HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: Is this sig short enough?
In-reply-to: dimmen@hsr.no's message of Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:25:47 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 21:35:58 EDT

In article <1992Oct7.172547.26087@hsr.no> dimmen@hsr.no (Kjetil Dimmen) writes:

>(Hey, I'm not bein' insecure here. I just wanted to tick you people off
>a tiny little bit. IMHO, some of the sigs you're warlordin' ain't that
>bad. Most of them are, though. How you find all those is a complete
>mystery to me. Lots of newsreadin', or p'haps there's just so many of them?)

Good, question, Kjet -- mind if I call ya kjet? -- scientists around
the world have been puzzling over this very conundrum for, oh, hours
now. Basically there are two contending theories. The Continuous Sig
Creation theory states that line noise is only imperfectly conserved
and that as line noise accumulates, it coalesces into barfulous sigs.
The Big Sig Bang theory states that, at one time in the distant past,
there was only one enormous sig, over 900 lines long, usually called
the Kosmically Idiotic Bozo Object. It was unstable, and broke apart
within a few hours to give rise to all the gut-churners you now find
posted to a.f.w. Both theories have trouble accounting for this fact:
if you take the number of sigs posted to a.f.w., scale up to account
for the fraction of sigs that go unobserved, and sum over time, then
you reach the conclusion that there are more than 8.9 billion horrid
sigs in existence, i.e. greater than the world population. This fact
has been cited as a proof of the existence of extraterrestrial bozos.

So has my sig, but that's another story.

--
*/\/\/\/\/\*     !     *"I..." - N. Peart*   *    *      / *     O   INGSI!    *
?|        |?  O  ! O   ?"WeWontWarlordIt"?  *  *  ?     // ?  _ \  _   _/-_|\  ?
*|        |*O    !O    * - GMcQ          *    *   * \\ //  * (_)/ (_) |      |	?
?|   O  O |?    O!    O? RSHOLMES@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU ?  \X/   ?   PERTH-->*_-__/	?
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: You know you have ...
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 21:39:52 GMT

In article <tlukka.718910861@vipunen.hut.fi> tlukka@vipunen.hut.fi (Tuomas Lukka) writes:
>-- 
> /--\  TJL -- Tuomas J. Lukka  tlukka@vipunen.hut.fi IIIIIIIII -------    Just
>/-\ o\        Puistokaari 1E18  _________--------------------+    I  J     go
>\o \-/        00200 Helsinki    --------I GONE FISHING AGAIN ->   I        to
> \__/  SIGh.. Finland T. +358-0-6923924 /---------------------    L___    sleep..

Jeesus. I thought that crap on the right was line noise. Then I realized
I was reading this article on the system's console! Did he fuck up in vi?

mdw

-- 
Matt Welsh    mdw@tc.cornell.edu        +1 607 253 2737
Systems Programmer, Cornell Theory Center
  "Yow! Up ahead! It's a DONUT HUT!!"
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: news@geovision.gvc.com (News Administrator)
Subject: Re: sending sys files
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 01:27:34 GMT

In news.misc, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) signs:
>-- 
>Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
>jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
>    Vote for a REAL change on 3 November: Throw out the check-bouncing,
>  tax-and-spend Democrat Congress! (obviously, not an opinion of UTHSCH)

"Never acribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by
stupidity." - like this sig.

-- 
Paul Tomblin, News Administrator Extraordinaire.  (pt@geovision.gvc.com)
I just administer the news, I don't make or state policy.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: bigdave@texas.tdd.sj.nec.com (David Sweeney  x2987)
Subject: Re: TA II: Changed Actress? (No Spoilers)
Followup-To: alt.foolish.users
Keywords: bah[tm]
Organization: NEC-AM TDD, San Jose, California
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:16:47 GMT

liz@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Mistress Elizabeth) writes:
>
>Well, I thought this topic was dropped, but...


so did the rest of us...


/liz@bigwpi.WPI.EDU/h:j


-- 
Dave Sweeney     bigdave@tdd.sj.nec.com
you know you've been reading alt.fan.warlord
too long when George McQuary starts seeming
wise and insightful...
Xref: sparky alt.fan.warlord:7351 soc.culture.europe:8810
From: tim@crash.canon.co.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord,soc.culture.europe
Subject: Re: Manager jokes
Date: 7 Oct 92 07:29:11 GMT
Organization: me myself and i

In alt.fan.warlord, pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin) valiantly warlords:

|In rec.humor, heederik@fwi.uva.nl (Robbert Heederik) signs:
|
|>-- 
|>//// So there was only one    // Robbert Heederik  // heederik@fwi.uva.nl     /
|>/// thing that i could do    // Heiligeweg 26/28  // Faculty of Mathematics  //
|>// was ding a ding dang     // 1012 XR Amsterdam // and Computer Science    ///
|>/ my dang a long ling long // The Netherlands   // University of Amsterdam ////
|
|Could somebody translate that quote, I don't speak Dutch...

What about COMPLEEEETE-THAT-EUROVISION-SONG-QUOTE? One constraint, you
must restrict your vocabulary to the following: "ding", "dang", "dong",
"ooh", "aah", "boo", "bee"...

Tx. [just loves it when they break the eighty]
-- 
Tim F O'Donoghue <tim@crash.canon.co.uk> <uunet!canon!tim>
From: tim@crash.canon.co.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Paris
Keywords: warlordfree, informationfull
Date: 15 Oct 92 08:00:33 GMT
Organization: me myself and i

widenius@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Widenius) valiantly warlords and asks:
|sven@stud.cs.uit.no (Sven Jonsson) writes:
|[sorry, Tx]
|
|>Thanks,
|>5000
:
|But what is this '5000' business?

5000 = Audi 5000 = Audi = Out of here = Goodbye

|Is it like he wants to be 5150?

Wash your mouth out with soapy water this instant!

Tx. [sorry?]
-- 
Tim F O'Donoghue <tim@crash.canon.co.uk> <uunet!canon!tim>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach)
Subject: Re: Modem erhaelt nicht jedes Klingelzeichen
Organization: UB
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 00:58:42 GMT
X-Posted-From: vodalus.acsu.buffalo.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In de.comm.misc <7dEfRG@keihh.hanse.de> kt@keihh.hanse.de (Kei Thomsen) writes:

>Kei
>
>                   /\
>                  |^^|
>                  |{}|
>   _______________/~~\________________
>  / Kei Thomsen   |  | keihh.hanse.de \
> `========--------.  .---------========'
>                  ||||
> Wildermuthring 90 || kt@keihh.hanse.de
> 2000 Hamburg 62   ||    OS-9 68030 
> Voice 040/5205921 ||
> Modem 040/5200428 ||  300-14400 Baud
>               ,---||---, (V32bis)
>               '---<>---'


Come to think of it, it's been a *long* time since we've seen any first-class
Roadkill!

Special note to those who post about "fascimiles": this post is a joke.  Please
do not follow-up or send me email stating that this is a rose.  I can juggle
five balls, and when I can juggle six, then you can call me a rethgiftej.

--jm
meach@flieger.denkmal.wasserkuppe | Lit-elle messe, moffette, Satan ne te fe^te
From: iisakkil@lk-hp-21.hut.fi (Mika Iisakkila)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Strike Commander INFO!! (Read this)
Date: 11 Oct 92 21:41:26 GMT
	<1992Oct7.181041.14640@unixg.ubc.ca> <1992Oct11.190209.24056@ncsu.edu>
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

hjnorris@eos.ncsu.edu (HENRY JASON NORRIS) includes an entire article,
headers and all, adds four lines and finishes with this:

>hjnorris@eos.ncsu.edu
>-- 
>I000000000000000000000000000000000000000I
>I0000000000000             0000000000000I
>I000000000                    0000000000I        
>I0000000^^                      00000000I        <hjnorris@eos.ncsu.edu>
>I000000^     ~^  0  00 0 0 0 I  ~^000000I    
>I00000            ~ ~~ ~I     w    00000I        NCSU Nuclear Engineering
>I0000'                  '   ,w0<    0000I
>I0000     0000             w0000  0  000I   Home of the first NE Degree Program      
>I0000     0000000000000000000000  I  000I         First two PHD degrees 
>I0000     00000000000000000000*0[ i  000I   Home of the first privately owned
>I0000     00000000000000000000[][ I ]000I            Nuclear Reactor
>I0000     ~_,,_ ~0000000~ ____~ 0    000I          A National Landmark     
>I0000    _~ ,  ,  `000~  _  _`0 ]L  J000I
>I0000  , 00w0ww+   000ww``,,0w0 ][  0000I
>I0000,  0000www000 0000000ww00000[  0000I      Rx Number Four: The PULSTAR

Or did he finish? Anyway, here's a nuclear reaction to go with it:

                             000000000 * 000000000
                        0000<<<<<<<<<< * >>>>>>>>>>0000
                   00000(((((((((((((( * ))))))))))))))00000
                000((((((((((((((((((( * )))))))))))))))))))000
               00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! * !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!00
               00((((((((((((((((((((( * )))))))))))))))))))))00
                00<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< * >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>00
                    000000000000000<<< * >>>000000000000000
                                 00((( * )))00
                                  0((( * )))0
                                  0((( * )))0
               ''''4''''3''''2''''1''''0''''1''''2''''3''''4''''
                                00(((( * ))))00
                             000(((((( * ))))))000
                         0000000000000 * 0000000000000
   /&>&(>&)><*&>(<<_@<_*<#_@*_<_*#&==G==@>(>&>>)@&#&)&%(>@&<&<%(<#<<@#:*>#

--
Segmented Memory Helps Structure Software
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: klm@gozer.mv.com (Kevin L. McBride)
Subject: Re: AIX3.2 OSF DCE support
Keywords: pthread
Organization: GhostBuster Central - Southern NH Usenet Access, Nashua, NH
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 01:41:11 GMT

In comp.unix.aix, comp.os.mach and comp.unix.osf.osf1,
yk7m@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Young-Kuk Kim) writes:

[9 line article deleted]

> -- Young-kuk


> --

>    |\/\/\/|                                    
>    |      |    ________________________   
>    |      |   /                        \   Young-Kuk Kim (yk7m@virginia.edu) 
>    | (o)(o)   |  How are ya, dude ?     |  Department of Computer Science 
>    C      _)  \________________________/   University of Virginia 
>    | ,___|  __/                            Charlottesville, VA 22903 
>    |   /      
>   /----\ ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Pretty ill, man.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: cuz@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Cousin It)
Subject: Re: RIDE -- (the band) -- questions?
Organization: Warlorders Ltd.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 05:51:13 GMT

In alt.rock-n-roll.hardpaull@plasma.co.uk (Paul Lee) writes:

>That's my opninion.............. (here we go......)

>---


>		Cheers,
>			Paul Lee (Hoppy)


>			Meiko Scientific Ltd.

>			Email: paull@meiko.com

>		      #                         #      
>                      #                         #      
>                      #                         #      
>                #############             #############
>                      #                         #      
>                      #                         #      
>                      #                         #      
>		                                       
>                                 #####
>                                 #   #
>                                 #   #
>                                 #####                    _________
>                                                         /        /
>                                                        /  HIC!  / 
>                                                       /________/     
>                                                      /      

>		#######################################

>       HEINEKEN REFRESHES THE COMPUTERS OTHER BEERS CANNOT REACH


	I don't remember seing this .sig here (although considering my
record of remembering things lately....), so here it is.

	Personally, I like it because he gets the salutation in the
sig, as opposed to saluting before the sig.

-Cuz[Heineken sucks, anyone for homebrew?]
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
ReplyTo: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: Car colours and accidents (was Re: Driving ...)
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.18 $
Organization: Indexed; Access: Random.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:19:02 +0000

In uk.misc <931@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk> sch@getafix (Simon Hamner) writes:

>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   S.Hanmer  - PADI Open Water Diver                    ___   oo
>                                                       (o o) ..    
>   Please reply to sch@oasis.icl.co.uk                 ==o          <X
>   if you have any problems mailing me.               /     \
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Nope ... you're wrong, it looked like that *before* any tab damage was
applied ... but just *what* was it that it looked like ? My money is on
a mouse with only one set of whiskers ...

Send your answers ONLY on a waterproof Corrective Action Form to
S. Hanmer, ICL BRA01, Lovelace Road, Bracknell, Berkshire.

Sheesh, just what is it with these ICL employees, eh Ulf ? ;-)

N.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: klm@gozer.mv.com (Kevin L. McBride)
Subject: Re: Dream Theater TOUR DATES!
Organization: GhostBuster Central - Southern NH Usenet Access, Nashua, NH
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 02:09:05 GMT

ij59@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:

> Kill it [the thread] before it sprouts!   Ooops, too late...

>  ________    _______              _
> |______  |  |_____  |            | |    | Nippon no anime wa ichi-ban desu!
>       / /         | |  _  _   _  |  \   |   Hey, man, I _like_ Robotech.
>      /  \         | | |_||_| / / |   \  |----------------------------------
>     / /\ \   _____| |   ____/ /  | |\ \ |   Sukotto Miraa/Scott Miller
>    /_/  \_\ |_______|  |_____/   |_| \/ |      ij59@vaxb.acs.unt.edu

> My new, smaller .sig, but I doubt it's small enough...
> How about this one:

> SM

> Nah, still too many characters...:)

                             000000000 * 000000000
                        0000<<<<<<<<<< * >>>>>>>>>>0000
                   00000(((((((((((((( * ))))))))))))))00000
                000((((((((((((((((((( * )))))))))))))))))))000
               00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! * PLONK * !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!00
               00((((((((((((((((((((( * )))))))))))))))))))))00
                00<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< * >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>00
                    000000000000000<<< * >>>000000000000000
                                 00((( * )))00
                                  0((( * )))0
                                  0((( * )))0
               """"4""""3""""2""""1""""0""""1""""2""""3""""4""""
                                00(((( * ))))00
                             000(((((( * ))))))000
                         0000000000000 * 0000000000000
   /&>&(>&)><*&>(<<_@<_*<#_@*_<_*#&==G==@>(>&>>)@&#&)&%(>@&<&<%(<#<<@#:*>#



the termcap comes next...
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: cuz@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Cousin It)
Subject: Re: CREATE alt.music.hardcore
Organization: Warlorders Ltd.
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 22:25:37 GMT

In alt.config,alt.music.alternative,alt.thrash,rec.music.industrial 
Haw Juin Lin <hl27+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

{Whole Article Included for absolutely no reason}

>What about a Death group??

>I would really like to find some people out there who are REALLY into
>Death metal.

>Later
>Merlin
>_______________________________________________________________
>XXXXXXXXXXXX      M              Chapel of pure intellectual knowledge
>XXXXXXXXXXXX          E
>XXXXXOOXXXXX             R                        
>XXXXXOOXXXXX                L           Logic fest on Saturdays.
>XXXXXOOXXXXX                    I            Computer passover on Wednesdays
>XXXXXOOXXXXX                      N
>XXOOOOOOOOXX
>XXOOOOOOOOXX
>XXXXXOOXXXXX   The Church of Merlin.
>XXXXXOOXXXXX          All Donations accepted
>XXXXXXXXXXXX
>XXXXXXXXXXXX   E-Mail  [hl27@andrew.cmu.edu]   
>                                             Phone Number [412-268-3979]

>        Mon-Thur  [10:30 AM to 5:30 AM]
>           Fri-Sat [11:30 AM to 6:30 AM]
>              Sundays closed.


>	Merlin is the unanimical giant of today's society. None can live
>without him but none can withstand the pure energy of his essence. From
>the debris of evil and the aeons of war and pain, the destruction of the
>Good and the annihilation of the Bad, Merlin arises from the ruins of
>the once united universe. This is now HIS universe, Merlin's universe....

>                                                                [Book of
>Jon, 12:55-56]

>_______________________________________________________________

	WOW. 3/32 post/sig ratio. Possible Tab Damage, trailing blank
lines, white space galore..... Absolutely astounding what people who
like Death can do.

 Cousin It                                    cuz@cs.brandeis.edu
    I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't  
         always agree with them    -President George Bush
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: How long has it been?
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 12:32:00 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand

jsteiner@anwsun.phya.utoledo.edu (jason 'Think!' steiner) warlords himself
*again*: 

> jason "and you thought my borders were bad!" steiner

They are.

> --
> `,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`
> `,`        Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty        `,` 
> `,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,` jsteiner@anwsun.phya.utoledo.edu ,`,`,`

Does this one get into the Perpetually Warlorded list now? Huh George? Huh,
huh?

						- k

-- 
Craig Harding            kilroy@acme.gen.nz             ACME BBS +64 6 3551342
"Jub'er lbh pnyyvat n obmb?"
From: meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Is this sig short enough?
Date: 8 Oct 92 11:01:54 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1992Oct7.172547.26087@hsr.no> dimmen@hsr.no (Kjetil Dimmen) writes:

Subject: Is this sig short enough?

>Well, is it?
>
>(Hey, I'm not bein' insecure here. I just wanted to tick you people off
>a tiny little bit. IMHO, some of the sigs you're warlordin' ain't that
>bad. Most of them are, though. How you find all those is a complete
>mystery to me. Lots of newsreadin', or p'haps there's just so many of them?)
>
>-- 
>D.

Well, maybe just *one* tiny little suggestion:

>--
>.

There! Now isn't that *much* better?

[if I hadn't, someone else would have!]

--jm
meach@ho.hum.phooey        |   So many bogus .sigs,  so little time. . .
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: dimmen@hsr.no (Kjetil Dimmen)
Subject: Planfile
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:43:40 GMT

Anyone interested in a 310 line article containing nothing but some guy's
obnoxious planfile? (It even ends with 'more to come later...'.)
It can be found in alt.personals under the name 'I know, what is a personal
ad doing in here...', (the lenght of it forbids me to post it...) or
I can mail it to you. (Really, it isn't worth the trouble...)

-- 
D.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: gmcquary@Ingres.COM (George F. McQuary)
Subject: A beginning example
Reply-To: gmcquary@Ingres.COM (George F. McQuary)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 10 Oct 92 01:21:20 GMT

In an amazingly lucid article that ends in,
>doo, do doo doo wop, do do doo doo wop...

Well, perhaps not that lucid. Anyway, on to the sig!

>
>Cheers.
>
>Kyle
>   ,------------------------------.,---------------------------------.   \._,
>  /   7   ,7  o             o     / kldawkins@cayley.waterloo.edu    /   < /
> /   /--<'   /   /  ,  /   /     / kldawkins@descartes.waterloo.edu /     ' 
>/  -'    `--'`--'`-'`-'`--'`-   / kldawkins@orchid.waterloo.edu    /    /7 
>`------------------------------'`---------------------------------'    //  NZ!
>"Don't call me God. Call me Pope so I have something to aspire to."    '


For beginners, I will reiterate the basic flaws of this sig (known
as "warlording a sig" if done stylishly).

* Nine line sig (including closing --totally unnecessary on the net)

* Horrible BUF (Butt Ugly Font). See "Kiwi" in ASCII to the left? That's BUF.

* Multiple addresses (What, are you supposed to mail to all three?)

* Borders. See those awful lines all over the place?

* ASCII map. (Off to the extreme right) Maybe its New Zealand, maybe it's
  CA after the next earthquake.  Who cares, he's in Waterloo anyway.

Anyone who's read this groups for two weeks can see the above as obvious
however, and it becomes tiresome to make such lists. A true warlord would
be somewhat more jaunty and brief while leaving the obvious to the reader, ie.

Pope Kiwi. Indeed.


--
George F. McQuary 
"He is mad, bad and dangerous to know." -Lady Caroline Lamb
From: dpl@aber.ac.uk (David Philip Langstaff)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: New Contest, Kiddies!
Keywords: bah
Date: 14 Oct 92 09:05:38 GMT
Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth

In article <1992Oct10.152906.2483@acme.gen.nz> kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
>
>PS I'm still FUCKING disappointed all you WIMPS aren't ENTHUSED about my
>CUNNING PLAN to take WARLORDING to THE people. I may just start without you
>anyway.....
>-- 
>Craig Harding            kilroy@acme.gen.nz             ACME BBS +64 6 3551342
>"Jub'er lbh pnyyvat n obmb?"

I thought that was a reasonable idea, but would have probably ended up
clogging up a.f.w with cross posts, ending in the death of the froup when
talk.abortion & alt.alien.visitors got dragged in.

As a compromise, why not some sort of standardised e-mail, sent to 
warlordees, notifying them that their .sig has been submitted to a.f.w
for consideration by the a.f.w steering committee and that they might
like to appear in person to defend their .sig

That should drag in a few (un)-willing victims, after all who can 
forget the timeless beauty of "THOSE ARE ATOMS, PEOPLE HERE ARE PROBABLY
TOO STUPID TO KNOW WHAT AN ATOM IS"


-- 
Dave Langstaff | Janet:dpl@uk.ac.aber
Any views expressed are those of the author alone. | Phone:(0970)622838 
After-life, After-shave, don't hold with any of it, bleugh! - Sir Henry 
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau)
Subject: Re: Crispen Glover
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:58:28 GMT

In article <1992Oct16.201129.757@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>>=======================================================
>> "J'ai le vertige quand je vois de petits enfants, non
>>  pas parcequ'ils me donnent de fortes emotions, mais
>>  bien parceque je suis tres grande."
>
>For those not in the know, the French says,"I get dizzy when I see little
>kids, not because they give me strong emotions, but rather because I am 
>very big." (If you can improve on this translation, feel free)
>
>Such deep insight. At least it was in French, so not everyone got it.
>Fortunately, I was able to come through in the clutch. And thank goodness
>he made it worth my while by including the other nasty excuse for a .sig.

Improve it?  Sure.  "Grande" means tall, not big.  And it's feminine,
so he's a she.  (Gee, didn't we cover this "he was a she" stuff not
so long ago?)

Oh, and the proper translation of "parcequ'ils" would be "becausethey".
Sheesh!

                        __________  __o __o __o
                      __________   -\<,-\<,-\<,
                       ..........(_)/---/---/(_)..
         ,
    Le Rhealiste, The Meach, and rachel  . . . off to conquer new worlds!
                  But which is whom, and who is which?
 meachem@astro.ca-=*=-nadeau@acsu.arizona.edu-=*=-rperkins@bnr.as.buffalo.edu
bicycle, bicycle...i like to ride my bicyclette, i like to ride my bike - Queen