HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: seyyed@wuee1.wustl.edu (Seyyed Mahdavian)
Subject: Re: Monty Hall Paradox (was Re: Physics-1A Question)
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 14:35:04 GMT

In article <92281.200221RMODARR@auvm.american.edu> Reza Modarres <RMODARR@auvm.american.edu> writes:

>     For a more recent discussion, see The American Statistician, Volume 45,
>     Number 4, November of 1991( I think). Several incorrect solutions are
>     analyzed as well. However, as posted before, there is no "correct"
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     solution to the problem. It all depends on the hosts strategy or the
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     number of assumptions you are willing to make. It can be said that
>     it pays to switch (probability is at least a half).
>
>RezA

That's because the problem, as stated by shahrokh, is vague and subject to
different interpretations. If you pose the problem like this:
	Suppose there are three doors and a prize behind one of them 
	with equal probability. You choose one. Then one door is chosen
	from the other two "RANDOMLY" (i.e. without making decision
	based on the knowledge of the prize being behind what door.
        For example you choose always door #2) and "IT HAPPENS THAT" 
	it is empty. Now is it better to change your previous choice?
In this case, my previous solution is absolutely correct, and it doesn't
make any difference.

Seyyed.

p.s. Mack khAn, hAlA rAzi shodi? pass hAlA boro mahin-o bestoun tA oun ham
     az to rAzi beshe. And also please next time don't give "references".
     ye kam az khodet mAye bezAr bebinim rofaghA dar stanford chand mardeh
     hallAjand.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: rezag@utdallas.edu (Reza Golgoon)
Subject: Looking for fonts?
Keywords: Fonts, Farsi
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 04:52:34 GMT



	Hi there. I'm trying to find a farsi font, possibly for windows 
	(true type font) or any software that can be used for farsi
	outputs. I'd appreciate any information.
	   
	    Thanks....
From: bavafa@netcom.com (Hooshyar Naraghi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Konar, Khuzistan and a quiz
Date: 9 Oct 92 00:05:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Oct9.000533.12883
Organization: Dezfuli Airport

In article <1992Oct8.025556.1@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu> desert@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (Desert Man...) writes:

>home bleeding badly and my momAn smacked me semi-hardly in the back of the
>head

Ali jAn, at this forum reference to this act has been reported to be called
'pas gardani.'  Now, did your house have an airport in its backyard?  :-)

Sorry, just couldn't resist.


Regards,
Hooshyar F. Naraghi
bavafa@netcom.com
(415) 322-8056
From: mojgan@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mojgan Bonakdar)
Subject: A few bad apples...
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Keywords: When everything starts to smell bad
Date: 14 Oct 92 06:39:57 GMT

In article <13OCT199217340801@reg.triumf.ca> mahin@reg.triumf.ca writes:
>In article <1992Oct13.173149.21320@athena.mit.edu>, nsohrabi@athena.mit.edu (Naghmeh Sohrabi) writes...

  
(A bunch of complaints on SCI, men (joojehs), and religions deleated)


In the midst of crushed/rotten apples, one sometimes finds nice 
juicy, tender, and ripe apples.

In S.C.I we have our share of good and rotten ones.
Let's not waste the good apples just because
the rotten ones are stinking everything up.

If we all closed our minds and decided to leave S.C.I., then
we are depriving ourselves of the few and far in between quality
postings that open our minds to new ways of thinking and learning.

For those that are short on patience, they can simply let the
bad postings pass like the wind.  For the more challenge seeking and
curious individuals, it might be interesting to analyze even
the "rotten" ones to determine how it was that they became rotten.

Mojgan.
From: suzi@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com (Suzan Ehdaie)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Konar, Khuzistan and a quiz
Keywords: more on native Khuzistan trees
Date: 7 Oct 92 22:47:34 GMT
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Mountain View

In article <BvrKGt.5yE@encore.com> samiri@encore.com (Soheila Amiri) writes:
>
>I've got a quiz question for you fellow KhuzistAnies.  Do any of you
>know/remember what "sepessoon" and "lagajee" fruits are and did you
		     ^^^^^^^^^
>ever taste them?
>
>Soheila (missing getting hit in the head by the stones thrown to the konar
>	 tree..) Sigh.... Sigh....


Yes, I do remember a sepessoon tree whose fruit has a very strange
taste.  The taste was kind of sticky and left you a bitter taste at
the end!  The color of this fruit is white and its size is a little
bit larger than a cherry!   

But I don't know anything about "lagajee"???  

The topic of khuzistan has made me homesick!  And I just read another
article mentioning "Ghariyeh Mahi"!  

Does anyone know the recipe for "Ghriyeh Mahi"!!!?


-Suzan
From: yaser@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Ala)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Konar, Khuzistan and a quiz
Date: 8 Oct 92 23:07:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bvts8F.39v
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

michaelm@titanic.esd.sgi.com (Mike Mohageg) writes:

>"Malawan heecheh,  emshi khorde geecheh"

>and

>"en al-lazina kafaru (this is arabic), Malawan-o teemesh damaroo"

>I thought that was pretty funny; not sure why, perhaps it was the accent :-)

>[BTW, swapping the "w" for the "v" is done on purpose in this note, I hope it better conveys the accent. e.g. Malavan compared to Malawan.]

I remember one of the malawan-san'at games.
First of all the Navy would bring a few thousand Malavan (soldiers)
to support the Navy team.  Abadaanis were very upset of this and I
remember there were a few hundred police to protect the malavaans.
There were seated to the right of stadium.  San'at's fanatic fans
were seated to the left and middle was usually for neutral people
(like me).  I remember that many goals were exchanged may be it was
2-3 for Malavan in the last minutes and Keshtkaar was not able
to score when he had a chance. 

After wards people chanted:

TEEMEE KEH SETTA BOKHOREH,
			BEDARDE AMMASH MEEKHOREH

There wer several clashes with Malavaans
and the referee had to be scorted out of the stadium with
heavy police protection.  I was pushed and squeezed a lot
and I thought I was vry lucky to scape unharmed!

Ala
A




>Regards,

>MIKE
From: manizh@eng.umd.edu (Reza Shahidi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Khuzestan, Pol-e dokhtar (AzarbayejAn)
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:23:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: eng.1992Oct13.172347.17588
Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity von Uniland, College Park
Originator: manizh@petunia.src.umd.edu


In article <Bw0qo5.B34@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, yaser@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Ala) writes:

>>>
>
>
>I remember one year instead of going to KHORRAM ABAD
>as we usually took to get to TEHRAAN  we took the road
>to KERMAANSHAH.  This road brached off the main road close to POLE DOKHTAR.
>Of course that is also the road to AZARBAIJAAN (MEEYAANEH VA TABRIZ).
>We had a very nice trip to KERMANSHAH and AZARBAIJAAN that year and
>I was only 13 at the time and have a lot of nice memories of that trip.
>Now, POLE DOKHTAR is in the middle of mountains and it is partly destroyed
>(although I do not know the cause).  Could this be the same POL?
>
>Ala
>

Yes, it is the same one. Now, there is a new bridge next to it.
The old one is called Pol-e dokhtar and it was blown up during world war II.
However, I don't remember who blew it up.  There is some kind of taboo
attatched to the bridge too. Unfortunately, I don't remember it.

-Reza
From: ppoon@netcom.com (Patrick Poon)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: test
Summary: test
Keywords: test
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:47:05 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Just a test..
From: vforo@ecst.csuchico.edu (ROMIN)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Khuzestan :  Abadan, Shush, Dezful...
Keywords: Re: What to talk about -- Nun Baaghsaami...
Date: 10 Oct 92 20:39:26 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu

In article <1992Oct10.140904.3322@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> alih@ee470.ee.mcgill.ca (HAMISHEH BAHAR/ALI/MR) writes:


>
>	Konar is the fruit of the--you guessed it :-)--Konar tree. A small,
>sweet, marbles('feng')-sized fruit I spent many a childhood afternoon looking
>for. The ripe ones were hard to find, but you could always rely on finding the
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>tree all over the cities and the countryside.
>							Ali.
>
>P.S. I am from Ahvaz, but I do agree that Abadan was tops--especially when
>it came to food. Hmmmm, the memories....
>

NOPE, At the end of summer the Konar tree was full of ripe brawnish Konar. And not
all sweet but you could say that.

ROMIN
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack)
Subject: Re: Mahin khAnoum roush nemisheh!
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 01:32:26 GMT

smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi) writes:

>can someone please explain to me why certain people (babak, seyed,
>ali baba, etc), have to resort to sexual slurrs 
>to get their points across?

I think it comes from their insecurity [read: ho-chee-gari].

>will someone with a psychologydegree psychoanalyze
>this mysterious decease?
                 ^^^^^^^

First, I thought to myself that I will flame you to death for this
spelling error and save Seyyed some time to finish his studies. But
when I looked again, I noticed the pun!

>>                    * ALI BABA, not a legend, but the shining      *
>>                    *       star of the 1996 olmpic                *
>			     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>yeah, maybe the "Special Olympics".

NOOOOOOO! Remember the shining star of the 92 olympics in Barcelona?
It was in the openning ceremonies. Remember the guy shooting the arrow?

For the humor impaired:     :-)

    --mack
From: smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: WOW... there is *still* confusion over this...
Date: 12 Oct 92 22:02:34 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: handel

In article <ldjnofINNakr@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi) writes:

before seyed suffers an orgasm over this:

>
>Prizes : 1 = 3384, 2 = 3286, 3 = 3330
>choices: 1 = 3348, 2 = 3366, 3 = 3286
># of wins out of 10,000 if you dont stay with original chocie = 3321
>			       ~~~~~~					

should be _do_ stay with original choice...

>ooouuuaaaaaa, ooooouuuuaaaaaa :( 
>
>dont feel bad seyed, we all make mistakes
		      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
see what i mean?  im sorry.  voila.

see how painless that was?

get out your magnifying glass; im sure there are other mistakes
lurking in my post...  entertain yourself.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: Asghar@me.eng.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Khomainie's Tomb Exploded
Originator: harrsen@rainier.eng.ohio-state.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University 
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 20:55:58 GMT

I am delighted to report that, according to Mojahedin, three
bombs were exploded inside Khomainie's tomb yesterday. It
seems the tomb and surroundings were heavily damaged. I do
not have the details yet.  

Mobarak,

Asghar
From: minhaszt@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Zafar T Minhas)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Mahin khAnoum roush nemisheh!
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:56:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucunix.Bw2n6H.A58
Organization: University of Cincinnati

to all you dumb shits out there. i think that your sexual slurs against a female
are totally repulsive, and even though i think she is an arrogant dumb shit
who thinks she is always right and likes to put down others who disagree with
her, i don't think it is appropriate or very islamic for the defenders of
islam to use non-islamic tactics to get a point across, in islam the end does
not justify the means. 
to our intellectual atheists, science is not the end all be all of knowledge
or existence. science is only the beginning. you guys should know better.
i'll talk to you later.

zafar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: bavafa@netcom.com (Hooshyar Naraghi)
Subject: Whose right?
Organization: US Patent and Trademark Office
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 09:20:27 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.214008.12183@EE.Stanford.EDU> mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack) writes:
>sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari) writes:
>>ghbr@fmg.bt.co.uk (Hossein Bagherzadeh Rafsanjani) writes:
>>>
>>>  [quote press release deleted]
>>
>>Note:  IPS, is also known as Iraq Propaganda Service.  One quick linguistic
>>analysis of following "news report", revels the person who wrote the article
>>has arabic or Persian native language. Repeated mistakes includes:
>>
>>            - Not capitalizing the beginning of sentences.
>>
>>            - Sentences are too long for English style, more compatible
>>              with arabic or Persian styles.
>>
>>            - Each paragraph contains only one sentence!  This a known
>>              Arabic or Persian style.  No English style supports
>>              this style.
>
>Dear 'bahr-ol oloom' [(c), ???, 92]:
                          | ^|^
                         /|\ |
                          |  |------>  Must be bacheha@Armstrong College
                          |            and the year is 77
__________________________|_________________________________________________
| Are you Iranian or Arab Mack?  Learn to do it right and don't mislead    |
| people.  The format is [(c) XXXX, YY] and please note that there is no   |
| comma after the (c).  XXXX is the author or legal copyright holder and   |
| YY is the year in Gregorian calendar.  XXXX can be up to 20 characters.  |
| Exception to the rule: (you did not think that I had devised a perfect   |
| scheme, did you?)                                                        |
| If the copyright was registered in Iran AND it was done in the pre-      |
| revolutionary era, then use Persian (jalAli) calendar in full YYYY       |
| format (ex: 1356).  Just don't want to see it abused.                    |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

>'Off course' [(c) 'bahr-ol oloom' [(c) ???, 92], 92], not!
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                               /|\
>                                |
>                                |
>                                |
>                  SCI's first interleaved copyright.

'Obviously!' [(c) K1, 92].  Yes, I would certify that the usage is correct.

>                  [(c) mack, 92]

Congratulations, sir.  You will receive your copyright certificate in the
mail in about two years.  We are backlogged due to abundance of sci-netter
specific copyright applications submitted almost daily.

Regards,
Hooshyar F. Naraghi
bavafa@netcom.com
(415) 322-8056
From: minhaszt@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Zafar T Minhas)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Hello again!!!==>Amir Taheri
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:53:39 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

In article <1992Oct8.163932.24617@eua.ericsson.se> yussir@que writes:
>
>:-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-)
>
>
>	Shalom!

Aleikha Shalom! Ma ta ozeh?

zafar
From: abbasa@ul.ie
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: hejab question
Date: 10 Oct 92 19:36:26 GMT
Organization: University of Limerick, Ireland

In article <28600033@hplred.HP.COM>, moussavi@hplred.HP.COM (Farshid Moussavi) writes:
> Dear fellow netters,
> 
> 
> A while back when the hejab issue was being "discussed", a few of our
> friends explained that a rationale for enforcing hejab is that it minimizes or
> lowers the probability of acts of lust in society.  I then asked this forum
> why, then are not bullet proof vests enforced to minimize or lower
> the probability of murder in society?  No one has responded to this question,

I wonder which factory used to make such bullet proof vests 1400 years ago?


> yet, and I am seriously interested if our pro-hejab-enforcement friends
> have an answer to this.  Until now, the only explanation I have heard
> besides the above rationale is that it is a divine ruling, which I cannot 
> argue with.
> If the only explanation is a divine ruling, then don't give us such rationales.
> And if you do give us such rationales, I would greatly appreciate an answer
> to my question, thank you.
> (To Seyyed:  Please ignore this post and keep working!  And by the way, I fourth
> the invitation for chelokabab, and I'm sure we can find a nice place with halal 
> meat too!)
> 
> 
> may your yoghurt cultures flourish,
> 
> 
> Agha Javad
> (doogh-e-khAnegee-e-tAzeh reseed!)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: slotfi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sherveen Lotfi)
Subject: Re: Khomainie's Tomb Exploded
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 07:55:04 GMT

In article <1992Oct11.205558.27701@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> Asghar@me.eng.ohio-st
ate.edu writes:
>I am delighted to report that, according to Mojahedin, three
>bombs were exploded inside Khomainie's tomb yesterday. It
>seems the tomb and surroundings were heavily damaged. I do
>not have the details yet.
>
>Mobarak,
>
>Asghar
>
>
>

     i guess that's all good and well, but somebody please inform
     those kind souls that killing already-dead-akhoonds isn't
     gonna' get us anywhere. :)

     -sherveen
-- 
 * Sherveen Lotfi, lotfi.1@osu.edu * 'oonga ga galoonga' *
 * Life-Cycle Engineering Group    * -carl               *
 * Ohio State Dept of Mech Eng     *  asst. greenskeeper *
 *********************************************************
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Subject: Re: Khomeini's tomb exploded
Originator: sehari@class1.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:29:42 GMT

In <kv8.i9slq@lab.ntt.jp> farzin@apollo3.apollo3.ntt.JP (Farzin Mokhtarian) writes:



>So far, I have not heard or read any confirmations of this from
>any source other than MKO but, in my view, the western media
>would want to report such an explosion, if it were true.
>Has anyone? If so, please quote from that source.
>          
> - Farzin
>              

So far, I have not seen any news footing about the claims made by Mr. "*"
in news wires.  It does not mean that they are necessarily wrong.  Even though,
the experience has shown that Mr. *'s style of news reporting closely
resembles that of Radio Iraq! -:)  I personally am doubtful about credibility
of the news reported by Radio Iraq.

                        With highest regards,
                             Babak   Sehari.


-- 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU (Farhad Shakeri)
Subject: Re: What to think?
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:17:11 GMT

Melissa khAnom writes:
|> 
|>P.S. Perhaps it is because these exchanges are on a computer and therefore not
|> as restrained as person to person???

Exactly Melissa khAnom.

-- 
         +----------------------------------------------------+
        /   Farhad  Shakeri         E-Mail:                  /
       /  Stanford   University     farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU  /
      / Computer Science Department                        /
     +----------------------------------------------------+
From: keivan@brahms.udel.edu (Keivan Esfarjani)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: We all fall down
Date: 14 Oct 92 07:02:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bw3nKw.Hs1
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <1992Oct13.173149.21320@athena.mit.edu> nsohrabi@athena.mit.edu (Naghmeh Sohrabi) writes:

>Hello Everyone.
[nice article deleted]
MarhabA [(c) Naghmeh 1992] Naghmeh Khanom!
I really enjoyed it. All you said was right.
But allow people to act out their frustration in SCI as well.
Anyways, that's what we are, and there is no need to deny it
or be ashamed of it.
I personally read all these articles and enjoy most of them, not
necessarily because of their content, but because of its
entertaining value. I mean come on you watch with pleasure
a comic movie and it might not contain any useful or interesting
information for you. In addition, SCI provides you with a real     
life movie that you can study and learn from.
So if I were you, I wouldn't worry too much about the quality of
the articles. Furthermore, there are once in a while some
interesting and informative articles too that you could use.
And last but not least, you are also part of this and should
contribute to it if you want to see it in a different format.
Regards,  
K1
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: manizh@src.umd.edu (Reza Shahidi)
Subject: Re: Khuzestan, Pol-e dokhtar (AzarbayejAn)
Organization: EE Dept, University of Maryland
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:18:47 GMT

>bavafa@netcom.com (Hooshyar Naraghi) writes:
>
>>So I have a question probably from 'khoon garm' khuzestanis people again.  Do
>>you remember 'pol-e dokhtar?'  Was it somewhere in khuzastan or lorestan?
>>I vaguely remember my late brother used to tell me that it was the bridge
>>that linked khuzestan to its neighboring 'ostAn.'  Did it also have any
>>historical significance in ancient Persia?
>>Regards,
>>Hooshyar F. Naraghi
>>bavafa@netcom.com
>>(415) 322-8056
>

There is another pol-e dokhtar in AzarbayejAn. I think that it is
somewhere between MeeyAneh and Tabriz. This one has a historical
significance. As I recall, it was destroyed during World War II.
It still stands broken up in the middle of mountains. I think that
it was blown out for defensive reasons during WW II. Perhaps,
somebody can add more details!

-Reza



Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: yaser@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Ala)
Subject: Re: Khuzistan and another quiz
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:57:58 GMT

yaser@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Ala) writes:

>bavafa@netcom.com (Hooshyar Naraghi) writes:

>>Could "bacheh kAmbeezy" refer to those 'tooy-e zar-vargh pichideh' kids
>        ```````````````

>This is the same as "bachcheh aab porteghaali"! 
>It is refered to the kids of high grade NIOC employee
>who were mainly living in BRAIM (and seh goosh as well).
>I remember when our school had a basketball match with IBN CINAA high
>school, they had to bring the police to protect us from the other side.
>When our school won the game, we were confronted with tens of students
>from IBN CINAA who would call us BACHCHEH AAB PORTEGHAALI.

This is based on their assumption that:
in the morning their mother ask them before they go to school
KAAMBIZ, AAB POTEGHAALET RO KHORDI?

There was an obvious segregation between different levels of
NIOC employees that was left behind by British.
Although British left, there culture were pretty much in place.

Ala 





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