HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kmeyer@unf6.unf.edu (Karl F. Meyers)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.furry
Subject: Rocket Raccoon (was Re: In-Fur-Nation Volume 2 Number 3)
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:00:47 GMT
Organization: University of North Florida, Jacksonville

In article <2205@ontek.com> john@ontek.com (John Alan Stanley) writes:
>In article <1992Dec13.022243.8713@wam.umd.edu> vgriscep@wam.umd.edu (VGR (Craig Pell)) writes:
>}In article <2199@ontek.com> john@ontek.com (John Alan Stanley) writes:
>}>
>}>------------------
>}>
>}>Recent furry sighting--Rocket Raccoon has been making guest appearances
>}>in recent issues of She-Hulk.  Marvel can't seem to get away from
>}>furries, try as they might... 
>}>
>}>------------------
>}
>}What issue?  Please, this is important to me.
>
>Well, I don't have the exact issue numbers, but from what I've been 
>able to find out, Rocket Raccoon has been appearing in alternate
>issues of She-Hulk for the last five issues or so.  And is in the
>current issue, apparently.  So rush right down to your local comics
>store and grab 'em! :-)  I hope this was of some help...
>

Rocket's appeared in the last 4 or 5 issues, merely as a bit player (not as
an 'active' co-star).  Byrne does draw a good Rocket Raccoon, though.  :)

Hope that helps!

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.furry,rec.games.mud.tiny
From: jwtlai@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Jim W "GrimJim" Lai)
Subject: Re: Quicksilver virus on furry Muck
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:44:25 GMT

In article <9301021712.AA01235@intercon.com> mauser@intercon.com (Richard Chandler) writes:
>> [...]  It all took place inside of
>> 25 minutes.  I'm going to have to do some research as to why things started
>> to majorly crash when my character was not online.  Too bad it couldn't have
>> lasted just a little bit longer.  [...]  Tinysex runs rampant on that
>> muck, and I bow before you in taking one step to prevent it, if only for a
>> short while.  I'm not totally against it, [...]
[...]
>Of course, it's bragging like this that gets computer criminals caught.  Yes, 
>that's right.  I said Computer criminals.  What you did unquestionably counts 
>as malicious computer tampering and there ARE Federal laws against this.  
>Lucky for you, Hawkwind is in Canada, but it is a government owned machine.  

Actually, the Canadian Criminal Code has a few provisions of its own.  You'd
be surprised just how much is possibly applicable.  In any case, the relevant
files can be found in full on ftp.eff.org.  Whether a machine is government or
privately-owned isn't an issue.  Of course, the ethics of the situation are
more relevant than any legal question, IMO.

Regardless, from the Canadian Criminal Code:
---
342.1
    (1) Every one who, fraudulently and without color of right,
        (a) obtains, directly or indirectly, any computer service,
        (b) by means of an electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other
            device, intercepts or causes to be intercepted, directly or
            indirectly, any function of a computer system, or,
        (c) uses or causes to be used, directly or indirectly, a computer
            system with intent to commit an offense under paragraph (a) or (b)
            or an offense under section 430 in relation to data or a computer
            system
        is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a
        term not exceeding ten years, or is guilty of an offence punishable on
        summary conviction.
    [...]

430.
    [...]
    (1.1) Every one commits mischief who wilfully
        (a) destroys or alters data;
        (b) renders data meaningless, useless or ineffective;
        (c) obstructs, interrupts or interferes with the lawful use of data; or
        (d) obstructs, interrupts or interferes with any person in the lawful
            use of data or denies access to data to any person who is entitled
            to access thereto.
    [...]
Newsgroups: alt.fan.furry
From: bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum)
Subject: Re: Albedo == hot? Eh?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:35:46 GMT

Maybe issues 1-3 would have been worth more if it weren't for the
lousy halftone reproduction.  Starting with issue 4, Gallacci quit
using halftones (except for the tank on page 20), and the result looks
much better than the previous three issues.  Then again, the seller
might have gotten it confused with the first #4.  I paid $15 US for an
original #4 a few months ago.  (And I'm in the U.S.  I'm sure anything
printed here would cost more overseas.)

Bill Marcum  bmarcum@world.std.com
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: cholette@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Cholette Martin)
Subject: Re: NYT reports NBC likely to keep Letterman
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:56:35 GMT

In article <1h9b8qINNb9m@agate.berkeley.edu> slouie@ocf.berkeley.edu (Shelley Louie) writes:
>> todd@uvmark.uucp (Todd Cooper) writes:
>>
>>A New York Times Article on the front page of the Business section Monday,
>>12/21 reports that Mr. Letterman might be retained by NBC and given the 
>>tonight show job.  
>
>Wow, if this does happen will Dave move to the Left coast? Or does the 
>Tonight Show move back East to NY?  

Of course for us Canadians (Eh!) that's the Right coast!
:-)

>What will those cheapskate GE executives do next to tear apart NBC? Man, 
>the idea of downsizing a network is pretty insane, but by a bunch of 
>accountants who have trouble totaling their own IQs without taking off
>their shoes, nutzoid-city.
>
Happy Holidays,
Michael Bertrand
cholette@jsp.umontreal.ca

Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: rnovak@nyx.cs.du.edu (Robert Novak)
Subject: Re: Letterman "crashes" Clinton Press Conference
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 16:06:09 GMT

bjones@denitqm.uswest.com (Brent Jones) writes:
>jmwojtal@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Wojo) wrote:
>> Anyone see Fridays episode when Bill Clinton was doing a press conference, and
>> Dave (who sonehow got there wearing a tee shirt and hat) asked him about trying
>> to get Grand Funk Railroad back together.  I couldn't stop laughing.
>[snip]

>It was pretty damn funny, but Dave didn't "crash" anything. The whole
>deal was pretty obviously just some tape inserted into stock footage of
>Clinton's conference. Lighting, quality, etc. were markedly different
>between Dave's scenes and Clinton's.

>As technology becomes more and more sophisticated, it will be harder and
>harder to tell what's real and what isn't.

Well, I don't think he's trying to make it look convincing... remember the
United Airlines commercials (or whatever airline) from a couple of years
ago? He knows his viewers aren't that silly, but they will understand the
intent in most cases. 

Maybe this is a new FAQ: Places Dave Has Interrupted... the airline
commercial, Angela Lansbury, Bill Clinton, any more?

>--
Society for the Preservation of People Who Don't Quote Signatures... now
accepting members!

Rob

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Letter-Man!
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 21:06:56 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.132643.9321@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> rnovak@nyx.cs.du.edu (Robert Novak) writes:
>"Able to Leap Capital `E' In A Single Bound, it's Letterman!"

I was wondering when someone was going to mention this...

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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From: dweddin@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: PEACE THROUGH DRAMATIZATION
Date: 26 Dec 92 19:34:37 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

this is the tenth anniversary of the "Peace Through Dramatization"
players...founded in 1982.  Was there an anniversary show????

thanks,
don.
From: coury@duke.edu (L.A.Coury)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Dave at Museum of TV and Radio
Summary: camping
Date: 2 Jan 93 18:34:37 GMT
Expires: 30 Jan 93 05:00:00 GMT
Followup-To: alt.fan.letterman
Organization: Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706

In article <1992Dec25.112447.16519@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) writes:
>krotenko@unixg.ubc.ca (Lana Krotenko) writes:
> >Mar.30,1986 - Comic Releif 4 - Camping Video with Dave, Paul & Chris Elliot
>
>Hmmm... I bet it was VERY funny.  Does anyone have that on *TAPE*??
>It sounds vaguely familiar though, but maybe it's just the "camping" 
>episode ("CAMPING 2000") on Get A Life.  

Anyone else remember "Camping With Barry White" night?  Oh, baby....

coury@chem.duke.edu
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From: dweddin@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: DRESS COOL WORDS
Date: 26 Dec 92 19:32:26 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

does anybody have the words to Paul Shaeffer's song

"Dress Cool"

it appeared as a video about 6 years ago for Letterman's

anniversery show.  please post if you do.

thanks.
From: gopher@yar.cs.wisc.edu (Chris Bovitz)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Letter-Man!
Date: 1 Jan 93 22:07:56 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.

In article <1992Dec31.210656.378@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott) writes:
>In article <1992Dec29.132643.9321@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> rnovak@nyx.cs.du.edu (Robert Novak) writes:
>>"Able to Leap Capital `E' In A Single Bound, it's Letterman!"
 
Actually, it's 

Voiceover: "Faster than a rolling 'o', etronger than Silent 'e',  
  able to leap capital 't' in a single bound, it's a word, it's a 
  plan, it's Letterman!"

Letterman:  "I'm Letterman"

>
>I was wondering when someone was going to mention this...

With the pinheads @ NBC taking turns as Spellbinder.

Chris

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: amck@rowdy.mcc.com (Alan McKendree)
Subject: Re: Are most letterman fans also Seinfeld fans ?
Organization: MCC, Austin, Texas
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:13:57 GMT


Um...OK. I like both Letterman and Seinfeld.

-- 
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amck@rowdy.mcc.com         Who/Little Feat/racquetball/Rand
From: danjones@pyramid.COM (Dan Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Usenet viewer mail?
Date: 4 Jan 93 01:25:20 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Mountain View, California
NNTP-Posting-Host: xploit.eng.pyramid.com

woody@terapin.com (Butch Adler) writes:

|> I'm thinking of sending a letter,

Me too. What's Dave's E-mail address?  :-)

Dan Jones
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: thomasc@ms.uky.edu (Thomas Campbell)
Subject: Re: NYT reports NBC likely to keep Letterman
    <1992Dec23.134110.3613@ms.uky.edu> <1992Dec24.191832.16289@netcom.com>
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:47:18 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

In article <1992Dec24.191832.16289@netcom.com> bilan@netcom.com (Steve Bilan) writes:
>thomasc@ms.uky.edu (Thomas Campbell) writes:
>>here.  The whole point of "Late Night" television is that it's on late at night.
>>You'd never be able to invade the Prime Time spectrum with talk shows they 
>>arn't *that* interesting compared to the Prime Time Fare....
>
>
>
>PARDON !?!?!?!?!?!?
>Have you seen what they're currently showing during primetime?
>I think that if they showed Godzilla movie reruns, they would
>..Steve Bilan

Get a Clue.. while I'm one of those people who flip channels for an
hour and a half waiting for Dave to come on (because everything 
imbetween is trash) I'm *not* going to give up watching Northern 
Exposure to watch it... that just ain't gonna happen.  And the 
part that you so thoughtfully deleted was that it's "Late Night"
television.. something to watch *late* *at* *night*.  Sheesh...

You're Pardoned by the way...
Alex

Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: zerobeat@intacc.uucp (Ferenc Szabo)
Subject: Re: Letterman must have a lemon for a head
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:07:34 GMT
Organization: Inter/Access' Matrix BBS

>unknown@Apple.COM (Matt Ackeret) writes:
>
>>	Dave sure choked on this one.. The Lemonheads were going to play
>>"Mrs. Robinson" but he talked/argued them out of it?? What a bozo move
>>on his part.. The song they played was not even worth keeping the tape..
>>When I watched Thurs night's show earlier in the night I heard the Lemon-
>>heads were gonna be on and was waiting for it so I could get a performance
>>of "Mrs. Robinson"

Do you know why Simon & Garfunkel performed 'Mrs. Robinson' over 20 years 
ago?

So the Lemonheads wouldn't have to.

On the other hand, a good song (even unoriginal) might have saved The
Lemonhead's incredibly boring performance.

ferenc


Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: victorm@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Victor Morris)
Subject: Re: First meeting with Meg
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:38:56 GMT
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: victorm@hpsmeng1.rose.hp.com
Organization: THE ROOT CAUSE 
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

jim@zeus.tamu.edu wrote:
: 
:    "Things That Have Happened In Meg's Office..."  :-)
: 
: - a wedding
: - hairstyling (one of Meg's co-workers)
: - boys choir singing carols
: - flying a large bird from NBC to her office (what was that bird, anyway?)
: - having Meg try to swing her phone handset out her window to an office below
: - Meg leans out her window while artist draws her picture on the sidwalk.
: - Meg reads a Top Ten list at random from the first book of Top Tens (pub-
:   lished by Simon & Schuster) - Top Ten Rejected Campbell Soup flavors.
: - Dave tries to have Meg allow him to get her office painted!
: - Mariachi band in the office.
: - Marching band spells MEG on the street below, blocking traffic!
: 
: 
: If memory serves, the first call to Meg resulted in her waving to the
: camera, accepting the "employee of the month" honors, and coming on
: the show to recieve her prize. The prize was a tailored suit--MENS!
: Dave assured her she could exchange it at the tailors for anything she
: wanted......
: 
: Hilarious!

Does anyone remember the time two falcon trainers tried to get their bird to 
fly from Rockefeller to Megs window, and the bird took off down the street?

The show ended with no mention of what happened to the bird. Does anyone know
if it ever returned?


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From: jamesc@bassclar.Eng.Sun.COM (James Langdell)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: First meeting with Meg
Date: 22 Dec 92 01:10:12 GMT
Reply-To: jamesc@bassclar.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: bassclar

It's too bad that, if Dave goes over to CBS, Meg will no longer be only
a zoom lens away from his studio.  Maybe Meg can get a new job across
from CBS's studio.  Or perhaps Letterman's production company could
rent a window office from NBC to keep Meg's office window in view.  

NBC probably has a lot of vacant space in that building, judging from Dave's 
on-camera tours of gutted parts of their offices the last few years, and will 
have a lot more empty offices if Dave moves on.

Visits with Meg are a true high point of the show, even without the
wacky gifts, stunts, and visitors.

--James Langdell      jamesc@eng.sun.com
  Sun Microsystems    Mountain View, Calif.
From: tgreen@sw.stratus.com (Tom Green)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: First meeting with Meg
Date: 22 Dec 1992 14:17:11 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: katie.sw.stratus.com


I think I've solved NBC's problem if Dave leaves to go to
CBS.  I, like many other writers, am concerned that we'll 
lose access to Meg once she's no longer a zoom lens away from
LNWDL; therefore, NBC, realizing Meg's popularity should 
make her the host of the successor show to LNWDL.  She could
run it from her desk over at Pocket Books and have the band
and the guests and some Ed McMahon/Regis Philbin/etc. flunky
on the set.

Actually they could keep running the show with total pandemonium
kinda' like now with people wandering in and actually staying awhile
sort of like drop in hosts (time for the Live at Five people to
retaliate; give Tony Randall the chance to actually appear on the
show after all those lame attempts to be invited as a guest,
have Larry Bud night, etc.)

We'll just pretend Dave's on vacation for a real long time....
Yeah, that's the ticket!
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: todd@uvmark.uucp (Todd Cooper)
Subject: Re: NYT reports NBC likely to keep Letterman
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 16:07:32 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: VMARK Software, Inc.

In article <1992Dec22.224126.20660@cs.wisc.edu> gopher@yar.cs.wisc.edu (Chris Bovitz) writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.142511.61834@uvmark.uucp> todd@uvmark.uucp (Todd Cooper) writes:
>
>>In my opinion, they should radically change the whole layout. Move the local
>>news, move the Tonight Show, and move Late Night/with Letterman.  The only
>>problem is convincing the affiliates that they could make more money by having
>>local news at a different time from the competition.  There was also mention
>>of letting Mr. Letterman produce several prime time specials.  This would 
>>placate him, while giving him an earlier Late Night would also make him happy.
>
>Waitaminit.  Why would the time of the local news have to change?  
>
>As you report, they'd be making Dave the host of the Tonight show.  I'd 
>assume that Dave would be able to take Paul & his band along, either 
>because that's what they'd let him do, or by his demands.  I think NBC is 
>in a position that Dave has the upper hand and can really turn the screws 
>to NBC.  
>

I am proposing to keep Letterman where he is and Leno where he is.  Change the
times of the Tonight show and Late night show (News at 10pm, Tonight at 10:30,
and Late night at 11:30).  This is a radical change and I don't know if it will
be well received.
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From: woody@terapin.com (Butch Adler)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Usenet viewer mail?
Date: 2 Jan 93 23:08:33 PST
Organization: BBS

I'm thinking of sending a letter, but I always wonder who will actually read
them, like if someone from GE who's getting ready to be fired has to read them
and sort them out.... I was wondering where Jay was these days... 8)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross)
Subject: Usenet viewer mail?
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Brock University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:51:01 GMT


Has anyone reading this group ever had a letter
read on Viewer Mail?  Just curious. I once sent one, but
no luck.


-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson)
Subject: Distributing Top Ten Lists
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:14:26 GMT


I found a "shareware" database today on a local BBS that is all Top 10
lists. The compilers say the database is for "entertainment" only, and
not for profit, but they ask a $15 registration fee for the database
if you keep it, which also entitles you to updated databases with new
lists.

Is this legal? These are actual David Letterman Top 10 lists <tm>.

Michael
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams)
Subject: Re: Dave at Museum of TV and Radio
Organization: Utopia Planitia Starfleet Yards, Mars
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 11:24:47 GMT



krotenko@unixg.ubc.ca (Lana Krotenko) writes:
 >I did a search for "Letterman, David" and this is what I found:
 
 >May 21,1981 - Daytime Emmys - Dave's morning show wins, clip from show
 >1981 - HBO Special - "David Letterman - Looking for Fun"

WOW!!  Those sound FANTASTIC!!  Is there any way to get COPIES??

 >Feb.26,1979 - $20,000 Pyramid - Dave is "Celebrity" guest
That would be a great "time capsule" bit to see...

 >Mar.30,1986 - Comic Releif 4 - Camping Video with Dave, Paul & Chris Elliot

Hmmm... I bet it was VERY funny.  Does anyone have that on *TAPE*??
It sounds vaguely familiar though, but maybe it's just the "camping" 
episode ("CAMPING 2000") on Get A Life.  

 >Dec.19,1984 - LNWDL - Christmas with the Lettermans

Now that was definitely a classic!   They did another one in 1987 
called "Dave's Old Fashioned christmas", narrated by Connie Chung.

Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: mrb@bugs.aero.org (Mike Bacigalupi)
Subject: Re: First meeting with Meg
Keywords:  Meg, Arnie Barnes
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation; El Segundo, CA
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 08:10:13 GMT

> Visits with Meg are true high points of the show.

Am I the *only* one who is tired of Meg?  I think the stuff he does with her is
sometimes funny, but they'd be funny with someone else, too.  Is everyone crazy
about Meg because of her personality (what there is of it) or because of the
stuff Dave does with her?  I wish he'd move on to someone else.

Now Arnie Barnes -- THAT guy was funny!  And the things Dave did on the phone
with him were at least as funny as with Meg.  But the stuff that was funny with
him came from his situation and what Dave did with it.  I prefer that kind of
call.  Same with James the Drifter.

Mike "Bugguts" Bacigalupi
From: bg688@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Allen P. Abel)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Letter-Man!
Date: 2 Jan 1993 07:30:12 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


Hey, is that some new e-mail address -- pinheads@NBC ?
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