HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Re: Fellatio laws, cases cited (was: Re: FAQ list)
Reply-To: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:41:43 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.114445.9998@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.152738.62140@cc.usu.edu> slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer) writes:
>> 
>>In article <1992Dec15.193358.62077@cc.usu.edu>, I replied:
>
>>This comes from the Utah Code Unannotated, published by The Michie
>>Company of Charlottesville, VA.  Volume 4, page 101.  Posted here w/o
>>permission, of course.
>
>>     (1)  A person commits sodomy when the actor engages in any sexual
>                                            ^^^^^
>
>Does this have anything to do with snuff films?  Who directs the acting?

No, silly.  It obviously has to do with a certain male actor who raises
championship gerbels.  His slogan is:

  "They're near the bottom of the food chain, so the bottom is where
  they go."


-- 
Drew Lawson                      If you're not part of the solution,
lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.misc,alt.fan.fruitcake
From: nigel@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca (Nigel M Burnett)
Subject: Re: Fruitcake
Organization: as little as possible
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:05:22 GMT

Brian L. Rust (blr3r@Virginia.EDU) wrote:

: still smile and say thank you and mean it when you've unwrapped
: your third cake, you get a plaque somewhere? 
			     ^^^^^^

You'll just have to floss better.

Nigel (no, no, not candy floss) Burnett

-- 
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a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.  His own
good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.   John Stuart Mill

Nigel Burnett: 78 Normandy Blvd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4L 3K3 416-690-1834
Send e-mail to nigel@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca or try uunet.ca!kink!kathunk!nigel
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.space
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:07:07 GMT

jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
: In article <1992Dec21.211902.4322@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:

: >: or near miss in about 4 billion years. Working backwards they should also
: >: have collided about 2 billion years ago (c. 1/2 the estimated age of the
: >: solar system). Some people speculate that Pluto is an asteroid that was
: >: captured by Neptune at this time.
: >
: >Yeah - some people do make such a speculation. The same ones who ignore the
: >fact that Pluto has a moon. Also, the same people ignore the fact that none
: >of the asteroids travel anywhere close to that far out. They are pretty much
: >confined between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars.
: 
: Sorry, Bill, but there are many planetoids and asteroids that orbit beyond
: the orbit of Jupiter.  One such is a minor planet called Chiron.  There
: are quite a few others as well.

Note that I said "pretty much".

There certainly are some that travel outside the orbit of Jupiter - as well
as inside the orbit of the Earth. However, I know of none that travel outside
the orbit of Saturn, much less any of the planets further out.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: madden@deja-vu.aiss.uiuc.edu (Paul Q Madden)
Subject: Re: The El (Was: Re: Conductivity of water <plus a story from Uncle Dave>)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:23:03 GMT

manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley) writes:

>WEl I haven't been there since '79 and the brain tends to wipe out
>unpleasant memories!  I was undecided as to whether it was "L" or
>"El" - did it stand for "Electric" or "Elevated" or  "Loupe"
>as in "The Loupe".  For those of you that don't know, "The Loupe"
>is the downtown area of Chicago.

I grep'ed for a smiley and didn't find one, so i can only assume
this is serious. Sheesh! It's "El" like the second poster said,
and it's "Loop", not "Loupe"; there are numerous road signs that
say so.

ObFact: When i was a wee bit younger there used to be a sign on
the south side of the Art Institute (that's in the Loop, for
those of you who don't know) that said, with typical Illinois
eloquence: "Route 66 began here." The sign is gone, i presume
because of repeated theft.

-- 
------| paul madden | pmadden@uiuc.edu | po box 2827 champaign il 61825 |------
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: illegal for private citizens to own
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 10:08:31 GMT

 dcb@rosedale.uucp (Dave Breneman) in Newsgroup: alt.beer,
 Message-ID: <1992Dec20.221436.2181@rosedale.uucp> writes:
 
 >I've got a copy of a paperback book put out by the Washington State Patrol
 >called something like "Identifying Counterfiet ID".  It also has a big
 >warning on the back along the lines of "Unlawful for private citizens
 >to posess this publication."

Are you sure that it is published by the WSP? There is a commercial firm
that produces such a book - covering all the drivers licenses of all states.
It is hardly restricted in circulation - many bars and liquor stores have
a copy. I have seen it advertised for sale, I forget where.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: david@infopro.com (Dragon(David Fiedler))
Subject: Re: Dynamite Dogs
Organization: InfoPro Systems: Writers, Consultants, and Dragons
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 06:58:45 GMT

styri@balder.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:

>Found this cute little story in the papers today...

>LIMA (NTB-AFP)	Dec. 28, 1992
>Some 20 dogs was blown to pieces Saturday because the guerrilla
>organization Shining Path made them running bombs by attaching
>dynamite to the poor animals. The dogs were led into the working
>class district of the Peru capital. [...]

The scary thing is that the animal activists will complain more about this
than if "just people had died".

-- 
David Fiedler UUCP:infopro!david Internet:david@infopro.com or david@utoday.com 
USMail:InfoPro Systems, PO Box 220 Rescue CA 95672 Phone:916/677-5870 FAX:-5873
"Do I still have to sleep in the cupboard?"                        
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Walking Between Rain Drops !!!!
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:33:41 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.130938.8996@news.columbia.edu> bs24@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Bruce Sarte) writes:
>Terry,
>
>	Who is Cecil Adams, name does not mean anything to me.
>	If anyone can shed some light on where to find literature
>	or study(s) done on this or a closely related subject, please
>	post !!!

Cecil Adams writes a weekly column in Parade magazine in between the paeans
to Norman Schwarzkopfanegger and the advertisements for handwriting analysis
and Spock ceramic plates.  He's most noted for a column involving the odds
of choosing the correct price of a goat if Bob Barker opens one of the three
doors.  He sometimes posts to a.f.u. under the pseudonym Peter van der Linden.
He is, however, no relation to Kibo.

You may wish to learn how to use the delete key when you followup, as it
is generally considered rude to include an entire 100-line post to append
a four-line response.  You may also want to read the FAQ for the group you
post to, as then you would not have needed to ask who Cecil Adams is.

Ted "wasn't there a three-sided record about this subject?" Frank
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standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: carlos@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Miguel Borges)
Subject: Re: zebras - why are they striped?
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:15:36 GMT

mbrousse@cs.ulowell.edu (Marc Brousseau) writes:
>>Anyway, one of the things they demonstrated was the use of the
>>"Razzle-Dazzle" painting schemes used by ships at teh end of the Great War
>>(also known as WW 1).  To the vast amazement of eveyone involved (except
>>the proponenets of the scheme), painting ships with large more or less
>>randomized splotches of black and white actually made them HARDER to locate.
>>                                                                     ^^^^^^
>Not quite. It made it harder for the submarine captain, observing through
>a periscope, to estimate the range to the target, and then applying
>the proper lead for the torpedoes.

And it screwed the intelligence gatherers.  I've seen pictures of early
Japanese aircraft carriers painted to look like cruisers, and battleships
painted to look like destroyers from the air.

-- 
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carlos@morgan.ucs.mun.ca <-------------------------> carlos@garfield.cs.mun.ca
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From: brianw@spider.co.uk (Brian Wyld)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Net's Funniest Kitchen Disasters
Date: 30 Dec 92 15:23:16 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.

In article <1992Dec30.104450.27257@netcom.com> obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB) writes:
>In article <1992Dec30.001435.9345@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>>Sodium dumped in water blows up real good, true.  But in high-school
>>chemistry class we were shown a movie of chunks of each element in the
>>same column of the periodic table as sodium being tossed into a basin.
>>By the time they got to cesium it was time to call in the Richter scale.
>
>
>to me, "each element" implies that they did *all* of them.
>How'd they store the Francium, did it show?
>A teaspoon of that stuff would probably invite disaster.

Well, the technicians at my school always stored such things under oil. Even
the moisture in the air is enough to cause a fair amount of oxidation. 

One of the technicians did tell me about when she worked at Glasgow
University, and they had a little problem with some cesium. Apparently, the
stores there had some rather OLD sections, and they were having a clearout.
On one shelf were some bottles so old that the labels had given up long ago,
and fallen off somewhere. They were filled with lumps of stuff in a clear
liquid....

The common practice when opening such bottles, in order to avoid any risk of
releasing poisonous compounds, is to, ah, open them under water....

A fair sized explosion followed, several people were hurt and that sink was
never the same again. I think they opened the other bottles with a little
more care....

Isn`t chemistry fun kiddies?

Brian "one lump or two?" Wyld

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<brianw@spider.co.uk : Spider Systems, Stanwell St, Edinburgh, Scotland >
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From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: American Civil War Stuff
Date: 23 Dec 92 16:42:48 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com


In article <1992Dec23.064632.27085@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>>>Gee, I knew I should do a better job of monitoring this newsgroup
>>>for cross-pollination.
>>
>Perhaps you could merrimac this news group too.
                   ^^^^^^^^
Virginia.

Bruce "a/k/a 'C.S.S. Santa Claus'" Tindall

-- 
Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Mgr., SAS Institute Inc., Cary, N.C. 27513
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: davew@willow03.cray.com (Dave Wagner)
Subject: Re: Ann Landers and the 5 sexes
Originator: davew@willow03
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 22 Dec 92 12:48:15 CST


In article <1992Dec22.145929.568907@locus.com>, dwight@devnet.la.locus.com (Dwight Tovey) writes:
> Saw this one in Ann Landers yesterday.  Some woman wrote in to Ann complaining
> about one of her son's teachers.  Seems this teacher was teaching the kids that
> there are actually 5 sexes in the world: male, female, homosexual, bisexual, and
> asexual.  (She wanted to know if she should go in and complain to the school.  Ann
> said she should get with other parents and file a group complaint.)
> Don't they require teachers have a basic understanding of biology anymore?
> 
I saw it too (boy the embaressing things people will admit on the net).  What
I don't understand is why heterosexual male/female each get their own, but
homosexual and bisexual male/female use the same one?

Enquiring minds and all that...
-- 
Dave Wagner                               "Tongue-tied and twisted,
davew@cray.com , uunet!cray!davew          just an earth-bound misfit, I"
(612) 683-5393                                  -- Pink Floyd
From: wichers@husc4.harvard.edu (JJJJJust JJJJJohn)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Shakespeare and the KJV (was: Re: Legal language)
Date: 24 Dec 92 00:35:32 GMT
Organization: The Harvard Lymph Node Fan Club

In article <18543@borg.cs.unc.edu> saxe@excalibur.cs.unc.edu (Eddie Saxe) writes:
>In article <CINDY.92Dec20150316@solan10.solan.unit.no> cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf) writes:
>>don't take any wooden fruitcakes.
>How do you tell?

The wooden ones are less dense...

--John "denser than dense" Wichers

-- 
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tough to chew. - Danno || Anarchy - It's not a law, it's just a good idea.
|| Jesus saves sinners ... and redeems them for valuable cash prizes!!! ||
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mother Lifts Car Off Child. Uh huh.
Date: 31 Dec 1992 18:44:53 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

ilaine@panix.com (Liz Stokes) writes:

  +	ok, maybe it didn't burst into flames. I don't remember, I was twelve
  +at the time and my brothers family was living in Texas.
  +
  +	Liz "exaggeration makes a better story" Stokes

Indeed, Liz, indeed.


Terry "I've said it a million times, never exaggerate" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe per diem
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:32005 rec.food.cooking:23811
From: dfw@thumper..bellcore.com (Doris Woods)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: AFU Flan Cub
Date: 23 Dec 92 20:03:01 GMT
Reply-To: dfw@thumper.UUCP (Doris Woods)
Organization: Bellcore MRE

In article <28126@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>Brussels Sprouts is Italian for small cabbage?  You guys are
>really confusing here on a.f.u.  Broccoli is the guy who
>produces Matt Helm movies (Pierce Brosnan is in the next one).
>         ^^^^^^^^^
>Terry "Can't someone give me a straight answer w/o a flame?!" Chan
>--
>Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
>Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
>Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe per diem

 Ahhhh .......... don't you mean James Bond movies?

  Doris
          
From: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:42:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Thawing food in cold water
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

In alt.folklore.urban, brett@sr.hp.com (Brett Carver) writes:

> Yes, but what happens if I put my frozen food in an air-filled baggy,
> immersed in a pan of ice-water, placed in a hot oven at the North Pole,
> in summer?

That depends on which direction the wind's blowing.

merry merry.
-- Ray
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: terry awards
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:55:14 GMT

	During the football pre-game show yesterday on CBS, the
announcers gave away "Terry Awards".   I was disappointed when
they were just Terry Bradshaw's ideas of the best of football
from the last year, and had nothing to do with dead cats or flan.
Perhaps some of the AFU Terries could sue for trademark
infringment.

ObUL: The sum of the squaw on the hippopotamus equals the sum of
the squaws on the other two hides.

Jon "Not a Terry" Papai
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,talk.bizarre
From: scruggs@zeus.franklin.edu (Kevin Scruggs)
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Organization: Franklin University (Columbus, OH)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 12:24:43 GMT

In article <1992Dec20.162517.9487@tc.fluke.COM> inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) writes:
>In article <1992Dec18.230435.24191@zeus.franklin.edu> scruggs@zeus.franklin.edu (Kevin Scruggs) writes:
>>>>A friend of mine told me this story about trekkies...
>...
>...
>...
>>>>One day, my friend's friend noticed one of her sister's stories,
>>>>and was curious about her sister's writing style.  When she
>>>>read the story, she was shocked because it was pornographic.
>...
>...
>...
>>>>one that stuck in her mind was Kirk and Spock's homosexual
>>>>Can anyone provide any further enlightenment on this point?
>
>>>If *anyone* can, it's the readers of talk.bizarre.  Why, just the other day
>>>Matt Welsh was rhapsodizing about a hot date between the Horta and that being
>>>that ate hatred.  Oy, the lubricant bill for that episode alone could have
>>>bankrupted the Gorn . . .
>
>> Any discussion of this nature going on about TNG?? My imzadi and I have
>> been thrashing this about recently... She thinks that Riker and Picard
>> make a cute couple and that DatSela will get together sooner or later....
>>
>> Other matchups include Wesley-Troi,Guinain-Ro,Worf-Ro,Picard-Wesley,
>> Data-Geordi,Data-Worf,Data-Picard,Lore-Picard, Lore-Riker (this one starts a
>> mutiny...)... well you get the idea...
>
>Boring. Imagining matchups between fictional characters is a sure sign of a
>misspent youth. Especially when the puny imagination INSISTS on matching
>only in pairs. Why not Riker-Picard and the babe who reads minds? or
>Data-Worf-Wesley-Troi-Guinain-Ro-and the babe who reads minds? Or how about
>just the babe who reads minds getting it on on the astral plane with a
>computer network from the far, far past? Or just with my terminal maybe.
>
>This has been a boring alert.
	Those were just the highlights. This not being soc.bi,soc.motss,
alt.sex or alt.sex.bondage I wasn't quite sure how blunt I could get... 
Just how open-minded is this net anywayz...


>
>
>-- 
>Gary Benson   -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-inc@sisu.fluke.com_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
>
>Every new technology carries with it an opportunity to invent a new crime.
>                                                    -Laurence A. Urgenson


-- 

	|||				...Your future hasn't been written yet.
       / | \				   No one's has. Your future is what 
    =Mysh+Krysa=			   you make it...
From: jberger@novell.com (John Berger)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Santa on $1 bills!!
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:18:25 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.

In article <1992Dec22.194453.27356@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards) writes:
>From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
>
>Barth "even as a child, knew that the Scooby Doo villan who put Washington's
>portrait on counterfeit $100 bills was an idiot" Richards

The local Safeway stores are selling $1 bills with Santa Claus' portrait on 
them where George Washington's usually is.  The card attached says that they 
are legal tender, fully bankable & spendable.

They are selling them for $2 (they will accept a $2 bill or two Susan B. 
Anthony coins in payment).  The extra money goes to fund raising for Easter 
Seals.  Seeing a collectable, I bought enough for all of my nieces & 
nephews.  

Has anyone seen these in any other parts of the country?
From: larryh@fawlty.lmc.com (Larry Huntley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: FIZZIES (was: Re: Cheese popcorn)
Date: 31 Dec 92 02:56:47 GMT
Organization: Logic Modeling Corporation  Beaverton, OR

In article <1992Dec24.045535.26040@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>In article <1992Dec23.192744.10356@nsscmail.att.com> cel@nsscmail.att.com (clayton EDward LEIHY iii) writes:
>
>>
>>Fizzies!!
>>
>>Anybody else remember them?  Came on a foil-backed card of eight (I
>>think); you dropped one in a glass of water, and like an Alka-Seltzer(TM)
>>it would fizz into a drink, but of whatever flavor tablets you bought.
>
>
>cj "What about Cocoa Marsh Flavor Straws?" l

    And the straws with the spherical bulge about two inches from the
    "lip" end.  You put a scoop of ice cream in them and then drank
    soda through the straw - instant float!

    Did it work?  Not very well, if I remember.  What the hell.

    - Larry Huntley
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         (larryh@lmc.com)         | I'm going to the love-in to sit
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          Beaverton,  OR          |        - "Flower Punk", Frank Zappa
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Trademark legends
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:09:47 GMT

In article <28168@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>Fixing up my response to a thread that I have since long forgotten, 
>phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>
>  +The learned judge got his hand in the matter because Henry Cabbage Cod
>  +(sp?) kept us out of the Treaty of Versailles during what cjl would
>  +call the Edith Wilson administration.

I would call it the Edith Bunker administration, or maybe Dame Edith Evans
administration, or maybe I'd just administer CPR.  Perhaps it was the
Michael Jordan administration, or was it some other brand of basketball
besides Wilson?  Or maybe it should be played again in case it was Dooley
Wilson.  Perhaps it was Wilson Pickett? Wilson Phillips? or were the Beach
Boys there as well? What about Ronald Wilson Reagan, or Nancy Wilson?  What
about Alexander Knox (who played Wilson in the 1945 movie of the same name)?

cj "didn't vote for Wilson" l

>
>It's Henry Cabot Henhouse III.

No, it was Henry Tiberius Lodge III.

>
>Terry "Just keeping things straight" Chan
>--
>Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
>Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
>Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe per diem


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Amusing Signs
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:07:53 GMT

rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew) writes:
: asurpren@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (aimee surprenant) writes:
: 
: > My favorite sign (I think I saw it in England or Scotland) is
: > an upside-down yellow diamond with a big "!" in the middle of it.
: > I've always read it as "PANIC!"
: > 
: > Aimee Surprenant
: 
: Great.  Now I'm sitting here, doing mental convolutions, trying to figure 
: out what an "upside-down diamond" shape looks like.

It looks exactly like a upside-up diamond, instead of the downside-up
diamond that it actually is.

Bill "carbon copy" Nelson

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: terry awards
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:46:51 GMT

phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
: 
: Bet you can't use a slide rule, either.

I can. However, I never figured out how to add two different numbers by
using the slide rule.

Bill "I did manage to add 2 and 2" Nelson
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.misc,alt.fan.fruitcake