HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Garbled anecdotes (was: late talkers)
Date: 12 Oct 92 22:12:50 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <39187@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes:

> In article <1992Oct8.074004.5498@meiko.com>, davol@twinheadmeiko.co.uk (David Wilson) writes:

>>The way I heard this one was: 

>>"Madam, you are ugly. But in the morning I'll be sober."

> This really happened. I saw it on the "Newlywed Game".

That was my brother who said that.  And then he puked on her shoes.
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From: allens@yang.earlham.edu (Allen Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.games.torg
Subject: Re: Old Food, was Re: nail in Coca-Cola
Date: 10 Oct 92 08:23:55 GMT
 <1992Oct7.195147.23260@cs.ucla.edu> <1992Oct9.182242.20260@infonode.ingr.com>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

In article <1992Oct9.182242.20260@infonode.ingr.com>, palmerc@abulafia.b21.ingr.com (Christopher M. Palmer) writes:
> In article <1992Oct7.195147.23260@cs.ucla.edu> cardo@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Frederick Crabbe) writes:
> 
>>ric 'but that's nothing compared to the spaghetti we had stuck in a 
>>     restaurant awning for over a year'
> 
> The pizza restaurant we used to hang out at while I was in high school
> was a very large log cabin type structure with exposed logs on the
> inside.  On night we were eating on the porch and while the waitress
> was out, we put a piece of pizza on top of one of the logs near the
> ceiling.  It was still there (tho' slightly dessicated) over a year
> later.
> 
	Several (I believe almost four) years ago, we used some jello from 
our cafeteria (run at the time by Marriot) to attach a sheet of paper to a 
pillar inside the cafeteria. Despite attempts by maintenence to remove it, 
it is still there albeit damaged.
	-Allen
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Oscillators (Was: Re: Women in groups)
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 08:10:00 GMT

In article <2680@tymix.Tymnet.COM> baba@Tymnet.com (Duane Hentrich) writes:

>I think that we must look at frequency versus phase. Most women experience
>the menstrual cycle at the same frequency, ~1 cycle(hertz) per month(25-32 
>days). The effect of "syncing" requires not only that the frequencies match 

Perhaps Dan Rather knows this frequency?

cj "Kenneth..." l
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From: kathleen@yang.earlham.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.games.torg
Subject: Re: Old Food, was Re: nail in Coca-Cola
Date: 10 Oct 92 16:31:54 GMT
 <1992Oct7.195147.23260@cs.ucla.edu> <1992Oct9.182242.20260@infonode.ingr.com> <1992Oct10.032355.19857@yang.earlham.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

In article <1992Oct10.032355.19857@yang.earlham.edu>, allens@yang.earlham.edu (Allen Smith) writes:
> In article <1992Oct9.182242.20260@infonode.ingr.com>, palmerc@abulafia.b21.ingr.com (Christopher M. Palmer) writes:
>> In article <1992Oct7.195147.23260@cs.ucla.edu> cardo@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Frederick Crabbe) writes:
>> 
>>>ric 'but that's nothing compared to the spaghetti we had stuck in a 
>>>     restaurant awning for over a year'
>> 

In my elementary school, a single room served as cafeteria and gym (not at 
the same time).  Since a few years before I started school, there was a 
brown lump stuck to the ceiling that everyone "knew" was a petrified 
meatball.  I don't know whether it might indeed have been one or not.

Since it had been there since at least three years before I started 
kindergarten and is (I believe) still there, it has been up there for 
seventeen years or more...

		--Kathleen
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Is that a boom mike in Madonna's butt?
Date: 13 Oct 92 23:35:36 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1992Oct12.063246.1225@polaris.async.vt.edu> daniel@polaris.async.vt.edu (Daniel Pawtowski) writes:
>Actually, I think I have one to add to this list:  In "Back to the Future,
>Part III", when Marty is trying to get out of the DeLorean before the train
>flattens it, we see a clear head-on view of the oncoming freight train.
>Note it's shadow on the wall- the locomotive isn't pulling anything.  After
>impact, the locomotive is suddenly pulling a full line of cars.
>Of course, you can also make out the special  "bumpers" on the front of 
>that train, presumeably added to keep DeLorean parts from derailing it.

Wasn't that whole scene filmed in reverse?  I am almost sure I saw a 
documentary on the filming which stated this.  Perhaps you should look at
the smoke coming from the chimney.


-- 
Derek Tearne. -- derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz --  Fujitsu/ICL New Zealand -- 
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: cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: End of Millenium Hysteria (was Re: Oct. 28: The Rapture)
Date: 16 Oct 92 21:02:08 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:
> The Mayans were
> long gone by the time Chris got lost.  Archeologists speculate that
> the Mayan civilization fell because intercity warfare disrupted the
> very delicately balanced agricultural system.

Nope.  In fact, one of the principal folk heroes in Guatemala is a
mayan chief who did battle with the Spaniards.  If memory serves, his
name was Tecun Uman.  He lost his battle with a conquistador because
he attacked the horse rather than the rider.

For that matter, a number of villages in the Peten province of
Guatemala still speak a language which is referred to as "Mayan" by
the locals.  The largest such village that I know of is San Andres, on
the shores of Lake Peten-Itza.  

--Scott 
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From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 17:41:13 GMT

In article <Bvt84r.73M@cck.coventry.ac.uk> idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid) writes:
>>The absolute most ridiculous name goes to the Ford Probe.
>>I mean, honestly.  Would you buy a used Probe?
>
>NononononoNO!
>
>The Ford Prefect beats that hands-down.
>	
>And yes, I would buy a used Prefect.  I was one when I was at school:)
>

Yes, but did you know where your towel was at?


Jonathan "Don't talk to me about Life!" Quist
-- 
Jonathan E. Quist                              INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
jeq@i88.isc.com  '71 CL450-K4 "Gleep", DoD #094        Naperville, IL
        There are many things a person should experience in a lifetime.
       Among them are an infant's first cry, and an infant's first laugh.
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:48:02 GMT

torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:
: > 
: > ************************************************************************
: > 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. 

Note that it did not say "banned" - it said "frowned upon". Hopefully, you 
can tell by the context whether a person is serious or just being ridiculous.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Philadelphia Experiment
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation -- NOT!!!
Date: 13 OCT 92 07:57:15    


In article <7176@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, 
  seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes...

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

>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.

[blah blah blah deleted]                        

FACT:  Some people are too clueless to live.

- snopes
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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: who has heard the exloding cactus stor
Date: 14 Oct 1992 18:25:40 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

foltz@as.arizona.edu writes:

  +My recollection is that I read it in the Arizona Daily Star (Tucson), 
	shortly after
  +I moved to Arizona in 1983.  I'm plumbing the depths of my long-term 
	memory, but
 
  [Stuff with lines that are too long deleted to save your eyes]

  +I cannot confirm this since I'm too far from a library, but someone might want to check the Daily Star or the Arizona Republic (Phoenix) c. 1982-84.

For those interested, this is written up in _Curses!_Broiled_Again_ and 
JHB does include the refs and the news stories.


Terry "No voracity here" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe Per Diem
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From: arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Re: Junk E-mail
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:13:23 GMT

In article <bobk.719087448@slinky.NSD.3Com.COM> bobk@ESD.3Com.COM (Bob Konigsberg) writes:
> For the curious, they took the names from people who posted to
> the PC/MS-DOS and MS-Windows newsgroups.

I got two pieces of junk mail from them -- one in each of my accounts (sugar
and taronga).  I don't post in any MS-DOS or Windows group, either.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: wisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wisp)
Subject: Re: Is the electric chair an Edison publicity stunt?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 09:37:09 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.142723.2189@HQ.Ileaf.COM> hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh) writes:

[stuff deleted...]
>
>A guillotine is NOT as humane as you might think.  The brain stays alive until
>it dies of oxygen deprivation, which can be as long as several minutes.  
Bzzzt! Cut off blood supply (and therefore oxygen) to the brain, and you lose
consciousness in 5-10 seconds. Ever seen a cardiac arrest?

There
>is consciousness in the severed head for anywhere from 30 seconds until 2
>minutes.  The French custom of picking up the severed aristocrat's head and
>waving it in front of the crowd got great cheers at least partly because the
>first few seconds of the procedure showed the people in front eyes that cast
>around the crowd in focus and a twisted mouth that couldn't manage a scream
>because it was no longer connected to lungs.
>

There certainly were rumors that the best of the executioners at that time
could do make that happen *for a few seconds*. Problem is, unless you hit the
right spot (a vertebral disc) on the neck, you have to crush a vertabra to get
to the spinal cord, so it generates massive spinal shock which will result in
immediate loss of consciousness...

>If that one doesn't give you the willies, you probably thing Steven King
>writes comidies.

Not comedies, just crap...

The Wisp. [you have to be sick to be a doc...]
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Subject: Re: Dan Rather
Keywords: ketchup,Rather
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:01:18 GMT

rhamilt@husc10.harvard.edu (Rowan Hamilton) writes:

>I heard some story recently about Dan Rather getting caught dancing nude
>on a table in a Denny's, with ketchup on his penis. Supposedly the media
>covered it up to protect their ratings. Can anyone corroborate this 
>story?

Whether that's true or not, it conjures up a DAMN funny image, and I suggest
that it be immortalized in the FAQ.  (Hee hee hee!)

Sarah Skovronsky  starfish@u.washington.edu
.sig currently being remodeled
From: rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: aluminum siding
Date: 13 Oct 1992 01:56:11 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous discussion, cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar), notes:
 
>jlysagh@hubcap.clemson.edu (james joseph lysaght) writes:
 
>> collects alluminum for recycling and makes pretty good money at it.  One
>> day the neighbors got nice new aluminum siding on there house.  They went
>> away for the weekend and the guy took all the aluminum off there house
>> and sold it for recycling.         
 
>This one showed up on the NYC TV news about 2 years ago, complete with
>pictures of houses with siding partially removed and an interview with
>a guy pushing a shopping cart full of siding into a recycling center.
>Or maybe it appeared on 60 minutes.  I dunno.  I do remember the
>interview with the guy pushing the shopping cart full of siding,
>though.  He wasn't very responsive to the questions about where he got
>the siding.
 
>According to the story, drug addicts and bums had started using the
>above scam as a way to earn some extra pocket money.
 
>Is it true?  Did it appear on April 1 sandwiched between a report on
>escaped alligators in the sewers and a touching story involving a
>burgular, a doberman and three severed fingers?  Hell, I don't
>remember.  It was two years ago.
 
 
There was a rash of such thefts three or so years ago in Cleveburg, 
possibly instigated by the local news. Apparently, one can get about $200 
for the same aluminum that cost $3000 to put up. As I recall, it happened
to one guy, it got on the news, and within a week dozens of cases were 
being reported. Supposedly, the culprit was the automatic parking lot 
aluminum recycling machine. They take any aluminum of proper size, weigh
it, and dispense cash.
 
These crimes don't make the news these days, either it's not newsworthy 
anymore, the machines have been fixed, or the crooks realized how much
work it really is to do home remodeling. Good thing there's no money in 
vinyl recycling.
 
 
ObThisOldHouseUL - Does anybody know where I can get some crooks to redo my
kitchen ?
-- 
Randall W. Holt - rxh6@cwru.po.edu     |   
Dept. Radiology MetroHealth Hosp.      | 	- Bibo ergo sum
Dept. Biomedical Engineering, CWRU     |    	
(216) 778-8296                         |
From: cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Is that a boom mike in Madonna's butt?
Date: 12 Oct 92 22:24:40 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson) writes:

> And aren't there cars in many of the scenes in
> "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" ? (which is set in England in 932 AD)

Only on the three-sided version of the video disk.  (You get the third
side by coloring the edges with a green marker.)

--Scott "the animator doen't suffer a fortutious heart attack on the
third side, making for a much shorter movie"  Cromar
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Dallas, Tx.
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 05:09:24 GMT

I was in the UK for two weeks, and didn't see a single Ford Prefect 8^(
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright)
Subject: Re: Cows
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Pioneer Valley
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 03:04:44 GMT

(YuNoHoo) writes:
:         ... Ever seen one of those cow barriers made of metal pipes in the
: road? Well, the new thing is just to paint pipe-loke stripes on the surface.
: Sure saves money.
: The funny thing is, even cows with no experience of the `real thing' will
: stop at the fake barrier. How do they learn? (And, will these barriers
: catch on on countries where the original barrier wasn't used? And if they
: do - how does the global communication system used by cows work?

Here in the American West we call them "cattle guards".  When I was tiny
I asked Mommie how they worked.  She told me cows won't walk across
because they're scared their legs will fall through and get stuck.
My softhearted young thoughts were:

     "Each baby cow must get stuck and cry before he learns the lesson.
Farmers are cruel to make every poor cow do it.  Can't those mean
farmers open and close gates instead?   Sure, adults told me cows are
dumb beasts but I believe baby cows have feelings".


I also guessed farmers must go around every day rescuing calves from
the cattle guards, hoping none of the young assets would break their
struggling legs, or get too thirsty or hungry or frozen, or get run over
while they were stuck.

Truth is cows are equipped with instincts which caution them not to walk
across anything even resembling a cattle guard, sort of like the common
sense that prevents them (for the most part) from walking off cliffs.
In the West we've had painted-white-line cattle guards for years, but
they're not as common as the "real thing" because cattle guards are
found mostly on dirt roads, where paint won't stick for long.

  -- Dan Wright
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From: ipgrier@compass.uwaterloo.ca (Iain P. Grier)
Subject: The End Of The World
Keywords: baptist, apocalypse
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:28:11 GMT

Okay, I got this one off of alt.tasteless two months ago.  No, I
don't have a copy of the article.  

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?

It looks like we have less than 2 weeks to debunk this thing...

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.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
Subject: Re: Famous Alumni (was "Lost In Space" was CLEARLY better)
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 23:23:53 GMT


Heidi Becker attended my high school, La Sierra, in Carmichael, Ca in the 1961
school year and then proceeded to become a Playmate the following year. So
there.
--
Nolan Hinshaw
Internet: nolan@twg.com			Dingalingnet: (415)962-7197	
"Grab Dick and come on down"  Don Pette
"You can't combat illiteracy with soap" Jenny Gutbezahl, alt.peeves
"Boy, was I in for a dose of reality." Randall K. Abler
"... necrophilia doesn't really hurt anybody."  Rick Gordon
"Well, first of all, your stance is too wide"
From: idf@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Fitchet)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Number of Angels on the Head of a Pin?
Date: 10 Oct 92 00:17:00 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham


 On 9 Oct 92, Michael Chance wrote
> A friend of mine and I were discussing imponderables the other day,
> and the topic of the old medieval arguments about the number of angels
> that can dance on the head of a pin came up.  He said that the Vatican
> actually accept a number (like 489 or some such) during the
> Renaissance, based on arguments presented to the Pope.  Anyone have

 Of a more general discussion, I understand that the Pope (ie he who
heads the Catholic church) has a great of of grief to overcome should
he want to repeal a judgement made by one of his predecesssors.

 Is this true?  Enquiring minds want to now.


--
Cheers,

	Ian

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From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 00:52:23 GMT

In article <BvxH5t.13@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cap36406@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Carlos A. Pero) writes:
>heim@vms.macc.wisc.edu (JOHN HEIM	) writes:
>
>>Can't be.  His middle initial is 'R' as seen in the pilot episode 
>>'Encounter at Farpoint' where his name is carved in a tombstone.  
>
>For my information, could you tell me where in "Encounter at Farpoint" this
>tombstone scene is?

!!

Kirk's middle name is TIBERIUS, as said in an animated episode, numerous
books, and (most importantly) "The Undiscovered Country".  His tombstone
was shown in the TOS pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before".  It was
carved by his best friend, LCDR Gary Mitchell, who had been driven mad
and given enormous power.  Mitchell showed this to Kirk before killing
him... but obviously things didn't turn out that way.
-- 
   And thither came Conan, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, to tread the jeweled 
   thrones of the Earth beneath his sandaled feet.  --THE NEMEDIAN CHRONICLES 
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Subject: Re: Mink boners
From: mcirvin@scws3.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:46:08 GMT

moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:

>I have an Encyclopedia of Science and Technology that has an article on
>Copulatory Organs, and describes in a dry scientific method the various
>organs on various males.  The last paragraph reads as follows:

>"This organ is variously modified morphologically.  Among certain mammals
>such as rodents, bats, whales, some carnivores, and lower primates, a penis
>bone, the os priapi or baculum (Figure 2 [yes, drawings of bones]), occurs,
>increasing the rigidity of the penis."

I read a long time ago that the raccoon's makes a good pipe cleaner.

-- 
Matt McIrvin, posting nonsense again 
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From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: Feets too big
Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 05:46:45 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.033828.1707@u.washington.edu> starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:
>
>The way I heard it, if you wear shoes that are too big for you, your feet
>will *grow and spread to fill your shoes,* thus increasing your shoe size
>*permanently* to the over-large size you were so carelessly wearing. 

And that's why Bozo has trouble buying socks!

							-- K.

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