HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Discworld Dynamics (was Re: Idiots w
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:36:00 GMT
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk



Where is the sun at noon?

There are two answers.

A) It's directly over the centre of the Disc;
B) it's in a small cafe.

Terry
From: gordon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Buxton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: the new kid
Date: 10 Nov 92 20:39:30 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
Originator: gordon@lucrece.robots

In article <1992Nov8.234842.24951@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg) writes:
>mcrosby@nyx.cs.du.edu (Matthew Crosby) writes:
>>Well, I don't know about Terry Gilliam.  He would be good, but the movie would
>>have a somewhat, shall we say, downbeat tone?  (IMHO:  If someone can point
>>me to a Terry Gilliam move that *doesn't* have a donwbeat tone, then I will
>>consider myself flamed!)
>
>_The Fisher King_ was downbeat? I think not!
>
>>-Matt

Surely _The Adventures of Baron Munchausen_ was pretty upbeat
(although set against a backdrop of a 'World gone mad' as CMOTD would
say).

Gordon.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: thompsmr@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Thompson)
Subject: Re: the new kid
Organization: Aston University
Distribution: alt
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 11:02:33 GMT

	Prunella Scales played Cybil Fawlty. Since then she's appeared in
After Henry, and had a rather good bit part as an irritating aunt in Howard's
End. And probably loads of other stuff that I missed.

	Good Idea that humanoid. 

-- 
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|   Mark Thompson, Aston Uni, Dept. Elec. Eng   ThompsonMR@uk.ac.aston.spock  |
| "PC Owner?",'Yes',"Good. Out of the door, line on the left, one cross each."|
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From: ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Inspiration
Date: 5 Nov 92 04:09:26 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

I think he just finds himself parodying things involuntarily as he watches
them... I'm thinking of the "What is best in life" scene from Conan the
Barbarian in particular.  I would lay solid money that he did not watch that
scene for the first time without thinking of some parody (whether the Cohen
version he eventually used, I don't know, but something).

Which leads one to the very interesting question of whether he ever finds
himself parodying HIS OWN TEXT upon rereading it!
From: graeme@abekrd.co.uk (Graeme Griffiths)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v4.0, par
Date: 13 Nov 92 12:08:47 GMT
Organization: Abekas Video Systems, Reading, UK.


>- [p. 115] The name Didactylos translates as "Two-fingers". In England a
>  slightly milder from of "giving someone the finger" consists of extending
>  two fingers downward in a reversed 'V for Victory' sign.  The origin of
>  this rude gesture dates back to the battle of Agincourt.


	I know the APF is getting large but would it be prudent to actually
explain the origins of the trusty two-fingered salute.  I expect not but
just for completeness it is this :-

	The French (lovely people, nothing against them whatsoever) had this
lovely tactic during Agincourtian times to cut the index and middle
fingers off the right hands of any British archers they caught thus
rendring them fairly useless if they ever escaped and re-joined their army
(You try firing a bow without them). Anyway while this practise was common
it was customary during the sabre-rattling phase of the battle for the
archers to show that they still had posession of the digits in question by
giving the French this gesture.

	Yeah, O.K. it does go on a bit I suppose, and maybe its irrelevant
but you know, I thought it was worth a comment....

	Maybe not.
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|Abekas Video Systems,12 Portman Rd,|    and there's nothing you say,        |
|Reading,Berks,ENGLAND.             |      that I want to hear....."         |
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: APF - Editorial Comments (Informal)
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:42:50 GMT

I have just posted the Annotated Pratchett File v4.0 to this
newsgroup, in two parts.

- At first it looked as if I would only have enough material to call
  the result v3.1, but after I failed to make the previous deadline,
  the last three weeks yielded so much new stuff (not to mention
  entire new Terry Pratchett books) that a new major version number
  seemed more than justified. The statistics:

  APF v1.4 had 14 entries, 160 lines and was 5 Kb large.
  APF v2.0 had 77 entries, 631 lines, and was 28 Kb large.
  APF v3.0 had 133 entries, 1071 lines, and was 49 Kb large.
  APF v4.0 has 194 entries, 1700 lines, and is 78 Kb large.

  Of the 194 entries in v4.0, 61 are brand new ones, and 15 older ones
  underwent non-trivial revision or expansion.

- Thanks once again to all the people who mailed or posted their
  annotations. In recent weeks I have been so busy that I was not able
  to send individual thank-you notes or confirmations to everyone who
  mailed me, for which I apologize. Just keep an eye on the APF, and
  you should always see your contributions appear there in some form,
  sooner or later.

- Apart from new annotations and corrections to old ones, please keep
  an eye out as well for typo's, misquotes, and spelling errors. I try
  my best, but when the deadline looms large those tend to slip
  through the cracks in considerable numbers.

- You may notice that I have started to include more and more
  information and trivia into the APF that has little to do with Terry
  apart from being 'ignited' by an annotation. Examples are the Theda
  Bara bit, the Police Force bit, the Goon Show joke, the discussion
  on Morris Minors (not to mention Morris dancing :-), etc.

  I am doing this (a) because I think it's fun and its *my* APF so
  there, and (b) because often people go to so much trouble for their
  annotations that I feel a jerk for throwing their efforts away and
  just distilling a one-line annotation from it. And after all, we're
  all doing this for our own fun anyway, aren't we?

Thanks for listening,
-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: roddi@cs.monash.edu.au (Roddi Walker)
Subject: Re: Douglas vs Terry 
Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:15:23 GMT

mark@hpwin052.uksr.hp.com (Mark Bailey) writes:

>: You are too kind, too amiable, Miss Penington - my felicity in
>: conversing with a lady of such quality could only be measured by
>: the megaton.
>: 
>: I take it you use the word "charming" in its most reptilian sense.
>: "Arguments", Miss Penington?  By this I take it you refer to the
>: delightful, web-like constructs you weave, whose brittle, gossamer
>: threads bewitch the senses so as they dance in the gentle breeze of your
>: understanding :-)
>: 
>: You have my most sincere apologies, Miss Penington.  The above was not
>: intended as an attack of any sort - I was not aware I was engaged in a 
>: battle of wit (I hesitate to use the word "wits" - it is, I fear, plural).
>: 

>Cor, don't 'e talk nice? 

You are very kind, Sir.  And to do me the honour of using "nice" in 
its (sadly, rarely used) sense of "accurate" - it is too much.  At the
very least, please accept my best wishes for your health and happiness, in
all that concerns you.

Warmest Regards,

Roddi Walker.
From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: New Topic?
Date: 5 Nov 92 14:36:43 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Paul (collinsp@p4.cs.man.ac.uk) wrote:
: 
: Granny Weatherwax seems to be posing a bit of a problem.
: 
: How about Prunella Scales...?
: 

Not bad at all, I was thinking in terms of Patricia Routledge though. 
(and Joan Sims as Nanny Ogg, Josie Lawrence or Hattie Hayridge as Magrat...)

Pete
--
*Peter Fenelon -- Research Associate -- Software Safety Assessment Procedures*
Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, York, Y01 5DD (+44/0)904 433388
EMAIL: pete@minster.york.ac.uk `There's no room for enigmas in built up areas'
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Adam Levin)
Subject: Re: Pranks
Reply-To: st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:10:30 GMT

In alt.folklore.college, omitchel@jarthur.claremont.edu (Ocie *crow* Mitchell) writes:
>
>----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------
>``What do you think sirs?''  -Joel (mst3k)    | .sig lite- all .sig no guilt
>----------------------------------------------+------------------------------- 
>   __             _ _ _                       | Ocie Mitchell
>  / ')           ' ) ) )  _/_    /      /) /) | omitchel@jarthur.claremont.edu
> /  / _. o _      / / / o /  _. /_  _  // //  | Q:is that your real name? 
>(__/ (__(_(<_    / ' (_(_(__(__/ /_(<_(/_(/_  | A:yes, it is my real name.
>----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------

This couldn't possibly be the first time for Ocie (is that his real name?)
but I saw it, I didn't recognize it, so I nailed it. If it's bait, I just
took it.

No guilt? No guilt! How could you not feel guilt at this atrocity?

And what do we think? You're here, that tells you what we think.
Adam Levin    st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
"It takes just one good flush to get rid of a four-flusher"
	--Israel Bond, Secret Agent Oy-Oy-7, "Loxfinger"
From: saxe@monet.cs.unc.edu (Eddie Saxe)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: All I have to say
Summary: How pitiful can you get?
Date: 6 Nov 92 02:19:38 GMT
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In article <1992Nov4.151216.15826@rock.concert.net> toddwall@rock.concert.net (R. Todd Wall -- Catholic Diocese of Raleigh -- Computer Services) writes:
>All I have to say is I'll be voting for Quayle in '96.  Hopefully, Clinton
>won't destroy the economy to bad until then.
>
>
>-- 
>o o ______           _     _____  _  _ o o  "But the fruit of the Spirit is
>' '   /       /   / ' )   /      // // ' '   love, joy, peace, patience,
>     / ______/ __/   / / / __.  // //        kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
>   _/ (_) (_/_(_/_  (_(_/ (_/|_</_</         gentleness and self-control."

Wow!  I don't know what's funnier, the article or the signature!  You decide!

		Article:			Signature:

		Whining				Pathetic

	Shows writer doesn't know	Shows writer has too much time
	      to from too		   to dream up ugly barphics

And now for NAAAAAAMMMEE TTHHHHAAAAAAT FOONNNTTT!!

HyperCursivSanskritChickenScratch:  The choice of the stoopid generation.

Eddie "Can you spell `potato(e)', btw?" Saxe
-- 
saxe@cs.unc.edu                   NFS server uffizi not responding, retrying...
From: dean@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Dean Engelhardt)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: lotsa questions ...
Date: 9 Nov 1992 05:08:06 GMT
Organization: University of Adelaide, South Australia.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: dean@cs.adelaide.edu.au
NNTP-Posting-Host: achilles.cs.adelaide.edu.au

In article <1dhqogINNc3f@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, mattski@wpi.WPI.EDU 
   (Matt Skawinski) adds to the rapidly overflowing WPI black mark file thus:
|> 
|> 							mattski@wpi.wpi.edu
|> 
|> ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^
|>  sssss   kk     kk ii   "...where you're going,                           )
|> ss   ss  kk    kk  ii        -is gone;                                   /  
|> ss       kk   kk   ii      where you came from,                      _ /
|>    ss    kk kk     ii        -is no good anymore;                    /
|>      ss  kkkk      ii      and where you are now,                 -/
|> ss   ss  kk  kk    ii        isn't worth it                      /   
|>  sssss   kk    kk  ii       -unless                            />
|>                              you can get away from it..."    / 
|> ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^
|> 
|> 

 You know I've always wondered what happened to slalom skiiers who didn't
quite clear those flag thingies. Good ol' Matt has given us a barphic pic
of one right over on the right hand side of his sig. Isn't that a kind
thing of him to do? Don't we all, as warlords, wish to thank him? Well . . .
termcap away!


Dean. [ and the asymmetric 'K' in the BUAF sucks as well. and the quote sucks
        as well. and the border sucks as well. and the guys name sucks as well.
        and his university sucks as well. ad infinitum ]

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Dean Engelhardt         |"Next to being witty yourself, the best thing
dean@cs.adelaide.edu.au |  is to quote another's wit" - C.N.Bovee
From: liz@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (PostMistress General)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: rapture in flames
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:19:17 GMT
Organization: WPI - land of the warlorded .sigs!
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

In article <1ddli4INNqm7@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> s925609@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au 
(KSC - Firefox) writes:
>
>=================================  --   --   --   --   --   --
>Kevin Cheng aka Firefox       __  |__|  __| |__  |__  |  | |__|
>NGC 4954 Sombrero Galaxy     (__     | |       | |  | |  |    |
>RMiT Aerospace Engineering    __)  --' `--   --' `--' `--'  --'
>===================================== @minyos.xx.RMiT.oz.Au ===


Every good .sig deserves warlording...

					--Liz

-- 
My ego ate my .sig[deleted]
Have some more bait...
From: daz@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (David A. Z.)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Check this out
Date: 6 Nov 1992 17:26:12 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu

        After my crosses/christian joke was cross-posted (PNI,R!) to
alt.tasteless.jokes by me, I got the following flame via email:

> Flame the person, not the group!  And post a fucking joke!
>                     
>            /\            Mike Dixon                                                        
>           /  \           mpdixon@eos.ncsu.edu                                                   
>          / /\ \                                                             
>         / /  \ \         All things being constant, fat people use                                                  
>        || |     |\       more soap!                                            
>       ||| |____ | \              
>    |\ |||____  |||\\            
>    | \||     | |||//     THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ARE PROBABLY NOT THE        
>    ||\ |     | || /      OPINIONS OF ANYONE, FUTHER THEY ARE PROBABLY                                                   
>       \|\ \  / /|/       NOT CONDONED EITHER...BUT WHO CARES?                                                   
>          \ \/ /                                                             
>           \  /                                                              
>            \/            GO STATE!               
                                              
        Now I know it's not nice to post Email, but check this fucker out!
Can say white space?  Can you say mega-white space?  Can you say mind
boggling skull fucking unbelievable white space?

        Now may be it's just me, but I'm in serious fear of this person.
After all, imagine what the mind that could understand a reason to space
his end of lines out as far as the 122nd column (Sympathies if your reader
doesn't show this, try download it!) when his already horendious .sig only 
goes a far as the 71st column without them!

        Respectfully - daz.

Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: iisakkil@lk-hp-8.hut.fi (Mika Iisakkila)
Subject: Re: Qemm and Windows 3.1 Problem solved
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: 11 Nov 92 12:17:59 GMT

bernier@mr4dec.enet.dec.com (WAYNE BERNIER) writes:

>	Thanks

>	Wayne
>********************************************************************************
>*									       *
>*			Bart Simpson is the King of Comedy  		       *
>*                                                                              *
>*									       *
>*                       bernier@mr4dec.enet.dec.com   			       *
>********************************************************************************

Who's Bart Simpson? I wish that Wayne would have provided us with a
figure, there's plenty of room.

--
Segmented Memory Helps Structure Software
From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Internet Math Club
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:05:57 GMT
Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
In-reply-to: benjie@quack.sac.ca.us (Android)

In article <fU#s5KN@quack.sac.ca.us>, benjie@quack (Android) signs:
Benjie

-- 
     BBB		Benjie Chen
    BCCCB 		benjie@quack.sac.ca.us
    BCCCB		No Axiomatic System Could Produce All Number-
     BBB		Theoretical Truths, Unless It Is Inconsistent.
-- 
Bububububububububububububububu.  That about sums it up.
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)    If Apple owned
 NBC, they would sue Nike for comedy-interface copyright violation.
From: swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Buffum)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: JENNY'S LESSON IN FLAMING (was Re: the Devil's Day (and the Devil's Night))
Date: 12 Nov 92 16:14:56 GMT
Organization: Just Some Guy

In article <BxHAyt.A3J@cs.dal.ca> williams@ug.cs.dal.ca (Nevin E. Williams) writes:
>| *---------*	I'm the same Ol' Nevin.  The only difference is that now  |
>|  \       /	I'm  enjoying  my  life.  Is  this  such  a  bad  thing?  |
>|   \     /	I didn't choose.    Who actually chooses to be opressed?  |
>|    \   /	I  certainly  didn't  wish   to  make  my  life  harder.  |
>|     \ /	But  I've  certainly  made  my  life  more   worthwhile.  |
>|      *Nevin Williams      williams@ug.cs.dal.ca    Bitnet:nwilli@dalac  |

I  think the  most  impressive thing  about  this .sig
is   the  use   of   whitespace  to  make   the   text
all             line            up           properly.

ObWarlord: Nev is a homosexual with a difference.  But OH what a difference!
	   Stars on the triangle specify, well, let's not get into that.
--
Steve Buffum           | Who actually chooses to be warlorded?
swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | Besides Steve Franklin, I mean.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: torban@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Torban Bennett)
Subject: More from alt.drugs?
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 11 Nov 92 07:32:35 GMT


>* Edward E. Brown II             * Internet: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com *
>* Chemist On A Mission From GOD! * FidoNet:  1:105/135               *
>* ------------------------------------------------------------------ *
>               Annoy the media... THINK for yourself!  
> 
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>==============================================================

White space invaders!  Can't you see them all!  My GOD its full of stars.
TFTD: Hey Edward, keep off those chemicals, and remember, when you use the
lords name, accompany it with a suitable barphic ascii cross.

BTW: Is your mission to see how long you can hold the return key down for?

SCORE:@@@@
TFTD][: Annoy the warlords, THINK!

@;-O    self appointed/deluded netgod.
        "Game over boys!" - Mr Flibble
From: meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: What???
Date: 10 Nov 92 12:36:37 GMT
Organization: UB

In rec.games.abstract <1992Nov10.045158.17749@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> mbrockma@bank.ecn.purdue.edu (Matt Brockman) writes:

[Well. . . rec.games.abstract has been 'newgrouped'. . . and here begins the
usual flurry of 'what is this group about, anyway?' posts!  Hi, Neilb!]

>===============================================================================
>Matt Brockman                                           mbrockma@ecn.purdue.edu
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    "While a llama may produce some of the world's finest of wools, prized
>        around the world, their breath, on the other hand, could only 
>            be prized somewhere in the far reaches of llama hell."
>===============================================================================

"While Purdue may produce some of the world's finest of boilermakers, prized
       around the world, their .sigs, on the other hand, could only
      be prized somewhere in the far reaches of alt.fan.warlord hell."

--jm
meach@where's.the.faq      |  We don't need no steenkin' abstract games!
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
ReplyTo: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: The Film(s) of the Book(s)
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.19 $
Organization: Indexed; Access: Random.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:18:48 +0000

J.M.A.Gilman@newcastle.ac.uk (J.M.A. Gilman) writes:

> ______                       _  _     ____    _____________________ 
>    /     /   /\/\     /\/\    \/     /   /   |    J.M.A.Gilman     |
>   /     /   /    \   /    \   /     /   _    | @  newcastle.ac.uk  |
> _/     /   /      \ /      \ /   * /___/   * |_____________________|
>

Sheesh! That's the *second* use of the Squashed Skeletal BUAF in as many
postings! WTFIIWTGeordies ?
From: meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Airy cheesecake
Date: 13 Nov 92 21:49:38 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1992Nov13.172504.29532@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>In article <BxMK02.851@acsu.buffalo.edu> minyeeho@acsu.buffalo.edu (Minyee Ho) writes:
>>
>>-- 
>>|| Internet			  ||  |\ /| * |  | |  | \   /   ||          
>>|| V112QMQB@UBVMS.cc.buffalo.edu. ||  | | | | |\ | |\ |  \ /    ||
>>|| minyeeho@acsu.buffalo.edu	  ||  | | | | | \| | \|   |     ||
>>|| State University of New York   ||  |   | | |  | |  |   |     ||
>
>today is the day for warlording four line sigs, i guess. this was the entire 
>posting, and it did say 'minny', before the tabdamage(tm)....
>
>meach, is this bait?!?!

Good grief, m'dear!  haven't you copped to the fact yet that UB undergrads
don't have enough brain power *collectively* to create bait?

>Subject: Re: Airy cheesecake

Maybe *that* has something to do with it!

--jm
meach@buffalo.buried.under.snow   |   Guess who didn't wear boots today!