HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis)
Subject: Re: What is that screen in front of speakers at Conventions?
Organization: University of Louisville
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:40:40 GMT

In <1992Aug21.135920.10346@unislc.uucp> miket@unislc.uucp (Michael Thompson) writes:

> In article <1992Aug21.060412.18233@news.columbia.edu> ia4@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Imran Anwar) writes:
> >I am wondering what that semi transparent rectangular display screen is
> >that I see in front of the speakers at the Democratic and Republican
> >conventions.  Are these like "head up displays" that show the scrolling'
> >words of the speeches?

> You hit it right on the nose.

Forget the screens in FRONT of them.  Have you noticed the huge ARRAY of
screens behind them?!  Must have cost $1e6...

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From: gunawan@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Margaretha W. Gunawan)
Newsgroups: misc.misc
Subject: test
Keywords: reuse libraries
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:48:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: h.2189

Sorry, this is just a test!  We will post the real news later.
This upcoming news is about a software reuse repository in West Virginia:
AdaNET!!!
Newsgroups: misc.misc
From: jdavidso@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu (Jeff Davidson)
Subject: Re: Story, 100 words plus four words (was Re: Origins of this group)
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:41:27 GMT

Distribution: world

In article <1992Aug11.215112.13011@terminator.cc.umich.edu>  
ajd@itl.itd.umich.edu (Arthur Delano) writes:
*AjD
*combining the following:  hundred word story, four word story challenge
*(Silverfish Ask Wardrobe Galaxy), irrelevant follow-up, a cascade, 
*jeapordy, rictus hep, sexual imagery, adventure, affected grammar and
*typing style, and overexplanation.
*did i miss anything?

big hOOters
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From: raymond@cs.vu.nl (Raymond Michiels)
Newsgroups: misc.misc
Subject: Who can decipher "blt1wly"
Keywords: decipher
Date: 20 Aug 92 07:13:18 GMT

Just in case there's anybody out there with some spare time: "blt1wly"
is supposed to list the first letters of each word of a certain sentence.
I don't know what it stands for myself, but I told a friend of mine
that I would try to find out.

SPOILER:

All I have come up with is that "t1wly" very probably stands for "the one
who loves you." Unfortunately the "bl" doesn't make any sense yet.

Please, help.

	-Raymond.
Newsgroups: misc.misc
From: TUSG07@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Glenn Rossi)
Subject: finnland
Organization: Motorola
Date: 14 Aug 1992 12:42:11 CDT

------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
Newsgroups: misc.misc
From: pwebb@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Peter Webb)
Subject: Seaching for a honeymoon
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 13:18:01 GMT

As I recently got engaged, I'm now searching for a unique and wonderful
location for a honeymoon.  I've traveled a fair bit here in the US and
overseas, but a honeymoon is a very special trip, so I thought I'd solicit the
advice of the collective wisdom of the Net.  Where is the best place you have
ever heard of anyone going on a honeymoon?  If you're married, where did you
go?  What did you like about it, or hate about it?  Are there other places that
you think would be perfect?  To help establish some direction for the replies,
I'll list some of the characteristics of the place I'm hoping to find:

	1. Available isolation.  If we want to be alone, we should be able to.

	2. Good hiking.  Not just day hikes either, but 3-5 day trips as well.

	3. Wildlife viewing.  Not birds so much as other types - primates,
	     herd animals, marsuipials, etc.

	4. Beaches.  Uspoiled and deserted, of course.

	5. Remote, luxurious, primitive.

OK, I know I'm asking for everything, and I know I won't get it.  Still, I'd
like to hear your opinions on what place would make the perfect honeymoon.
I hope to have about three weeks to spend there, and am willing (nay eager)
to travel pretty much anywhere in the known world.  Oh, and if it makes any
difference (rainy season, etc) the honeymoon will be in July of 1993.  Replies
by email, please, and I'll summarize.  Thanks very much.

		Peter (pwebb@ncsa.uiuc.edu) or (webb@hks.com)

Peter,
Have you considered Finnland, the so-called "Land of Lakes". Even though
I haven't been there myself, my colleague says it's wonderful, secluded,
and great for the month of July.  He & his wife are leaving this weekend
for a two-week vacation there from Germany. They have been there before
and love the uniqueness such as log cabin without electricity, hiking,
fishing, romantic boat ride to/fro, etc. If you have further questions,
he can be reached in two weeks at same address as mine except with
"TFG091" instead of "TUSG07". His name is Lawrence.

In any case,  good luck....       Glenn Rossi
                                  Motorola USFGMD-Europe
                                  Wiesbaden, Germany
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From: faldor@seq.uncwil.edu (Faldor Inglorion)
Subject: Re: George Herbert Walker Bush is from a Planet far far away
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 21:03:29 GMT

timpson@acetek.enet.dec.com () writes:


>In article <1992Aug14.160124.2552@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:

>|>I just heard it from my source, who is beaming down radio waves of pleasant
>|>healing frequencies as well as extensive information and news from the star
>|>A-13 (as they call it) which is in the constellation Cygnus to us here on
>|>earth. Anyway, he confides to me that George Bush is an alien, he came here
>|>after being exiled from A-13. He is a reckless egomaniac, and plans to 
>|>destroy earth and enslave the entire milky way galaxy.


>	You need to wrap some alluminum foil around your head and in your 
>	underware.  You are absorbing too much of those radio waves from
>	A-13.

>	Steve Food_for_the_Grays
>--
	Aluminum foil doesn't always work I tried it last year.  Now lead
	on the other hand is quite useful but encumbersome.  But you people
	act as if all aliens are bad that is not a good sign, especially
	to other worlds, when they see your movies of mass killing of
	anything that falls from the sky... try to keep an open mind.

Peacefully contented,
Faldor

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|                          Faldor Inglorion                         |
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Newsgroups: misc.misc,misc.jobs.offered.entry,misc.test,alt.test
From: Pandy@hut.fi (Andreas Holmberg)
Subject: Re: George Herbert Walker Bush is from a Planet far far away
Followup-To: misc.jobs.misc
Reply-To: pandy@hut.fi
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Computing Center
	<aldavi01.714019408@starbase.spd.louisville.edu>
Date: 17 Aug 92 08:51:16

>>>>> On Mon, 17 Aug 1992 02:43:28 GMT, aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis) said:
> Besides, this is a good theory as to why someone could recklessly
> do around doing what ever they like, killing the planet,
> turning a blind eye to the unwashed have-nots, and buddying
> up to multinationals interests and agendas. 

Arlie> What, you mean you can't explain evil / stupid people without reverting
Arlie> to elaborate, tenuous theories about aliens??
Arlie>
Arlie> Wake up and smell the coffee -- a lot of people really *suck*.

	I agree, like those who know close to nothing about
"netiquette". I guess some university employees have given accounts to
their kids, who know nothing about Usenet.

	Time for coffee now.

	Let's move to misc.jobs.misc now... to be continued...

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       Andreas "Pandy" Holmberg        Helsinki University of Technology
       E-mail: pandy@hut.fi            Computing Center
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From: tzf@csl.biosci.arizona.edu (Theron Friedman)
Newsgroups: misc.misc
Subject: Re: History of sex & machines: Request for info
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:29:37 GMT
Reply-To: tzf@csl.biosci.arizona.edu
Organization: U of Arizona, CS Dept, Tucson

I've never seen "fucking machine" in print, but have heard it (maybe 20
years ago....). Since you're in the Northeast neighborhood, see if you have
a local folklore society & if they know where John Roberts & Tony Barrand
can be found ... they teach in that neck of the woods, or used to anyhow.
(Maybe even at SUNY-B .... memory is rusty). They sing on the folk circuits,
and were the ones I heard singing it, so they probably still know the
words (if too much Beer & Morris dancing haven't burned out the circuits :-)

	terry friedman
Newsgroups: misc.misc,misc.jobs.offered.entry,misc.test,alt.test
From: matt@unidata.ucar.edu (Matt Hicks)
Subject: Re: George Herbert Walker Bush is from a Planet far far away
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 22:02:31 GMT

jeffp@netcom.com (Jeff Papineau) writes:

>I don't see why people are so hard on this idea, not if they have done some
>HOMEWORK on the subject. Has anyone read Aliens Among Us? Stranger in
>the Pentagon? Strangers Amoung Us? Star People?

>It is highly probable that there are those living amoung us that are
>of extraterrestrial form, whom look as human, or are as human as we are, 
>in both a "walk-in" variety, and reincarnated form, as well as those
>from other planets that have human cultures, and those whom can
>`choose" to take on human apperance. 

>Besides, this is a good theory as to why someone could recklessly
>do around doing what ever they like, killing the planet,
>turning a blind eye to the unwashed have-nots, and buddying
>up to multinationals interests and agendas. 

>But they won't teach you about this in school. Your going
>to have to learn about it on your own.

You probably believe in the Easter Bunny and God, too, don't you Jeff?



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Newsgroups: misc.misc,misc.jobs.offered.entry,misc.test,alt.test
From: haasdijk@fwi.uva.nl (Evert Haasdijk)
Subject: Re: George Herbert Walker Bush is from a Planet far far away
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 10:53:44 GMT

matt@unidata.ucar.edu (Matt Hicks) writes:

>jeffp@netcom.com (Jeff Papineau) writes:

>>I don't see why people are so hard on this idea, not if they have done some
>>HOMEWORK on the subject. Has anyone read Aliens Among Us? Stranger in
>>the Pentagon? Strangers Amoung Us? Star People?

>>It is highly probable that there are those living amoung us that are
>>of extraterrestrial form, whom look as human, or are as human as we are, 
>>in both a "walk-in" variety, and reincarnated form, as well as those
>>from other planets that have human cultures, and those whom can
>>`choose" to take on human apperance. 

>>Besides, this is a good theory as to why someone could recklessly
>>do around doing what ever they like, killing the planet,
>>turning a blind eye to the unwashed have-nots, and buddying
>>up to multinationals interests and agendas. 

>>But they won't teach you about this in school. Your going
>>to have to learn about it on your own.

>You probably believe in the Easter Bunny and God, too, don't you Jeff?

No, it's true! Check out Santa Claus : you don't believe all that crap
about these reindeer of his, do you? It's a very sophisticated flying
saucer that can `choose" to look like a sledge with reindeer. Really,
I checked it.



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>_________________________________________________  /\_/\  _________________
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>matt@unidata.ucar.edu  | UCAR, PO Box 3000      | ():::()  the other "other
>303/497-8676	       | Boulder, CO 80307-3000 |   VVV    white meat."   
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University of Amsterdam	| haasdijk@fwi.uva.nl | I'm just always right
Newsgroups: misc.misc,misc.jobs.offered.entry,misc.test,alt.test
From: timpson@acetek.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: George Herbert Walker Bush is from a Planet far far away
Reply-To: timpson@acetek.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:50:33 GMT


I have to apollogize for the posting in this news group that came from 
me.  The original posting that I was replying to had a trap.  It was cross 
posted to talk.bizare and alt.alien.visitors.  When I did a followup I 
failed to recheck the cross postings and instead of going to the afore mentioned
groups it went to: 

Newsgroups:misc.misc,misc.jobs.offered.entry,misc.test,alt.test


go figure. 

for those of you who sent be "polite" notification of the error.  thank you.

for those of you who sent out insluting childish notification:

"I fart in your general direction" 

Steve


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Newsgroups: misc.misc
From: CPLS13@email.mot.com (Steven_Cohn)
Subject: Re: What is that screen in front of speakers at Conventions?
Organization: Motorola_CoveragePLUS
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:12:03 GMT
Followup-To: misc.misc

In article <1992Aug21.060412.18233@news.columbia.edu>,
ia4@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Imran Anwar) wrote:
> 
> I am wondering what that semi transparent rectangular display screen is
> that I see in front of the speakers at the Democratic and Republican
> conventions.  Are these like "head up displays" that show the scrolling'
> words of the speeches?
> 
> IA

Yes, that is precisely what they are, sometimes called "teleprompters".
Generally there are 2 of them, one off to each side of the speaker, so they
can move their head and pretend to be looking at the audience.

Steven Cohn
Motorola CoveragePLUS Engineering
CPLS13@EMAIL.MOT.COM
Xref: sparky misc.misc:3144 talk.bizarre:25996
From: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Newsgroups: misc.misc,talk.bizarre
Subject: SSC (Was: Re: READ THIS NOW!!!! MAKE MONEY FAST AND LEGAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:53:00 GMT
Reply-To: rpwhite@cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Followup-To: misc.misc,talk.bizarre,misc.test,alt.newbie
Organization: Monterey Bay Yacht Club, Monterey CA

LEGGETT@KSUVXB.KENT.EDU (Rob Leggett) writes:
>DON'T DELETE THIS FILE! IT WORKS! FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS AND YOU WILL
>BE RICH! DO NOT DOUBT, DO NOT DELAY!

I misread this and thought it said "FOLLOW THE INTRUCTIONS AND YOU WILL
BE RICHH!"

rp -- tempted.
Newsgroups: misc.misc
From: shedevil@leland.Stanford.EDU (Anne P. Mitchell, JD)
Subject: Neat New Newsletter
Reply-To: shedevil@gw.home.vix.com (Anne P. Mitchell, J.D.)
Organization: Fathers Rights & Equality Exchange
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 05:15:43 GMT

Dear People,

A dear friend of my family's is a fairly well known professor of math
at an east coast university.  I am not mentioning names because I do not,
yet, have his permission to do so, and it's not really important.

At any rate, he has agreed to serve as the editor-in-chief for a novel
science newsletter, which even I, non-science minded as I am, think
sounds fascinating.  They apparently have a backer lined up, but the
backer would like a sense as to what the interest would be in 
such a publication.

So, below is my friend's description of the newsletter.  If you think
that you would be interested in receiving this newsletter please drop
me a note via email [my address is shedevil@gw.home.vix.com]. Please
be sure to include your full mailing address so that you can receive a
copy of the first issue.  I will forward this on to my friend.

I do not know what the cost, _if any_, will be for an ongoing
subscription, but sending your mailing address will *not* obligate
you to any subscription fee.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DISTRIBUTE OR OTHERWISE REPOST THIS INFORMATION!

<include file>:


The newsletter will be a "truth in science and technology" 
publication.  It will concern itself with an art which, in 
our opinion, is well on the way to becoming extinct -- 
namely, telling the truth.  It will consist of short news 
items concerning advances (or regresses) in science and technology, 
the kind of items that such publications as "Science" and "Nature" 
would not consider publishing, either because they are too
controversial, or because they deal with some unpleasant truth.  
The latter occurance is much more common nowadays.
 
We believe we can establish a network of informants who will 
contribute, either anonymously or under a pseudonym, or under 
their own names (as we would prefer) hot news items ranging over 
the entire spectrum of today's culture, with special emphasis on 
science and technology.  Some typical news items might be: an 
expose of neural networks as multivariate statistical analysis 
under a new name; a list of the increasingly baffling discoveries 
that ill-match the Darwinian theory of evolution (as it is 
understood today), and statistical evidence proving that African
witchcraft has been a more effective psychiatric cure than Freudian
psychoanalysis.
  
     I have gone as far as securing a certain amount of funding 
for the newsletter in the form of venture capital.  After discussions
with the board which is considering the funding of the newsletter, 
it has been decided that such funding will be contingent upon our 
being able to put together a credible mailing list for the first 
few issues.
From: klaus@tron.gun.de (Klaus Berwing)
Newsgroups: misc.misc
Subject: Cebu-City Philipines
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neurath, Germany
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 18:07:00 +0200

Hello,

is someone out there from Cebu-City, Philipines ???

A friend of mine has contact with some people in Cebu-City and want to know,
if someone from there can transmit some short messages to them because a tele-
phone call from Germany is very very expensive.

Can someone help us ????

Bye
Klaus


(KLAUS@TRON.GUN.DE)
/ Klaus Berwing, 4010 Hilden, West-Germany, KLAUS@TRON.ZER \
-- THE ANSWER V2.03
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: misc.misc
Subject: Re: READ THIS NOW!!!! MAKE MONEY FAST AND LEGAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:20:06 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk

In article <01GNJRCAZPLS00013T@ksuvxb.kent.edu> LEGGETT@KSUVXB.KENT.EDU (Rob Leggett) writes:

[......scam deleted......]

Oddly enough I received the UK snailmail version of this just yesterday.
Only 4 names on the list, and you only send 5 quid to each.
They recommend mailing to 200 possible targets and claim 3% response

So if you write to 200 and get 3% and so do they, etc
6+36+216+1296 people send you a fiver, that's 7770quid
Outlay 4*(5.24) + 200*0.24 + 1554*0.24 + 1554*printing_cost 
well as we don't know the printing cost.....though I could cheat and use the 
university's facilities....
Anyway it comes to about 5000quid profit

But 3%????  Maybe for a normal chain letter, but for one where you have to 
pay money, I'd expect something like 0.5%
And you'd make a loss on that.

Wouldn't it be simpler just to set up a legit business????

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Newsgroups: misc.misc
From: timpson@acetek.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: George Herbert Walker Bush is from a Planet far far away
Reply-To: timpson@acetek.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:36:42 GMT


In article <1992Aug14.160124.2552@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:

|>I just heard it from my source, who is beaming down radio waves of pleasant
|>healing frequencies as well as extensive information and news from the star
|>A-13 (as they call it) which is in the constellation Cygnus to us here on
|>earth. Anyway, he confides to me that George Bush is an alien, he came here
|>after being exiled from A-13. He is a reckless egomaniac, and plans to 
|>destroy earth and enslave the entire milky way galaxy.


	You need to wrap some alluminum foil around your head and in your 
	underware.  You are absorbing too much of those radio waves from
	A-13.

	Steve Food_for_the_Grays
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Newsgroups: misc.misc
From: matt@unidata.ucar.edu (Matt Hicks)
Subject: Re: George Herbert Walker Bush is from a Planet far far away
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:52:33 GMT

timpson@acetek.enet.dec.com () writes:


>I have to apollogize for the posting in this news group that came from 
>me.  The original posting that I was replying to had a trap.  It was cross 
>posted to talk.bizare and alt.alien.visitors.  When I did a followup I 
>failed to recheck the cross postings and instead of going to the afore mentioned
>groups it went to: 

>Newsgroups:misc.misc,misc.jobs.offered.entry,misc.test,alt.test


>go figure. 

>for those of you who sent be "polite" notification of the error.  thank you.

>for those of you who sent out insluting childish notification:

>"I fart in your general direction" 

>Steve


DITTO

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_________________________________________________  /\_/\  _________________
Matthew  B.  Hicks     | Unidata Program Center | ((ovo))  The spotted owl:
matt@unidata.ucar.edu  | UCAR, PO Box 3000      | ():::()  the other "other
303/497-8676	       | Boulder, CO 80307-3000 |   VVV    white meat."   
Newsgroups: misc.misc
From: paul@xcluud.sccsi.com (Paul Hutmacher)
Subject: Re: READ THIS NOW!!!! MAKE MONEY FAST AND LEGAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Organization: Greater Montrose UFO Appreciation Society & Data Haven
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 01:38:03 GMT

In article <BsyGKr.GLI@world.std.com> levin@world.std.com (Levin F Magruder) writes:
>Rob,
>
>The instructions said to name the file MAKE.MONEY.FAST but the
>bbses I tried to post it on said that was an illegal file name.
>

There.  It must be fake then.



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"There is nothing to history.  No progress,          | Paul Hutmacher 
 no justice. There is nothing but random horror."    | Houston, Texas
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