HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ras@athena.mit.edu (Richard A Shandross)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Rape movie? (was: "Gang Bang" series)
Date: 8 Oct 92 12:35:24 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In article <Oct.7.12.01.51.1992.28004@math.rutgers.edu> cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:
>
>(Please note that I have not passed judgement on the existence or
>nonexistence of either type of film above.  If you're going to flame
>me, get the facts right.)
>
>--Scott

I'll pass judgement and you can flame me til the cows come home:  both are SICK
and anyone who makes them or gets off on them needs major help.

Rich
From: kristyp@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:29:45 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <1992Oct8.183259.14751@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.182108.14613@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pwhitman@magnus.ac
>s.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes:
>>-Neal Whitman
>Whoops, sorry about that etremely short last posting.  I was following up
>someone or other's story about the children named Alpha, Beta, etc.
>As I was saying, I met this guy in my Boy Scout troop in 5th grade, whose
>name was Gordon Lawrence.  Later on I met his older brother named Fabian,
>and later still I met another brother older than both of them, and his
>name was Evan.  That was when I found out the full story: that they were
>merely the last three of seven children, named (in order of visitation)
>Alan, Brian, Caren (I think), Dian, Evan, Fabian and Gordon.  After that
>I felt kind of sorry for Fabian, stuck being the 6th kid who had to get
>the weird name just so it'd conform to the pattern his parents had set up.
>
>-Neal Whitman

Gee, sounds like his parents watched "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"
one too many times.  Never saw the movie, but in the T.V. series the
seven brothers had names in this pattern.  (Your story happens to have
seven, too...)

All I remember about the series other than this is that River Phoenix
was G.

-Kristy "but what if they had 27 children?" Patterson
-- 
   +==========================+============================================+
   |Kristy Patterson          |"Jack's favorite author is the man who wrote|
   |kristyp@mac.dartmouth.edu |'Pull tab to open.'"      -Jewel of the Nile|
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From: smith@ctron.com (Larry Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Australian sense (was: Canadian pennies)
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:33:43 GMT
Reply-To: smith@ctron.com
Organization: Cabletron Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Oct10.191214.26355@sq.sq.com>, msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:

>When visiting Australia, I have noticed that merchants there tend
>to set prices so as to not require a lot of small coins anyway.
>Even when the 1c and 2c coins were in common circulation you didn't
>need them very often.  (They can do that, of course, because the
>quoted price of an item includes the sales tax -- another practice
>where the US and Canada are out of step with all other countries
>I've been to, and where I think they'd do well to fall into step.

Well, you don't need to search any more.  Here in the great state of New
Hampshire, if the tag says 50 cents, it's 50 cents.  Of course, we cheat,
we do it by not having a sales tax.  We think the rest of the world is
out of step with New Hampshire in this respect, and I think they'd do
well to address it.

>This article is in the public domain.

This article is covered by the GNU general public license.
Distribution without source text is prohibited.

Larry Smith (smith@ctron.com)  No, I don't speak for Cabletron.  Need you ask?
-
Liberty is not the freedom to do whatever we want,
it is the freedom to do whatever we are able.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Arrest on the net
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Distribution: alt.folklore.urban
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 22:40:14 GMT

smith+@cs.cmu.edu (Sean Smith) writes:
: 
: For the THIRD time... (a three-sided snuff record?)
: 
: Subject: Divided court upholds sentence in 'snuff' film case
: Date: 3 Sep 92 17:43:09 GMT
: 
: --Sean ``no joy in Mudville'' Smith

Thanks Sean. That was the case I remembered. I just misremembered
the details.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Another Landlord Story
From: poncho@linc.amigans.gen.nz (Peter Northway)
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 22:53:04 GMT
Organization: Totally disorganised.
Keywords: landlord .357

rph@sq.sq.com (Pontus Hedman (VE3RPH)) writes:
> 
> Ah, but listen to what happened to my next door neighbour, Al,
> -- 
> Pontus Hedman			rph@sq.com		{uunet|utzoo}!sq!rph
> AX25:VE3RPH @ VE3OGS.#SCON.ON.CAN.NOAM			(416) 239-4801

Guy I know who owns a small rural Engineering Workshop kept getting visited
by the local Factory Inspector. Every time he called he complained that the
dunny (outhouse/loo/toilette) had no ventilation.

Eventually he threatened to prosecute the owner unless he did something about
it. Problem solved - owner grabs shotgun and blows hole in back wall of
said small room.

Never saw that particular Government Official again.

     Peter Northway        | Disclaimer : This is just my opinion. Well more
  Wanganui New Zealand     | like a tiny ripple in the fabric of the universe.
poncho@linc.amigans.gen.nz | Well would you believe just another beer break.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: nail in Coca-Cola
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:25:56 GMT

Re Coke:

Coke contains phosphoric acid which will dissolve rust (in fact naval jelly
and some other anti-rust substances also contain phosphoric acid).

I can believe that it may dissolve a nail, but that's not much of a big deal.
Dissolve a little salt in water and suspend a nail in it, watch what happens.
Iron is a fairly active metal.

In article <1992Oct7.114742.16138@husc3.harvard.edu>, joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes) writes...
>Fun with chemicals...now, if you want *real* fun, mix bleach and ammonia and
>sniff the fumes that come off it.  Many a housewife has nearly been killed by
>the resultant fumes (chlorine gas).

No you don't get chlorine gas from bleach and ammonia.  You get nastier things,
a witch's brew of hydrazine, chloramine, nitrogen trichloride, ammonia gas,
dichloramine, and maybe a few others.  You can get chlorine from bleach and
sulfuric acid though.

-Mike
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: spg@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Stephen P. Guthrie)
Subject: Re: US & World headlines (Oct 9 2 am PDT)
Keywords: broadcast
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 10:18:57 GMT

In article <Bworld-headlinesUR40c_2O9@clarinet.com> clarinews@clarinet.com (UPI-Radio) writes:
>	In Australia... a 22-year-old man has jumped to his death after
>protesting a lingerie show featuring Australian super-model Elle (El)
>Macpherson. Gary Moore had evaded tight security to jump onto the stage
>at Macpherson's show and shout insults.
>	
>	After security guards released him at Macpherson's request... Moore
>later re-emerged at a restaurant on the building's sixth floor, smashed
>a window with a chair and hurled himself to his death. Macpherson is
>said to be very upset.


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Canadian pennies
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:50:24 GMT

kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes:
: |> 
: |> Higher coins are still 100% nickel, except for the loonie ($1 coin) which
: |> is 100% nickel with a plating of "aureate bronze".  I have never seen the
: |> metallic composition of the (gold-colored) plating, by the way, even in
: |> places where I would expect it to be given.
:  
:  This is odd. If Canadian nickels, dimes and quarters are made of nickel 
: or copper-nickel, why can I pick them up with a magnet?

If I recall correctly, nickel is magnetic.

Bill
: 
From: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:29:39 GMT
Subject: Re: gary larson committed
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

re:  Gary Larson committed?

Oh, yes, he's VERY committed.  In fact, he's one of the most committed 
people I've seen.  If only our politicians were as committed as Gary L.,
this country would be a lot better place.

-- Ray D.
(Actually, if our politicians were as committed as ... never mind.)
From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Trelford Pinkerton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: The Hells Angel Trademark
Date: 10 Oct 92 00:02:57 GMT
Organization: Butt-Bob Enterprises Inc
NNTP-Posting-Host: positive

The Hells Angel Motorcycle Club is suing Marvel Comics 
for expropriating their likeness and image in a comic.

The Hells Angel Motorcycle Club does not take guff like this
from anyone, least of all an outfit that scribbles pictures
for kids.  No siree, they will slap you with a writ before
you can say "'47 Shovelhead" or "Judicial Restraint".

The Hells Angel Motorcycle Club is not your Daddy's club.
Among other activities, they sponsored the "torch" in the
Los Angeles Olympics, and got to run with it for 1 mile of
the route.   


--
Trelford Pinkerton            casey@the.bat         415 555-1212
 "The excretory organs of the human body are the skin, kidneys,
  intestines, liver and lungs.  And apparently Usenet postings." -- Me.
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:25816 soc.women:17773
From: rhamilt@husc10.harvard.edu (Rowan Hamilton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.women
Subject: Re: Oscillators (Was: Re: Women in groups)
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:50:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc10.rhamilt.719178631

billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:

>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?
>Because, just because they happen to be running at approximately the same
>rate at one moment does not mean they will stay the same. All oscillators
>drift. All it takes is a momentary drift and they are out of sync. Coupling
>is required for them to remain locked on the same frequency.
>Bill

	"Phase", guys, "phase".......
-- 
Rowan T. Hamilton                         "To dig this is to groove on
hamilton@huhepl.harvard.edu                   hella shit."
hamilton@fnald.fnal.gov                   - Some random skate-punk.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: spg@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Stephen P. Guthrie)
Subject: Re: 666 Cable TV
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 10:02:42 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.172112.22739@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>: 
>: 2) The original theological question deals with angles and the number of
>: which may dance on the head of a pin.
>
>Depends on how acute they are.
>

No, I think the same rules would apply to ugly angels.
From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Date: 11 Oct 92 15:00:03 GMT
	<1992Oct9.172945.17394@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
	<1992Oct11.055415.14651@wixer.cactus.org>
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization

One of my classmates way back in elementary school was named Krista
May.  Her older sister was named Apryle (pronounced "April").

Their mother swore she hadn't thought about the combination "Apryle
May" until it was "too late".  This seems to me to be a bit, well,
unlikely.  

Personally, i sometimes wonder if names like that aren't mothers'
ways of getting revenge for labor pains.

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 09:00:05 GMT

In article <00961AFE.38164F80@abby.chem.ucla.edu> larry@abby.chem.ucla.edu writes:
>
> Lec "cheesy music plays when I post" Luthor
> Criminal Genius Extraordinaire
>
Better than if cheap porno-style music plays while Letch Luthor posts.

cj "how far is Otisville from the Costa Del Lex" l
From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Sniff?  Snuff? (Arrest on the net) LOST IN SPACE WAS BETTER YOU KNOW
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:02:10 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Distribution: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <Bw6DnH.ECz.2@cs.cmu.edu>, smith+@cs.cmu.edu (Sean Smith) writes:

> 	``Dean Lambey conspired with Daniel Depew to kidnap a boy and then
> sexually abuse and murder him in the process of making a 'snuff' film,''
> Judge Kenneth Hall wrote in his dissent. ``For this he was sentenced to
> 30 years in prison.

That's the problem with finding a "snuff film".  The police are always
arresting the "producers" before they get a chance to even MAKE the film!

BTW: If you got this from CLARINET, beware.  Brad Templeton gets wired
when he finds out that you've been copying the articles from CLARI to
USE NET(s).

Terry "Sniff Sniff, I smell Snuff?" Wood
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:08:08 GMT

In article <1at94qINN8lv@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt) writes:
>
>I went to school with;
>Mike Hunt
>
>and also with;
>Lief Forrest
>who had a brother, Tree, and a sister, Rain
>
>My father used to claim that the heir to the Lear Jet fortune was named Shonda.
>

I think that one's actually true.  Lear named her, "Crystal Shanda."
Seems a little too cute to be true but I heard it from an unimpeachable
source.

		-- Stewart "how's *that* for an AFU motto?" Tame

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University, but also those of Dan Quayle, Richard Nixon, Frank Zappa,
Pee-wee Herman, Bart Simpson, Tipper Gore, Murphy Brown, Maggie Thatcher,
and the Easter Bunny.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Australian sense (was: Canadian pennies)
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 19:12:14 GMT

> Can you imagine the U.S. government passing legislation requiring
> retailers to round prices to the nearest 5 cents?  It seems
> like an impractical way to handle the situation.  This Australian
> phenomenon is really surprising, and qualifies as "news of the weird".

But this is a normal thing that happens with inflation; lots of
countries have done it.  What's weird is that the US and Canada
have not, preferring to continue making increasingly ridiculous
1 cent coins as if inflation was something that only happened to
other countries.

Even the US discontinued its smallest coin once -- they stopped
making 1/2 cent coins after, I think, 1857.  To take an example
from this century, in Britain the 1/4d (1/4 old penny = 1 farthing)
coin was withdrawn at about the time of World War II; later the
1/2d was withdrawn; later the 1d was replaced by the 1/2p (1/2
new penny = 1.2d); and still later *that* was withdrawn.  Can the
1p be far behind, the next time they have a bout of inflation?

When visiting Australia, I have noticed that merchants there tend
to set prices so as to not require a lot of small coins anyway.
Even when the 1c and 2c coins were in common circulation you didn't
need them very often.  (They can do that, of course, because the
quoted price of an item includes the sales tax -- another practice
where the US and Canada are out of step with all other countries
I've been to, and where I think they'd do well to fall into step.
Here, if you put a 50 cent price tag on something, it actually
costs 57 cents and everyone ends up dealing with "pennies" anyway.)
So it was probably less painful for them to make the transition
than it would be here.  But not all countries follow such pricing
practices and a lot of them have withdrawn small coin denominations.
-- 
Mark Brader		    "It can be amusing, even if painful, to watch the
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto	     ethnocentrism of those who are convinced their
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com     local standards are universal."	-- Tom Chapin

This article is in the public domain.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.tasteless
From: seanna@bnr.ca (Seanna Watson)
Subject: Re: The End Of The World
Keywords: baptist, apocalypse
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:26:26 GMT

In article <Bw4M2z.Hun@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> ipgrier@compass.uwaterloo.ca (Iain P. Grier) writes:
>
>It appears that Baptists and some other miscellaneous religion 
>(United Church?) believe that the end of the world is supposed to
>happen on October 28th, 1992.
>
>Is the apocalypse story an UL or is the story that it's a Baptist
>story an UL?
>
UNITED CHURCH??????????????  A significant number of them don't even
believe in the first coming of Christ, let alone setting a date for
the second.  (Former Moderator Ann Squires once said, "I think most
of our members believe in some sort of supreme being".)  And Baptists
are generally a fairly staid bunch, though not so theologically liberal.
But a sect in Korea really is promoting this apocalyptic prediction.

-- 
Seanna Watson   Bell-Northern Research, 
(seanna@bnr.ca) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Opinions, what opinions?  Oh *these* opinions. | It's hard to seize the
No, they're not BNR's, they're mine.           | day when you must first
I knew I'd left them somewhere.                | grapple with the morning.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Collected Musical Factoids
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation -- NOT!!!
Date: 10 OCT 92 13:26:06    


In article <1992Oct8.203624.25312@news.columbia.edu>, 
  lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes...

>I think he did, but was uncredited, just as Billy Preston is uncredited on 
>Let It Be and Eric Clapton is on While My Guitar Gently Weeps.  

No, George Harrison simply didn't play on "Come and Get It".  Paul was the only
Beatle to have any involvement with the Iveys/Badfinger group until George
worked with them on their "Straight Up" album and the concert for Bangladesh
a few years later.

>In any case, the point is that the Badfingers, while not actually the Beatles,
>have been associated in some reasonable way with at least 3/4 of the group,
>not including all the other people associated with the Beatles.

Not really.  Their only association with Ringo was that they all played at
the concerts for Bangladesh.

 - snopes

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From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Date: 8 Oct 92 23:27:49 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <4638@moscom.com>, de@moscom.com (David Esan) writes:
> In article <7035@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:
>>Picard, a RED SHIRT, is just lucky he wasn't an ACTING ENSIGN in Kirk's day.

> At least Picard can act.

Patrick Stewart can act.  "Jean-Luc Picard" is so-so.  Remember when Jean-Luc
had to save Troi's mother when she was captured by the horny Ferrengi?
Patrick Stewart had quite a challange.  He had to act like someone who
couldn't act.  I'm surprised his head didn't spin around; smoke comming from
his ears saying "Illogical!  Illogical! Norman co-ordinate!".

But Captain Kirk will STILL kick his butt!

Terry "$100 on Kirk!" Wood
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: sysmatt@aix3090b.uky.edu (Matt Simpson)
Subject: Re: Publishers Clearing-House UL?
    <Bvv2KK.D39@news.larc.nasa.gov>
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:37:36 GMT

Have any of you noticed that many of the sweepstakes envelopes, in addition
to the "Yes/No" stamps, also have cutouts in them? I think this is because
they don't trust people to put No stamps on the non-orders. Anyway, many
of the envelopes have cutouts so that, without opening the envelope, someone
can tell whether any order stamps have been placed on the reply card. They
also have another cutout which allows some type of control number to show
through.
I always assumed that this allowed them to register the non-orders in
the sweepstakes without opening the envelopes. When you're dealing with 
that kind of volume, every little bit of labor-saving can help. It's
possible that a large number of entryies could have been disposed of, unopened,
after being entered.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: Re: Liz Claiborne/Oprah Winfrey UL
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:33:17 GMT

In <7127@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:
	:)  :)  :-)  {:-)  :)  ;)  [:-|  :->  :)  :)
	There! Do they work as well as a cross on you people?

Oy darlink, haf you got the wrong newsgroup!
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