HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kuchar@buast7.bu.edu (Tom Kuchar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: The canonical Star Trek plot
Date: 12 Jan 93 14:13:02 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Astronomy Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <ll4c1cINN261@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:
>I'm glad to see that they are *still* using "canonical plot #1" though:
>
>         "Trekkers encounter all-powerful & superior life form
>          who don't understand earthlings, initially imprison them,
>          but are persuaded to coexist peacefully"

Well they don't always peacefully coexist, I think The Cage is
exemplary of this.

>E.g.
>         The Cage   (pilot for Star Trek)
>         Encounter at Far-Point (first episode of for ST:TNG)
>         whatever-this-was-called  (first episode of Deep Throat Nine)
	  Where No Man Has Gone Before (considering my annotation)

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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Under the Streets of D.C. [was Re: Amusing street names]
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 04:41:28 GMT

In article <63289@mimsy.umd.edu> sjsmith@cs.umd.edu (Stephen Joseph Smith) writes:
>"who do you know that is famous?"

I have a penpal at Cornell who has an acquaintance who dated Amy 
Fisher when she was in her first year of high school.

Also, Wynton Marsalis went to my high school.

Ted "also, Richard Posner once ran up humongous library fines on my
     library card" Frank
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From: jberger@novell.com (John Berger)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Ann Landers quotes authoritative source on cow tipping
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:52:54 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.

Don't have the article with me, but yesterday's Ann Lander's column had a 
letter asking if cow tipping was for real. After calling several 
agricultural colleges and getting the standard "cows don't sleep standing 
up" answer, she called a "more authoritative source" -- a frat house at the 
University of Wisconsin.  She was told that, indeed, cow tipping was 
practiced there, and that "it took about four burly guys to tip a cow".  

Does this mean that each one tips 25%?
From: ath@linkoping.trab.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Jesus' name (was Re: Late breaking potential UL!)
Date: 12 Jan 93 14:09:52 GMT
Organization: Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden

In article <0aF8wB1w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
>flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>
>> OB fact: The correct way to spell the possessive of a name in English which
>> ends in an "s" is to append an apostrophe-s, UNLESS the namee is allegedly a
>> god, in which case you just append an apostrophe.
>
>ObFact? OBFACT? Where are your sources, please? I was always taught to
>write James' dog when I wamted to write about the dog belonging to James.

See Fowler's Modern English Usage, article 'Possessive Puzzles',
subarticle 1:

  "It was formerly customary, when a word ended in -s,
  to write its possessive with an apostrophe but no additional s,
  e.g. `Mars' hill'. In verse, or in poetic or reverential contexts,
  this custom is retained ... Achilles', Jesus', ... .
  But elsewhere we now usually add the s ..."

Nowadays there are very few poetic or reverential contexts left, so we
usually add 's just as usual. (That irony).  And 'Modern English'
slightly antedates the King's English.

Dunno 'bout Presidential English.

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From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: To one of the Terries, about Crazy Eddie
Organization: NYSERNet, Inc.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:03:37 GMT

A while ago, one of the Terries questioned whether Eddie Ansar was
still in Israel, and I said that I'd get back to him.  In the meantime
I lost the message, but I saw tonight on the 11PM news in New York
(I'm visiting from Israel) that he was just returned to the US
from Israel.  An article in the NY Times recently said that he agreed
to return rather than to fight extradition.

OBHonestTruth: Eddie Ansar donated a mikveh in the Bronx
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From: styri@balder.nta.no (Haakon Styri)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: origin of which side of the road to drive on
Date: 10 Jan 93 01:17:24 GMT
Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
: Is there anyone out there who remembers the day in 1967(?) when Sweden
: switched from driving on the left to the right?  I imagine a lot of 
: overtime pay was expended on the folks who had to change all the signs,
: traffic lights, white paint on the asphalt, etc., and a lot of money was
: made by tow trucks hauling away wrecks the next day.

I sure do. My parents were in Sweden on some medical conference and
drove back home the night they changed. They told me about all these
people who worked all night painting the roads and changing the signs.

I believe the transition went quite well. The govt. oiled the
propaganda machine and brainwashed all the Swedes just like that.

ObUL: During the transition the govt. managed to slip in a lot of
      subliminal messages, changing other aspects of the society.

: And before that, how were things handled at Swedish border crossings,
: where presumably the traffic had to be sorted out and put on the opposite
: side?

Arriving by boat was no big deal, but it was kind of messy over land.
The whole mess was sorted out at the Swedish customs area. You was
also supposed to mask the headlights not to blind oncoming traffic.
Anyway, the customs area has a very low speed limit and there were
a lot of large signs reminding you to drive on the correct side of
the road.

---
YuNoHoo  "the problem is not driving on the left, but to revert
          to driving on the right on return to a sane country"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: antunes@astro.psu.edu (Sandy Antunes)
Subject: Re: AFU person of the year?
Organization: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:25:17 GMT

Re: The AFU Person of the Year
>Jon "What would be the reward, a Shergold statue?" Papai

Naturally, the reward should be a postcard... preferably one from
each person who votes... and all their coworkers... and classmates...
and family... and their family's coworkers... etc etc

cheers,

sandy "post no bills" antunes
alex@astro.isas.ac.jp
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bwilson@efim.austin.ibm.com ()
Subject: Re: Microwave Fun	
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:46:54 GMT
Reply-To: bwilson@austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Austin


No, no - he had shut off the breaker to the microwave before he put all the
stuff in it.  When the bad guys flipped the breaker, THEN the microwave 
switched on.  When the chief bad guy heard the timer ring, he knew something
bad was going to happen.  The dumb guy opening the microwave had nothing to
do with it... it would have popped anyway.

Steel wool in a microwave is a bad idea to begin with.  But I don't think
it was alcohol he used - I thought he mixed a couple of chemicals so they
would react and create some sort of gas, so that the sparks from the steel
wool would set it off.

Just what I remember - I only saw it once...

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From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Organization: Lachman Technology, Incorporated, Naperville, IL
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:38:20 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.205746.1367@choate.edu> dsohl@spock.uucp (Daniel Sohl) writes:
>In article <C0I3KK.H9w@geovision.gvc.com> pt@geovision.gvc.com writes:
>>trsnyder@mcs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder) writes:
>>Paul Tomblin, pt@compass.gvc.com
>>(This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
>>"Beebelbrox, over here!" "No, Beebelbrox over here, who you?"
>>"A friend." "Anybody's friend in particular, or just well disposed to people?"
>I just thought I'd let you know that his name is "Beeblebrox" not "Beebelbrox".

The left head is "Beeblebrox", the right is "Beebelbrox".  Re-read chapter
5 from the first through third printings, which Adams has confirmed
are correct on this point.  Neither is called "Babelbrox".
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: AFU person of the year?
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 00:53:22 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1993Jan6.132049.6116@nntp.nta.no> styri@nta.no writes:
>In article <joshm.726289905@crash.cts.com>, joshm@crash.cts.com (Josh Mercer)
>writes:

>> [er, no - he just quotes Jonathan Papai and nothing more]

Actually he did add the following lines

6> Thad.
7> The Korean cult leader who had all the people sure the Rapture
was a'coming..

I guess you just got carried away and deleted them.

I am curious to know who Thad is though?

>Hello? Is there an echo in a.f.u? Or, is it just Josh posting his
>own nomination as the "AFU person of the year?"

And that was styri@nta.no nominating YuNoHoo as person of the year.

Derek "I nominate Monty pythons white tie and handkerchief album" Tearne

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From: bill.dehaan@rose.com (bill dehaan)
Subject: Net's Funniest Kitche
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:04:28 GMT
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Date Entered: 01-04-93 00:50
In message <1992Dec30.183458.3066@julian.uwo.ca>,
jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:

JDM>        Back in 1980, I was hired to count and record the contents of a
JDM>local university's collection of waste chemicals. One of the more interestin
JDM>bottles was labeled 'picric acid' (sp?), which is fairly unstable when
JDM>crystalised. The bottle had no  fluids in   it, so I decided to treat
JDM>it as though it had crystals in it, and not move it until I had informed
JDM>my boss. However, being young and stupid, I also decided to   continue
JDM>inventorying. The next  container was full of  silver nitrate, so I
JDM>marked it and  moved it to the section I was storing the containers
JDM>I had dealt with, without much concern, since I didn't regard it as
JDM>a potential bomb. In doing so, I clipped the alleged picric acid with
JDM>my elbow, knocking it onto the floor, between me and the door and on
JDM>the other side  of a bucket  of lithium pellets.  As it turned out,
JDM>it was just an empty bottle with  a  misleading label, but  I didn't
JDM>know that as  it was falling. Most stressful...

Picric acid was used in most Ontario high school chemistry courses in
the 1940s and 1950s. The problem with it is that over time (years), the
stuff crystalizes and becomes _very_ explosive. It's no longer part of
any cirriculum (sp?) but some of the stuff is still sitting around in
old labs. In 1979, the fire department checked out our lab after a fire
and found something like five or six GALLONS of the stuff. They took it
out into the football field and and detonated it with a rifle. That
stuff is serious, kiddies.

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From: kasprj@vccnw03.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: The shifty-eyed shifty-shaped Odo
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:59:50 GMT

In article <lks17nINNk2g@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:
|> 
|> How did the Cardassians carry Odo aboard disguised as a sportsbag
|> without noticing his weight?   Or does he shift weight as well as
|> shifting shape?

 I was speculating about this with one of the roommates during the show.
The only thing that seemed to make sense was that Odo was disguised as
the bag _and_ the money.
 
 At least this should put an end to those silly debates about whether 
the Federation uses money.
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From: manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ring in the New Year with Some FAQs
Date: 7 Jan 93 04:31:33 GMT
Organization: DSC/Optilink Access Products

In article <28209@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:

>Terry "How about gibbons?" Chan

Last time I heard yule gibbons was still dead - so I doubt will
be hearing from him either on USENET or via a rocket launcher.

Dave^H^H^H^HTerry "For those of you who don't know, he's called
                   Yule because he likes to eat Christmas Trees" Manley

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From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)
Subject: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:38:23 GMT

In article <C0IMup.3vL@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> cscdc@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Dan Carpenter) writes:
>
>Well, Jerome Holtzman won this *one*.  The Babe Ruth candy bar *is*
>named after Babe Ruth.
>
>Sorry to burst your bubble.
>

Now wait a minute.  I'm sure I've read in a couple of different places that
the bar was named for someone else, some president's daughter Ruth or
something like that.  I've got my sources at home but it'll take be a bit
to track down specific titles.  Does anyone have a source at hand to
quote from?

		-- Stewart "time to hit the books . . . if only I cared
				about my schoolwork even half this
					much . . . " Tame

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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: enterprise vs. love boat
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:34:28 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.000348.11267@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>ObFACT: The actor who played Gopher on the Love Boat is now a
>conservative Republican from Iowa in the House of Representatives.

ObUL: Rep. Fred Grandy had a page fired for saying, when the two
      were in an elevator on the Hill together, "Promenade Deck,
      please."

Ted "I thought you switched the two intentionally" Frank
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From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: African-American-top
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:38:34 GMT
	<C09FJK.K7r@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <4830@moscom.com>
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization

David Esan writes:
>In article <C09FJK.K7r@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
>bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ben\ Jackson) writes:
>>The only thing I could think of was making all nouns neuter.  Other
>>languages don't have neuter nous; everything is masculine or
feminine.
>
>Not true.  Russian has neuter nouns as well.

As does Tamil.

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway

How often do i have to post so people know i'm not dead?
From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Sodium in gas tank ( was: Net's Funniest Kitchen Disasters)
Date: 10 Jan 1993 01:44:55 GMT
Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
NNTP-Posting-Host: skybridge.scl.cwru.edu

Others said:
# The sugar in the gas tank is carmelized when the gasoline is ingnited, 
Maybe.....
As I recall, the OSS went to considerable trouble to find an
consistent way to immobolize cars & trucks. It was not simple.

#         I remember one story (true or not, now I can't remember), where on
# an arctic adventure, the bad guy(s) put sugar in the gasoline to prevent
# pursuit of the snowmobiles. The good guys drained the tanks, added water
# to the gasoline, and shook it up. 

Ice Station Zebra, or maybe another by the same author....
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From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: Upside-down burglar
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:17:19 GMT

In article <16B548DCF.ALI00BAW@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU> ALI00BAW@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU 
writes:
>I dated a trumpet player.  Boy, could she kiss!  (Strong, flexible lips.)

It's a documented fact that trumpet players are better kissers - some study
done at a university somewhere, I believe. I'd supply a list of former 
girlfriends, but modesty and courtesy forbid such things. 
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Something in the FAQ list...
Date: 7 Jan 93 00:16:19 GMT

>>t to the proper Mhz, or some strobe lights (like one I saw in radio
>>shack a while ago) can be adjusted with a knob to do this.  If

>MHz is a peculiar choice of unit in this case.  MHz is broadcast
>band frequency.  These lights are visible, somewhere around 4 to
>7 x 10^14 Hz.

Not the frequency of the light, the frequency of flashing.  I expect that the
flashing rate of a fire engine's siren is somewhere around one millionth MHz.
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:33342 alt.folklore.college:3390
From: alrobins@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Amanda Robinson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college
Subject: Stupid Floor Plans
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:27:37 GMT
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.

In article <MfIHSRK00WB_EGmjMR@andrew.cmu.edu> Joshua Eli Schachter <jsct+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>However, the building is badly designed, to get from one side of the first
>floor do another you have to go through the second floor...

I live in a dorm like that!!  The building is split into two towers, North 
and South.  From the main floor (which is the fourth, not the first-- it's
built into a hill), you can go to any floor in either tower.  But if you're
on a different floor and want to go to the same floor in the other tower, 
you have to go to the fourth floor, walk to the other elevator, and go back
to the floor you were on.  Despite the fact that they are essentially 
different floors, the rooms are numbered consectutively, with South tower 
going from ?01 to ?19 and North tower going from ?20 to ?39.  Moving in as
a freshman was fun-- no one bothered to tell me about the towers being 
separate, so I went to the first elevator I found, rode down to the second
floor, and spent 20 minutes looking all over the North tower for room 206.
We confuse a lot of freshmen that way, and even more parents who have never
been to their kid's room.

Amanda.
  
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From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: No US President Ever Survived an Energy Crisis
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:08:35 GMT

masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) writes:
>Nixon:	First Energy Crisis, 1973. 	Forced to resign, 1974.

ObFACT: Jan 8, today, is both Nixon's and Elvis's birthday, among others.

ObFACT2: The National Archives has available millions of photographs.
The Most requested one is of Nixon and Elvis shaking hands.

ObUL: 45000 people read AFU.

Jon "Mao knew Nixon, a FOAF knew Nixon, thus Mao is my FOAFOAFOAF" Papai
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Re: No US President Ever Survived an Energy Crisis
Reply-To: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:35:18 GMT

In article <Jan.8.09.20.58.1993.13935@cadenza.rutgers.edu> masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) writes:
>An interesting fact for y'all:
>
>No U.S. president who had an energy crisis on his watch has ever made
>it through the end of a second term.
>
>Nixon:	First Energy Crisis, 1973. 	Forced to resign, 1974.
>
>Carter:	Second Energy Crisis, 1979. 	Defeated for second term, 1980.
>
>Bush:	Third Energy Crisis, 1990. 	Defeated for second term, 1992.
>
>This should suggest something to somebody...
>
>- Steve (masticol@cs.rutgers.edu).


It suggests that we all need to repeat that great statistics mantra:
  corrilation does not imply causality.
(So I can't spell. So what!)

Yea, right!  Nixon was done in by an energy crisis.

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