HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: peterd@polari.com
Subject: Re: those wacky chemicals Picric Acid
Organization: Seattle Online Public Access Unix.  (206) 328-4944 (all lines telebit-equipped)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 06:40:12 GMT

dw3j+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Christopher Wiggins) writes:
>>	That's Lead Azide.  As long as you don't get that confused with sodium
>>azide, you'll do fine (the sodium version is lethal in smaller amounts than 
>>nitrogen triiodide).
>Is NaN3 really all that dangerous? I had a lot of the stuff and it
>didn't seem all that nasty. It did make a nice additive to home-brew
>gunpowder, but that's about it. Maybe the stuff I had just wasn't very
>fresh.

>If anybody wants to play with some REALLY NASTY shit, try picric acid.

In regards Picric Acid - this _*IS*_ dangerous shit!
The problem is not tthe picric acid form but the cyrstalized form.
That stuff is so unstable it will go off with a cross look. 
Or because it wants too, I don't knoiw what floats the boat of
unstable compounds.  Regardless, back in the mid 80's a number of
smaller High Schools in Oregon got visits from the Army EOD folks
when it was discovered that they had "Antiquated" Regents of Picric
Acid crystalized on the Storeroom shelves.  Usual "it was only a mircacle
it didn't explode .. " quotes.

But the Mono Amonium Acethyl Nitrate is fun to play with. Just
follow the warnings on the package.

chus
pyotr

>Other fun chemicals include Sodium Peroxide, and any pure active metal.
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: read if you're sick of the fraternity thread
Date: 17 Apr 92 12:41:56 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Hi! I have a confession to make. I'm one of the wild eyed fanatics that
posted some of the fraternity stuff here. I'll explain:
Someone slammed fraternities on this group.
I defended them. Before I knew it, I was getting flamed email *and* on this
group. I started defending myself. Before I knew it, I had to read soc.women,
alt.folklore.college,.soc.college, and talk.rape, to make sure nothing was
slipping past (who taught Ted Frank to crosspost, anyway?)
	Anyway, I guess things got outta hand ( hell, *I'm* sick of the damn
thread, and I pretty much started it!) I really do apologize, I know it didn't
belong here, but I couldn't *stand* the thought of Ted Frank getting the last 
word (stubborn bastard that I am ;-).
	Well, that's it... sorry to have bothered all of you.
BTW for anyone interested (I doubt anyone is), the thread rageth on in 
soc.college, and all those other newsgroups.
Enjoy your folklore
Mike 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER)
Subject: Re: Profs: The good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Reply-To: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 15:50:27 GMT

One interesting Chem demonstration that I have seen was that of buffers.
The Prof started with a base, and from there proceeded to dump in various 
acids and bases. The last thing he dumped in was a cyanide solution.

cyanide, if mixed with an acid forms a toxic gas which will kill dead, dead,
dead, fast, fast, fast.

I forget what the demostration was trying to prove (my vital signs shot up, 
and I was ready to bolt the second the professor began to sway, so I was
not paying as much attention to what the prof was saying as I should have 
been)
From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Cordless phones
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:44:10 GMT
Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Organization: University of Arizona

In article <S8759859.92Apr16024306@titan.ucc.umass.edu>, s8759859@titan (Tig Stone) writes:
>In article <1992Apr16.004644.26217@news.iastate.edu> twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu (Mike McNarney) writes:
>   Alright, scanner owners! Here are the cordless phone freqencies:
>[...]
>Not that we'd violate peoples' privacy and various laws by listening
>in on those frequencies or anything...

Doesn't it seem a bit odd to you to claim something as private that you
are broadcasting via the em-spectrum?

Seems a bit like walking around naked (ie, broadcasting your skin-image via
the em spectrum (that's all light is, after all)) and then saying "don't
look!  Private!  Private!"

Give me a break.

-- 
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension
as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.  It is the middle ground between
light and shadow, between science and superstition. And it lies between the pit
of Man's fears and the summit of his knowledge.  This is the dimension of
imagination -- it is an area which we call "The Twilight Zone".
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From: koumis@husc4.harvard.edu (Anthony Koumis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college
Subject: Re: Fraternities  was (Re: still more practical j
Date: 13 Apr 92 04:01:37 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center


A poster defended sexism found in fraternites as well women as
sex objects problems exist in society so change it there.
That is a big cop-out for looking at sexism in a frat or anyhwere
else.  Just b/c something bad is also bad in society doestn defend
it in a smaller segment of society.  Perhaps as people become
individually aware they can spread the word to the rest of society.


And what was the rubbish about women fucking up men's lives and if
we dont believe the poster we should see Fatal Attraction.
Thats like saying all women want SM sex see 9 and a half weeks or
all short british alcoholics are funny see Arthur.

How about all the real life women who are beaten or killed (11 so
far in Mass. this year) by boyfriends or husbands.  THose stats
are not used to prove men fuck up women lives in general (though
obviuosly they did here) but to show there is problem of violence
against women.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: Gennis Emerson <gemerson@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Creative Building Names (NOT!)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 20:15:30 -0500

I won't try to speak for IU, since I never see anything here but the
computer science building, but at UC Davis we had leftover buildings
scattered all over campus. The powers-that-be must not want anyone to
get too fond of any of them; they're all named Temporary Building <#>.
You see references on campus maps to TB 180 and such. A real building
with a perfectly good name, the old firehouse, is officially TB 195.
We also had the wonderfully-named AOB IV : Administrative Office
Building IV. AOB I - III seem to be missing. Then there's Surge I -
IV. I always thought perhaps it was safer not to ask about that one.


Gennis
-- 
Gennis Emerson       gemerson@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
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From: kra@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth R Aron)
Subject: Buildings, buildings, and more buildings...
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:07:32 GMT

     Since we're all taking about buildings here, I'll never pass
up an opportunity to poke fun at another Ivy League school...

     On a trip to Cornell for a football game (we actually won
that game come to think of it) we passed a bunch of buildings
with a band of colored tiles around them.  My Cornell friend
promptly explained to me that each color represented a different
engineering department.  That's right, boys and girls, they
color-coded their buildings!

:)

Ken

Kenneth R. Aron                 NYS EMT-Defibrillation            | |  / /
kra@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu      Columbia Area Volunteer Ambulance | |/ / 
                                Columbia University, NYC          | |\ \
From: twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu (Mike McNarney)
Subject: Cordless phones
Reply-To: twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 00:46:44 GMT

Alright, scanner owners! Here are the cordless phone freqencies:

46.600
46.605
46.610
46.615
etc.
until
about 
46.99

Hints:
1) I have found it helpful to make a list of all the freqs and log which
channels are being used in your dorm, apt bldg, neighborhood, etc. I can't
give much of a signal strength estimate, except they seem to vary. I have
found that cordless phone signals seem to travel down better than they
do up- or maybe noone in the four floors below me have cordless phones.

2) The freqs seem to be used in groups" for example, one phone might use
46.825, 46.83, 46.835 all at once. I don't know why, although I assume
there is a technical reason. 

3) If you are interesyed in the topic, subscribe to alt.radio.scanner,
which is a highly awesome newsgroup full of information. I highly recommend
it. 

4) For ISU readers, our friend is located on: 46.92, 46.925, 46.93, 46.935,
46.94. Of the five, 46.93 seems to come in best. He (and I) live at
Towers, so you RCA/UDA-types are out of luck. Remember, he likes 'Pam.'

5) Email me if you have any more questions. Have fun!

-----------------------
Mike McNarney
twap8@isuvax.bitnet
Iowa State University, USENET censors
Ames, Iowa 50013-0007
515/296-8797

		*TOMORROW night is opening night!*
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jfe@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Brian Chung)
Subject: Re: Profs: THe good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Organization: Alchemy International
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 18:52:30 GMT

In article <1992Apr08.122016.73832@watson.ibm.com> cpalmer@swamp.watson.ibm.com (Charles C. Palmer) writes:
>One of my CompSci profs was from Germany, but maintained pretty good 
>English except when he became frustrated at the stupidity of his students.
>One evening, after he finally realized that only two of the 25 students
>were answering the supposedly thought-provoking questions he posed during
>his lecture, he became quite flustered and shouted :
>
>     Don't answer if you already know!
>
>So, of course, we were ALL silent then.

	Ahh, stories of professors with bad accent.  My high school physics
teacher told me this story.

	He was going to University of British Columbia.  One of his math
profs was this East European with a thick accent.  The first day of classes,
the prof started off by saying:

	Today, we will start studying Euclidean space.  (He puts a dot on
the board)  This is a "poangt."  (He puts another dot and draws line between
them)  This is a "ligne." 
	
	 My teacher who knew French thought his prof was
pronouncing "point" and "line" with a Frech accent and diligently wrote
down "point" and "line" whenever the prof said "poangt" and "ligne."  The
semester came and went.  He took the finals.  Next semester, he got the
same prof.  The first day of classes, the prof said:

	Today, we start on non-Euclidean space.  (He puts a dot on the
board)  This is no longer a "poangt."  It is now a "point."  (He puts 
another dot and draws a line)  This is no longer a "ligne."  It is now
a "line."

>
>Charles C. Palmer ( cpalmer@cpalmer.watson.ibm.com )
>Network Design Tools               Tie 863-7411      914/784-7411
>IBM T. J. Watson Research Center   P.O.Box 704       Yorktown Heights,
>NY  10598


-- 
T. H. Brian Chung         |These are my opinions.  If you want them, you will
JFE@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU  |have to fight me for them.
JFE@CORNELLA.BITNET       |I am a trained Kwisatz Haderach.  Kids, do NOT try
JFE@ALCHEMY.TN.CORNELL.EDU|this at home! 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: ray@nmsb.larc.nasa.gov
Subject: Re: Profs: THe good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Originator: hazari@dagger.larc.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 15:05:23 GMT

 
When I was going to the Univeristy of Pittsburgh I had to take a 
Philosophy course.  The prof for the course was was a visiting prof 
from Ohio State.  His name was Robert Kraut.  He was quite theatric in 
his lecturing, very loud and dramatic.  Devo was his favorite music 
group and one of his favorite lines was "You're just a brain in a vat 
in Philadelphia."  He said he liked to play Devo real loud and when the 
neighbors come to tell you to turn it down, nothing stuns them more 
than answering the door totally nude and yelling "What!?"  They don't 
know what to say or do and just leave. 
 
One of the more humorous true stories that he told was of a jock.  It 
seemed that this one player liked to fall asleep during his lectures.  
So, one day he noticed this guy falling asleep again and proceeded to 
relate this sleeping student to the day's lecture (just to make fun of 
the jock).  Well, the jock woke up to people looking at him and taking 
notes.  Needless to say he was pretty confused.  The jock dropped the
course the next day.
 
Later!
Ray Balister
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: grs01153@stat.appstate.edu
Subject: Profs: THe good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Organization: Appalachian State University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 00:29:08 GMT

A NEW QUESTION!!!   A NEW QUESTION!!


Tell us about your profs..best, worst, weirdest.

This should be interesting.
 
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From: Schuyler.Stultz@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Schuyler Stultz)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Collegiate Pets
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:50:49 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

>What is the most unusual pet you have known of or kept in a college setting (ie
>dorm, apartment, office, steam tunnel, whatever...)???
>
Here at Va. Tech, the dorm room's closets are separated by a piece of plywood.
Some friends of mine took out the piece separating the upper, little storage
space.  I walked into their room to hear the cooing of their new pet pigeon. 
Unfortuntately, the RA found out and made them set it loose. 

Another friend had a pet lizard of some type.  He best line was "Want to go back 
to my room and see my lizard?"    ;-)

schuyler@csugrad.cs.vt.edu

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: tonyamm@byron.u.washington.edu (Tonya May)
Subject: Re: Buildings, buildings, and more buildings...
Followup-To: tonyamm@byron.u.washington.edu  
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 14:35:58 GMT

  Here at the Univ. of Washington we have a buildings called Hall Health (I 
always thought that Hall should come after Health), Hagget Hall (dorm, imagine
the fun people have with this name), (alfred) Hitchcock Hall, Guthrie Annexes 
1,2,3,and 4, then Guthrie Hall (how much did he have to give for all that, I
wonder?), Hughes Playhouse (not quite the same as Peewee's), More Hall, Nuclear
Reactor Building, Nuclear Physics Lab, Oceanography Teaching Bldg, Oceanography
Bldg, Oceanography Research Bldg, Odegaard Undergraduate Library (affectionately
called OUGL-pronounced ogle, especially since this is where most of the sexual
harrassment takes place), Penthouse Theatre, and the WAC (waterfront activity
center).  Pretty interesting.
  I don't know about the steam tunnels here, but I'm sure that we have them
(as most of our power is hydro).
-Tonya
From: axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: re: creatively names buildings
Date: 11 Apr 92 00:01:08 GMT
Organization: New York University

In article <1992Apr10.155557.2694@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, st901316@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Scott Fybush) writes:
> I have lived in Ziv 128 for two years.  I have often wondered how
> much it would cost me to get the building named after me ;-)
> 
> Scott Fybush -- ST901316@pip.cc.brandeis.edu

Here at NYU, they just renamed the Third Avenue South graduate residence
hall (about 4 years old, and yes, there is a Third North as well, though
it's two blocks further up) to Alumni Hall for the express purpose ofgouging
more cash from former students.  For $5000 you can get any particular
dorm room you want named after you, nice plaque on the door and all.
Maybe if you send them a couple hundred bucks they'll name a urinal in
the basement after you.

-- 
Aaron Dickey                      Bitnet: axd7104@nyuacf
New York University             Internet: axd7104@ACFcluster.nyu.edu

Al Roker Is God.
From: bof@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au. (Mark Bofinger)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: ZBT Scandal: Ignorance must be bliss!!
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:23:49 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, The University of Queensland

In article <1992Apr13.000220.20290@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, ddwa_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (The Viceman) writes:
|> 	It must be nice indeed to live life in such an ignorant manner. Your
|> "article" showed not only that you failed to do your research, but also that
|> ......
|> race, creed, faith, or color in 1954. I would be willing to bet that ZBT at  
|> Hunter is not even 50 percent Jewish, but I haven't confirmed this myself.

Why bother stating it if you haven't checked it out? Do your research.

|> ZBT is a Fraternity of men, not a club.  Get a clue.  What color is the sky
|> in your world, anyway?

It has been a while since you went outside, hasn't it?
From: twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu (Mike McNarney)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: MIT and Smoots
Date: 16 Apr 92 09:43:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr16.094314.9573
Reply-To: twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

There is a whole section of the MIT Museum (on Mass Ave, I think) devoted
to various explorations of MIT students- "hacking," I think it's called.
I'll let a MIT student more familiar give a better description, as I was
only there a week. The museum also has a Smoot exhibit. The paint marks
were still there in March, and 1/2 way across the bridge there is a big
mark with "HALFWAY TO HELL" painted in great big letters. The letters are
facing the river, so you don't know which way is hell- MIT or B.U./Bosox
side. 

From what I saw there, MIT has to have more practical jokes per capita
than any campus in America. For God's sake, they have t-shirts for the
more memorable ones on sale! Yeah, I bought one.... ;-)

-----------------------
Mike McNarney
twap8@isuvax.bitnet
Iowa State University, USENET censors
Ames, Iowa 50013-0007
515/296-8797

		*TONIGHT is opening night!*
From: zkessin@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Zach Kessin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Creativly Named Buildings (Not!)
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:41:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: chaos.zkessin.702790876
Distribution: usa
Organization: Brandeis University

tgpt_ltd@jondalar.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill) writes:


>	Our Transportation and Maintainance blgd. is called "612", after
>it's street address.  I really don't think it has a name.

>--
>Thomas Guptill                   University of Rochester Class of 1995
>CPU Box 277445                   U of R Transportation Services Division
>Rochester, NY 14627-7445         Mail:  tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu   
>(716) 274-3378                   Jess:
tgpt_ltd%uhura.cc.rochester.edu@husc3

I worked at Columbia Medical school where there is a building called
"PNS" Short for Phyisans and Surgens.
Its a great name, you can mispronounce it 2 ways, both with sexual
connotations!
 
--Zach  Zkessin@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu

There are worlds out there where the sky is burning.  The sea's
asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of sound.
Somewhere there's danger. Somewhere there's injustice.
Somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on Ace, we've got work to do."
From: ulysses@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (Nebulous Enigma)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: throwing dummies (was re: weird profs)
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:51:51 GMT

My neighbor once went to Cal. There was this one time when he was about to
get an F in a class, so he went to beg the professor not to fail him. "If you 
fail me I swear to God I'll jump off the Campanile!"

Soon after came the report cards:   F

This professor always walked the same way every day, right underneath the 
Campanile (campus clock tower) This was in the days before they put in the 
safety bars in the observation level. So anyway my neighbor puts together this
dummy of himself, and for special effect puts on a watermelon as the head!
Then right as the prof is walking by... ker-splatto! Freaked the HELL out of
him, heh heh heh...


--
-ulysses@mcl.univ.of.ca.for.spoiled.brats.edu 
The Man Facing Southeast
From: w3wes@edison.gsfc.nasa.gov (William E. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Collegiate Pets
Date: 6 Apr 92 16:32:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: nsisrv.1992Apr6.163233.1836
Distribution: na
Organization: General Sciences Corporation

In article <1992Apr5.191256.1@stat.appstate.edu>, grs01153@stat.appstate.edu writes:
> 
> Here's a new question..(well, new to me..I have only recently begun reading
> this newsgroup and haven't seen anything about this...so...)
> 
> What is the most unusual pet you have known of or kept in a college setting (ie
> dorm, apartment, office, steam tunnel, whatever...)???
> 
     I once had a pet chinchilla in my apartment.

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Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Monday, 13 Apr 1992 11:52:10 MST
From: <ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: MIT's "Infinite Corridor"
 <ku4qkkINNrd6@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>

In article <ku4qkkINNrd6@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
says:
>
>They *survey* the runways, but I don't think they go to any
>extrodinary lengths to *level* them.  For instance, at San Francisco,
>
There is (was?) a runway in Atlanta that goes downhill and back up again.
I stood at the Butler Aviation terminal and watched smaller (DC-9, Boeing 737)
virtually disappear from sight just before lift-off.  Eerie.
Loyd Means
Phoenix AZ
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