HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Andrew.Robinson@anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: RICHH: RICH AND PAUL SHARE A MOMENT
Organization: Australian National University
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 01:03:50 GMT

In article <3943@novavax.UUCP> mitch@novavax.UUCP (Mitch Silverman) writes:

[chomp burp]

>Oh: I did see your note "flames to dev/null."  That's awfully nice of
>you, arbitrarily dividing all reaction/responses to your post

Who's being arbitrary?  Why are flames the only reaction/responses?

>into two categories.  Binary logic, again.  So phallocentric, to
>believe that there is no value between one and zero, the lingam
>and the yoni.

Would you mind explaining why binary logic is _phallocentric_?

regardless,
Andrew

now hit d
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern
From: saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu (Brian E. Saunders)
Subject: Re: Strippers
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:05:15 CDT
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease

In article <1992Jul21.032138.27156@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> arsmith@nyx.cs.du.edu (alan smith) writes:
>
>{ This is about the assertion that when women go to strip joints (to see
>men) they are very loud and boisterous, while when men go (to see women)
>they tend to mouse out and hide in corners. }
>
>Here's a theory that will explain that.  (Standard disclaimer, This is
>just a THEORY, don't ask me to prove it, that's your job.):  Strip clubs
>that feature guys are a relatively new invention, women that go there find
>men taking their clothes off to music a novelty and cheer, stick money
>down their pants (and the dancer's pants, for that matter :-} ) and
>generally have fun.  Men's clubs (featuring women), on the other hand are
>as old as our civilization, and so the men who patronize them realize that
>the only way they can get some attractive female to take her clothes off
>is to pay at the door; therefore: they are embarassed and tend to hide.

This is partially true, but I think once somebody has gone a few times,
they lose the embarassment.  Hell, everybody already knows I'm perverted,
so I go to the front row!  The only real reason for hanging back is that
you are low on cash, and don't want to be harassed by the dancers for tips.

It kind of reminds me of a time when a friend and I who were strip bar
regulars got *coerced* by 2 other friend to "go to a titty bar".  I think
they were trying to be "cool".  Anyway, we get to the place, and sure
enough, they sit in back, indicating that they really weren't all that
comfortable.  Meanwhile, my other friend and I grabbed front-row seats.
Well, needless to say, we paid the dancer a decent amount of money to
bother our friends, and finally get them to the front row.  It was a pretty
funny stunt.

Private strippers do a hell of a lot more than what the dancers do in the
bars.
-- 

Brian E. Saunders			saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu
From: kbrooks@ut-emx.uucp (kevin brooks)
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern
Subject: Re: jargon
Summary: (mis) rreading
Date: 22 Jul 92 23:42:17 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

In article <1992Jul21.082129.24660@leland.Stanford.EDU>, jchokey@leland.Stanford.EDU (James Alexander Chokey) writes:

[deletion]

> Maybe the deconstructionists really do have something with the idea that
> "Every reading is a misreading!"
> 

just a small note: "misreading" implies a (correct) reading.  the "jargony"
word sometimes advanced in place of "misreading" is "unreading."


regards,

kevin brooks
From: socwk@lure.latrobe.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern
Subject: RE: W.D.T.I.S
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:14:50 GMT
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University

I'm not into justification but the more pertinant question here is not who they
serve but what are they for.  Surely in the post-modern world the role of the
intellectual is a question: of course not a question to be answered but to be
addressed.
Xref: sparky alt.postmodern:2148 alt.flame:11237 talk.bizarre:22539 alt.slack:2124
From: mitch@novavax.UUCP (Mitch Silverman)
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern,alt.flame,talk.bizarre,alt.slack
Subject: Re: RICHH: RICH AND PAUL SHARE A MOMENT
Date: 21 Jul 92 03:35:43 GMT
Reply-To: mitch@novavax.UUCP (Mitch Silverman)
Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

In article <1992Jul16.071743.10057@uwm.edu> zander@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Douglas Alan Zander) writes:
>In article <1992Jul15.160757.11082@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com> puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude) writes:
>>>>>>     Paul:  Vinegar and Water?
>>>>>>     Rich:  Neat, please.
>>>>>Please do not post this crap to alt.butt.harp.
>>>>>                                              -- K.
>>>>In case you've forgotten, Richh created alt.butt.harp.
>>>Plus (minor point I know) -
>>>I LIKE THIS CRAP!!!
>>
>>And don't forget, when it's cross-posted to alt.sex, there are a lot
>>of people that get to masturbate and orgasm all over their screen
>>when they see this.
>
>please post articles of this sort only in the news groups where it belongs
>flames to /dev/null 

Why do "articles of this sort" not belong here, Mr. Zander?  I
found the text you responded to to be quite postmodern.  The
notions of machine-mediated sex, a newsgroup (one with worldwide
distribution) named "alt.butt.harp," even of a poster on alt.postmodern
taking umbrage at such a post, combined to create a semiosis well
worth, IMHO, being posted to this group.
 
After all, you have no "absolute" basis for claiming your mode of
discourse has any superiority to that of the included text.  Such
a claim would merely indicate your bias in favor of the traditional
power and domination structures of Western rationalism
and morality--and you wouldn't want to do _that_, would you?
 
Oh: I did see your note "flames to dev/null."  That's awfully nice of
you, arbitrarily dividing all reaction/responses to your post
into two categories.  Binary logic, again.  So phallocentric, to
believe that there is no value between one and zero, the lingam
and the yoni.
 
Mitch Silverman
Student, New College of the University of South Florida
From: IK20050@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.party
Subject: PARTY AT SEAN O'TOOLE'S PLACE
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:04:56 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System

Sean's havin' a party!
All the Labatt's you can drink!
For more info., e-mail him at:

IK20039@maine.maine.edu
From: k.c..bennett@madness.network23.com (K.C. Bennett) 
Newsgroups: alt.party
Subject: WILD WILLIE'S ADULT BBS!
Date: 26 Jul 92 14:45:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Terminal Madness BBS - Newport, RI - 401-848-9069
Reply-To: k.c..bennett@madness.network23.com (K.C. Bennett) 

Adult BBSes are for immature, undersexed adults who like to beat off in
front of their computers.  Period.  Get a life.
Newsgroups: alt.party
Subject: Re: WILD WILLIE'S ADULT BBS!
From: crchakford@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:08:21 -0500
Distribution: world
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <2.45.uupcb@madness.network23.com>, 
 k.c..bennett@madness.network23.com (K.C. Bennett)  writes:
> Adult BBSes are for immature, undersexed adults who like to beat off in
> front of their computers.  Period.  Get a life.
>

                Top ten reasons for this guy's post.
         
        1.) He's Jessie Helms incognito?

        2.) whassamater, the machine to slow these days?

        3.) impotent?

        4.) His wife is cross-posting?

        5.) It's killing his 1-900 business.

        6.) Tennis elbow.

        7.) 1200 bps.

        8.) His keys are getting sticky.

        9.) His stock in 'Playboy' is loosing value?

        10.) a Messiah complex?

        Look, whoever you are, people are free to do what they want. 
If that means jacking off in front of their computer, well there are
worse thins they could be doing.  Don't interfere with someone else's
good time just because you find it more than a little sad, not that in
this case, it isn't a stretch not to see it as sad.  I would like to
suggest, however, that WILD WILLIE take it to a more suitable medium,
like maybe alt.sex.pornographic.fantasy or something.
Newsgroups: alt.chinese.text,news.software.anu-news,news.software.b,comp.fonts
From: yumei@wam.umd.edu (yumei)
Subject: chinese software 
Originator: yumei@rac2.wam.umd.edu
Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 12:55:44 GMT

Hello everybody,

     Is there anyone familiar with incorporating software for Chinese 
into a video piece? i.e. adding texts in Chinese to the screen.  

     What kinds of software are there?  (For Macintosh as well as for
IBM mDoes anybody know any new software packages from Taiwan
or Mainland CHina?

     Any information will be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

-- 

Got a mind--will travel!  Got no money--will hike!

Organization: Senior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:37:59 -0400 
From: John Charles Fiala <jf2z+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: A Night in the Hills of West Virginia
	<1992Jul23.230344.25661@crc.ricoh.com>
	<RANDOLPH.92Jul23193847@cognito.cognito.ebay.Sun.COM>

John, walking in (Still female), listens to the discussion of violence.

"Ah, Violence!  That is the question, indeed."

"The problem, I daresay, may have more to do with unsupervised
violence-watching, than with the violence itself.  Violence has been
with mankind for longer than most people like to think about... and it's
overuse in movies and the like is not surprising, to myself.  

"I'm not going to argue that watching a violent movie doesn't affect one...
they wouldn't be so popular if they didn't affect people.  The better question
may well be, do they cause more harm than good?  This all somewhat reminds
me of a discussion on the independant comics mailing list, where people have,
of late, been talking about the clampdown on comic books in the 50s. 
Back then,
comic books were very violent, and due to a psycological study done on them
(called 'Seduction of the Innocent'), the comics industry gathered most
of itself
up, and created it's own group to watch over comics and make sure they didn't
get too 'graphic'.  EC comics was one of the comic publishers that pretty much
went out of buisiness because of all this, and there is something
vaguely similar
between EC's horror/SF/fantasy/crime comics and perhaps 90% of the violent
movies produced today.  

"That similarity is this: However violent the movie or story may be, the good
guys usually win, and it's usually the bad guys who have all died/been sent
away (usually died, if it's a really violent movie) by the end of the
movie.  It
may be that the movie is very violent, but that very violence, I think, shows
children that violence, used in a bad way, gets you nothing but trouble.  The
EC comics, some of which I've read, were similar... someone was usually
pretty nasty at the beginning, and the end of it all featured something rather
nasty happening to that person.

"The current wave of violence-prone movies may very well be a problem,
of either slight or great degree, but the problem is that they are that way
because people are paying to go and see them.  Terminator, and Terminator 2,
are both hugely popular, practically anything Swartzeneggar (sp very dubious)
makes sells like hotcakes, and thus, more and more violent movies get
produced...
a cycle that won't stop until sales on less violent movies get suitably
noticable
besides the current ones.  

"I intend, when I have children, goddess willing, to pay attention to what it 
is that they watch, and perhaps guide them, but I think anything bigger
would do more harm than good.

"Ah, well... I've rambled on enough.  Your ball."

And john grabs herself a drink, calling to Arwen to see if she'd like
something too.
-john
"No cat out of its first fur was ever deceived by appearances,
unlike humans, who seems to enjoy it."
jf2z+@andrew.cmu.edu	-The Last Unicorn
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Subject: Re: More of Nathan being Depressed. (feel free to skip this)
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:01:36 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.051302.17951@crash.cts.com> jhitch@crash.cts.com (Jeffrey Hitchin) writes:
>	"Marie is right, Nathan," Grant says.  "Just because you don't
>know shitloads of math doesn't mean you're stupid.  I have a biology
>degree, I can't do calculus worth a damn.  Doesn't mean I'm dumb,
>nosireebob!

Abner chuckles.  "Last friday, I went gaming.  We came upon a poor unfortunate
soul who had gone completely mad.  I commented "Someone's been teaching
calculus!"  That got a few chuckles.  Then, we came upon a wall of darkness,
and the GM declared that seeing it gave the impression of 'A pit of despair,
where madness reigns and all reality is unstable.'  I quipped "Yup.  Definitely
calculus."  This time a number of people laughed.  Then we found out what was
going on.  We found a Cthuloid city inside the wall of darkness, with unearthly
angles and mind-straining geometries.  This is what had driven the peasant mad.
The entire party immediately started yelling out things like:  "Hey, that's
geometry, not calculus!" and "I pull out my trusty vorpal Protractor ..."
It took the GM nearly 3 minutes to get us back to the module ..."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: pierce@spop.navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Subject: Re: Breakfast is Served!!!
Reply-To: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Organization: POPS Operations I/O Operator
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-1020]: spop.navo.navy.mil
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 14:56:57 GMT

In article <BrswvI.DAC@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
|> 
|> >"Mike, any chance I could get a Coke (tm) - the breakfast drink of old
|> >coot programmers?"
|> 
|> "niles, didi will laugh at you if you drink coke (tm) for
|> breakfast...she doesn't think it is healthy....besides, at the risk of
|> starting a "soda" battle (or do you call it "pop")....diet pepsi (tm)
|> is the proper accompaniment to a good balanced breakfast....(i usually
|> have a gyro...but no fries...7 am is too early for fries) "
 
     "Well, I start my breakfast off with either water or Barq's Root Beer.
   And its 'sodapop'. Leastwise thats what we called it in the 1950s back
   in Texas... Ah, for a bottle of Big Red Sodapop !" DJ. 
-- 
jmpierce%usmcp6.bitnet@vm.tcs.tulane.edu <- guaranteed there Wed. only !
Disclaimer: Standard. Recent Album: Muddy Waters:Muddy Waters Live 
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: JMPIERCE%USMCP6.bitnet@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU (JIM PIERCE)
Subject: someone elses 'interesting' day in Louisiana !
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:37:51 GMT


  "Not to change the subject, but I saw this on the news last night.
It has made all the local television channels, plus CNN Headline News.
Before I start, I'll mention that the guy is alive and walking around.

   This took place in French Settlement, Louisiana, on the Amite
River. It took place at this guy's 'fishing camp.' { A fishing
camp is a small building, about 2-5 rooms, that a family or several
families build to fish from. It means a place to get away from the
sun and insects, a fishing dock to tie up the boat to, and a few
minor conveniences like a stove and refigerator. Used lumber is
a usual building material. They are usually placed up on wooden
poles to prevent flooding if the river rises due to rain. }

    This guy was raising one end of his fish camp as it was
getting un-level. He crawled up under the building with a
board, some tools and a hydraulic jack. Under there was a
10' { 3 meter } alligator that didn't like his intrusion !
The 'gator bit him on the left thigh and started to drag him
out into the river. He fought with it for 30 minutes with a
result of the 'gator got away, he got away from the 'gator
and he has over 200 stitches in his left thigh, right shin,
and his back. The local Fish & Wildlife Game Wardens have set
traps for it. He said," I must have surprised it and it
surprised me back !" Well, I'm about 500 miles from there,
so I just saw it on the news. It looks like this guy is a
contender for the 'Best Understatement of the Year' Award."
  Dreamy Jim.


* <JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET> Jim "NickD." Pierce; Bach. Sci. in Appl. Cmp Sci
* USM Academic Computing on the Gulf Park Campus. Disclaimer: Standard.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: HF.TXG@forsythe.stanford.edu (TJ)
Subject: Re: and stuff.. as always..
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:35:40 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.231200.25916@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer) writes:
>In article <1992Jul28.192744.23845@morrow.stanford.edu> HF.TXG@forsythe.stanford.edu (TJ) writes:
>>TJ jumps in: Or how 'bout my favorite...'I see.' said the blind man
>>to the deaf mute, and the man with no legs walked away in disgust.
>>
>
>
>     "One fine day in the middle of the night,
>      two dead boys got up to fight
>      back to back, they faced each other
>      took out their knives and they shot each other
>      a deaf policeman heard the noise
>      and that was the end of the two dead boys."
>
>                                              Mhoram
>
>--
I think that is my new favorite :>

TJ
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: korz@cs.columbia.edu (Frederick Korz)
Subject: Re: A return
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 03:36:08 GMT

In article <BruqJ9.LH3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>
>>>"does DM have cold hands?  }:).....i am totally crushed..."  giggles
>>>kitten... 
>
>>Danger Mouse glances in kitten's direction (not hard, considering she is
>>still feeding him chocolates (or at least I hope she is!)) and opines,
>>"_I_ have cold hands? No, no, no... Shonias is the one with the cold
>>hands... as she demonstrated this morning*..."
>
>>DM grins and attempts to tickle kitten in the ribs.
>
>"ack!  eek! squeal!  tickles !  and after i have fed you a ton of
>chocolate... the ingratitude!"  kitten gasps, chokes, giggles and
>tries to look indignant...failing completely!
>
>"well, shonias must remember the old saying...'cold hands, warm
>heart'... unlike some MICE i will not name....:)"

Frood, having popped in from "out of know wear", turns to kitten
saying, "I hope the converse is not true of hands and heart - that this
is not a zero-sum game with one hot and the other cold.  Honestly,"
breaking into a smile and unobtrusively flexing his digits slightly,
"my hands are usually warm and my heart is warm enough towards many - I
only tickle those I like.  (Well, I reserve the right to like quite a
few folk, especially around here.  :-)"

>(you know i am teasing....but just wait....one of these days i will
>sneak up on you when you least expect it....then you'll be sorry!)

(Ah, stealth tickles
    - yer approaching proximity upon padded paws ... to pounce!)

>>* At 10am, after we'd both arrived at university. Why, what did _you_
>>think I meant??  :-)

=============================================================
Fred Korz			450 Computer Science Building
korz@cs.columbia.edu		Columbia University
				NY, New York  10027 (USA)
Snappy .sig just washed ... Kant do a thing with it.
From: rkoch@lonestar.utsa.edu (Ruth M. Koch)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Anti-Freeze/Much too Cold!Sundog, who has been busy wrestling with concepts of creation
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:53:02 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <3681@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:
>
>	The Sea Wasp stares aghast at these madmen.
>
>	"I used to have a reputation for surviving the cold very well.
>However, I remain skeptical of someone walking, UNAFFECTED, for a mile
>through -40 degrees. Wind chill may be different than straight temperature,
>I suppose (and if you walk WITH the wind, you diminish the wind chill...)
>
>	"And I think it's lunacy anyway. I'm cheering on global warming.
>If another snowflake is never seen in my vicinity, that will be fine with
>me.
>
 Excuse me, but I find it hot enough here in Texas, thank you.
 I don't need people wanting to make the world hotter.  :-)

>	"It's EASY to cool off, but once you get chilled it takes HOURS
>to warm back up."

   I disagree.  You can only take off so much clothing to get
   cool.  You can always put on more to get warm.
>
>                                Sea Wasp
>                                   /^\
>                                   ;;;
    Nathan.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Subject: Re: Re: Responsibilities of Artists (was Re: Pornography and Playboy)
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:53:13 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.071822.17708@midway.uchicago.edu>, mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:
>Consider the resistance with which a paradigm shift tends to be
>greeted-- conventional wisdom says that a real change in perspective
>only comes as the older generation dies off and is replaced by the
>next, which then has its own arteries hardened when the next big shift
>comes along.  Consider how long the data which went into constructing
>chaos theory were ignored as `experimental error' and `noise'.
>Consider how long astronomers believed in the canals of Mars.

Not very long, actually.  Of course, like much folklore (Craig Shergold's STILL
getting get-well cards), once an idea with popular appeal made its way to the
masses, it took on a life of its own.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: HF.TXG@forsythe.stanford.edu (TJ)
Subject: Re: and stuff.. as always..
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:27:44 GMT

In article <7fSq03Ys467B00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>,
jesse@uts.amdahl.com (Jesse Mundis) writes:
>jodybean@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (zaphod-) writes:
>
>
>>Just out of curiousity.. what other ways (aside from punning) can we think of
>>of using the english language to create wordplay..  I suggested spoonerisms
>>(Thy Ink) to telsor, but I can't think of a nifty way of doing those..
>
>>For the uninformed:  Before I lent the setter, I placed a stone lamp on it...
>>     or     If you have to shake a tower, don't forget to shake off your toes!
>
>Well, there are what used to be called "Tom Swifties."  Sentences with
>multiple interpretations of meaning.  For example:

>  "I see!" said the blind carpenter, as he grabbed his hammer and saw.

TJ jumps in: Or how 'bout my favorite...'I see.' said the blind man
to the deaf mute, and the man with no legs walked away in disgust.

Newsgroups: alt.callahans