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From: snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu (John Snyder)
Subject: Re: Little Boxes on the Hillside
Organization: Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 07:15:23 GMT

In article <GRABINER.92Jul24162525@zariski.harvard.edu> grabiner@math.harvard.edu (David Grabiner) writes:
>
>Was there a specific town or neighborhood which inspired this song?  I'm
>often reminded of it while walking through some parts of town.
>
>"There's a green one, and a pink one, and a blue one, and a yellow one,
> And they're all made out of ticky-tack, and they all look just the same."
>
>--
>David Grabiner, grabiner@zariski.harvard.edu
>"We are sorry, but the number you have dialed is imaginary."
>"Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again."
>Disclaimer: I speak for no one and no one speaks for me.


Legend has it that it was inspired by one of the many Levittowns (anystate,
USA).

Woody
snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu
From: graham@cs.utk.edu (Jeff Graham)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: A lyrics quiz you can POST to! (was Re: OK, here's a question)
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:46:15 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - CS Department
NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu
Keywords: Anything to do with love (SONGS)

In article <1992Jul31.115348.14114@news.columbia.edu> betsey@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth Fike) writes:
>In article <1992Jul30.172314.27952@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> cdc017.austin.ibm.com!lkoh@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com writes:
>>
>>9.      "Every time I see you falling,                                  
>>         I get down on my knees and pray"                               
>>       
>	"Bizarre Love Triangle", the Cure
                                 ^^^^^^^^
  YECCHH!!!  Not even close (sorry; I don't like the Cure).  It's by New Order.

>
>
>*******************************************************************************
>Betsey Fike <betsey@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
>CC '94/SEAS '94, Computer Science/Electrical Engineering
>Columbia University Marching Band, the Cleverest Band In The World (tm)


-- 
Jeff Graham                  |  What's the biggest problem in America -
graham@cs.utk.edu            |    apathy or stupidity?
All opinions expressed are   |  
mine. Nobody else wants 'em. |  Don't know, don't care.
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From: jil@uts.uucp (Jamie Lubin)
Subject: Re: Whitburn (Was: Same title, different song, part 2)
Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 13:35:57 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.074454.6684@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Joe.Francis@dartmouth.edu (Joe Francis) writes:
>
>Speaking of Whitburn, I also have the "Top Pop's" '86 book (a '55 to
>'86 top 100 compilation).  Has anyone seen a newer version of this? 
>I'm not speaking of the top 40 paperback Whitburn (which is at least up
>to '90), but the thicker top 100 book.

I have Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 (~750 pgs.).  We use it as a
source on the Golden Oldies Lyrics Quizzes in this newsgroup.
From: marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bob Marshall)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: A lyrics quiz you can POST to! (was Re: OK, here's a question)
Date: 31 Jul 92 18:19:38 GMT
Reply-To: marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California

>10.     "Daddy says he ain't worth a lick                               
>         When it comes to brains                                        
>         he got the short end of the stick"                             

Trisha Yearwood, "She's In Love With The Boy"
       

>12.     "I'm back on my feet,                                           
>         eager to be what you wanted"                                   

Air Supply, "Lost In Love"

       
>13.     "Wasting our time                                               
>         on cheap talk and wine                                         
>         Left us so little to give"                                     

Eagles, "Best of My Love:
       

>20.     "I simply say 'Baby, whoa-oh, baby                              
>         My sweet baby, you're the one'"                                

Ian and Sylvia (and many others), "Love Is Strange"

=============================================================================
Bob Marshall                     \\     "It ain't age
Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.     \\     That makes me look this way
Sunnyvale, CA                      \\    It ain't the years, boys,
marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com\\   It's the miles"
"I tell the truth 'cept when I lie"  \\     - Chris LeDoux
=============================================================================
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From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: e: OK, here's a question...
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 12:55:20 GMT

O1DOUG@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Doug Miller) writes:

> How about this oldie 'Love is like oxygen', never figued that one out.

But it's so obvious! Love is like oxygen, because if you get too much,
you get too high; but not enough and you're gonna die...

-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
From: ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: TV Show Settings
Date: 26 Jul 92 01:19:25 GMT
Organization: UC Davis Dept of Applied Science at LLNL

In article <1992Jul24.194029.12506@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> bobv@spike.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Bob von Buelow) writes:
>In article <UeLve8i00WB8Awjl5y@andrew.cmu.edu> Michael I Pinck <mp56+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>What is the largest US city not to have a TV show set in it?  
>
>as of 1990, population of
>
>San Antonio    935,933
>Tampa          280,015
>
>I'm going with San Antonio.

This is PRECISELY why I tried to make it clear whether I was talking
about city populations or metropolitan area populations.  The two give
rise to very different orderings.  In this case, the Tampa metro area
includes two other fairly large cities: St. Petersburg and Clearwater.
The result is that, according to the census, Tampa's metro pop.
is 2.1 million, while San Antonio's is 1.3 million.

Normally, as I said, I use city populations because that leads to 
less arbitrary decisions -- a point is either within the city limits
or it isn't.  Conversely there are always questions as to whether a particular
town belongs in the city's metro area or not.   But in this case, I
thought metro areas would serve the purpose better.  Then we can 
include TV shows that actually took place in the suburbs of a given
city, such as Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman for Cleveland.

I said all this once before.  So, again, by my count, the city with
the largest METROPOLITAN POPULATION with no TV show (so far, at least)
is Tampa.  The city with the largest MUNICIPAL POPULATION with no
TV show (so far, at least) is San Antonio.

Ed
ed@wente.llnl.gov


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From: O1DOUG@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Doug Miller)
Subject: Re: e: OK, here's a question...
Organization: The University of Akron
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 11:20:21 GMT

How about this oldie 'Love is like oxygen', never figued that one out.
luvs diapers, love birds, love brothers (big time wrastlin).
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From: wbrs@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (WBRS-FM 100.1, Waltham MA USA)
Subject: RE: a lyrics quiz you can post to!
Reply-To: wbrs@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:43:55 GMT

Well people have already posted a lot of the ones I knew.  The only one left is
#20.  It is Loverboy by that husband and wife team.  Dirty Dancing material.
	-----KT
From: lucko@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Dan Lucko)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: e: e: OK, here's a question...
Date: 31 Jul 92 13:24:00 EST

In article <1992Jul30.122258.8593@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>, lucko@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Dan Lucko) writes:
> Too add to the list:
> 
> Sayings:  Love in  (ala the 60's)
>           Love handles
            She loves me, she loves me not.

> 
> TV shows: "Love on a Rooftop"  
>           "I Love Lucy"
>           "The Lucy Show"

I think Dan must have smoked too much pot during the Love ins of the 60's.
What does "The Lucy Show" have to do with love?

How bout:   "Bridget Loves Bernie"

> -- 
> Dan Lucko
> --- -----

-- 
Dan Lucko
--- -----
From: hamel@primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: WEEKLY QUIZ #13
Date: 31 Jul 92 13:44:18 GMT
Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center


WEEKLY QUIZ #13 
	Each question is worth 1 point.  Please send your
answer to hamel@primate.wisc.edu.  Answers are due by August 6.

#1)  In 1978, Louisville disk jockey Gary Guthrie noted that two
artists had sung the same song in the same key, so he edited them into
a duet.  The result was such a success that the two artists re-recorded
the song as a duet and hit #1.  Name the song.

#2)  In what movie does George Sanders introduce Marilyn Monroe
saying "Miss Caswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana School
of Dramatic Art"?

#3)  Royal Wulff, Jock Scott, Lefty's Deceiver and Muddler Minnow all
appear on 1992 US postage stamps.  What exactly are they?

#4)  What character got married in the final episode of "Magnum, P.I."?

#5)  What poet has a monument in his honor in his hometown of
Lowell, Massachusetts, and an alley named after him in San Francisco?


Ray Hamel
University of Wisconsin
hamel@primate.wisc.edu
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Subject: Re: Little Boxes on the Hillside
From: Eric Schweitzer <ERSHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Saturday, 25 Jul 1992 12:19:33 EDT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

Someone (reference lost) had posted that this song was about a town
outside of LA.
Why???

The song was written in 1962 by Malvina Reynolds. She lives (and has lived
for quite a while) in Maine. It was, as snomeone else noted, probably about
the general situation...many Levittown like places poping up all over the
country at the time.
From: barryg@hplsla.hp.com (Barry Gunn)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:15:11 GMT
Subject: Re: OK, here's a question...
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia

What's love got to do--got to do with it?
I love my dog (I dog my love)
love is a many splendered thing.
if music be the food of love... play on (Shakespere)
well she, used to love me. but its all over now.
every Beatle song known to man.

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From: jsandler@encore.com (Jeff Sandler)
Subject: Re: A lyrics quiz you can POST to! (was Re: OK, here's a question)
Keywords: Anything to do with love (SONGS)
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:18:29 GMT

>15.     "Who do you think of?                                   
>         Does he look like me?"                                         

Love Bites, Bon Jovi..

--
Jeff Sandler                            |   Go Florida State Seminoles!
jsandler@encore.com                     |   Go Mets! (Until Marlins start)
Encore Computer Corp.; Plantation, FL   |   Go Dolphins!     Go Heat!

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From: greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Greg Trotter)
Subject: Re: A lyrics quiz you can POST to! (was Re: OK, here's a question)
Keywords: Anything to do with love (SONGS)
Organization: A Planet Of His Own
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 11:40:58 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.172314.27952@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> cdc017.austin.ibm.com!lkoh@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com writes:
>Simply name the title and singer (or group) of the following 20 songs.  
>They are in no particular order, and yes, YOU CAN POST ANSWERS!
>                                                             
>8.      "So put another dime in the juke box, baby"                     

That's "I love Rock 'n Roll" by Joan Jett.

>9.      "Every time I see you falling,                                  
>       
>         I get down on my knees and pray"                               

That's... "Bizzare Love Triangle" by... DARN! forgot.

>12.     "I'm back on my feet,                                           
>       
>         eager to be what you wanted"                                   

I think it's "Lost in Love", but whatever it is, it's Air Supply.

>14.     "I decided long ago                                             
>       
>         Never to walk in anyone's shadow"                              

"Greatest Love (of All)" by Whitney Houston.

>17.     "You like to think that you're                                  
>       
>         immune to the stuff, oh yeah"                                  

"Addicted to Love" by Robert Palmer

			
All I could get,

					- greg
From: hamel@primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: WEEKLY QUIZ #12
Date: 24 Jul 92 13:32:51 GMT
Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center


     Welcome to the weekly trivia quiz.  I post the quizzes on
Friday mornings, and the answers will be due by the following
Thursday.  There are 5 questions in each quiz; each question is
worth one point.  For each quiz,  I will post the weekly scores
(and answers, of course) as well as an accumulative score, for the
rest of 1992.      
     Send your answers to hamel@primate.wisc.edu.  Please do not
POST to the list.  Thank you. 
 
 
WEEKLY QUIZ #12  (Answers due by July 30.)
 
#1)  What tv lawman had a horse named Rex and a dog named King?
 
#2)  Whose picture appears on the U.S. Purple Heart medal?
 
#3)  In 1952, what company celebrated its 100th anniversary as a
manufacturer of wagons and trailers, and its 50th birthday as a
manufacturer of automobiles?
 
#4)  After retiring from pro basketball, Wilt Chamberlain became
the president of an international association in what other sport?
 
#5)  What rock band, originally called the Nightriders, was the
first rock band signed by Columbia Records, and released a 1971
single that was the best-selling record in Columbia's history to
that date?
 
 
Ray Hamel 
University of Wisconsin
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From: tabn3@isuvax.iastate.edu (Griffy)
Subject: Re: TV Show Settings
Reply-To: tabn3@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:28:09 GMT

In article <122960002@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, raj@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Jewett) writes:
>> Phoenix:
>...Oh, that show with Linda Lavin...I think it was in Phoenix

   Do you mean "Alice" (based on the movie "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore")  
or her new series (where she works as the host of a talk show that her daughter
produces)?

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
?      Daniel I. Matt       |    Now I lay me down to sleep,                  ?
?   Iowa State University   |    I pray the funk will make me freak,          ?
?                           |    If I should die before I waked,              ?
?    INTERNET ADDRESSES:    |    Allow me Lord to rock out naked!             ?
?     dmatt@iastate.edu     |                                                 ?
?  tabn3@isuvax.iastate.edu |    "Sir Psycho Sexy" -- Red Hot Chili Peppers   ? 
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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From: jil@uts.uucp (Jamie Lubin)
Subject: Re: A lyrics quiz you can POST to! (was Re: OK, here's a question)
Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 14:00:36 GMT
Keywords: Anything to do with love (SONGS)

In article <l7i60dINNh7p@nunki.usc.edu> rone@nunki.usc.edu (Ron Echeverri) writes:
>In article <1992Jul30.172314.27952@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> cdc017.austin.ibm.com!lkoh@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com writes:
>
>>12.     "I'm back on my feet,                                           
>>         eager to be what you wanted"                                   
>
>These songs are rolling around in my brain but i can't get the titles.
>ARGH. it's probably partly because i'm listening to Van Halen's "Panama"
>on the radio right now...
 
Lost In Love-Air Supply

 
>Hey, the man said we could post

The woman.
From: rsopicki@pro-amber.cts.com (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Wild Wild West
Date: 21 Jul 92 08:17:57 GMT
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA

The local independent had started showing WWW again.
What does the T in James T. West stand for?
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From: mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: OK, here's a question...
Date: 29 Jul 92 10:54:40 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: Memphis State University

> 
	The Love Boat
> 			February 14th
> 			St. Valentine
> 			I Love You (not really........:^}
> 			I Love You To Death  (movie)
> 			Tainted Love (song by Soft Cell)
> 			Where Did Our Love Go?	(song by Supremes + later covers)
> 			You Can't Hurry Love (song)
Ok I'll play:

	Love me or Leave me. (Doris Day, James Cagney)
	Somewhere my Love (Lara's Theme movie Dr. zhivago)
	Glory of Love 
	
Raina
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Damn I wish I was your lover                       Raina Weinberg
I'll rock you till the daylight comes         Memphis State University
Make sure you are smiling and warm                Memphis, Tennesee
I am everything                            MCSWEINBERG@MSUVX1.MEMST.EDU
Tonight I'll be your mother I will
Do such things to ease your pain
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From: maniac@taj.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Subject: Desc of Halberd, Lance, Katana, Etc.
Reply-To: maniac@taj.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Organization: UNLV Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 05:26:22 GMT

Well, it would seem that 5 of the dozen ideas I had while out
with the national guard are paying off.  Here's a quick description
of each of the programs I have currently, or recently, on the X-Hill.

Rolling Thunder:  A basic mod-2 bomber, it bombs through memory, then
copies itself down and continues bombing.  What makes it effective is
that it bombs only a small area at the far reach of the write limit.
this has the effect that against a slow moving target, Rolling Thunder
will hit the target almost as soon as the target could hit back.

Thunder Run:  Starts 2 Rolling Thunders, going in opposite directions.
Weaker against vampires, but does better against DAT bombers, since once
you kill one, you then have to worry about one coming from the other 
direction.

Lance:  The first in the weapon series, it creates a small 2-instruction
lance out 200-and-some-odd ahead of itself, and uses that to bomb the 250
locations ahead of that, basically bombing before it can be hit.  It does
a mod-6 bombing pattern, dropping a bomb in the -200 to -500 range every
4 cycles, and dropping a bomb ahead every 8 cycles.  it then copies
itself just above the area it cleared, and continues.

Halberd:  Similar to Lance, but bombs mod-6 with a JMP PIT instruction
for 2 passes through memory, then switches to DAT , killing the pit
with it's first dat bomb.

Katana:  My first X-Hill scanner, it doesn't use a cooperating process
like the last two, it just rolls through memory looking at every 5th
cell (should change that to every 6th, so that with wraparound and eventually
bomb mod-2), and bombs anything it finds.  It slows down for decoys and
the like, but in clear memory it runs at over twice the speed of light.

As each of these are pushed off the hill, and I can improve them no more,
I'll be posting the source code to each.  Probably even before then, in
some cases.

-- 
Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@jimi.cs.unlv.edu
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From: kilroy@mik.uky.edu (Paul S. Kilroy)
Subject: Re: KOTH Suggestion
    <1992Jul29.152718.10746@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> 
    <kilroy.712426758@mik.uky.edu> 
    <1992Jul29.170426.28358@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:22:04 GMT

Great Idea!
I like the "replace if higer" idea...
but how about this.. ";killih" kill if higher
because.. sometimes(i cant think of any reasons right now"
but, you may want the worse program on the hill.

paul

--
                       -Paul   (kilroy@mik.uky.edu)
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From: hastings-matthew@CS.YALE.EDU (Matthew Hastings)
Subject: KotH suggestions
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 02:43:44 GMT

Yes, I am in favor of a test line.  I dont like the hill changes that
occur with test programs.  Here is another idea though: only record
scores against programs currently on the hill (so challengers which
don't get on have no effect [this change would probably hurt Flash Paper 3.7,
 BTW]).  Also, permit a program to contain a ;kill line that ;kills itself.
So... if you want to test, just kill yourself, and it doesn't count for
other programs.
As to why you need to test, my Mac SE/30 isn't as fast as Bills iWarp ot 
whatever Intel will give him.  So, for example, in the test battles I ran, it
looked like IAASMR4 had an edge over Note Paper, which was pretty amazing 
considering that it was primarily a dwarf.  Alas, it was just a statistical
fluctuation.
The sleep instruction is a great idea, how about implementing it as follows:
1)something like Unix, so that other processes wake it up (is that how wait()
works? I don't know, I programs micros only).
2) or, most simply, just some number of times that it will be skipped in
the process queue.  Since you got to always execute one process it
is impossible this way then to sleep until time runs out.
SO for example, if process one executes sleep 2 and process two is the only
other running process, it goes, 1 (goes to sleep) 2 (1 is skipped)
2 (1 is skipped) 2 1.  If say two executed a sleep 1 it might go:
1 (goes to sleep) 2 (executes sleep 1) (1 is skipped) (2 is skipped)
(1 is skipped) 2 1.  No loss of processing time of course, only big change
in process order. Now the real questrion:until other changes are made and
big programs become more feasible, who'd wnat to use this when you could be
bombing?
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