HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: African-American-top
Date: 6 Jan 93 09:31:48 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1993Jan4.154741.3068@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> ashall@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Andrew S Hall) writes:
>
>(As an aside, PC-linguists love to point out the negative connations
>of English usage of the work black. I guess they missed the postive
>financial connation.)

Yes, it's amazing how cunning those linguists can be.

cj "not speaking of my fellow orators" l
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Upside-down burglar
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:02:05 GMT

In article <14097@ecs.soton.ac.uk> skb92r@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Stuart Bell) writes:
>This even made the UK ITV (ie. not the BBC) News a few days back. No doubt
>we saw the same photos. It was claimed that he intended to steal the piano.
>In terms of "hassle-to-gain-ratio" this seems unlikely.
>
>ObUL: Various parts of the piano are much-prized in the criminal underworld.

Indeed, the E-sharp over middle-C string is a crucial component for
exercising the infamous and shadowy New York Method.

Ted "Shemp Howard, Method Actor" Frank
-- 
ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
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the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
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From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:10:41 GMT
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 21855@Cadence.COM, vince@cadence.com (Vince Gibboni) writes:
> Which leads me to the follow-up question: Can anyone identify a major
> city for me that does not have a street named after John F. Kennedy
       ^^^^^^
[Note: this posting should not be construed to assign ownership of the
 City of Toronto to Vince Gibboni]

Toronto has two named after him: Kennedy and King Streets.

Brian "Camelot!" Scearce
---
Brian Scearce                                           bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
              The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
                  "You can't fit the truth on a t-shirt, man."
                                 "That'd fit."
From: cs92njc@brunel.ac.uk (Nicholas J Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: google??
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:41:53 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK

In article <1993Jan11.172213.2886@hemlock.cray.com> davew@willow03.cray.com (Dave Wagner) writes:
>
>I remember hearing once that a 'google' is 10^100 or something like that.  Is
>this for real?  If so, says who?  If not, has anyone else heard this?  Does
>it have any mathematical use?

No mathematical use as far as I know, but yeah, 10^100 is a google.

ObPossibleFact: The guy that named it asked his 13 year old son for a name.
The kid chose google (go figure).

ObDefiniteFact: The largest number for which there is a name is 10^google (ie, 
10^(10^100) ), and is called a googleplex.

ObMathUL: A googleplex can never be written in full, 'cause their aren't enough
atoms in the universe to hold all the zeroes.

That last one is pretty shaky, although I can provide references for the other 
two, if pressed.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:17:41 GMT

Can anyone identify a major city for me that does not have a street named
after Martin Luther King, Jr.?

-Neal
From: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:12:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: 1984 (was Re: kpix SCREWS UP (was Re:    Skyscraper FALLS DOWN.))
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

In alt.folklore.urban, rkw@zuni.unx.sas.com (Randy Whitehead) writes:

> Just to add to all the Orwell Legends (tm)...
> 
> I have here a copy of a newspaper ad from several years ago (I believe
> it was in the NY Times) which touts a book called _George Orwell: The
> Lost Writings_.  Here's an exerpt:
> 
>     ... the genesis of the great 
>     works that followed: _Animal House_, ...
                                   ^^^^^
HOUSE???  Too bad smileys are outlawed here.  Mr. Orwell must be rolling 
over in his grave.

_The Lost Writings_ wouldn't perhaps be published by the National Lampoon?

--
Ray
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:15:36 GMT

Here in San Antonio, there's a housing subdivision that was built during the
mid and late 70's in which every street name starts with 'Pipers'

My first year in San Antonio (September 1981-September 1982) my family
lived there--on a street called Pipers Way.

Giving directions to people to visit was a royal pain! :-)

Simon

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.sport.baseball
From: jbn@photon.com (Joe Naiman)
Subject: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar
Organization: Photon Research Associates, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:30:43 GMT

Allegedly the Baby Ruth bar was named for President Cleveland's daughter,
but since Cleveland was out of office for decades, it's popular belief
that the Curtis Candy Company wanted to avoid paying the Yankee slugger
royalties and claimed that it was named after the President's daughter.

Joe Naiman
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Driving too slow, stopped by cops
Date: 5 Jan 1993 02:51:18 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 1ht0ohINN2b9@network.ucsd.edu, mbreen@sdacs.ucsd.edu (Michael Breen) writes:
> One of his many quirks was his inability to think and drive at the same
> time, which resulted in a few tickets for driving too slow.
> Apparently, they'd just think he's drunk, and were then unwilling to
> not give him a ticket even when they find him sober.

Suits me fine.  Driving while impaired is driving while impaired,
whether the impairment is due to alcohol, other drugs, grief,
exhaustion, or just "the inability to think and drive at the same
time".

Brian "or due to wearing a hat" Scearce
---
Brian Scearce                                           bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
              The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
                  "You can't fit the truth on a t-shirt, man."
                                 "That'd fit."

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
Subject: Re: Late breaking potential UL!
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:10:14 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.003923.10295@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>In article <1992Dec30.002236.10792@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>>Jon "Did Chelsea take Spanish before naming her cat S O C K S?" Papai
>
>Questions: "Eso si que es" doesn't mean "that's what I want", does it?

 Yes, I was *so* impressed by the commercial with "SOCKS". And it
 left me wondering:
 
 - What english word will they use to spell out the Spanish for
   "Please, no more Jalapenos on my Tortillas"  -or-
   "Please send your business card to little Craig Shergold..."


>
>Bruce "If German gloves are Handschuhen, what are Hand Sachs?" Tindall
          
                                                    - Meistersingers!




-- 
  
        Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
  
 Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!


     "Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that
      they are not even superficial."

                   - Friedrich Nietzsche    (The Gay Science: 126)
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From: osterber@husc8.harvard.edu (Richard Osterberg)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Stupid Floor Plans
Date: 12 Jan 93 19:18:02 GMT

>>However, the building is badly designed, to get from one side of the
first >>floor do another you have to go through the second floor... 


My dorm is at least as pathetic. I'm in Harvard Yard, in Matthews dorm.
There are two entrances to the building (north and south). The building is
5 floors, with 6 rooms on each floor. No elevator, and none of the floors
connect anywhere. To get from north 5th to south 5th, you need to
 walk all the way down, outside, in the next door, and up 5 flights. The
rooms are numbered in order, from 1 to 30 on the north side, and 31 to 60
on the south side. I'm in 26, on the 5th floor, but 31 is on the first
floor of the other side. It's really funny to see lost people get up to
our floor, and ask "Where's room 58?" and see the looks on their faces
when we tell thme.
-Rick
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.bio
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: My mother the gorilla
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <28382@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 05:26:48 GMT

twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
-PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
-  +
-  +Platypi are mammals, and they don't bear live young.
-
-But, they are from Down Under, and like other exceptions that
-prove the rule, they are a deviation from commonly held
-mammalian traits just as those folks in the Antipodes are.

ObMammalExceptions:  I read somewhere, (maybe AFU), that the
horse and human are the only mammals which can't simultaneously
breath and drink. (T, F, U?)

Jon "98 % ape" Papai
.....
Four stages of acceptance: (J.B.S. Haldane, Journal of Genetics #58, 1963)
i)this is worthless nonsense;
ii)this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view;
iii) this is true, but quite unimportant;
iv) I always said so.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bmb1021@ultb.isc.rit.edu (B.M. Buck)
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Originator: bmb1021@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:02:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.214009.10917@netcom.com> bml@netcom.com (Brian Leibowitz) writes:
>>  What you can do though, is copy your CD to a casseette, Open the 
>>cassette shell, take the tape out, reverse and then put the cassette 
>>shell back together.  Now when you plat it it will be in reverse.  You 
>>will probably have to play with the tracking to get a decent output.
>
>This will not work for a cassette nor for a 4 track (most home models)
>reel-to-reel.  The tracks are arranged so that when the tape is backwards,
>you get the other side.  (Tracks 1 and 3 are right and left of one side
>and tracks 2 and 4 are the other side. When you reverse the tape, track
>1 is where track 4 was and 3 is where 2 was.) 
>You need a professional 2 track reel-to-reel.  Then the reversed tape will
>play backwards.

Not necessarily.  I've had quite successful luck by opening the cassette
case, and then flipping over the tape, so the *back* surface of the tape
is up against the read/write head.  The tape is a bit tricky to
re-thread into the case, since it's now wrapping the wrong way around
the reels.  Just manually rewind it (since the tape is threaded wrong,
I don't trust the player to rewind it safely), and you can play it,
backwards.

The only trouble I've had with this method is the music sounds a bit
distorted.  I don't know if that's because it's backwards, or because
the read head is separated from the magnetic layer by a layer of plastic
tape.

>
>brian


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From: ath@linkoping.trab.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: ETYMOLOGICAL MATTERS
Date: 11 Jan 93 12:28:48 GMT
Organization: Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden

In article <11415.1996.uupcb@compart.fi> timo.pietil{@compart.fi (Timo Pietil{) writes:

>All your indoeuropean languages are SO sexist! You all should start
>learning Finnish, which  has no grammatical "gender" assigned for words
>all. Our language also has only one word meening both "he" and "she".

For those who don't entirely want to abandon their linguistic roots,
why not try Persian? Can't recall any mention of gender in the
grammar, and 'he' and 'she' is both 'u'.

Reading love poetry in Persian can be a bit difficult.

But perhaps it's just the old reuse-recycle trick all over again ...

-- 
Anders Thulin        ath@linkoping.trab.se        013-23 55 32
Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ALI00BAW@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU
Subject: Re: A twist on the "Eskimos have 100 words for snow" UL
Organization: UNC Charlotte
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:57:02 GMT

It is my understanding that many researchers think that the parting of
the sea was caused by a major earthquake and volcanic eruption out in
the Aegean, in which case the return of the waters would be something
like a tisunami [sp?]; the original deapth of the water would then be
immaterial.
In article <1993Jan11.152311.23623@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu>
reid@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Robert Reid) writes:
 
>
>styri@balder.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:
>
>>BibleTidbit: When the Lord divided the sea so Moses and his people
>>             could cross, the sea was only 2 feet deep to begin with.
>>             (It's a claim made by some researchers. What puzzles me
>>              is that the Egyptian troops following after managed to
>>              drown.)
>
>Well you know that people used to be smaller.
>
>>---
>>YuNoHoo  "however, there was a company making shoes to walk on water"
>
>
>Robert
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Subject: Pigeon Dropping (was: Doggone 
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:42:27 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

jlpicard@austin.ibm.com writes:
>
>obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB) writes:
>....
>> ObUL: also in WW2, the US investigated training pigeons to steer 
>> anti-aircraft missiles with a four section window and four buttons to 
>> peck at. 
>> 
>> 	Bob "and B.F. Skinner *personally* trained the pigeons" O'Bob
>
>To the best of my knowledge, this is true (even the part about Skinner
>training the pigeons). Supposedly, the project was scrapped when it was
>found that the pigeons had difficulty coping with the G-force of the
>missile firing.
>
I believe there's footage available of them putting the pigeons through
a tiny little centrifuge drive, to try and get them used to the
increased forces. The bird's pitiful button eyes flatten out to 
Orphan Annie sized disks, and their cheek muscles fibrillate
so much they look like feathered Shar Pei's.
-- 
Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu>
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The shifty-eyed shifty-shaped Odo
Date: 11 Jan 1993 22:16:12 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:

  +>How did the Cardassians carry Odo aboard disguised as a sportsbag
  +>without noticing his weight?   Or does he shift weight as well as
  +>shifting shape?

cep@taligent.com (Christophe Pettus) writes:

  +He changed into both the bag and the money.

What would have happened if part of him was spent?

Terry "Just thinking up future episodes" Chan
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Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Yeah, right.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Cats bursting into flame (WAS: Re: Cars Bursting into Flame)
Date: 9 Jan 93 05:26:56 GMT

richha@microsoft.com (Richard Harrington) writes:
>Heard on news today: woman sprays hair with hairspray,
>bends over candle to light cigarette, becomes a
>crispy critter.

Yo, don't knock the risk of lighting one's hair on fire.  I did it by accident
once upon a time when I had a lot more hair than I now do, and let me tell you,
it sure went up fast.

(Fortunately I seemed to be possessed of an astounding reflex which was quite a
surprise -- I immediately put the fire out with my hands.  Unquestionably saved
me from some real bad burns.)
From: e.h.bogart@larc.nasa.gov (Ed Bogart)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Rush!Rush!Rush!
Date: 12 Jan 1993 13:35:11 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Distribution: world
Reply-To: e.h.bogart@larc.nasa.gov (Ed Bogart)
NNTP-Posting-Host: psychomac.larc.nasa.gov

 Phil Gustafson posts;

>Florence Foster Jenkins was a portly, well-to-do soprano with a truly
>God-awful voice.  I can't sing much, but I can do better than Mrs. Jenkins,
>even on hard stuff like the forging song from _Seigfried_.

Didn't old Flo do the theme song for the Bob and Ray radio show.

Ed


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From: fls@econ.duke.edu (Forrest Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar
Date: 8 Jan 93 22:15:26 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.


	Candy bars?  Big deal.  Hank Aaron was named after a candy bar that
was named after a guy who couldn't sign his own name (W. S. Porter).
	What about vegetable parts?  Wasn't the corn cobb named after Ty?

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Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Fronti
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 10:44:03 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:

> In this case I think it is significant that the original news report implying
> corruption had been proved false _and_ a retraction had been made 
> _before_ the show went to air.  So in this case it _was_ defamation of 
> character.  
> 
> If the original report had been upheld then Hamish would be in prison now.  
> Otherwise he would have taken the _newspaper_ to court for defamation.  
> In either case the Issues program would have been in the clear.
> 
IMO, and who knows WHAT the jury thought, a large commission <> corruption
necessarily.
> 
> >Although successful, he was only awarded costs.
> 
> Quite large costs which Television New Zealand (Big Nasty State TV) then 

What, it was only a matter of $100's of K. Piddlesome.

> intended to recover from Isambard Productions (small independant production 
> house run on a shoestring budget using borrowed equipment from TV3 ( also 
> independant ) and producing better quality programs than TVNZ not that TVNZ 
> were jealous or anything or the fact that the program in question was dropped
> by TVNZ, taken up by TV3 to improved ratings had anything to do with TVNZ's 
> stand on this issue which incidentally was the name of the TV program ( when 
> pluralised ) ).
> 
And Isambard plan to recover money from dirt-cheap writers. Fat chance.

> >-- 
> >  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
> >  This .sig unintentionally left blank.
> 
> Mmmmm...

Is that appreciation, or true/false synapses opening and closing as a dual
solo?

> 
> >Hello! I'm a .SIG Virus. Copy me and spread the fun.
> 
> Think 1990's Wayne - we're almost a third of the way in now.
> 
Depends on how long it is. Remember, its quality, not quantity.
> 
> -- 
> Derek Tearne.   --   derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz   --    Fujitsu New Zealand   -- 
>  _______
>  _______} This is a Usenet condom<tm>.  Roll the condom over the .signature 
> 	  file before posting to protect yourself from .sig retro-virii

ObUl: Reuter, Johannesburg
Four thieves who hijacked a van in Johannesburg may have ended up with a hotter
property than they bargained for. The wan was carrying dangerous radioactive
material used in scientific tests.

Would the material be giftwrapped?



-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
  This .sig unintentionally left blank.

Hello! I'm a .SIG Virus. Copy me and spread the fun.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <8836.15373@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:28:45 GMT

jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman) asks:
>And has anyone heard the story about the city planner (of
>course it "really happened,") who was asked to pick out names
>for the streets in a new development, and was told they should
>"sound Spanish"?  The names in question were supposed to have
>turned out to be "Matador, Picador, and Cuspidor."

Um, I think you've got the wrong group here.
You don't want alt.folklore.urban, you want alt.planning.urban.

ObFact: There really is alt.planning.urban

Jon "Terry Chan really is best at this middle name thing." Papai
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Late breaking potential UL!
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:08:31 GMT

twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
:   +
:   +Speaking of the Saviour, what is His middle name?
:   +
:   +I've heard:
:   +
:   +1) Jesus H. Christ
:   +2) Jesus Q. Christ
:   +3) Jesus F***ing Christ
:   +?
: 
: Come on Jonathan, do I REALLY need to clue you in on this?
: 
: ObHint:  "T"

"Tiberius"?

Bill "Naught T" Nelson
From: popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Cars Bursting into Flame
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 23:02:51 GMT
Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy, Houston, TX

thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:

> In article <C0B39q.GC@cs.psu.edu> antunes@astro.psu.edu (Sandy Antunes) write
> >Re: cars bursting into flame on TV and in real life...
> >
> >I guarantee that cars can burst into flame, and not just on TV.
> >Mine did (VW Bug) while I was driving it through Pennsylvania...
> 
> I think that's why the AAA recommended that drivers avoid
> Pennsylvania.
> 
> >Cheers
> 
> I thought that was in Boston.  (Didn't it also burst into flames?)
> 
> >Sandy "flameproof" antunes
> 
> Ted "don't flame me" Frank
> -- 
> ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
> standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
> the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637


Spontaneous Car Combustion?

You have heard of Spontaneous Human combustion. But why are there no 
reports of spontaneous pet combustion.  You know.  You come home, the cat 
is missing and there is a big scorch mark in the middle of the sofa.
just asking.



Pope Charles    Subgenius Pope Of Houston    "Bob" loves you.

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popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell)
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