothing's over, till we decide it is! 
> Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!" --John Belushi

Bill Murray.
From: v121mfrc@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (John C Parker)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: re:signals
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:10:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

My roommate and I decided a clear piece of tape over the lock was best.

It was unobtrusive enough that your casual psser-by wouldn't notice and
the other roommate couldn't possibly fail to notice it.

-parker
From: 185422285@ucis.vill.edu (Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Texas The only real school in TEXAS
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:41:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Villanova University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

In article <11AUG199217054239@zeus.tamu.edu>, bew4568@zeus.tamu.edu (Bruce E.) writes...
?In article <1992Aug11.110245.528@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>, z_moorertw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes...
?>
?>It is another idiotic tradition started by those AGits that like
?>to have old fashion bonfires and kiss all those ugly Aggie
?>women when they score a TD which this year will be seldom if ever.
? 
?I guess they don't teach English at your school.  You really ought to
?get out and learn it on your own.  It is your mother tongue, you know. 
? 
?Bruce

There are schools in Texas? Wowie!! 

later


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From: braithw@cs.uwindsor.ca (BRAITHWAITE GEORGE       )
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: signals on the door
Date: 20 Aug 1992 18:55:53 GMT
Organization: University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada


     By far the best way is to place a piece of clear tape over the keyhole.  Here are the advantages:

1. If your roommate is bringing someone to the room (ex. parents, other girl)  only he/she will see it when they try to put the key in and will go away and the other party wouldn't even know.

2. Nobody can miss tape over the keyhole if a key is needed to get in. So even if your roomate is inebriated he/she will see the sign (or at least have a lot of trouble getting the key in) which will avoid you having yelling at him/her to go away.

3.  Everyone else on the floor wouldn't be able to see an obvious signal and ensuring your privacy.(To a certain extent).

4.  There is no danger of the tape falling off (unlike signs, socks, ties, darts etc...) if a hall sport breaks out in a residence.  Also since it's not easily noticed, no practical jokers will remove it on purpose.

"Hey Bill... Now your a LAW! (congressman)  |  George "Screech" Braithwaite
"OH YEAH!" (Bill)                           |  braithw@cs.uwindsor.ca
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: beowulf@wam.umd.edu (amealuh)
Subject: Re: signals on the door
Organization: GhostDusters, Inc.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:54:56 GMT

i've been a commuter for the last few years, but my friends would
tell me about the signals that they used with their roommates.

the most inventive by far was when a friend of mines' roommate
decided that one of them would use the quadratic formula, and
the other would use a double helix, drawn on the board.

then there was the other extreme - a friend of mine didn't really
bother warning his roommate; he would turn the room into a Woman Trap 
(as they were fond of calling it), spend most of the evening looking
deeply into the eyes of some woman, and his roommate (seeing at least
40 minutes worth) would give up and leave, simply based on his 
roommates' reputation.

me
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: dmatt@iastate.edu (Daniel I Matt)
Subject: Re: signals on the door
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 05:57:47 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.221325.26354@lester.appstate.edu> GRS00041@APPSTATE.EDU (GRS9999101) writes:
>So guys (and girls, too, I guess...) what is the best signal you and your
>roommate(s) have had to tell when the room is "otherwise occupied?"     
>My boyfriend and his roommate use a dart in the bullseye  of the dartboard
>on the door. ....

   Have you ever asked them why they have a dartboard on the OUTSIDE of their
door?  Seems a bit strange.
From: strake@coos.dartmouth.edu (strake)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: signals on the door
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:56:15 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

My roommate and I have a real simple one.
I we want to join in we stay, if we don't we leave.
If we don't want to give the other roommate the option, we lock the door.
*grin*


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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 22:19:43 EDT
From: The Velcro-Man! <DED110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: signals on the door
 <1992Aug19.132122.11814@babbage.ece.uc.edu> <1415@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca>


     My favorite one was a red sign, like the ones you find that say
"Elevator out of service."  It had large white letters stating:

                           _  _  _         _  _
                   | |\|  (  |_ |_)\  / | |  |_
                   | | |  _) |_ | \ \/  | |_ |_

                          DO NOT DISTURB



Cool idea, eh?  More of a gag (*ahem*) idea than a serious one, but it
sure does get the point across!

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give it away, give it away now!"
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Home: (814) 587-3080
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: GRS00041@APPSTATE.EDU (GRS9999101)
Subject: signals on the door
Organization: APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:13:25 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.23

So guys (and girls, too, I guess...) what is the best signal you and your
roommate(s) have had to tell when the room is "otherwise occupied?"     
My boyfriend and his roommate use a dart in the bullseye  of the dartboard
on the door. ....
-S

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.flame
From: cgw@sol.acs.unt.edu (christopher williams)
Subject: Re: Texas The only real school in TEXAS
Originator: cgw@sol
Followups-To: alt.flame,misc.test
Organization: University of North Texas
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:48:28 GMT

In <1992Aug11.110245.528@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_moorertw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
>It is another idiotic tradition started by those AGits that like
>to have old fashion bonfires and kiss all those ugly Aggie
>women when they score a TD which this year will be seldom if ever.

At least they have real names, go to a real school, and use a 
recognizable form of English syntax. Hell, they even have .sigs! 

Maybe it's something in the water at SFU?

-cgw-

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From: tmcbraye@snert.ece.uc.edu (Tim McBrayer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: signals on the door
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:21:22 GMT
Organization: Unversity of Cincinnati, ECE Dept

My roommate and I used a small (3/8 inch square) of silver duct tape over
the keyhole in the steel lock cylinder.  Virtually unless someone tries
to unlock the door--very discreet.  It also let the occupants of the room
know when the roommate got home, since you could hear the key scraping on
the cylinder.  This gave the occupants notice that the, uh, study break
should draw to a close.

-- 
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Computer Architecture Design Laboratory     (513) 556-0904
University of Cincinnati                    "Visualize Whirled Peas"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: swimmer@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jennifer Bouck)
Subject: Re: signals on the door
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:52:00 GMT

I know of a guy who left a jar of peanut butter outside 
his room for his roommate.  He know can't live it down!!!

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From: andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Some call me...Drew)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: signals on the door
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:03:47 GMT
Organization: Leapers For a Better Yesterday

Not that I would EVER do this [Really, Mom!], but...

my roommates and I have worked out a series of signals, ranging from the
traditional "HEY!!" as the door opens to the subtle message on the phone
pad.  My favorite was the EE who used black electrical tape over the lock;
people don't usually notice that unless they're looking for it, and it's
effective even if the roommate doesn't notice.

Other people I know have slammed hankies into the door, put up a blank
Post-It, inverted a door clipping, and all sorts of other signals.

Then there's the guy I knew who really has the last word.  We were discussing
this one time, and he said, "What's the big deal?  I don't have a problem
with leaving 'Go away--We're fucking' on the message board."

Can't get a much better signal than that.

-- 
"Me and you, a two man crew, 
 side by side we are united,
 we will never be divided...."

                                                  Au revoir, mon cherie.
From: nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Looking good with mouses
Keywords: Unknown
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:51:13 GMT
Organization: Information Technology, Northern Territory University


  There's a lot of things that a computing professional does to "look cool".
You have only to Look at UNIX users to see this. For example:

   - if you use a vi editor on UNIX; to show your really cool, you use the
      'i'. 'j', 'k' ans 'm' keys, NOT the numeric pad.
   -  You pronounce "!" as "Bang",
   -  And you never type "ls" (aka "dir" for MeSsyDOS) between transiting,
copying or doing something between two leaf nodes of a file systems, because it
shows that you keep having to be reminded of where things are.


  What I want to know is; is there any cool movement (or as such) that
professionals do seperate the novices from the pro's when using mouses?.

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