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From: bm508@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Branimir Dokic)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: Omar: a recap of events
Date: 17 Nov 1992 17:06:32 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bm508@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Branimir Dokic)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu



>>Interesting point of view.  So long as you don't mean to hurt anyone's
>>feelings, you can make all the racist jokes you want?  Am I understanding
>>you correctly here?
>>
>
>

>	Excuse me, but what is your definition of a racist joke?  Eddie Murphy
>makes fun of white people.  Some white people make fun of black people.  Some
>comedians make fun of orientals, jews, etc. etc.  It is humor.  It is not 
>a way for those comedians to subvert anyone or hurt anyone's feelings or make


Hi,
     Could someone not ignore my post and respond.   What's the difference
in humor between the jive filter and movies like "White Men Can't Jump?"
Or Eddie Murphy suggesting that all white men are "small?"  Isn't there
a difference between Art and LIfe?  I'm tired of hearing white males
get bashed on TV by movies and commercials (you know, dumb white male husband
messes up and smart wife cleans up mess) and comedians and then
hearing a minority group say that they're "picked on."  Like  Ted
Frank or Mr. Furr said, "what's good for the goose is good for the gander."

Yeah, as long as the goose is a majority and the gander isn't a minority.

     Oh yeah, the discalimer.  Don't know if it'll make my post
sound more sincere, but I chose not to pledge a fraternity because
of their attitude towards blacks in general.  Even my close friends
said things that surprised me and caused me to back off during rush.
I'm not asking for "gee thanks Branimir for being so worldly and
sensitive"  but I'm just sick of everone tryijng to make this
world so politically correct  that  pretty soon everyone will be forced
to wear muzzles outside to prevent from offending anyone.


     Anyway, please re-read my first paragraph asking for
responses about white/black stereotypes in comedy and art.
I didn't mean for this to be so long.


Thanks,

B.
-- 
Branimir Dokic
Radio-Telivizija-Beograd
From: henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Daemeon)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Rose-Hulman
Date: 16 Nov 1992 14:47:29 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Reply-To: henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.rose-hulman.edu



	By the way,....we are currently taking finals and will be on

	Thanksgiving Break starting Friday so not too many people will 
	
	be available for posting or comment on Omar until Dec 1.

					-Daemeon
From: Gordon.S.Witter@dartmouth.edu (Gordon S. Witter)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Shacking
Date: 22 Nov 92 21:10:53 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0b1@newshost.dartmouth.edu

How 'bout this:

Freshmen year, one of my roommates and I ended up competing for the
same position on the football team.  Neither of us dealt with the
situation very well, in fact, the animosity between us got so bad that
we couldn't even handle being around each other.  Consequently, during
the winter and spring quarters, my roommate did not spend a single
night in our room.  Some of the time, he shacked up with his
girlfriend, but three out of every four nights he spent on a couch in
his friends room down the hall.


-dino

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From: hakari@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (The Conformist Contrabass Clarinetist)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: April Fools
Keywords: Lemur
Date: 18 Nov 92 22:24:53 GMT
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN





Last year in my backgrounds of lit class, the prof forgot about our final...

Someone went to chase him down.  They found him about 20 min later, but he
forgot to bring the finals with him.  We ended up with take-homes due the next
week...


--Andrea
From: strickha@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Heath A. Strickland)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Racism at Rose?  What planet are you from (Was RE: omar *)
Date: 16 Nov 92 22:19:35 GMT
Reply-To: strickha@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Heath A. Strickland)
Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
NNTP-Posting-Host: g222-08.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu

]
> 
> And please no stereo-typing Rose students, most of the campus doesn't  
even know
> this news group exists.
> 
> 
> Chill Out,
> Reuben "Fuzz" Hochstedler
> HochstRD@RoseVC.Rose-Hulman.edu
> 
> Please send hate mail to:  alt.flame  :)

Yes,  I agree with Reuben totally,

I just started reading this newsgroup because I heard some funny things  
about omar are here.  In fact I even heard a rumor he has his own cult  
following or something.  Well,  anyway the cold hard fact is Reuben is  
correct.  Omar is very very arrogant.  I can't tell you how many times he  
has angered me,  for some reasons similar to Reubens and a few others.   
But I won't go into that unless we start a storytelling frenzy here.

It all boils down to whether there are racists here or not doesn't matter,   
these boys from Rose are just flaming on Omar the person,  not Omar the  
Pakistan or whatever.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: Rachel.A.Belanger.1@nd.edu (Rachel Belanger)
Subject: Anyone out there from KSU?
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:01:12 GMT

Hello, out there! Are you attending Kansas State or University of Kansas? 
If so, please write back. I have a bunch of friends out that way and I want
to contact them. If not, and you're still in Kansas, anything interesting
going on? I miss home. (There's no place like home!)
From: v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (NOWHERE MAN)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: More Revealing Police Reports!!!
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:35:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

One of the weekly publications at UB has a column with selected 
Public Safety reports. One mentioned a suspicious man hanging 
around a recently completed construction site. Upon investigation,
the man in question was found to be "an off-duty officer watching 
concrete harden." It's not really that funny, but for some reason
I about hit the floor laughing.

mike
From: strong+@CMU.EDU (Thomas W. Strong, Jr.)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re:
Date: 18 Nov 92 12:09:51 GMT
Organization: Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopaznosti

Joshua Eli Schachter <jsct+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> Anyone come up with any ingenious ways to get a roomate/neighor move away?
> 
> I had bad problems with my roomate, so I moved to the next door apartment,
> but still hate his guts and am pissed that he is still there AND
> has the apartment all to himself. Any ideas? Really nasty ones would be
> fine but I don't want to get in trouble.
> 
> The case goes before the Judiciary Housing Comittee in a week, too.

To begin with, don't do anything that might let him know that you are
out for revenge, such as telling someone about it.

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  Tom Strong              N3NBB              ts49+@andrew.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Crime Stories
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:40:38 GMT

In article <Bxz1on.D31@acsu.buffalo.edu> v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (NOWHERE MAN) writes:
>One of our Public Safety officers told a few interesting stories
>over the summer:
>
>	A group of girls had left their room unlocked one day. 
>Someone came in and left a note saying if they did it again, he 
>would come back and clean the place out. Suffice it to say the message
>was left un heeded. The following night he came in, robbed them blind,
>and even tapped each one of them to try to wake them up. They didn't
>even realize what had happened until the next afternoon.

Sounds like a Classic (tm) Urban Legend.  I've crossposted to a.f.u.
so that the Terries can weigh in on it.

Ted "hey, at least I didn't complain about 'group of girls'" Frank
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the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
From: 2b98pronovic@vms.csd.mu.edu (Ken Pronovici)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Uncool Pranks
Date: 19 Nov 92 16:30:05 GMT
Reply-To: 2b98pronovic@vms.csd.mu.edu
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsd.csd.mu.edu

In article <1992Nov19.013202.21722@rchland.ibm.com>,


>|> 
>|> A somewhat less than mature resident of our wing recently found it
>|> necessary to take a good healthy crap down the stairwell.  The happy little
>|> turds reached their first-floor destination with a resounding *splat*.  The
>|> unit director fined the entire hall $100 for each incident (there were
>|> two).
>|> 
>|> Luckily for the most of us, the culprit was identified, and the city police
>|> paid him a visit, and made his life shitty.
>
>We had guys doing this in the elevator.  25 bucks a pop.  or
>should I say plop!
>
>We also had a guy dump in the oven in the common area.
>
>Some people do the stupidest stuff for amusement.
>
>--
	I think I may be able to top that:

			Our "mystery crapper" performed his deed in 
			the common microwave.
			Then he cooked it (for a fairly long time,
			I might add). 
			The hall director decided to replace the mic.

 

	Muffin Man


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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Re: Uncool Pranks
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:25:37 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

In article <00963D7E.53512980@vms.csd.mu.edu>, 2b98pronovic@vms.csd.mu.edu (Ken Pronovici) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov19.013202.21722@rchland.ibm.com>,
|> 
|> 
|> >|> 
|> >|> A somewhat less than mature resident of our wing recently found it
|> >|> necessary to take a good healthy crap down the stairwell.  The happy little
|> >|> turds reached their first-floor destination with a resounding *splat*.  The
|> >|> unit director fined the entire hall $100 for each incident (there were
|> >|> two).
|> >|> 
|> >|> Luckily for the most of us, the culprit was identified, and the city police
|> >|> paid him a visit, and made his life shitty.
|> >
|> >We had guys doing this in the elevator.  25 bucks a pop.  or
|> >should I say plop!
|> >
|> >We also had a guy dump in the oven in the common area.
|> >
|> >Some people do the stupidest stuff for amusement.
|> >
|> >--
|> 	I think I may be able to top that:
|> 
|> 			Our "mystery crapper" performed his deed in 
|> 			the common microwave.
|> 			Then he cooked it (for a fairly long time,
|> 			I might add). 
|> 			The hall director decided to replace the mic.

Almost as good as this one:

   A guy on our wing crapped in another guys pillow.  When
the victim found the "present", he screamed and vowed 
revenge.   The perpetrator found the "present" stuffed into 
his toaster the next day.  

It gets better.  The toaster was taken over to the other
wing and set on high and left there. I have never, ever
smelled anything so god-awful in my life. I swear to god
it must have lasted for three days.

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From: js013b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Wonko the Sane)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: zb: Weird Building Names...
Date: 15 Nov 92 21:40:25 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York



Jeremy Smith  aka Wonko the Sane     js013b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Cruel trick
Date: 18 Nov 1992 21:34:22 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

2ck1racicr@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:

>Being the recipient of these prank I must forewarn others of this
>dastardly deed. 
>Get a handful of pennies and put them in the doorjam. If you do
>this right the handle won't be able to turn from the pressure.
>Be forewarned This is a criminal act.... 
>				Against fire codes or something like that

Ah, the famous "penny stack"...  pretty common around here...

keith
From: norbert@wpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy James)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: OMAR's bio : Jive version
Date: 16 Nov 92 22:15:54 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

In article <1e4r9qINN845@bigboote.WPI.EDU> megazone@obsidian.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23) writes:
>In article <1992Nov14.213430.4446@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>Not bad.  The charming fellows at RHIT seem to have moved from open 
>>ridicule of someone different from them to good old-fashioned racial
>>stereotypes.  I guess we're learning the real reason everyone picks on
>>Omar.
>

>BTW, we have an 'Omar' type at WPI. He happens to be white and to the best of
>our knowledge, American by several generations. I just don't see him personally
>enough to find out about things he does. I've only seen him totally baffle the
>people in the computer center by asking questions which make absolutely no

Wait a sec...you don't mean Wierd Dude....
Big white all weather parka...(summer and winter)
Briefcase...
Mesh bag full of books...
Likes to lie on his stomach in the front
of class next to the professor...
Answers any and all questions the
professor asks...hypothetical or otherwise...
Asks at least ten unrelated questions a class...

Must be him 'Zoner...or the other
fifty unbelievable characters that reside at
WPI....lets compile a list...
Ya ever run into Ned Ames...the bane of the physics dept...
-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jwc2001@andy.bgsu.edu (J Cannon)
Subject: Res Hall Rodents
Followup-To: alt.folklore.college
Organization: bgsu
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 03:57:35 GMT

Okay, since it's nearly Thanksgiving Break time and soon to be winter
intersession, it's time for school break folklore.

Last spring break, my girlfriend returned to her room after a week in
Florida.  She was a bit disturbed to find that Environmental Services had
keyed into her room to set out mouse traps.  The traps were very effective,
as there were two dead mice stuck therein.  The smell was...appropriate. 
It took weeks for the room to return to normal, in spite of copious amounts
of air freshener, hair spray, perfume, carpet powder, and other pink haze
items.

Smelly,
Jim Cannon
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: dtasman@NMSU.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Re: Halloween at Valpo
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 05:05:17 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.225733.1@exodus.valpo.edu> res_ewv@exodus.valpo.edu  
writes:
:First a little background.  Valparaiso University is a small, Lutheran,  
:liberal arts type school in northwest Indiana.  Not a very happening place.  

One reason why I transferred from Valpo to SUNY - Buffalo State College (not to  
be confused with UB, netters!) in 1987.  Good prank, though ... the most I ever  
saw was fire alarms pulled in Alumni Hall at 3:00 AM in January, and the parody  
edition of the Torch.  

ObValpoUL1:  The University Chapel is sinking at the rate of 2" (5 cm) a year.   
The depression it's in is a result of its slow lowering into the ground. 

ObValpoUL2:  The VU campus looks like an ofice park because it was built on an  
old municipal golf course.

ObValpoUL3:  The campus is laid out with no central gathering place for  
students (i.e. traditional quad) to minimize the probability of riots resulting  
from student demonstrations.  See ObUniversityAtBuffaloUL14.

ObValpoUL4:  Lankenau Hall is named after a WWII concentration camp.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jonathan@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan L Neuenschwander)
Subject: Re: Cruel trick
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: 20 Nov 92 07:52:09 GMT

2ck1racicr@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:

>Being the recipient of these prank I must forewarn others of this
>dastardly deed. 
>Get a handful of pennies and put them in the doorjam. If you do
>this right the handle won't be able to turn from the pressure.
>Be forewarned This is a criminal act.... 
>				Against fire codes or something like that

>Disclaimer | I accept no responsibility for any hilarious results

When I attended Tri-State University, a small school in NE Indiana, we called
this "pennying them in".  The funniest story I heard about this came from a
couple upperclassmen friends of mine;

They had been roommates since their freshman year.  During that first year in
the dorm, they got in a practical joke war with a neighboring room.  One 
night, the two of them doctored some candy with Ex-lax, and invited their  
neighbors over to play some cards.  After feeding the hapless victims the 
doctored candy, they made excuses about homework that had been forgotten, and
sent their victims back to their room, where they were immediately pennyed in.

My two friends had told the others on the floor that they intended to pull 
something and to not let these two out of their room (It was a weekend when
there wasn't a whole lot of people around  in the first place).  So all the
screaming, pounding, pleading, etc went unheeded, and no one would let them
out.  They ended up using their trashcan.  I heard their room smelled pretty
unholy for a couple days.

DISCLAIMER:  I wasn't witness to these events, being "before my time", so I
can't attest to the truthfulness of the story.  However, I WAS witness to, 
and even got to participate in some of the other pranks these two master-
minded, and I do know that they were twisted enough to do it.

Jonathan


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From: res_ewv@exodus.valpo.edu
Subject: Re: Ditching the Roomie
Organization: Valparaiso University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:27:50 GMT
X-Posted-From: exodus.valpo.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Nov19.011830.22300@rchland.ibm.com>, jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
>
> One of the best pranks I ever saw at college was when
> a friend of mine moved out on his roommate.  The
> funny part about it was that the roommate (who was
> extremely obnoxious) didn't know anything about it.

It's much more fun to move your roommate without him knowing anything about it.
I've seen this done twice and helped once.  The looks and screams you get are
priceless.



                              Eric W. Vaandering
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From: oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone)
Subject: Re: Crime Stories
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:16:50 GMT


In article <1ehl6uINNt7p@bigboote.WPI.EDU> megazone@obsidian.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23) writes:

> In article <Bxz1on.D31@acsu.buffalo.edu> v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (NOWHERE MAN) writes:
>>(for some odd reason, the State University of New York takes its
>>Public Safety officers seriously........they give them guns.)

> SO? WPI's officers have guns too, standardized now. Most of the officers have
> 9mm automatics, I think Glocks or Barrettas, some have the .38 revolver.

	At UMass, they aren't Public Safety, they're POLICE.  That is,
they're officers with the State of Massachusetts Police Force.  Oh
boy, imagine getting a speeding ticket on campus...
--
Tig Stone 
(oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu)
From: megazone@obsidian.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Crime Stories
Date: 20 Nov 1992 03:14:38 GMT
Organization: WPI USAF -- United Society of Animation Fans
NNTP-Posting-Host: obsidian.wpi.edu

In article <Bxz1on.D31@acsu.buffalo.edu> v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (NOWHERE MAN) writes:
>(for some odd reason, the State University of New York takes its
>Public Safety officers seriously........they give them guns.)

SO? WPI's officers have guns too, standardized now. Most of the officers have
9mm automatics, I think Glocks or Barrettas, some have the .38 revolver.

But my freshman year, before they standardized, Cheryl (Sorry, that's how
I know her. She's a Seargent...), a very large woman (I'm 6'6" and I consider
her big) used to carry a .44 Automag. BIG gun for this campus...

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