HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: apj@oliver.sun.ac.za (Andries Dippenaar MSC)
Subject: Re: Male Pregnancies
Reply-To: apj@cs.sun.ac.za
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 09:18:05 GMT

Peter Mardahl (peterm@cory.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
: 
: The story goes that some guy thought it would be neat to bear
: a child.  Some <unknown> hospital obligingly surgically implanted
: a fertilized egg somewhere in his abdomen, and later delivered
: the fetus by "Caesarian". 

  Some local magazine carried an article about it some years back.  The
  story did go as you're suggesting.  As seems as if the body sort of
  responds correctly and that the inside of the abdomen supplies
  roughly to same sapce and temparature ranges.

: The whole story seems rather dubious to me because the man's immune
: system should immediately kill the "invader".

  I think the initial treatment consist of some immuno-suppresant
  drugs until the egg has sort of settled, but after that the drugs
  can be stopped.

  Andries "Now don't all rush outside and buy maternity wear"
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Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:25801 rec.arts.startrek.misc:10437
From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: New Movie in the Works STAR TREK VII: Kirk VS Picard?
Summary: Maybe we will get to see Jimmy take on Jean-Luc
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:50:25 GMT
Reply-To: tjw+@pitt.edu
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


>>Just out of curiosity, which TNG episode was Where No One Has Gone Before?

> That would be the one in which Data's head gets sent back in time via 
> a rift in space to battle Romulans and later returns as a half Romulan 
> spy.

I saw in the newspaper yesterday that the next STAR TREK MOVIE (ST: VII)
will be a transition episode with members of the "old crew" and the next
generation.

Don't ask me how they are going to do this, but a rift in time (saves nine)
and a tranporter accident coupled with Data's head is a distinct
possibility.  I would hope that they would also show what happened to Kelsey
Grammer's character after he arrived in the 24th century.

Terry "Beam me up" Wood
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Crunchy Frog)
Subject: Re: "Normal" body temperature
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 05:23:59 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.030257.11989@pta.pyramid.com.au> 
  bob@pta.pyramid.com.au (Robert Vernon) writes:
>
>	-5 to +5C : freezing fives
>	5  to 15C : ?????? tens

tepid tens?

>Bob V!

Frog C!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: C558172@mizzou1.missouri.edu
Subject: Re: End of Millenium Hysteria (was Re: Oct. 28: The Rapture)
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 17:31:03 CDT

In article <1992Oct14.152652.17930@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
DMARTIN@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA writes:
 
>
>------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
>
>> I wonder what will happen when the October deadline for the end of the world
>> comes and nothing happens.
>Probably nothing!
>
>> All I got to say is I'll be glad when 2000 comes around so that we don't have
>> to hear these people anymore (fat chance of that !).
>
>My guess is that when nothing happens in 2000 They'll decide it's really going
>to happen in 2001. When nothing happens in 2001 They'll decide it's really
>going to happen 2 millenia after the DEATH of JC - 2033 or thereabouts.
>After that I've run out of ideas (but I'm sure They won't!).
I would like to see a news show (say 60 Minutes) do a before and after profile
on these nuts. Or maybe psychologists...
--Shannon   "Ah dis claim Ahm right"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: vpaf5@jane.uh.edu (Kal)
Subject: Re: nail in Coca-Cola
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:32:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.183706.20675@engage.pko.dec.com>, moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes...
>Re Coke:
> 
>Coke contains phosphoric acid which will dissolve rust (in fact naval jelly
>and some other anti-rust substances also contain phosphoric acid).
> 
>>Fun with chemicals...now, if you want *real* fun, mix bleach and ammonia and
>>sniff the fumes that come off it.  Many a housewife has nearly been killed by
>>the resultant fumes (chlorine gas).
> 
>No you don't get chlorine gas from bleach and ammonia.  You get nastier things,
>a witch's brew of hydrazine, chloramine, nitrogen trichloride, ammonia gas,
>dichloramine, and maybe a few others.  You can get chlorine from bleach and
>sulfuric acid though.
> 
>-Mike
_My_ navel jelly contains sulfuric, and not phosphoric, acid.

kal   vpaf5@jane.uh.edu
From: manley@optilink.UUCP (Dave Manley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: The Birth of Kibo
Keywords: Kibo was, Kibo is, Kibo shall ever be. All Praise Kibo.
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:52:37 GMT
Organization: DSC/Optilink Access Products

In article <Bw5Go0.DH7@world.std.com> kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) exclaims:
>
>NOW I am!
>							-- K.

Heathens of The Net witness the proclamation of Lord Kibo and be Happy.

--
Dave "preparing a sacrifice of fatted gerbil" Manley
From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Conscious Severed Heads (was: Is the electric chair . . .)
Date: 10 Oct 92 01:39:20 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <1992Oct8.142723.2189@HQ.Ileaf.COM>, hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal 
Wadleigh) writes:
> A guillotine is NOT as humane as you might think.  The brain stays alive
> until
> it dies of oxygen deprivation, which can be as long as several minutes. 
> There
> is consciousness in the severed head for anywhere from 30 seconds until 2
> minutes.  The French custom of picking up the severed aristocrat's head and
> waving it in front of the crowd got great cheers at least partly because the
> first few seconds of the procedure showed the people in front eyes that cast
> around the crowd in focus and a twisted mouth that couldn't manage a scream
> because it was no longer connected to lungs.

The way I heard it an expiriment was done to see if the head remained 
conscious for a while... After the blade dropped and the head rolled, the 
expirimenter would pick up the head and yell, "you've been reprived!", and 
then observe the face for any reaction.

I don't believe this mind you, but the idea gives me a perverse chuckle; a 
lot like some "Far Side" cartoons.

I personally believe that, while the head might still be conscious, it would 
probably be in a state of shock, so it wouldn't be too bothered by the 
situation.

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek
From: jcfowler@david.wheaton.edu (John C. Fowler)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Organization: Wheaton College, IL
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:35:38 GMT

In article <6639@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw+@pitt.edu writes:
>
>If Jean-Luc Picard got into a fight with Jim Kirk who would win?
> 
I believe the classic answer to this is that Picard would say, "Well why
don't we discuss our options.", and Kirk would pull out his phasar and
fire.

john...
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better (was Eskimo words for 'snow')
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 22:04:33 GMT

	"It's About Time" is much better than "Star Trek" and "Lost
in Space"!

	Torsten at Omaha
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Oct. 28: The Rapture (pamphlet found in Chicago)
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:47:07 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.011753.22412@midway.uchicago.edu> djb6@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>A pamphlet found on the Midway Plaisance (a street near the U. of Chicago),
>having been thrown out the window of a van painted with Scriptural slogans:
>
>RAPTURE- OCTOBER 28, 1992
>WHAT TO DO IN CASE YOU MISS THE RAPTURE
>
>* Stay calm and do not panic
>
>Your natural reaction once you realize what has just occurred is to panic.  But
>to do so is absolutely useless now.

So just put on your pair of Joo Janta Peril Sensitive Sunglasses.  When the
world goes black, don't panic, you've just been enraptured.  Or enruptured.

jonathan "God don't play favorites" quist
Date: Thursday, 15 Oct 1992 09:04:36 PST
From: <WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Nylon

In article <1992Oct15.124337.4949@nntp.nta.no>, styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) says:
>
>And, there's even a group of singers named "The Nylons" for those who
>like the tree-sided ending to every thread.

From their CD _The Nylons_ tune "One of the Boys" whose lyric states:

     Just like nylons we were born to run.

Fun guys.

Brian Waugh                       |    "What's for dinner?"
WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU    |      A. Capella
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: trif@bike.rad.washington.edu (To Run In Fear)
Subject: Re: Male Pregnancies
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle WA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 13:22:22 GMT

In article <39368@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes:
   In article <1992Oct12.015811.27682@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, peterm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Mardahl) writes:
   >
   >The story goes that some guy thought it would be neat to bear
   >a child.  Some <unknown> hospital obligingly surgically implanted
   >a fertilized egg somewhere in his abdomen, and later delivered
   >the fetus by "Caesarian". 
   >

   Oh, just for laughs, I'll give this one a try. No womb. No umbilical
   cord. No way to get nourishment to the child. No place for the li'l
   tyke to _be_. Just gonna sit there blocking off the small intestine?

   It takes a little bit more than just a fertilized egg to form a
   baby. Think "Biology".

    -Paul "Monty" Ashley

Think again.  Though rare, women have had abdomenal pregnancies before,
and carried to term.

The biggest obstacle is that no one knows if men have the right immune
apparatus to short circuit the normal immune response that would attack
the fetus.
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Date: 3 Oct 92 22:20:35 GMT
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

In <1992Oct3.022143.21674@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:

>I shot a rocket once.  I read AFU.

I never did, but I know someone who swears he knows someone who did.

Warren "I once shot a chicken cannon, though" Burstein
-- 
/|/-\/-\       In real life, the Vice President chastises Murphey Brown
 |__/__/_/     for her morals.  Bill Clinton plays the sax on "Arsenio
 |warren@      Hall."  Though "Batman Returns" is fiction, it's not too
/ nysernet.org much stranger than truth - Caryn James, The New York Times
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:25061 alt.sex.movies:3204 misc.legal:18227
From: cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.sex.movies,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Rape movie? (was: "Gang Bang" series)
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:01:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: math.Oct.7.12.01.51.1992.28004
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

vpaf5@jane.uh.edu (Kal) writes:

> But the motivation for this, as
> stated, is to make money off an explicit movie, and there are easier, more
> prudent ways of accomplishing *that*.

Maybe I'm not understanding your argument.  It seems to me that
applying a similar definition to a snuff film would mean that no snuff
film could ever be found to exist.  I mean, if we assume that a film
is not a snuff film unless it is made explicitly to be distributed and
turn a profit, then applying your argument would lead to the
conclusion that our snuff film could not contain a real murder because
it is easier (and safer) to fake a murder rather than carry out a real
one. 

But, as I understand the snuff film UL (boy, I can just hear snopes
warming up his terminal now), the idea is that the actual murder (or
rape) is part of the excitement that the viewers of this type of
pornography experience.  As has been pointed out many a time, with
modern special effects a faked murder would probably look more "real"
than a real murder, so the gore isn't the source of the excitement for
the (hypothetical) audience of such films.  Rather, it is the thrill
of "participating" in an experience which is totally contrary to the
mores of civilized society.

You might even argue that in the UL about the woman who discovers that
she is the star of a rape porn film, the distribution of the film (and
the attendant distress caused to the victim) was just part of the
thrill for the filmmaker.  

(Please note that I have not passed judgement on the existence or
nonexistence of either type of film above.  If you're going to flame
me, get the facts right.)

--Scott
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Disco "Snuff" Recording?
Date: 14 Oct 92 00:11:24 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Oct10.204217.22955@news.unomaha.edu> torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:
>	The Starlost was created by Cordwainer (sp?) Bird, which is a pen name
>Harlan Ellison uses when he doesn't wish to be associated with a production.
>The two hour (?) pilot was novelized by him and Edward Bryant (?) and titled
>Phoenix Without Ashes.  Ellison wrote an essay about his problems with the 
>executive producers.  Ellison is the only person besides Gene Roddenberry who
>has won a Hugo award for Star Trek:TOS.  "The Guardian of Forever" introduced
>one of the great Star Trek gimmicks, as well as a character actress named Joan
>Collins, who is related to Jackie Collins, the Trash Novel Queen.

There have been double-episodes of Starlost packaged as movies (titles?) with
so much processing that you can't tell that it was video-taped, rather it looks
like a badly lit movie reprint.

Joan Collins was well known years before ST:TOS.  Easy example: Stopover Tokyo
costarring Robert Wagner and Edmond O'brien 1957.

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: michaet@hubcap.clemson.edu (michael dale townsend)
Subject: Re: who has heard the exloding cactus story?
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 13:53:43 GMT

tpehrson@javelin.sim.es.com (tim clinkenpeel) writes:

>i am doing a little feature on a local 'talk show' and i need a reference
>(however obscure) for the exploding cactus UL.  if you've heard it (told as
>fact, not as UL) please mail me and include the following:

I am not sure if this is the correct UL, but here goes:

>1. date you heard it (approximate) & where you lived at the time

I heard it from my brother (in the navy) who heard it from a
FOAFOAFOAFOAFOAFOAFOAFOAF
 heard it about 2 years ago.
>2. who you heard it from (name)
  Steven
>3. relation of #2 to person who supposedly was victim of incident
none
>   3A. any information about alledged victim (i.e. where, when, who)
>4. recounting as the tale as best you can remember it being originally told

The story is that an ignorant person out west decided to shoot a large
cactus with a shotgun.  The cactus fell on him and killed him.

Michael Townsend      michaet@hubcap.clemson.edu
From: sasegb@toklas.unx.sas.com (Elizabeth Brownrigg)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: ally bad car puns
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:21:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasegb@toklas.unx.sas.com


In article <1992Oct7.183034.6953@osf.org>, rogers@rosencrantz.osf.org (Andrew Rogers) writes:
|> In article <1992Oct7.180141.13379@crd.ge.com> joslin_paul@ae.ge.com writes:
|> >OBscurePun: Motor Trend once wrote about a guy who named his car Tazio.
|> >Why? It was a new volare.
|>
|> For those of you who didn't get this, it's a pun on the Italian race car
|> driver, Tazio Nuvolari.  Road and Track once ran a photo of a snowbank
|> with a perfect impression of a 240Z on the side - captioned "Datsun Ice Car".

Jeez, I'm glad you explained it.  I was wondering what in hell
it had to do with "Death in Venice."  
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: davol@twinheadmeiko.co.uk (David Wilson)
Subject: Garbled anecdotes (was: late talkers)
Organization: meiko
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 07:40:04 GMT

stern6@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Stern) writes:

> ObUL:  Churchill's first words were "In the morning I'll be sober, and
> you'll still be overdone."

The way I heard this one was: 

A lady MP (Member of Parliament) indignantly confronts Winston Churchill
in the lobby of the Houses of Parliament with the words: 

"Sir, you are drunk !". 

To which he replies: 

"Madam, you are ugly. But in the morning I'll be sober."

Dave.
From: mapmef@gdr.bath.ac.uk (M E Fletcher)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Eskimo words for 'snow'
Date: 12 Oct 92 11:40:46 GMT
Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK

In the referenced article, torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:
>	In one of the puzzle columns in Science(insert year here), there was a 
>contest to create a sentence that used every letter of the alphabet.  I believe
>that someone succeeded in writing a twenty-six letter sentence, and that "Cwm"
>was used in a few of them.  
>
>	Torsten at Omaha	A few days ago, a Volkswagen Bug rear-ended a 

The only example I've seen is the rather unsatisfactory 

Quartz glyph job vex'd cwm finks

A (fictitious) newspaper headline describing the anguish of would-be
graffiti artists on finding that their intended target (a lump of
quartz in a cwm) had already been graffitized.

This uses every letter once but of course having vex'd rather than vexed
isn't quite perfect. If anyone can write a perfect one they will go
down in wordplay history! What about other languages, is it easier/harder?
My guess is harder because English has so many words.

Matt
From: joslin_paul@ae.ge.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Fine Art {was: A Goofy Question was Re: Flavored Condoms (was: Re: Stupid cop tricks)}
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:14:43 GMT
Reply-To: joslin_paul@ae.ge.com
Distribution: na
Organization: GE Aircraft Engines
Originator: news@c0228.ae.ge.com

ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk (R Clement) writes:

>joslin_paul@ae.ge.com (Paul Joslin) Writes:
>>Okay, you asked for it:
>>
>>Today's pressing question is "What kind of animal is Goofy, anyway?"  If he
>>is a dog, how come he wears pants and Pluto doesn't?  Is it because Goofy
>>can talk, and Pluto can't?

>And I thought you didn't have a class system over in America.....

No, you were told we have no class over here.

Paul "System? I doan need no steenkin' system!" Joslin
-- 
     Paul R. Joslin     |
joslin@c0223.ae.ge.com  |  "Remember, we can't have utopia until we've
   +1 513 583 3537      |	    destroyed all poodles!"
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From: seanna@bnr.ca (Seanna Watson)
Subject: Re: Accuracy/Precision, just a simple correction
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:30:26 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.220654.23229@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson) writes:
>
>ObUL: US spelling checkers don't contain metric units
>
Nope, they do, but they spell them wrong--should be litre and metre.
-- 
Seanna Watson   Bell-Northern Research, 
(seanna@bnr.ca) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Opinions, what opinions?  Oh *these* opinions. | It's hard to seize the
No, they're not BNR's, they're mine.           | day when you must first
I knew I'd left them somewhere.                | grapple with the morning.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks)
Subject: Re: Publishers Clearing-House UL?
Organization: Automata Design, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:22:57 GMT

clayton EDward LEIHY iii (cel@nsscmail.att.com) wrote:
: In article <1992Oct9.142225.9172@javelin.sim.es.com> gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler) writes:
: >This morning, the guy I car-pool with told me a story that smells like
: >an UL.  A bag of unopened Publishers Clearing-House Sweepstakes entries was
: >found illegally dumped.  All the entries had one thing in common.  They didn't
: >order any magazines.  He said he saw it on the news, but i'm still suspicious.
: >Can anyone prove or debunk this one?
: 
: Can't PROVE or DISprove, but my 13-year-old son told me the same thing.
: 
: Said he saw it on the news at TV.
: 
: He gets home from school way before I get home from work, so it's
: possible.
: 
: Besides, I have to reason to believe he'd make up something like this.
: 
: What's more, if it's true, do I have a possible legal action against
: PCH since one of them could have been my entry??


I propose every line of this post as AFU motto of the day.

Terry "Especially #3" Monks

-- 
Terry Monks        Automata Design Inc    (703) 742-9400

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman)
Subject: Susie B $ (was Re: Canadian pennies)
Summary: alive and well in Houston
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:14:30 GMT

>>
>>Ever wonder what happened to all those Susan B. Anthony dollars and 2 dollar
>>bills?  They got shipped overseas to be used by people serving in the

You can also get rolls of Susan BA dollars in Houston banks, and many
people who use the Hardy Toll Road (or maybe even the Sam Houston Tollway)
like to because they're so convenient for keeping in their
cars to pay the $1 toll, instead of digging for appropriate combinations of
other coins as they approach the plaza.
From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:08:33 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com


In article <16875F9F1.MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU>, MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice) writes:
>Anybody famous ever shoot off a rocket?

How about Leopold Bloom?

Bruce "I can spell Nausicaaaaaaaaaa but I don't know when to stop" Tindall

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