HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Co-ed Dorms!
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:28:34 GMT
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992


>+ I lived in a mixed dorm, too, and as far as I can remember even the slightest
>+suggestion that we women might accidentally enter a men's bathroom or shower
>+room was greeted with expressions of extreme nausea.  Something about men's
>+total inability to hit the urinal/toilet or wait until they left the shower
>+to even aim.


when i lived in mixed dorms(at umass amherst, middle 1970s), the bathrooms were
mostly mixed too.  in dorms with groups showers the showers were segregated,
but in dorms with individual stalls and teensy individual changing area, they
weren't/  toilet and sink areas were mixed, and males were expected to refrain\
from using the open urinals.  when they forgot no one cared much except the poor
embarrassed male.

so is it typical for males to write long sex fantasy stories on the walls in
toilet stalls, or was this unique to the guys down the hall?
-- 
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:22:48 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <4728@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:

>> Q:  What's the difference between Bud Dwyer and Bud Light?
>> A:  Bud Light has a head.

>This is only one of many, many, bad Bud jokes.  It's rather amazing how people
>deal with something like this.  It seems to be a way of breaking the tension.
>I remember all those John Belushi jokes, too.


I think it's a rather good joke, myself.  As those things go, anyway. :)

While I believe that a need to break the tension is undoubtedly an 
explanation for black humor in some cases, I don't think that's the
whole story.  I've come to the conclusion that in this respect, as in
others, many people are simply able to see humor where others can't.  

Current events have always provided fodder for jokes, and the more 
shocking and colorful the occurrence, the more likely it is to be 
joked about.  In fact, the shock value is an integral part of the
humor -- "How could you joke about <gasp> *that?!*"  



Geoff "What does *this* button do?" Miller


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From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: Chelsea Clinton Fan Club
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:16:59 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <3yay#=f@rpi.edu>, kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes:
> It's a Boomer name. I think that "Tipper" is Boomer for "puts labels on 
>records". 

No, it refers to certain activities she once undertook in a cow pasture.
Of course, at the time she was under the influence of some backwards
lyrics in "Old McDonald Had a Farm" which incited her to undertake
said misdemeanor.

FTHI [for the humor impaired]--    :-)
-- 
Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Manager, SAS Institute Inc., Cary NC 27513
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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: College Pranks (Was Re: Vacation Time!)
Date: 14 Aug 92 21:41:19 GMT

jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth) writes:
>Well, look at the size of the contact-patch on your feet.  The area is on
>the order of one square foot (some of you have smaller feet, others have
>larger ones, but on the whole, this is valid).

Come on now, no one (human) has feet that large.  If your feet are somewhere
around 4 times as long as they are wide, a foot with an area of one square feet
would have a length of two feet.

On the order of one square foot maybe, but no one "has larger ones".
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From: reb@Ingres.COM (Phydeaux)
Subject: Re: Whither Manhattan? (was Re: Cannibaderm, anyone?)
Reply-To: reb@Ingres.COM (Phydeaux)
Organization: E 4th St Home For The Overeducated Underemployed - Chicago Div.
Date: 20 Aug 92 22:18:07 GMT

In article <6obfqz5@Unify.Com> ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan) writes:
>Actually, Liberty Island is disputed territory.  NJ and NY have been dis-
>puting over the island ever since the Statue of Liberty got planted there.
>(It belonged to NJ before the Statue arrived, and then suddenly NY claimed
>it.  NJ has been protesting ever since.)

The most recent fight I know  of was  over  the  proceeds of sales tax
collections on the island.  Phone and water  connections come from New
Jersey and I think they threatened to cut the island off...

				reb
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Help me identify this Mcdonaldland character
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:46:35 GMT

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.
>

He said it *ought* to be robber, not that it was.

cjl
From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Walter C. Daugherity)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Useful quips
Keywords: resistor color code
Date: 12 Aug 92 19:17:20 GMT
Reply-To: daugher@cs.tamu.edu
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station

In article <_f-yg+_@rpi.edu> rodney@magritte.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II)  
writes:
[lines deleted]
| black brown red orange yellow green blue violet gray white

I learned "Bad boys ruin our young girls by vehemently growing whiskers."

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From: troch@gandalf.Rutgers.EDU (Rod Troch)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: What's the right way to shave?
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:26:43 GMT
Organization: Right Coast HQ For Stupid Pub Tricks
In-reply-to: thayes@desire.wright.edu's message of 2 Aug 92 17:05:15 GMT


Didn't the armed forces teach the recruits how to shave?  There method
was to shave *against* the grain, thus, upward on the cheeks.  

It does give a much closer shave than going with the grain.  But beware
the first time you try it you might just draw blood.  So be sure
to have a camera ready. :-)

Rod
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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: KFC
Organization: Just put everything on the floor; I can find it.
Date: 17 AUG 92 21:43:06    


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)

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From: jeg@sangabriel.desktalk.com (John E. Greene)
Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
Organization: Desktalk Systems Inc.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:17:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.123702.9035@tpl68k0.tplrd.tpl.oz.au> keithh@tplrd.tpl.oz.au (Keith Harwood) writes:
>
>In article <1992Aug13.200613.23247@bnlux1.bnl.gov>, schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>> In article <1992Aug12.193416.25072@pony.Ingres.COM> reb@Ingres.COM (Phydeaux) writes:
>> 
******tons of LN2 and molten metal stuff deleted********

Could we please change the subject line when posting about this stuff?  


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From: de@moscom.UUCP (David Esan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: UL sighting
Keywords: Alligators, sewers
Date: 21 Aug 92 12:59:17 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY



I was a watching a tape of the Tom Hanks film "The Man with One Red Shoe"
(which is a poor remake of the original French film "The Tall Blonde Man
with One Red Shoe"), when I noticed a UL.  The CIA agent in the film is
being sent into the sewers.  As he is being lowered into the manhole he 
is informed that "all the alligator holes are marked. So be careful."

No, there was no mention if the 'gators were using sugar and lard soap
to keep clean.


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From: jordan@castor.cs.uga.edu (Chuck Jordan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Japanese snuff! sort-of...
Date: 20 Aug 92 03:04:49 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <1992Aug19.160006.20613@panix.com> henryc@panix.com (Henry Chan) writes:
>Japan is still a male dominated society that hasn't adjusted to women's rights.
>
>S&M comic books depicting women bound and strung up resembling packages of 
>sausage at the local butcher is quite popular in Japan.  I read that 1 in 10
>Japanese male harbor such fantasy.  
>
>Not too long ago, there was a public outcry against a Japanese Diet member who
>said something to the extend that considering the level of morality among Japan
>s young women everynow and then it would be a good thing to rape them as to put
>them in their right placce.  Many Japanese women rights group became excited
>upon hearing of the statement.  I found out about this from watching a local
>Japanese news broadcast which presented it as a human interest story.

Well, I seem to remember the statement that if a woman is raped, she should
just relax and enjoy it, and the slogan "Fight rape -- f*ck back" being
repeated by several people in the United States.  There's also, I'm sure,
a pretty big following of female S&M in the US, although the US seems to be
so screwed up about what's okay to show in terms of violence and sexuality
that it may not be as evident as in some other places.

Granted, Japan and China have been traditionally thought of by Europeans
and Americans as having cultures that repress women to the point of either
ignoring them or subjecting them to violence, and I have no first-hand
knowledge of the truth of this stereotype.  I'm not sure if it was your
intention, but when you post messages like this it implies that this kind
of thing is exclusive to Japan and is so different from the attitudes we
have in the US.

Chuck "Not Usually This Politically Correct" Jordan

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From: jwp@panix.com (JongWoo Park)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Driving tests
Date: 16 Aug 92 04:38:25 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <1992Aug14.235844.12918@mumbo.apple.com> johana!tsw@apple.com (Tom Watson) writes:

>Tom Watson
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Are you that famous golfer?
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From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Imponderables
Date: 19 Aug 92 12:09:24 GMT
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992

In <1992Aug18.152428.28723@unislc.uucp>, Dan Wright writes:

> -- What does zero degrees Fahrenheit signify?
>
>German physicist Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, inventor of both the alcohol
>and mercury thermometer, meant 0 to represent an equal ice-salt mixture
>and 100 to represent body temperature.
the author apparently didn't know the story that fahrenheit had a fever
the day he set the numbers, which is why human body temp. is a bit less than
100.

-- 
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
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From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: Ginsu Knives
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:08:37 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.135840.28736@mv.mv.com> mem@mv.mv.com (Mark E. Mallett) writes:
>In article <89C402Bl1dzE01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug11.045722.6315@mv.mv.com>, mem@mv.mv.com (Mark E. Mallett) 
>>writes:

>>> I did not write the above.  Gary Schroeder must have gone out of his
>>> way or his mind to make it look like I did.  I did not.  I merely
>>> commented on it.

>>So stab him.

>Excellent idea.  I wonder, what would be the best -- the most unusual --
>place to stab him?
>[ All together now... ]


You expect _me_ to volunteer suggestions for this?!?



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From: jonathan@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Jonathan Dwyer)
Subject: Re: Right-Left
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:17:36 GMT

|> In article <1992Aug4.223603.1448@acuson.com> lawson@aldia.UUCP (Drew Lawson) writes:
|> - 
|> - Can you describe any situation where you can turn left from (or onto) a
|> - two way street without crossing an active traffic lane?
|> - 

When you're driving in England  :-)))

Or, more seriously, at a 'roundabout'??


Jon.
From: imcc@cs.strath.ac.uk (Iain McCord)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Penicillin Priorities
Date: 14 Aug 92 10:24:43 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Scotland.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5


  I don't know about the effect of garlic on muscles.  I do seem to recall that
it prevents cloting.  A musket ball covered in it may make the resultant wound
bleed more.  Raw garlic would sting like hell.
-- 

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From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: apples to teachers - idea why
Date: 21 Aug 92 12:53:24 GMT
	<1992Aug18.182510.19689@CERIS.Purdue.EDU>
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992

In <1992Aug18.182510.19689@CERIS.Purdue.EDU>, Dave Heisler writes:
>
>      let's see, the christian bible tells about eve
>       eating an apple from the tree of knowledge.
every bible i've ever checked said a fruit, not an apple.
-- 
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
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From: wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.electronics
Subject: Fire walking (was Re: SHOCKING STORIES)
Summary: Liedenfrost effect? Insular embers?
Date: 17 Aug 92 05:30:23 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Aug9.114705.5110@news.iastate.edu> aescherm@iastate.edu (A Person of Awareness) writes:
>Actually regarding being able to pick up hot coals...I heard an explanation
>(or read it rather) for fire-walking in my Freshman Physics book that the
>Leidenfrost Effect is responsible for this.
>
>Essentially, it works this way:  when you have a liquid in contact with ahot
>surface (above a certain temperature) the layer of liquid closest to the 
>surface will vaporize.  This vapor-layer is a very poor conductor of heat
>so the liquid farther away from the surface doesn't heat up as much.
>
>Firewalkers generally walk onto the coals from possibly dewey grass...
>creating just this liquid layer...as long as they don't stay in one place
>too long, that vapor layer will stay intact and protect their little
>feet-sies.

  (This effect can also be observed by dropping water on a hot stove, BTW.)

  I hear that the Leidenfrost (sp?) effect only really works for the first
few steps. After that you run out of water (or sweat) --- it's boiling off
as fast as it can, of course. The reason you can still walk on the coals
after this is that the coals are very poor conductors of heat. They're
light and spongy, like styrofoam or Shuttle tiles. So when you put 
your foot down on the red-hot coal, you absorb enough heat to cool off
the very surface of the coal, but don't have to continually absorb more.
This works as long as you 1. don't run (it would make your feet dig in
to the coals, making better thermal contact) and 2. don't stop (lifting
your feet up periodically is important for keeping them cool. Think hot
potato.)
  Just in case you ever find yourself in that situation ;-)


William "I'm not a firewalker but I train them on AFU" Lewis


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From: scooter@hirgon.hw.stratus.com (Scott Jeffrey)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Do the Hokey-Pokey
Date: 13 Aug 92 20:46:39 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Aug12.164029.20381@cs.umb.edu>, aklick@ra.cs.umb.edu (Andrew Klickstein) writes:
> >
> >>"hokey-pokey - n. hocus-pocus: a kind of ice-cream sold on the streets."
> >
> >Wasn't Hocus Pocus a song by the group called Focus in the '70's ?  (Had lotsa
> >yodeling-type singing in it)
> >
>  Sure was, on their lp Hamburger Concerto .  Raised yodeling to new heights,
> if you ask me.

	"Hamburger Concerto" consisted of three movements (Rare, Medium, and 
Well Done).  "Hocus Pocus" was from an album of the same name.

ObUL:  A karate chop to the neck/shoulder will render an attacker immobile.

scooter
From: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Snuff Film Rumors
Date: 21 Aug 92 18:46:12 GMT
Reply-To: craigb@ot.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Object Technology Products
Originator: jlpicard@woofer.austin.ibm.com


chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov (Chuck Adams) writes:
> Excerpted from an article posted in alt.tasteless (yes that group again) by
> cwagner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Christian Wagner):
...
> > Unfortunatly, we also have Mark Weaver, Austin's local American Family 
> > Association asshole-in-charge. This man makes Jerry Fallwell look like Freddy
> > Mercury. This man is tasteless enough to march outside of a gay rights
> > meeting 
> > with a sign saying "Got AIDS Yet?" This man has the biggest collection of 
> > hard-core pornography and (according to rumor) snuff videos in the US, 
> > purely                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > for "research" purposes. If you're ever in Austin, call him up and claim to
> > be a reporter; he'll show you his collection. 
> 
> Anyone in Austin care to check this out?

*sigh* Okay, I volunteer...

...BUT, if I'm going to make the effort (and, conceivably, spend a week
having nightmares if I actually succeed in viewing such a video), I'd like
to know exactly what kind of proof would be acceptable to everyone. And if
the answer is "make copies and snailmail them to all interested parties, 
then forget it: a) fat chance this Weaver dude is gonna let me do that, and
b) it's probably illegal as all hell.

Craig

Becker's law: "The probability of a random, long-time reader of a.f.u being
               drawn into the Great Snuff Film Debate approaches 1"
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From: foltz@as.arizona.edu (Craig B. Foltz)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "You're so vain" - Carley Simon. Who i
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:03:37 GMT
Reply-To: foltz@as.arizona.edu
Organization: MMT Observatory, Univ.of Arizona

In article 501@news.columbia.edu, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>
>You are totally correct.
>
>   billions and billions for Carl Sagan.  CS wins hands down over these guys
>with single digit counts.
>
Unfortunately, Carl is SOOO vain that he'd be delighted to be the subject
of the song.  Ergo, NOT! 



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From: ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan)
Subject: Re: Imponderables - Toilet Designs
Keywords: n
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organization
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 20:13:50 GMT

In article <akcfkjy@Unify.Com> perry@Unify.Com (Perry Clarke) writes:
>dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright) wrote:
>>  -- Why are flush-handles on toilets on the left side?
>>Used to be you would pull the chain with your right hand while seated....
>
> This is not particularly standard.... On my various travels about the world
> I have always been amazed at the consistency of design within a country
> which is at complete odds with the variations when countries are compared.  
> What I mean to say is, each country has its own "style" of toilet....

You haven't tried Spain, I take it?  On a recent trip there, I stayed at
hotels in 5 different cities and availed myself of facilities in a dozen or
so various restaurants, public toilets, airports, etc. in those and other
cities and towns.  The flushing mechanism was the same for exactly two
toilets (yes, I counted).

In addition to the left-side flusher in US home toilets, many public toilets
in the US have buttons on the left or right side or even on the wall behind
the seat.  And you can still find the occasional chain-flusher (left and
right-handed) as well.  So they're not all *that* uniform even here.

>Perry "I must have better things to do than post queries about toilets" Clarke

Things must be slow here at Unify ...


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