HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: eradm@wbst845e.xerox.com (Erik Radmall)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: forking
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:21:19 GMT
Reply-To: eradm@wbst845e.xerox.com
Organization: Xerox Corporation

That reminds me of an infamous UNIX prank.

% vi fork.c

main()
{
	while (1)
		fork();
}

% cc -o fork fork.c
% rsh <victim's host name> fork

That should cause more than a little consternation on the part of the victim.
Just make sure s/he isn't doing anything critical at the time!
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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: reid@ucs.indiana.edu (Frank Reid)
Subject: Re: forking
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:53:50 GMT

>>Eventually, they began to use those awful plastic sporks.
>                                                   ^^^^^^
>    Never heard of them. Are those like knorks or spiefs?
>
>>Emily
>>ce42%lafayacs@lafayette.edu
>

Also known as foons, i.e., spoons with teeth.  KFC and other fast "food"
outlets use them.

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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: ftit@engin.umich.edu (Sergej Roytman)
Subject: Laser Stuff
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 15:26:44 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

A while ago I posted an article to this newsgroup about shooting lasers
from a dormitory lounge at passersby and seeing the fun.  Several people
emailed me asking where I got my equipment, and I told them that I'd
find the address and post it.  Well, I've only been able to get around
to it now (honest!  It's been that kind of semester.)  So, here's a few
addresses you might want to check out.  I'm looking at catalogs from a
couple of years ago, but you should still be able to build up a laser
for around $60-$70 (US $s, don't know the conversion factors.)

Sources:

All Electronics Corp.
tel. 800-826-5432
A friend and I got stuff from them just last week, so we know they're
still around.  There are some neat things in their catalog; check 'em
out.

Herbach and Rademan
tel. 800-848-8001
Their catalog says, "since 1934," so I assume they're still around.

Allegro Electronic Systems
3 Mine Mountain Rd.
Cornwall Bridge, CT 06754
no telephone number given
A rather small catalog, but if it's got what you want, who cares?

Again, I apologise for the delay in getting this list out.  I wanted to
do this before the end of this term in order to get this information to
people who have achademic accounts that expire around the end of the
year.

For those of you who emailed me about parts, I expect full descriptions
of the neat stunts _you_ pulled within -- oh hell, just do it.

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From: fishhook@sage.cc.purdue.edu (steven freeman)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Fruit in an Elevator
Date: 18 Dec 92 18:04:07 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <BzG6H8.G23@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> formula4@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Formula 409) writes:
>At our dorm, several of my friends began stockpiling citrus fruit and keeping
>it all in out refrigerators as we'd take the fruit from the cafeteria.  A
>bizarre elevator in the dorm closes on people in the doorway.
>
>Now that you have the setup, you may see some of what is coming.  The elevator,
>we decided, is a demonic god, so we tell people each time we ride it about its
>divinity, looking completely serious as we do so.  The elevator, we believe,
>accepts citrus fruit as a sacrifice, so we would occasionally put fruit between
>the inner doors and the outer doors so that when the doors close, it slips
>between the elevator and the shaft and is "taken up" by the elevator.  There
>is probably quite a large quantity of fruit in the bottom of the shaft by now
>as a result.
>
>We still had a lot of fruit leftover before we left for Christmas break, and
>our plan was to put all the fruit inside the elevator, covering the floor,
>as an ultimate sacrifice.  However, the day we decided to perform the ritual,
>the particular elevator was being repaired.  So we went to the girls side and
>VERY conspicuously (we waited outside the elevator for several minutes holding
>a sack whilst saying "Nope.  No fruit.  We don't have any oranges.  We don't
>know what you're talking about...") put the fruit in the elevator producing
>quite a nice effect.  The bad thing is, we couldn't stick around to see
>people's reactions as they stepped into aan elevator full of fruit.  I'm just
>hoping the pictures turn out okay...

I think the main reason we didn't see their faces was because we were running
as fast as possible from the girlz side...that and we had already been busted
twice that night by an unnamed RA for other things...
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From: u912078@daimi.aau.dk (S|ren Erland Vest|)
Subject: Re: Proposal for a Net shenanigan
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 13:58:23 GMT

chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim) writes:

>Robert.T.Warfield@dartmouth.edu (Robert T. Warfield) writes:

>>  How about we INVADE ANOTHER NEWSGROUP!!!!!!!
>>Basicly, I sugest that we choose a really stuffy group, then post
>>articles at right angles to the discussion.

>My, what an original thought! I wonder how many other people enjoy getting
>(a) flame mail, (b) "Don't forget to log out" advice mail, and (c) "You're
>costing the net thousands of dollars" lecture mail. Besides you, that is.
>Is that really the best idea you could think of!?

Spoiled sport! :(

S




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               why I'm here I can't quite remember

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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: scafati@incoming.med.ge.com (Victor-charles Scafati 4-6784 MR Srv)
Subject: Re: Lawn Ornaments
Organization: GE Medical Systems
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 21:59:19 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.230957.16521@nmsu.edu>, dtasman@NMSU.edu (Dan Tasman) writes:
|> frye@amcl10.math.stolaf.edu (James E Frye) writes:
|> : Here's a shenanigan I haven't seen discussed yet:
|> : 

|> : 
|> : The Plan:
|> : The idea was to find neighbors with plastic lawn elves, or other such silly
|> : lawn ornaments.  The pink flamingoes are a bit too generic; look for 
|> : something with human characteristics, if possible.  
|> : 

My wife and I get in weird moods from time to time.  When we first moved to
Wisonsin, we lived in a hoyty-toyty neighborhood, and our neighbors made it
pretty plain that they didn't like us.  We both act, and were doing a show
at a local theatre.  We were helping clean up backstage, and found a pile of
little cut-out figures that had been flown in during a production of Fiddler
on the Roof years earlier.  They were little houses, and little people, 
and little trees, all several feet high and painted gayly.  We were told to 
throw them out, but we asked if we could have them, and loaded them into our pickup.

That night, we crept around the neighborhood propping these things up on 
peoples lawns.  We put one on our lawn so as to divert suspicion.  The next 
morning, all the neighbors came out of their houses to study the situation, 
and gathered in the street to discuss it.  By that afternoon, all of these
ornaments had been removed except ours, which we left out for quite a few
weeks.

It was fun.


                                                           Ogden Nash

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From: scafati@incoming.med.ge.com (Victor-charles Scafati 4-6784 MR Srv)
Subject: Re: apartment life
Organization: GE Medical Systems
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 18:27:59 GMT

In article <HIDEG.92Dec16044313@spsd630a.erim.org>, hideg@spsd630a.erim.org (Steve Hideg) writes:
|> 
|> When I used to live in an apartment, I was close enough to
|> the front door of the building to hear the solenoid latch
|> buzzing as a tenant would let someone in as I reclined on my
|> couch in my living room. The controls for that door in my
|> apartment were on the wall directly above the couch.
|> 
|> Sometimes, I would hear someone bounding down the stairs.
|> Through the peep hole in my apartment door, I would notice
|> that this person is carrying an armload and would have a
|> difficult time turning the doorknob of the front door. So, I
|> would "buzz" him/her out. I'd listen on the intercom, and
|> I'd often hear "Thank you," to which I would reply in a low
|> voice on the intercom "S'alright!"
|> 

For whatever reason, this reminds me of a prank we used to play in 
Connecticut when going through tolls on the highway.  We would pay our
toll (25 cents as I recall), and then fork over another quarter and explain
"this is for the car behind me".  We would then pull out of the toll slowly
and watch the reaction of the driver in the car behind us.  Usually, they would
look shocked, then squint ahead to see if they recognized our car.  It was
fun, and only cost a quarter.

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From: pw15@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Philip  Wang)
Subject: on the "send money to this address" thing
Reply-To: pw15@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Philip  Wang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 16:40:12 GMT

I was watching this program this morning and there was this guy talking about
how he made so muich money he could pay off his house in cash and pay for his
brother's job, his mother's house, etc. And he said all he did was print up
"Send $1.00 to me" as it's been posted here, but he broadcasted that idea!
Now, either everyone's going to do it, hoping to get rich quick (but it would
eventually cancel the effects if everyone gave all the money they were getting)
or no one's going to bother with those sort of things again.

philip



Philip Wang                            E-mail at pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
"Memories persist, succubus I've kissed, my thoughts remiss, I'll lose my brain
 if you don't wake me" - Defenestration, "Battle Of The Hemispheres"
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: frye@mari.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (James E Frye)
Subject: Re: Lawn Ornaments
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:07:05 GMT

In article <Bz9y32.L3s@unccsun.uncc.edu> jeclee@uncc.edu writes:
>
>Yes, the whole thing has been done.  It was, as I recall, a "lawn
>rabbit" which was photographed in various locations.  It was even
>photographed being held by some famous public official or something
>like that. I don't think that the photos were periodically mailed home,
>however.  Just deposited along with the rabbit on the front lawn of the
>owner's home once the "vacation" was over.
>


I had better enter disclaimer mode before getting flamed here:

I didn't intend to portray this as an original idea generated by my
roommate and I; I just thought it was a funny shenanigan, and wanted to
pass it along.  (I still would like to pull this one some day).

Anyway, figured I would throw that in.

(exit disclaimer mode)

James

Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: mcspinks@unix.amherst.edu (Guholdonk-doorstop)
Subject: Re: Proposal for a Net shenanigan
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:09:56 GMT

Robert T. Warfield (Robert.T.Warfield@dartmouth.edu) wrote:
: 
:   How about we INVADE ANOTHER NEWSGROUP!!!!!!!
: Basicly, I sugest that we choose a really stuffy group, then post
: articles at right angles to the discussion.
: Please E-Mail me so we can keep the unsuspecting newsgroup in the dark.
: Flames are welcome (I like getting mail! 8->)
: 
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How about slowly taking over various newsgroups. Posting so many annoying and
bizarre messages that people stop reading the group, and it becomes a barren
wasteland. also, we could take over groups that don't have a lasting influence.
I'm sure there are some current events groups that are obsolete but still 
exist. Eventually, every group would become a toy for us, the elite
alt.shenanigans readers.






Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: asc7556@u.cc.utah.edu (Andrew Corradini/SBDC)
Subject: Re: Net Shenanigans
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Student Mail Machine
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 02:10:58 GMT

In article <1992Dec20.205817.14461@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> jon@Turing.ORG (Jon Gefaell (KD4CQY)) writes:
>In article <1992Dec20.035206.21289@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> dchiasson@mta.ca writes:
>>
>>A good newsgroup to raid is alt.transgendered. They get pretty irate when you
>>post something in their group. Their responses are good for a laughor two.
>>The takeover is actually in progress as of now. Join in on the fun.
>>
>>
>>							-Rascal
>
>There is a big diference between being a stupid bigoted prick, and a
>shenanagan. Try again white boy... 
>
>Oh, and right on the blackboard 1,000 times the folowing:
>
>two, too and to.
>
>


Gee, jon, you sure are a barrel o' fun to have around here.  Between the
freak-session about wasting food that could've been shipped to Somalia,
and the raised hackles over someone wanting to harass the
chromosomally-challenged, we're getting a load o' PC that I'm SURE is as
enjoyable to ever'one else hereabouts as it is to yours truly.
 
Helpful Net Tip: do us and yourself a flavor and hit the "U" key. Do it
soon, do it often.  Oh, and try the "man righteous" command...
 
Good newsgroups to try: alt.spelling.shenanagan, alt.spelling.write/right,
and
alt.flame.everything.that's.not.PC.and.annoy.the.hell.out.of.all.of.
all.the.other.users.while.blowing.bandwidth
 
With much love and sensitivity,
Andrew -- an X-chromosomally-deficient European-American
From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Pranks & shenanigans (and grey beads)
Date: 14 Dec 92 08:35:02 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

tlund@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Thomas Lund) writes:

>	It's obvious by this point that BOTH shenanigans (by the Moncur def.)
>and pranks are the lifeblood of this group.  However, we should try to keep
>the distinction available for future generations' readers of a.s.  Perhaps we
>could make a monthly posting which gives brief definitions of shenanigans and
>pranks, and maybe some classic examples of each.  Any ideas?

I suppose I could work something up, and make it a regular posting (once a
month, perhaps)?  Something like my earlier "What is a Shenanigan" posts.
 
At this point, I have no major objection to pranks being posted.  The
distinction is very blurry anyhow.  However, shenanigans are still the
main topic. 
 
Besides, I think that we've seen most of the pranks already...  If I see
another post entitled "How to penny someone in" I'm going to kill something.
 
Perhaps we should have a Shenanigans/Pranks FAQ file, with brief summaries
of all of the ones that keep being re-posted.  
 
Also coming soon:  THE BEST OF alt.shenanigans.  My co-founder and I have
archived all of the alt.shenanigans posts since day 1, and we're going to
make an abridged collection of the most humorous and/or original.  After
this happens once, hopefully we'll make it a regular thing, with one "BEST
OF" per month, or somesuch. 
 
Is there anyone out there who can set aside some anonymous-FTP'able space
for an alt.shenanigans directory?  I think it would be handy.  I could
make the archives, the FAQ if we ever make one, and the BEST OF files
available there.  Any takers?

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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Subject: Re: Proposal for a Net shenanigan
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:14:03 GMT

Robert.T.Warfield@dartmouth.edu (Robert T. Warfield) writes:

>  How about we INVADE ANOTHER NEWSGROUP!!!!!!!
>Basicly, I sugest that we choose a really stuffy group, then post
>articles at right angles to the discussion.

My, what an original thought! I wonder how many other people enjoy getting
(a) flame mail, (b) "Don't forget to log out" advice mail, and (c) "You're
costing the net thousands of dollars" lecture mail. Besides you, that is.
Is that really the best idea you could think of!?

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** Hon Cog Sci  Min Psyc  Senate  URC  FARSIDE  LEAD  CCCS  COCP  PSU  **
These opinions are mine. Mine!! ALL MINE!! No one else's! NO ONE ELSE'S!!

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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: jeclee@uncc.edu (Jeffrey Charles Lee)
Subject: Re: Lawn Ornaments
Reply-To: jeclee@uncc.edu
Organization: University of NC at Charlotte
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:16:13 GMT


Yes, the whole thing has been done.  It was, as I recall, a "lawn
rabbit" which was photographed in various locations.  It was even
photographed being held by some famous public official or something
like that. I don't think that the photos were periodically mailed home,
however.  Just deposited along with the rabbit on the front lawn of the
owner's home once the "vacation" was over.

Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: formula4@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Formula 409)
Subject: Fruit in an Elevator
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:03:07 GMT

At our dorm, several of my friends began stockpiling citrus fruit and keeping
it all in out refrigerators as we'd take the fruit from the cafeteria.  A
bizarre elevator in the dorm closes on people in the doorway.

Now that you have the setup, you may see some of what is coming.  The elevator,
we decided, is a demonic god, so we tell people each time we ride it about its
divinity, looking completely serious as we do so.  The elevator, we believe,
accepts citrus fruit as a sacrifice, so we would occasionally put fruit between
the inner doors and the outer doors so that when the doors close, it slips
between the elevator and the shaft and is "taken up" by the elevator.  There
is probably quite a large quantity of fruit in the bottom of the shaft by now
as a result.

We still had a lot of fruit leftover before we left for Christmas break, and
our plan was to put all the fruit inside the elevator, covering the floor,
as an ultimate sacrifice.  However, the day we decided to perform the ritual,
the particular elevator was being repaired.  So we went to the girls side and
VERY conspicuously (we waited outside the elevator for several minutes holding
a sack whilst saying "Nope.  No fruit.  We don't have any oranges.  We don't
know what you're talking about...") put the fruit in the elevator producing
quite a nice effect.  The bad thing is, we couldn't stick around to see
people's reactions as they stepped into aan elevator full of fruit.  I'm just
hoping the pictures turn out okay...
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From: dchiasson@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Fruit in an Elevator
Reply-To: dchiasson@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 03:48:32 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.185031.20099@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, jon@Turing.ORG (Jon Gefaell (KD4CQY)) writes:
>In article <BzG6H8.G23@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> formula4@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Formula 409) writes:
>>At our dorm, several of my friends began stockpiling citrus fruit and keeping
>>it all in out refrigerators as we'd take the fruit from the cafeteria.  A
>>bizarre elevator in the dorm closes on people in the doorway.
>>
>>Now that you have the setup, you may see some of what is coming.  The elevator,
>>we decided, is a demonic god, so we tell people each time we ride it about its
>>divinity, looking completely serious as we do so.  The elevator, we believe,
>>accepts citrus fruit as a sacrifice, so we would occasionally put fruit between
>>the inner doors and the outer doors so that when the doors close, it slips
>>between the elevator and the shaft and is "taken up" by the elevator.  There
>>is probably quite a large quantity of fruit in the bottom of the shaft by now
>>as a result.
>>
>>We still had a lot of fruit leftover before we left for Christmas break, and
>>our plan was to put all the fruit inside the elevator, covering the floor,
>>as an ultimate sacrifice.  However, the day we decided to perform the ritual,
>>the particular elevator was being repaired.  So we went to the girls side and
>>VERY conspicuously (we waited outside the elevator for several minutes holding
>>a sack whilst saying "Nope.  No fruit.  We don't have any oranges.  We don't
>>know what you're talking about...") put the fruit in the elevator producing
>>quite a nice effect.  The bad thing is, we couldn'people's reactions as they stepped into aan elevator full of fruit.  I'm just
>>hoping the pictures turn out okay...
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>Color me a whiney politicaly erect socialist communist party pooper but...
>
>Your treatment of food is an amazing example of the utterly debased nature
>of the dominant social paradigm.
>
>Unfortunately, a side effect of the disease you have (which we all have, or
>have had in varying degrees) is the inability to recognize it. 

  What the hell are you doing in this group if you can't appreciate a good
shenanigan. You should take your net-cop attitude elsewheres.


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From: dkgardin@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Dan Gardiner)
Subject: Pizza as Taxi
Keywords: [pizza],[taxi]
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: alt
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 03:11:25 GMT

        Here's one I came up with walking home in the rain from halfway across
  town (don't ask why, it's a long story).  Anyway, go into a Pizza place (any
  one you like) and make a delivery order.  Then ask if you can hitch a ride
  with the delivery guy.  (It may help if you're hungry when you do this)



     dkg