HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Nordic Gods
Keywords: description
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:35:37 GMT

004107w@ace.acadiau.ca (CHRISTOPHER KEITH WILDBORE) writes:
>  A few friends and I need some deep descriptions of the Nordic Gods, 
>both the physical attributes and there supposed rulerships, where worship-
>ped, and any other info. you can rake your brains and books for.

Um, they were big burly blond types who lived in Asgaard, and looked a
lot like Hulk Hogan.  They were worshipped by people, quite possibly
the Nordics.  They ruled over Earth and Asgaard.  There's this one
dude, right? he has this cool hammer that's like a boomerang, see, and
helmet with horns and has his own Marvel comic but he's actually a
doctor but not really.  And this old guy who's his dad, but he's got
this wicked eyepatch.  And then there's the babes, Freya and Sif, but
there was that scandal with Playboy magazine or was that Miss America?
Oh yeah, the bad guy is Loki, he has cool curling horns and a green
outfit and he can seem like a good guy but don't trust him ever ever
ever nope, because he'll trick you!  I think that's it... wait,
there's this rainbow bridge and this guy heimdall who takes the tolls,
exact change only.

-- 
Finagle's Fourth Law:  No matter what occurs, there is always someone who
believes it happened according to his pet theory.
Newsgroups: alt.mythology
From: nwbernst@unix.amherst.edu (Neil Bernstein)
Subject: Re: Questions ...
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:51:52 GMT

Eshin-Fun (eshin@ddsw1.mcs.com) wrote:
: The most popular is found in Ancient Greek myth in the story of Oedipus Rex.
: 
: There the Phoenix asks a riddle:
: "What is it, that has four legs in the morning, two at noon and three in the
: evening; and it is weakest when it has most legs?"
: 
: For those that did not answer it, she devoured them or destroyed them; until
: Oedipus comes along and answers the riddle. The Phoenix, sometimes called
: sphinx, then plunges headlong off the cliff and kills itself leaving Oedipus
: to become king.

	I didn't know the Sphinx was also called the Phoenix.  What's your
source?

	Another famous Phoenix -- just a name in this case, not a fabulous fowl
-- the tutor of Achilles.

							Neil Bernstein
							Hooked on Classic
Newsgroups: alt.slack
From: clavazzi@nyx.cs.du.edu (The_Doge)
Subject: Thank you, Atlanta!!
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 18:49:02 GMT


	Thanks, that is, for a truly 'frappin' good time at Phenomicon this
past weekend.  I think I can safely say that all of us over in the Swingin'
Love Corpses Anti-Music Dissemenation Corp and Recreational Chemical Analysis
Brigade were made to feel well and truly welcome by everyone concerned.  A big
puff from "Bob"'s pipe to Scott Weikert for organizing the whole thing so well,
which can't be easy for a discordian.
	Pretty bitchin' Devival, too, including:
	- Sister Mary Squared's famous femmerant AND Money Miracle(tm)
	- Not one but TWO (at least) head launchings
	- Papa Joe Mama'z touching parable of faith and buzzard droppings
	- the infamous Bob Tilton Fart Video
	- Live Schism from Janor Hypercleats!
	- Vast steaming globs of anti-music from "Bob"'s favorite band
(and "Lou"'s too!) The Swingin' Love Corpses!!

	Klassic Kwotes:
	"My face is a sign of the End Times."	-- Janor Hypercleats
	"If I were you I'd give me all your money.  We *are* prophets and we
*want* profits."	-- ditto
	"Haven't they released those bats YET?"	-- Ivan Stang
	"Boy, I'm sweatin' like a whore in church!" -- Sister Susie the Floozie
	"Some of you WILL get laid tonight!"	-- Stang, again.
	"Don't come in here!"	-- Rev. Ray Hey, at the beginning of the
anti-music anti-seminar
	"Without slack, life is like a bowl of shit with the
handle on the inside"	-- Sister Susie, again
	"Feed me, pet me, milk me, eat me."	-- Sister Mary Squared

The_Doge
Newsgroups: alt.slack
From: mporter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mitchell Porter)
Subject: Loompanics and Waves Forest
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 03:41:35 GMT



My fellow Seekers After Slack:
  Last night's snail mail brought a particular rich harvest of weirdness.
First was the 1992 Holiday Supplement to the Loompanics Book Catalog, with
a cover scene of what looks to be Xmas in the Dobbs household. New
Loompanics products include:
  The Art & Science of Dumpster Diving
  How to Steal Food from the Supermarket
  Psychedelics Encyclopedia
  Drug Smuggling   <-- this appears to be a "how-to" book
  Defending the Undefendable
  CB Radio Hacker's Guide
  Sabotage in the American Workplace
etc etc etc.
  Second was my first mailing from Waves Forest - Issue One of "Now What".
Just on the cover it says, "AIDS, Cancer Cured by Hyper-Oxygenation", "Why
War", "Free Energy Options", "Plant Growth Acceleration Methods", etc etc.
Subscribe to this magazine and you too can sound like "Bob" McElwaine! Best
of all, "Now What" is explicitly uncopyrighted, so there's nothing to stop
me from putting the whole damn thing out on the net except the flames of a
million newsreaders. But maybe I'll only put it here, to give the Online
SubGenius MetaClench (ie everyone who reads alt.slack) the edge on
everyone else...
Newsgroups: alt.slack
From: bpb9204@tamsun.tamu.edu (Brent)
Subject: Transgressitization
Organization: Texas A&M Univ., Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:53:48 GMT

"Bob" is Slack
"Bab" is Slock
"Blab" is Sock
"Blob" is Sack
"Slob" is Back
"Slab" is Bock
"Sab" is Block
"Sob" is Black
"Bob" is Slack
 
Abracadabra.

-- 
+-------------------------+
| Brent Burton    N5VMG   |    Like the tight skin boil that needs a lance,
| bpb9204@tamsun.tamu.edu |  "Bob" Dobbs'll help ya if you give him a chance.
+-------------------------+
From: mccla_d@horsa.cs.odu.edu (dennis mcclain-furmanski)
Subject: RE: Official "Guess That Ingredient" Sweepstakes!
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
Distribution: alt.slack
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:16:18 GMT

> A simple mixture of:
> Soy sauce (REAL brewed soy sauce, not that awful salty stuff!)
[1] Zsa-Zsa's make up remover [2](the liquid, not the putty knife),
[3] Spam(tm) sqeezin's, 
> Brown Mustard (or yellow mustard and a little horseradish).
>And a little
[4] Everclear
> to make it
[5] burn steadily.

Not for the faint of heart indeed.
Newsgroups: alt.slack,alt.shenanigans
From: pdudey@willamette.edu (Peter Dudey)
Subject: Wanna help me with an international shenanigan?
Followup-To: Chocolate covered wingnuts
Summary: Mail lingerie to this address.
Keywords: snailmail, underwear, Audience, Connie's panties
Organization: Willamette University, Salem OR
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:20:30 GMT

Okay, so here's the deal.  My fiancee is in France, and we've been sending
each other underwear.  I thought it would be funny if all of the SubGenius
clenches out there sent her some, too.  So, here's what you do:

1.  Go out and buy some lingerie.  Bottom size medium, top size 36C, general
garment size 8-10 (American).

2.  Put it in an envelope or box with a card saying, "For Audience Audience,
Ministry of Pouting."

3.  Write the name of your clench for the return address.  I hope the Temple
of Connie's Panties is out there somewhere...

4.  Mail it to:

	Heather Thies
	Institut d'Etudes Europeennes
	7, rue des Cadeniers
	44000 Nantes
	FRANCE

(I wouldn't recommend putting "Audience Audience" here, because what with no
box number, the Institut mailbeing wouldn't know what to do with it.)

Thanks in advance to all who participate.  I'm afraid I won't have time to
read these newsgroups for a while (senior project and all), so if you have any
comments or questions, please email me.  Oh, and one more thing:  DON'T SEND
ANYTHING AFTER THE END OF NOVEMBER.  She only staying for the semester.
-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cardinal Yipping Mundungus, Dipped in Curry, and a Robot Arm
Don't just finger me, FINGER THE HELL OUT OF ME!  (Or send $20, or kill me)
900 State St.  C-210,  Salem,  OR,  97301
Newsgroups: alt.slack
From: mporter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mitchell Porter)
Subject: Re: Loompanics and Waves Forest
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 01:54:07 GMT

Oops, forgot the addresses:

	Loompanics Unlimited
		PO Box 1197
		Port Townsend, WA 98368
		USA

	Waves Forest
		PO Box 768
		Monterey, CA 93942
		USA
From: yarri@icrl.mew.mei.co.jp (Douglas Yarrington)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: Japan has no Slack
Date: 16 Nov 92 05:47:54 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: IBS R&D Lab, Matsushita Electric Works


There's no slack in Japan.

There's no slack in Japan.

There's no slack in Japan, man.

I need slack.

--douglas
--
  Douglas Yarrington                                 yarri@icrl.mew.mei.co.jp
  IBS Systems - Digital Design                             Flat Antenna Stuff
  Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd        "A beautiful place to be for a while"
From: hennessy@acsu.buffalo.edu (DOG BASEBALL!!!)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: just noticed this..
Date: 17 Nov 92 00:43:53 GMT
Organization: Ministry of Information, Lower Volta.

Inscribed upon tablet <lward.721955098@husc8>, the mighty lward@husc8.harvard.edu (Lester Ward) records thusly:

(Various Shadowrun stuff deleted)

::arrest/prosecute you for having this thing.  The higher the number, the more
::likely that a cop will give you slack.  The lower the number, the more likely

	What I wanna know is, do the cops have enough slack to give?  I sure
as hell know I don't!

::
::Wordman

-- 
   /I\          Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.
  /(*)\         hennessy@acsu.buffalo.edu                 
 /IIIII\        "Leave EVERYTHING to ME!" - Powdered Toast Man       
/IIIIIII\       Happiness is a warm gun.
Newsgroups: alt.slack
From: gseidman@math14.math.umbc.edu (gseidman@math14.math.umbc.edu)
Subject: Re: Ways to annoy the entire Net
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, Academic Computing Services
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 15:54:48 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.111007.14478@infodev.cam.ac.uk> amrw1@phx.cam.ac.uk (A.M.R. Ward) writes:
>In article <1992Nov13.203344.27430@osf.org>, rogers@rosencrantz.osf.org (Andrew Rogers) writes:
>|> In article <1992Nov8.193137.13509@netcom.com> howard@netcom.com (Howard Berkey) writes:
>|> >In article <17249@mindlink.bc.ca> Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer) writes:
>|> >>TOP TEN WAYS TO ANNOY EVERYONE ON THE NET
>|> >>	...
>|> >>AND THE NUMBER ONE WAY TO ANNOY EVERYONE ON THE NET IS....
>|> >>
>|> >>1) Create a funky 156-line .signature file!
>|> >>
>|> >Jeremy, you forgot some good ones...
>|> >
>|> >*	Post N-man to alt.slack
>|> 	...
>|> 
>|> I once posted the largest Mersenne prime to sci.math, which pissed a lot of
>|> people off (and they've discovered two or three larger ones since then)...
>|> 
>|> AWR
>|> old fart at play
>
> A friend of mine once posted the first 60,000 digits of pi to alt.talk.bizarre.
>They were, however, in the wrong order (he'd passed them through a sorting
>program before sending them off). Plenty of slack there, I think....
>
>-- 

The most flagrant waste of bandwidth ever conceived! I quote the following
article:

Article 82 in alt.discordia:
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Saturday, 14 Nov 1992 15:44:07 EST
From: <IO20650@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.discordia
Subject:    PROPOSAL: Alt.Spam
 
We of the Spam loving minority wish a Newsgroup of our own.  We want a place
where Spam can be slung freshly everyday, for all to see and gawk at!.  We are
perfectly serious.  We only want ONE measly alt group, not the many, many that
our sla...er members suggested.  Spamists arise!  Post your support for all to
screem at!!
End of article 82 (of 82)--what next? [npq]

The mindless waste!!!! Arrrgghhh! And ever WWIV BBS in my area has two or three
subs dedicated to spam anyway! (not to mention how silly it is to post it to
alt.discordia.)

>
>#=----------------------------------=*=--------------------------------------=#
>| Andy Ward,                                    [E-Mail: amrw1@uk.ac.cam.phx] |
>| Corpus Christi College,                                                     |
>| Cambridge,                                                                  |
>| UK                                                                          |
>#=----------------------------------=*=--------------------------------------=#

-gseidman (aka ShadowJac)
From: tgrupe@watnxt11.ucr.edu (Todd E. Grupe)
Newsgroups: alt.gorets
Subject: V.P.-Elect Al Goret
Date: 18 Nov 92 21:54:36 GMT


Is there any truth to the rumor that the future Vice-President changed his  
name from Albert Goret to avoid the obvious negative connotations?

TG   Lost in Southern California Hell
--
tgrupe@watserv.ucr.edu

generic .sig
generic .sig
generic .sig

What are you reading this for?
Newsgroups: alt.gorets
From: njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich)
Subject: Re: V.P.-Elect Al Goret
Organization: Nick Simicich, Peekskill, NY
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:04:56 GMT

In article <RSHOLMES.92Nov21145410@rodan.syr.EDU> rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:

>No, it's more complicated. In 1938 International Business Mammals
>introduced the Model 991 General Operational Rodent, Electronic, or
>GORE, answering the need on the part of American businesses to have a
>family pet that could be used to back up multi-megabyte disk drives
>(which did not yet exist, nor would they for quite some time; this was
>not the last time IBM made the mistake of relying on vaporware.) In
>1976 they introduced the smaller Multitasking Gorette, later shortened
>to Goret. After only 37 hours on the market the goret was recalled and
>all inventory destroyed, for reasons never made clear by IBM's Gore
>Division chief, Hiram Braxalt, who died in 1977 in a tragic accident
>involving a 15-ton fork lift and several bowls of grape Jell-O.
>Several units were never recovered, however, and the rest is history.
>But as for the VP-elect: his father, Eddie Albert, named his son Gore
>because he looked like an IBM GORE as an infant (and still does, but
>that's another story). Upon entering politics, Gore Albert changed his
>name to Albert Gore to fend off association with Eddie Albert, then
>embroiled in the so-called "Tennesee gerbil incident" that nearly cost
>him his career.
>
>The above is paraphrased from the book I'VE CREATED A GORET: THE
>INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MAMMAL STORY by Prince. 

You've gotten the story totally wrong.  It was the model 971.  Can't
you get anything straight?



-- 
Nick Simicich - uunet!bywater!scifi!njs - njs@watson.ibm.com
SSI #AOWI 3958, HSA 318, NAUI #14065
Join the movement ---  turn 'to bush' into a verb.
Newsgroups: alt.gorets
From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: V.P.-Elect Al Goret
In-reply-to: tgrupe@watnxt11.ucr.edu's message of 18 Nov 92 21:54:36 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 15:08:37 EST

In article <24031@galaxy.ucr.edu> tgrupe@watnxt11.ucr.edu (Todd E. Grupe) writes:

>Is there any truth to the rumor that the future Vice-President changed his  
>name from Albert Goret to avoid the obvious negative connotations?

No, it's more complicated. In 1938 International Business Mammals
introduced the Model 991 General Operational Rodent, Electronic, or
GORE, answering the need on the part of American businesses to have a
family pet that could be used to back up multi-megabyte disk drives
(which did not yet exist, nor would they for quite some time; this was
not the last time IBM made the mistake of relying on vaporware.) In
1976 they introduced the smaller Multitasking Gorette, later shortened
to Goret. After only 37 hours on the market the goret was recalled and
all inventory destroyed, for reasons never made clear by IBM's Gore
Division chief, Hiram Braxalt, who died in 1977 in a tragic accident
involving a 15-ton fork lift and several bowls of grape Jell-O.
Several units were never recovered, however, and the rest is history.
But as for the VP-elect: his father, Eddie Albert, named his son Gore
because he looked like an IBM GORE as an infant (and still does, but
that's another story). Upon entering politics, Gore Albert changed his
name to Albert Gore to fend off association with Eddie Albert, then
embroiled in the so-called "Tennesee gerbil incident" that nearly cost
him his career.

The above is paraphrased from the book I'VE CREATED A GORET: THE
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MAMMAL STORY by Prince. 

--
- Rich Holmes
"In general, the dance music of P.D.Q. Bach -- although we have no
 documentary evidence of this -- suggests that one of his legs was
 shorter than the other." -- Prof. Peter Schickele
Newsgroups: alt.backrubs
From: michael@monitor.com (Michael Johnson)
Subject: Re: Reply to some stuff
Followup-To: alt.test, misc.test, alt.flame
Reply-To: michael@monitor.com (Michael Johnson)
Organization: Monitor Company / IE
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:41:04 GMT

In article <BxsEC0.BxI@ns1.nodak.edu> schlecht@plains.NoDak.edu (Nem (Ryun)  
Schlecht) writes:
> In article <92320.134257LXP111@psuvm.psu.edu> <LXP111@psuvm.psu.edu>
>  (Your worst nightmare) writes:
> >Here is my blatent opinion..Gays suck dick!  It is just morally wrong in  
my

> Although I do agree with you, I don't like flaming people.  I am
> against homosexuality because God, my savior, has explicitely said
> that it is incorrect for such behavior.  All those who commit such

I just started subbing to this group, but I think I'll unsub now.  The  
group's full of homophobic assholes, politically correct overseers, and  
totally wack jesus freaks.  No thanks.
Newsgroups: alt.backrubs
From: richard@octel.com (Richard Karasik)
Subject: Re: alt.BACKRUBS
Organization: Octel Communications Inc., Milpitas Ca.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:12:52 GMT

In article <kj32239@pro-gateway.cts.com> sphinx@pro-gateway.cts.com (Counse Broders) writes:
>In <92322.195834C09615DK@wuvmd.wustl.edu> C09615DK@wuvmd.wustl.edu writes:
>>Anyway, keeping to the topic at hand, I have had some minor back pains as of
>>late and was wondering if it was solely due to my bed... mainly, it's a quite
>>saggy mattress on springs.  Or could it be that my muscles are overly tense at
>>...
>
>That is a possibility. When you sleep on one side a long time, the blood
>starts to collect more on one side. 
   --Blood pools only if you're dead. Fluids can collect - ie if the osmotic
   pressure, ph, etc is bollixed up. If ou walk for a long time with
   your arms down, you may notice a tightness in your fingers and hands - this
   is not blood -but fluids. Only rarely will blood "pool", and that's if you
   have a condition that involves having weakened or absent valves
   in your veins, or even inelastic veins, but then, only if the pumping
   action of the heart is so weak that it cant force the blood back through the 
   veinous system. -kinda rare.

   Pain from immobility has to do a lot with pressure in inappropriate places
   ie across the thighs if sitting etc. In this case a reduced blood supply
   and or nerve impingment will generate pain after a while.

   The only thing that stretching will tend to do is start a complex cycle
   involving more heart activity, more osmotic pressure, and move
   the lymph along. Flexing tends to add directly to muscle cramping.
   Extending as a muscular activity is not a "normal" part of a stretch
   and has to be focussed on. (Actually Adduction is more normal stretching
   than abduction ..)

   Richard		
-- 
|UUCP  richard@octel.com                 VOICE (HEY YOU!) or 408 321 6372
| 
|             Speaker for the dead - among them:
|                 Liberty, Justice, Freedom
From: kat@banach.WPI.EDU (Christina Lynne Freeman)
Newsgroups: alt.backrubs
Subject: Re: Reply to some stuff
Date: 17 Nov 1992 23:18:46 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: banach.wpi.edu
Originator: kat@banach.WPI.EDU


In article <BxtICH.GHx@monitor.com>, michael@monitor.com (Michael Johnson) writes:
|> In article <BxsEC0.BxI@ns1.nodak.edu> schlecht@plains.NoDak.edu (Nem (Ryun)  
|> Schlecht) writes:
|> > In article <92320.134257LXP111@psuvm.psu.edu> <LXP111@psuvm.psu.edu>
|> >  (Your worst nightmare) writes:
|> > >Here is my blatent opinion..Gays suck dick!  It is just morally wrong in  
|> my
|> 
|> > Although I do agree with you, I don't like flaming people.  I am
|> > against homosexuality because God, my savior, has explicitely said
|> > that it is incorrect for such behavior.  All those who commit such
|> 
|> I just started subbing to this group, but I think I'll unsub now.  The  
|> group's full of homophobic assholes, politically correct overseers, and  
|> totally wack jesus freaks.  No thanks.

I would have to agree here.  I just started recently reading this group because 
I'm interested in new techniques of massage, etc, etc...  I instead encounter a
bullshit group that has nothing better to do except judge others for what they do.
What does this have to do with the art of massage?  Not much in my opinion.  I'll
probably give this a few days in hopes that this shit goes away and this group
will return to its standard discussion (yes.. the one that it was designed for)
MASSAGES.

Sick of the bullshit.
kat
 ***************************************************************************
      Christina Freeman                                 kat@wpi.wpi.edu
		"Was there not, from the first, more poison in
 			  your nature than in mine?" 
                           - _Rappaccini's Daughter_ 
			      Nathaniel Hawthorne
                  ********************************************
Newsgroups: alt.backrubs
From: scott@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Scott Schecter)
Subject: Re: Scents
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:19:50 GMT


Scents are used to stimulate olifactory senses, and relax the body.  Believe
it or not, scents have strong physiological responses.  There is actually a
science of Aromatherapy.  Scents are added to everything from shampoo to
massage oil to help relax the body yet envigorate the psyche.  I don't know
how much I believe in it, but I can tell you that I recently started using a
conditioner in my hair that uses aromatherapy, and I can't wait to opent he
bottle in the shower because the scent is truly relaxing, and it seems to work
to reduce tension and headaches.  Just my 2 cents worth.

--Scott Schechter
Northwestern University
Newsgroups: alt.backrubs
From: Masticating Thespian ( the chewing actor )
Subject: Making people LESS tickelish
Reply-To: clarkw@alleg.edu
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:49:46 GMT

I have a rather intimate friend at the moment. When we get togehter we  
will talk and sometime rub each others backs, after a while that leads to  
more intimate areas of rubbling. 
	The problem is that she is quite tickelish in on area ( her  
breasts )  I was wondering if anyone out there has any idea on how we  
could possible work on this to make her less tickelish


--
Tipper Gore - the buffant encrusted though police
			- Jello Biafra
" I'll do anything i can to make America less
	GORE-y " - Walter Clark making a bad pun
	 			
DON'T TAKE THE FIFTH ON THE FIRST!!!