HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Bill.Fleischmann@med.umich.edu (W.P. Fleischmann)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Break dancing (was Re: Cuttin' the Rug)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban,alt.rap
Date: 27 Jan 1993 18:54:11 GMT
Organization: Univ of Michigan, Anesthesiology
Distribution: world
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In article <fYuCBuc@quack.sac.ca.us>, pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey)
wrote:
 [intro deleted]
> B-boys decoys will try to destroy deploy the truth in black hoods and
> black boots, caps get knocked only when they're fitted, lyrics get
> dropped only when they're lifted, so swingtime is one up the vo-chords
> run amuck, war's a factor, we'll perspire and someone in the crowd yells
> fire! fire!, we don't need no water let it burn yo! we don't need not
> water let it burn! So it burnt! Learn your lesson well if I don't then I
> guess you get jelled, swell heads go down like the sun hon, and here it
> comes! So the troops are pulled out and the tolls are paid set and done,
> here it -comes! Hit it off! Kick it off! Set it off! Here it - comes!
> And you'll thought I was coming back with some old R&B huh?

No, I thought you were going to finish with 

                "And that's the *REST* of the story..."

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB)
Subject: Re: doggie doodoo
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 10:40:08 GMT

 scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us writes:
>In <C16q3q.EK9@rahul.net>, Phil Gustafson writes:
>>
>>Phil "Ancestor named Bengta" Gustafson
>has anyone on the net ever had an ancestor with an unusual name?
>(5 of my 8 great-grandfathers were named john.)


Would you consider "Brien Boru" to be unusual?

Many years ago, there was supposedly controversy over the spelling
of King Brien's name, and we now have the "renegade" O'Brian family
as well as mine. (from *their* view, of course, *we* are the renegade branch)

The controversy was laughable, as it is well documented how he spelled
his name:  with a "+"   ( "x" is for _commoners_! )

The first king of Eire was, no doubt, less than literate.


This is all, of course, handed down and subject to being complete bullshit,
but it's consistent with what research I have done.

BTW, my father, his father, and his, and his, ..  were all named Jon or John.
I'm not firstborn, but then, my brother didn't get stuck with it either.

	Bob "Bob O'Bob" O'Brien 
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From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
Subject: AYDS Diet Candy (was Aids in pizza)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:11:54 GMT


In article <C18yLI.2rz@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> moscoso@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
(Innocuous Punch) writes:

>walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh) writes:
>
>>And this reminds me:  Does anybody remember the
>>advertisements for a diet candy called "AYDS"
>>about ten years ago?  It went something like
>>"Why go hungry when you can have AYDS!"
>
>Yes, in fact, there was, I recall, a period of crossover, where AIDS hit
>the pop presses, and the said product was still on prime-time ad spots.
>  ..anyone remember what "AYDS" stood for?

Acquisition of Yummies Deterrent Syndrome


Barth "will go on a diet for food" Richards

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From: VBCSC03L@VAX.CSUN.EDU (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Bugger It
Date: 26 Jan 1993 00:14:24 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
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  vince@cadence.com (Vince Gibboni) writes . . .

>    I've actually done this to phone booths in the U.S. (from neighboring
>    phone booths ... just to see if it would work... in no way attempting
>    to defraud the phone company...no way, not me...nope). 

  How do you make a collect call to an adjacent phone booth?  Wouldn't that
  pretty much be a local call?

 - snopes

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From: john@gu.uwa.edu.au (John West)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Coke Machines
Date: 21 Jan 1993 10:41:24 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: mackerel.gu.uwa.edu.au

dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein) writes:

>this is, by the way, actually based on a BIT of reality (like all good ULs
><g>)

>One of the features offered on vending machines is the ability to do
>remote diagnostics and telemetry.  i.e., the machine is hooked up to a
>phone line and will dial out to the distributer giving such info as its
>inventory status, cash in box,temperature, etc., etc.

Are you sure about this? I've never seen a vending machine with such a
feature, and I doubt any exist. Providing a phone line for the machine,
the required hardware inside, and so on would be very expensive. We've
got a coke machine here that runs on 110V AC relay logic. It isn't exactly
new, but it isn't too old either.

>So, someone probably dialed up their local coke <tm> machine and showed
>off all this info to their roomates, and the rest is history.

A bit of reality? Lets actually *read* what the original posting said:

>>>The Coke machine in the School of Computer Science (fomerly the CS
>>>Department) at Carnegie Mellon used to be online.   When I started grad
>>>school here (fall semester, 1987), all you had to do was finger...

Sounds like a first hand report to me. This has been discussed elsewhere
before, and to my knowledge there were at least 2 coke machines attached
to a network of some kind - one at CMU, one at some other place that
escapes me for the moment (possibly MIT).

There was also a story of a pizza command on a machine somewhere. They had
a fax machine attached to the computer, and the program sent a fax for the
order to local pizza place, including time-dependant descriptions of how
to get to the place (various doors being locked at certain times). Someone
posted the man page to a.f.c some time ago.

John West
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From: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au (Bunweasel)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Headlight Dimmer Switch
Date: 26 Jan 93 09:58:58 GMT
Reply-To: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au
Organization: Department of Computer Science, The University of Queensland

In article syo@austin.ibm.com, jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker) writes:

>Yeah...the point was not so much the _kind_ of controls, but their
>placement so close together (ie, it's not a real good idea to put
>identical controls for "launch warhead" and "detonate warhead"
>right next to each other). All I can figure is that she must have
>reached in the general direction of the wipers, unintentionally pushed
>in the light switch, and then the combination of a treacherous road,
>a dark night, and screaming kids in the backseat...even the best of
>us might not be able to recover quickly enough...

Reminds me of a car radio I had once. The volume control was a tiny black
knob and it had digital tuning with two ultra-light, ultra-sensitive black
buttons for skipping to next/previous station. Said controls were so close
together that it was near impossible to adjust the volume without changing
stations, let alone do it while driving. Looked real high-tech, though.
Lasted about 5 minutes parked in Newtown, Sydney.

-michaeln





Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: doctor1@cbnewse.cb.att.com (patrick.b.hailey)
Subject: Re: Drug Addicted Infants
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 11:06:27 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.204754.29821@netcom.com> hatunen@netcom.com (David W Hatunen) writes:
>there is an indirect connection. Here in SF it is evident that if
>an addict can't get the drug of choice, the addict goes for the
>next-best, quickest pain-killer -- generally alcohol. Since a
>pregnant addict is rarely thinking about her unborn baby, the
>baby gets zapped.
>..
>Furthermore, many women will engage in sex to obtain drugs or
>the money for drugs, regardless of term of pregnancy. In
>..
>These are the babies we get. We have had babies whose mothers
>were on cocaine/crack, heroin, and alcohol, in all combinations,
>AT THE TIME OF DELIVERY. This indicates their lack of concern for
>welfare of their child. And yes, we have had HIV-infected infants

The effects of poverty, of alcohol abuse, of prohibition.

There is an epidemic of poverty in this country, I'm sure we all agree.
Blaming crack is just an escape from reality.  The vast majority of people
using drugs to escape reality will pass a urine test.

   Thanks awfully,
             Patrick

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From: lightnin@pitt.WPI.EDU (Reality's Comic Relief)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.discordia,alt.slack
Subject: Re: Jesus' name (was Re: Late breaking potential UL!)
Date: 21 Jan 93 12:24:33
Organization: DeityCo: Major and Minor Deities Placement Agency
NNTP-Posting-Host: pitt.wpi.edu
In-reply-to: dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu's message of Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:17:09 GMT

>>>>> On Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:17:09 GMT, dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Thomas A. Dennis) said:

dennis> The book _Holy Blood, Holy Grail_ implies--indirectly--that
dennis> anyone with the last name Sinclair may be descended from Jesus
dennis> Christ.  Check it out...

This brings to mind an interesting thought about the tv show "Dinosaurs!"  
That family is named 'Sinclair'  Hrmmmm.

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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: doggie doodoo
Date: 21 Jan 1993 07:55:28 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:

  +Just for the record, Norway has had kings named "Haakon" off and on for the
  +last thousand years.  I know of no queens named "Haakon".

Oh, that's right, you can see pictures of all those guys in funny
hats on those cans of sardines.  But they all look alike to me.
  
  +If YuNoHoo's gender is for some reason important to you, this might be a
  +hint.

Maybe his real name is Styri Haakon?
  
  +Phil "Ancestor named Bengta" Gustafson

Terry "unbearded" Chan
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From: landauer@morocco.Eng.Sun.COM (Doug Landauer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Stern Smiley face
Followup-To: rec.humor
Date: 23 Jan 1993 00:00:06 GMT
Organization: Sun
NNTP-Posting-Host: morocco

> a guy named Sacks ... runs the "Smiley Face Museum".  Yeah, that
> smiley face.  Best part is he claims that it was originated in or about
> 1968 by someone in Seattle named, get this, Stern.

Many years ago, my parents had a "Star" class sailboat; they wanted
to name it for the German word for Star, but figured that too many
people would see "Stern" painted on the stern of the boat, and would
pronounce it wrong.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney)
Subject: Re: the origin of "Gotham"
Reply-To: sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Distribution: usa
Date: 26 Jan 93 12:21:08 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.160753.6923@midway.uchicago.edu> gr2a@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <C0zDsp.8uz@ecf.toronto.edu> pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN) writes:
>>In article <16JAN199319361553@mary.fordham.edu> areid@mary.fordham.edu (Darin Reid) writes:
>>>
>>>Does anyone know why New York city became known as Gotham?
>>>
[various Gotham stuff deleted]


>
>	It sounds like there's an interesting history here, but I don't
>know anything more than that. I hope someone else does.
>
My big dic. gives the New York defn. of Gotham, saying:
"From Gotham, a village in Nottinghamshire, with which name are connected
many of the simpleton stories of immemorial antiquity." I'll leave
it to Peter "Pinky" van der Linden, practical joker and closet Brit
to tell you the story of the wise men of Gotham.

>	David Graeber

Tony "because I can't remember it" Sweeney.
From: douga@yang.earlham.edu (Doug Atkinson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Jesus' name (was Re: Late breaking potential UL!)
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:38:48 GMT
 <1993Jan22.060139.16738@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan22.200754.504@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
Organization: The Lion of Serrea

In article <1993Jan22.200754.504@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>, barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards) writes:
> 
> In article <1993Jan22.060139.16738@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
> 
>>Most schitzophrenics claim to be Napolean, or at least that's the
>>way it's always portrayed in Hollywood.  This fellow thinking he's
>>Mel Gibson might be the antipodean version of the same belief.
>>Anybody got the scoop on who is the most popular delusional
>>figure these days, or any days.
>>
>>Mel Gibson is Aussie, isn't he?
> 
> I don't know what his citizenship is.  I seem to remember hearing him tell
> an interviewer that his parents were American, but that he was raised in
> Australia, to which he attributed his ability to be equally comfortable
> with either accent.
> 
	I don't know about where he was raised, but, from the 1989 _World 
Almanac_: 
Name			Birthplace			Born
Gibson, Mel		Peerskill, NY			1/3/51

			--Doug
ObUL: Female sumo wrestlers have special training to retract their ovaries 
into their body cavities.
From: carolo@cse.ucsc.edu (Carol Osterbrock)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Glitch at the Dog Track
Date: 28 Jan 1993 05:15:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
NNTP-Posting-Host: arapaho.ucsc.edu

In article <zlsiida.831@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:

>At our local dogtrack you can buy videos of the night's races.  the less 
>politically correct among us claim that the <insert minority race> buy 
>them to bet on the races again.

Midwesterners?  :-)   Yeah, when I lived in St. Louis the churches
would have "Racetrack Night" where they would have films of horse
races from obscure places like Bay Meadows and Golden Gate Fields.
(N. California tracks, FWIW -- hey I *said* they were obscure.)
You get a sheet that just gives the numbers of the horses, with
made-up names, and the odds, and a certain amount of information on
each horse, not as much as a Racing Form would have.  Then you bet, 
then they show the film, with the caller just saying the numbers,
like "coming around the Clubhouse turn it's #3 by a length, followed
by #6 and #1 coming up on the outside..."

It was probably borderline illegal, but heck you can't arrest anybody
in a church anyway, right?  (Is this true?)

-carolo "trifecta" o



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From: cms2839@ultb.isc.rit.edu (a.stranger)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Vegetarians and B vitamins
Date: 23 Jan 93 22:43:23 GMT
Organization: Minimalist Music for Hyperactive Children (MMHC)

In article <1jpik2INNfnh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt) writes:
>
>cms2839@ultb.isc.rit.edu (a.stranger) writes:
>>In article <727618402.5800@minster.york.ac.uk> stuart@minster.york.ac.uk
>write:
>>       o  plain old brewer's yeast is a natural , vegan supplement .
>
>Umm. Since when has yeast been classified as a plant?

				who said it was ? i don't know of any
dietary restrictions against bacteria , though . . .

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From: dkelly@bio4.acpub.duke.edu (Diane Kelly)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Tuition Refund
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:00:46 GMT
Reply-To: dkelly@bio4.acpub.duke.edu (Diane Kelly)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban



|> >> And, if the instructor committed suicide, you got a full refund *and*
|> >> an "A" in the course.

What if the professor died of an AIDS-related illness before the class
started?  This happened to me while I was an undergrad at U. Chicago, and the
administration didn't do anything for me except offer condolences. And
I'd slept out for that course, too.
							Diane Kelly
							Duke Zoology
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: doggie doodoo
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:23:29 GMT

scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator) writes:
>In <C16q3q.EK9@rahul.net>, Phil Gustafson writes:
>>
>>Phil "Ancestor named Bengta" Gustafson
>has anyone on the net ever had an ancestor with an unusual name?
>(5 of my 8 great-grandfathers were named john.)

Hmm!  I have one father, 2 grandfathers, and four great-grandfathers,
None named John.

There must have been alot of failed marriages in your family tree
to have as many step-great-grandfathers as real ones.  Maybe Wayne
could figure a marriage survival rate for your kin.

Jon "Ancestor named Axel." Papai
From: mprc@troi.cc.rochester.edu (M. Price)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.fan.seinfeld
Subject: Re: Snapple
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:57:45 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <1993Jan21.031951.9376@netcom.com> bml@netcom.com (Brian Leibowitz) writes:

>>Could it be that the snapple=anti-abortion rumor started after
>>they started advertising on Rush Limbaugh's radio show.  He
>>being strongly pro-life, it seems like the connection I would
>>make.

>Interesting contrast in that they also advertised in the Howard Stern TV show.

     Given HS's attitude to women, it really wouldn't surprise me to
find out he was "pro-life."

                                                                  mp
From: franklir@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Ryan J Franklin )
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: K.P.V.H.
Date: 23 Jan 93 01:49:26 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson

I'm baffled.  Mystified.  Even more confused than I was when I saw Michael
Bolton singing "Lean on Me" for Clinton's Inaugeral thingy, when we all know
that Michael Bolton ranks just below Don "No-Soul" Simmons on the list of
people who should sing "Lean on Me."

Anyway, on the little 10 fl. oz. carton of milk I drank earlier today, there
was a little cryptic "K.P.V.H." just under the opening.  (This was Carnation
2% lowfat milk.)  What does it mean?  Kibo's Pasteurization is Very Hot?
Kindly Promulgate Violent Health?  Keep Posing as Villians and Harlots?

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From: kkoller@nyx.cs.du.edu (Capt. Sarcastic)
Subject: Re: Mike Cooper was Jesus' name (was Re: Late breaking potential UL!)
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 03:33:45 GMT

delancey@darkwing.uoregon.edu (Scott C DeLancey) writes:

>>Let's say an idiot (like myself) posts something really really incorrect.
>>How many years does it take the thread to die?
>>
>>Captain "Mike Cooper choked a chicken in a barrel" Sarcastic

>Let's say a playful sort (like myself) throws a stone (OK, a BIG stone)
>in the ocean.  How far to the ripples have to travel before they
>die?

Ripples don't die.  Ripples have Ridges.  Rrrrrrrrutebaaaaa...
[Glad I sold the TV]

>Let's say some obnoxious pig (like, uh, well, your choice) emits a
>loud fart.  How far will the sound waves travel before they fade
>completely?

Are they travelling through air, water, steel, what???

>Let's say a group of demented primates (not me, brother) broadcast
>old episodes of I Love Lucy, and the signal pulses off into Deep
>Space--how many light years must it travel before it can no longer
>evoke laughter?

Nine, as in "Deep Space Nine Inch Nails."

>How many roads must a man walk down, after he's humiliated himself
>for life publicly proclaiming a false etymology?

Only one more, mehopes.

Captain "I swear I'll never do it again if you all just SHUT UP" Sarcastic
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From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Knife Fights (Re: JHB sighting)
Reply-To: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:10:32 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.020853.12846@nysernet.org> warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein) writes:
>In <68UA021E32Zt01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
>
>>Charter is to alt.folklore.urban as rules are to a knife fight.
>
>The knife fights are more realistic on Lost in Space than on Star
>Trek.

Those are nothing compared to the fights in Battlestar Galactica.
(Only outdone by the prehistoric stone knife battles in
_Its About Time_).



Drew "raised on mindless TV" Lawson
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