HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jimc@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Jim Cox)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,alt.politics.clinton,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Gun control (was Re: democratic platform)
Keywords: joke, very funny, haha, etc.
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:45:22 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas

In article <183135@pyramid.pyramid.com> glambert@pyramid.com (George Lambert) writes:
>
>If your assertion is correct, how was the military backed coup of Gorbachev
>overthrown by an unarmed population?  Keep in mind that the conventional
>forces of the USSR were the largest of any nation in the world. 

Gee, I must have missed something.  What I saw on the TV set was a bunch
of heavly armed army guys that came over the the side of good.  Once the 
"unarmed population" had the tanks they were a well armed population.

What network were you watching?  PBS????

-jimc
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: goss@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Timothy D. Goss)
Subject: Limerick's
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Orleans (Ont)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 07:23:23 GMT

	
	There was a young man named O'Rourke,
	Heard babies were brought by the stork,
		So he went to the zoo
		And attempted to screw
	One old bird - end result : didn't work.

-----

	A gruff anthorpoid of Piltdown
	Had a strange way of going to town:
		With maniacal howls
		He would bugger young owls,
	And polish his balls on their down.

-----

	Nymhomaniacal Alice
	Used a dynamite stick for a phallus.
		They found here vagina
		In North Carolina,
	And her ass-hole in Buckingham Palace

-----

	There was a young fellow namded Gluck
	Who found himself shit out of luck.
		Though he petted and wooed,
		When he tried to get screwed
	He found virgins just don't give a fuck.

Laugh dammit.  I'll post more later if anyone want to see them.  They range
from mild to grossly obscene (some even make ME sick, which is quite a feat).
I found these in a book called "The Limerick" which contains over 1700 of em.
Oh shit, here's a couple more good ones...

	I sat by the Duchess at tea,
	And she asked, "Do you fart when you pee?"
		 I said with some wit,
		"Do you belch when you shit?"
	And felt it was one up for me.

-----

	There was a young fellow named Brewster
	Who said to his wife as he goosed here,
		"It used to be grand
		But just look at my hand;
	You ain't wiping as clean as you used to."

Enough.  Anyone else want to post their favorite limericks?  I'll be waiting.



	
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: jd@dickens.com (Joe Dudar)
Subject: Re: please help me name my machine
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:50:11 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Dickens Data Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug18.002532.3783@u.washington.edu> mvickers@orca.fhcrc.org (Mark Vickers) writes:
>Here I sit if deadly vapor
>waiting for the toilet paper
>how much longer must I linger
>'till I forced to use my finger!
>
I've just gotta know:  what, exactly, do you use your machine for?!?!
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Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: martin@specialix.co.uk (Martin)
Subject: Re: Canine Pleasure
Organization: Specialix International, London
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 14:40:45 GMT

Dave J <djensen@claven.idbsu.edu> writes:

>Q-Why does a dog lick his balls?

>A1-Because he can. 
>A2-Because he can't make a fist.
A3-Because he knows he's going to lick your face in a moment.

-- 
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Feel free to moan to my sysadmin.  I leave Specialix on Friday 25th September.
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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: CFD for misc.me.too
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:13:20 GMT
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA

nelson@eastrg1.cray.com (Christine Nelson) writes:
>In article <14069@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>|> This is a CFD for the creation of a newgroup called misc.me.too.
>|> The group will be moderated as discussion is not allowed.  Only articles
>|> which contain the words "me too" or "add me to the list" will be allowed. 
>|> Votes will only be accepted on the net (not via email).  The group will
>|> automatically be crossposted to talk.bizarre, comp.unix.wizards, and 
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   
>|> alt.music.rush as it annoys the hell of those folks when non-topical articles
>|> are crossposted.

>very mature...veerrrryy mature.

Yeah, keep that stuff out of a legitimate group like talk.bizarre!
-- 
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Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Blonde Jokes
From: megan@crfm.gen.nz (Megan Mills)
Date: 18 Aug 92 06:03:38 GMT
Organization: Household UNIX, Auckland, New Zealand
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Why are Blonde jokes always one-liners?

So that men can understand them!
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From: vander@flab.fujitsu.co.jp (Mike van der Velden)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: the 10 effing commandments, according to Rybicki
Date: 19 Aug 92 05:57:59 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan

In article <1992Aug18.162334.19770@osf.org> oaf@serverx.osf.org (Oded Feingold) writes:
> 
> rybicki@uctvax.uct.ac.za the microbiologist writes:
> >	fuck .....
>
> Don't mind him.  He's in a bad humor cuz after all that his pecker's
> sore.  Anyway, whaddaya speck from a Zairean (.za) of Dutch extraction?

Are you sure that .za doesn't stand for South Africa?
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    November 15, 1992
From: pwf2@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Joe Ballantyne)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 01:10:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Limerick's
Organization: HP Santa Rosa Site (NMD MTA MWTD)
Newsgroups: rec.humor

There once was a girl named Jill
Who swallowed a nuclear pill
They found her vagina in North Carolina
And parts of her tits in Brazil

There once was a Pirate named Bates
Who had quite a fandango on skates
'Til he tripped on his cutlass
Which rendered him nutless
And practically useless on dates

There once was a lady from Wheeling
Who claimed to have no sexual feeling
'Til a gentleman named Boris
Simply touched her clitoris
And she had to be scraped off the ceiling


Enjoy!!
From: davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave McCrady)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Oxymorons revisited...
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 12:30:29 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

mzabel@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark A Zabel) writes:

- >Here in Canada one of our favorites is "American Intellegence"
- 
- Hmmm?  Oh, I get it!  Hey, that's not nice!  Well, here in
- America we always get uncontrollable giggles from
- "Canadian Money."

   So do we.  When your dollar bill has been replaced by a coin
called the "looney" (so named because there's a picture of a 
loon on the tail side), you'd better have a sense of humor ...

Dave McCrady              davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: E
From: tejwani@ewsvax.mdcbbs.com
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:07:48 GMT
Organization: McDnDSpaceSys, Huntington Bch, CA
Nntp-Posting-User: dmg

DO YOU KNOW HOW POLAND WAS DISCOVERED?
HOW WOULD I KNOW,I AM A POLAK.
Newsgroups: rec.humor,soc.culture.polish,alt.censorship
From: ted@dgbt.doc.ca (Ted Grusec)
Subject: Re: Polack joke
Organization: The Communications Research Centre
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 19:28:06 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.151703.11576@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> marios@ecs.comm.mot.com (mario smarduch) writes:
>In article <1992Aug21.042107.2790@athena.mit.edu> sybok@athena.mit.edu (The Rifleman) writes:
>>>In article <1992Aug18.183738.17605@tin.monsanto.com> bcschu@skws02.monsanto.com (Brett Schultz) writes:
>>>>It was just a joke.  I really don't think that Polish have any less brain power
>>>>than anyone else.
>>>>
>>>>Brett
>>>
>>>Brett, your statements are very offensive to me - wheather you think
>>>this is a joke or not you are just simply spreading hatred and
>>>insults. As a community of intellectual's this cannot be tolerated
>>>on the network and you should just simply stop posting this kind 
>>>of crap; keep it to yourself. ALSO THE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR 
>>>SHOULD SEE TO THIS. 
>
>>Offensive ideas are protected by the first amendment.  Haven't you heard,
>>"Although I do not agree with what you say, I'll fight to the death for
>>your right to say it"?  And, no, I don't "approve" of this, but I must
>>disapprove of any effort to "ban" it.
>
>First of all who are you ?
>
>Secondly is this the great Democracy pitch, the good old first ammandment?
>The only thing is that people allover the world subscribe to this group,
>not everyone is American and for that matter does not give a shit about
>YOUR FIRST AMMENDMENT. This is an international community, and I don't
>want some infintile (BRETT who ever you are) to spread such sarcastic
>and insulting jokes, THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOR MUST BE DEALT WITH, or tell
>him to mover over to the German group, Itallian group - whatever as
>long as he stops bashing Polish culture.
>
Just as a point of clarification, is one allowed to "bash" one's own
culture? I.E. is a Pole allowed to make "Polack jokes"?

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From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Oxymorons revisited...
Date: 18 Aug 92 12:58:56 GMT
Reply-To: you@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <1992Aug17.142830.6596@dragon.acadiau.ca>, 890232a@dragon.acadiau.ca (Steve Astels) writes:
|> >>Taxi Cab Drivers
|> >>Prison Reform
|> >>Government Subsidies
|> >>Foriegn Imports
|> >>Strip Mining
|> >>System Manager
|> >rec.humor.funny
|> 
|> Here in Canada one of our favorites is "American Intellegence"
|> 

Thus spake the spark that starts another flame war.

In the words the that immortal Canadian " Eh? "
From: thomase@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Stan England)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Big Jim Wade from Dallas, Texas
Date: 21 Aug 92 23:07:22 GMT

There was once this cowbow who walked in to the bar
and sat down next to one of the patrons and greeted
him by name. Being curious, the gent asked, "How did
you know my name?" The cowbow replied "I'm Big Jim
Wade from Dallas, Texas and I know everybody in the
world." Sure that he had found either a fool or a
sucker, the gent challenged Jim stating "I bet you
don't know the President of the United States."
Well, Jim took the gent to the airport where the
boarded his Lear jet bound for Washington D.C.
Upon entering the oval office, the chair spun round
and the President hopped up and shouted "Big Jim Wade
from Dallas,Texas, how have you been buddy?"
Surprised, but undaunted the gent again challenged
Jim, "I bet you don't know the Queen of England."
Flying to Buckingham Palace, Jim and the gent entered
the Palace to be greeted by the smiling Queen stating
"Big Jim Wade from Dallas, Texas, honey it's good to
see you." At this point the gent is indeed getting 
frustrated but now is intent on regaining his lost
wager. He challenges Jim one last time stating,"Jim,
I bet you don't know the Pope." Jim looking a bit
concerned says to the gent, "Well, theres a problem
with that. You see, not just anyone can go in to see
the Pope, so heres what I'll do. The Pope comes out
on his balcony each day to wave to the crowd. I'll be
right beside him." The plane arrives at the Vatican
and Jim goes inside. Standing in the crowd amongst
thousands of anxious onlookers, the gent sees the 
doors to the balcony open and not sure if the man
is the Pope, he asks the man next to him, "Excuse me,
but can you tell me who that is on the balcony." To
which the man replies, "Well, I don't know who the 
fellow in the robe and the pointy hat is, but the
one next to him is Big Jim Wade from Dallas, Texas."

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From: mha1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MICHAEL H. ALAIMO)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: New Smiley
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:23:20 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Aug14.072333.3801@doug.cae.wisc.edu>, pochanay@cae.wisc.edu (Adi
sak Pochanayon) writes:
>
>     :)\<-8    Smiley beating off with his left hand.
>

      :)\<-8
       .'
        . .O

You forgot the big puddle o'spoo.
-- 


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: Brain Surgeon      :    *       BUSH-FREE      *
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"Music is what happens  "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
Newsgroups: rec.humor,soc.culture.polish
From: marios@ecs.comm.mot.com (mario smarduch)
Subject: Re: Polack joke
Organization: trunking_fixed
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:35:37 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.164053.5288@unislc.uucp> miket@unislc.UUCP (Michael Thompson,B2C04,4560) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.220742.5917@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> marios@ecs.comm.mot.com (mario smarduch) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug18.183738.17605@tin.monsanto.com> bcschu@skws02.monsanto.com (Brett Schultz) writes:
>>>It was just a joke.  I really don't think that Polish have any less brain power
>
>>Brett, your statements are very offensive to me - wheather you think
>>this is a joke or not you are just simply spreading hatred and
>>insults. As a community of intellectual's this cannot be tolerated
>                                       ^^^
>        Excuse me for being picky, but why would a person claiming
>        to be an intellectual misuse an apostrophe like this?  A
>        minor but interesting point.
>
>
>      

Now a days its more appealing to use apostrophe''''''''''''''s, 
have''''''''''nt you heard its the new trend the mean
apostrophe''''''''''''s.

regards,

mario s.
Xref: sparky rec.humor:26611 alt.politics.clinton:2351 talk.politics.guns:19709
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,alt.politics.clinton,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Gun control (was Re: democratic platform)
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:00:05 GMT
	<#a9msdc.crisp@netcom.com> <183135@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Followup-To: alt.politics.clinton,talk.politics.guns
Organization: NMSU Computer Science


	Lambert's "humor" leaves much to be desired.
	Followup set OUT of rec.humor.
<In article <183135@pyramid.pyramid.com> glambert@pyramid.com (George Lambert) writes:
<   In article <#a9msdc.crisp@netcom.com> crisp@netcom.com (Richard Crisp) writes:
<   >
<   >I personally believe that if we disarm America, some day a few generations
<   >down the road (or sooner if Socialists like Feinstein get elected Senator from
<   >Califruitty) someone will declare themselves "President For Life". If we 
<   >ever find ourselves in that situation and are unarmed, we are in deep trouble.
<   >That is the long and short of it.
<   >
<   OK, Dick, riddle me this:

<   If your assertion is correct, how was the military backed coup of Gorbachev
<   overthrown by an unarmed population?  Keep in mind that the conventional
<   forces of the USSR were the largest of any nation in the world. 

	The simple answer is, "it wasn't". The coup against Gorbachov
	failed because too much of the Army chose to oppose it.

	For example, the tanks outside of the White Palace....


<Find another excuse for the RKBA (which I support, though I don't want any of
<the damn things).  

	The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. How's that?
Xref: sparky rec.humor:25982 alt.politics.clinton:1828 talk.politics.guns:19234
From: blayda@acsu.buffalo.edu (Danger)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,alt.politics.clinton,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Gun control (was Re: democratic platform)
Keywords: joke, very funny, haha, etc.
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:43:21 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1992Aug13.162610.5264@uwm.edu> ski@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Andrew John Urbanski) writes:
>Guns don't kill people, bullets do.  People with gun just do it
>more efficiently!  :-)

Guns can't kill people, bullets can't kill people, but _I_ can use
THEM to kill people; I don't though because I prefer hatpins.

*Shot thru the ear and you're to blame/You give murder A BAD NAME!*

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Organization: Senior, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:16:56 -0400 
From: Thomas Omar Smith <ts2a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: The "education"party needs educating!
	<rdippold.714153959@cancun>

b473dg@tamuts.tamu.edu (Dilawar Grewal) writes:
>Hand on the tiller through choppy waters??????????????? NO WONDER THE 
>REPUBLICANS ARE SINKING. Somebody tell them tillers are meant to be
>used on land, not on water!!!!
>ONLY RONNIE, ONLY RONNIE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Word         TILLER[2] (TIL'uhr)  n.
Definition   --n. A lever used to turn a rudder and steer a boat.
Etymology    ME tiler, stock of a crossbow < OFr. telier, weaver's beam < 
             Med. Lat. telarium < Lat. tela.
Domain       Physics

Get a clue, you semi-illiterate slime.

					Tom the non hacker
					Kemp in 96!
					"If patriotism is the last refuge
					of scoundrels,  Then environmentalism
					is the current refuge of totalitarians."
					Bob Jackson
From: sploke@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (;-})
Subject: Good bye
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 07:55:50 GMT


A: I know how to say "bye" in 5 langauges: 
   bye, au revoir, ciao, tschus, sayonara.

B: Oh ya, I beat you by one.

A: Really? 

B: Bye, au revoir, ciao, tschus, sayonara, exit(0).
From: kml@cellar.org (Lazlo Hoover Toth)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: funny?
Keywords: not funny
Date: 17 Aug 92 13:19:37 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

hloedolf@rkw-risc.cs.up.ac.za writes:

> I have been reading this group for 15 minutes (and I'm not a very slow
> reader), and have not come accross *any* jokes.  Not even anything remotely
> *trying* to be funny.
> 
> I'm not complaining, I never complain, I only observe and muse.


Bitch,bitch,bitch.  You want humor, go check out talk.origins for the
creationists' posts.  Thanks for your very humorous contribution.
It really helped. :}X--3<


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From: zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Blonde Jokes
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:35:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Aug20.163600.14947
Organization: The Phallogocentric Cabal

In article <21818.2309228407@crfm.gen.nz> 
megan@crfm.gen.nz (Megan Mills) writes:

>Why are Blonde jokes always one-liners?



>So that men can understand them!



You must be blonde, Megan:



otherwise, you would be able to count to two.

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"Un de mes plus grands plaisirs est de jurer Dieu quand je bande."
From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Newsgroups: rec.folk-dancing
Subject: Re: Scottish Country Dancing, Poussette
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:40:42 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
In-reply-to: rlw@IDA.ORG's message of Tue, 18 Aug 92 11:23:03 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.112303.11398@IDA.ORG> rlw@IDA.ORG (Richard Wexelblat) writes:

>The 20th century revival involved reinventing the
>steps, patterns, figures and dances.

Aside from that, everything else is authentic?  :-)

"Yep, sonny, been wearing these same boots for fifty years now. Only
had to replace the soles six times and the uppers five."

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From: hilding@catfish.ocpt.ccur.com (Hilding Holroyd)
Newsgroups: rec.folk-dancing
Subject: IFD in Rhode Island & Colorado
Keywords: IFD, dancing
Date: 13 Aug 92 20:04:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Concurrent Computer ,Oceanport NJ

Looks like I'm doing some business travel to West Grenwich, RI
and to Pueblo, Col. Are there any IFD groups in these areas? I'm 
going to be there on weekdays, only.

Any information would be appreciated. Thanks.

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From: T027420%UHCCMVS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Newsgroups: rec.folk-dancing
Subject: waltz:  how fast is danceable?
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:20:46 GMT

From time to time, one hears grumbles that waltzes at
contra dance evenings are too slow.  Im
sure this topic has aired before, but just how fast
is "danceable"?  I think the range probably runs from
(quarter note=100) to (quarter note = 180), that is,
real slow to Viennese brilliance.  Whaddaya say?
  Jim Fownes
  t027420@uhccmvs     (bitnet address)
From: pearl@sw.stratus.com (Dan Pearl)
Newsgroups: rec.folk-dancing
Subject: Contra Dancing in Switzerland???
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:36:58 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

Subject line says it all.  Any leads folks?  A friend is spending some time
there and she doesn't want to suffer contra withdrawal.


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Newsgroups: rec.folk-dancing
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 10:23:05 -0400 
From: Denys Proteau <dp2p+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: waltz: how fast is danceable?

From: T027420%UHCCMVS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu

>sure this topic has aired before, but just how fast
>is "danceable"?  I think the range probably runs from
   I just attended a great Norwegian dance workshop in Baltimore this
last weekend.  There were two Norwegian fiddlers and six Norwegian
dancers brought as instructors.  Although waltzing wasn't taught, it was
done several times.  All of them were moderatly fast to very fast in my
culturally tainted opinion; by that I mean even the moderatly fast ones
were faster than most contra waltzes.  I don't know if this was just by
chance or if we contra dances just waltz in slow motion compared folk
dancers in other contries.  Would any ballroom waltzers comment on the
tempo of ballroom waltzing compared to contra waltzing?
    Denys

Newsgroups: rec.folk-dancing