HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: N.W. Choe <nwc1@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: snuff-like rape video
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X-Xxdate: Thu, 17 Dec 92 22:25:36 GMT
Organization: Beaver Consulting Co.
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:28:22 GMT

In article <17DEC199208541497@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> Larry Oberle,
oberle@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov writes:
>So now we have at least one alleged rape on tape, with the tape
used for 
>profit (albeit extortion).  Presumably, had they run out of
viedotape, they 
>would have stopped the rape in order to get more.  

Gee, how long did this go on? Even at the fastest speed, this means
two hours
or so (depends upon format). Oh, no one said that it was contiguous.
N.W. Choe    Beaver Consulting Co.- Chicago
5454 S. Shore Dr. #318
Chicago, IL 60615     312.702.4605
"Embarking upon the obvious to stumble upon the truth."
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From: trevor@advent.co.uk (Trevor Pretty)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Keywords: KIBO = Knowledge In Bozosity Out
Date: 15 Dec 92 16:11:27 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Advent Imaging Ltd.,Henley,England



For the colours (or colors for out colonial friends) of the rainbow:

ROY G BIV

Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain

Virgins In Bed Give You Odd Reactons    (more fun to rember when you get older)


For the Notes on a Musical Score:


The Lines:   Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit Gums

The Spages:  FACE


Now does anybody remeber any Mnemonics for the Resitor code colours? 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: moroney@world.std.com (Michael Moroney)
Subject: Re: Nicotine/Niacin (was: Monumental LSD overdose)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:21:45 GMT

obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien) writes:

>I read that Niacin, (a vitamin, I think) is usualy found in a form
>called niacinimide, AKA nicotinimide, and the usual source is the ole
>weed terbacky itself.  Now, I'm rather wildly allergic to the combustion
>products of same, but is it true that it's a very efficient source
>of a *required* nutrient???

Niacin and nicotine are chemically related, and it is possible to synthesize
niacin from nicotine, but commercially it is synthesized from other
substances.

Nicotine is quite poisonous, and it makes a good insecticide as well.  In
fact, terbacky evolved nicotine to keep bugs from munching on them.

-Mike
From: maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J L Saunders)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Counterclockwise Twisters
Date: 15 Dec 1992 04:27:35 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk

In article <Bz821u.B1r@news.iastate.edu> cmriggin@iastate.edu (C. Marie Riggins) writes:

%been restored to their home.  Also, President Carter came to review the
%damage and declare the town a "disaster area".  

What does this mean? Does it mean that a bunch of spaced-out musicians had
just played some very loud music there? Is it a special tactic to increase
tourism a la` "disaster area of special interest", or does it just make
the victims feel better? I think we should be told.

%PS If there's a book called "Night of the Twisters" by Ivy Ruckman about
%the Grand Island tornadoes.

Wasn't it called "Night of the Living Twisters"?

Jason
-- 
                       Jason L Saunders [ RouE ]      
                     email: maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk
snail: Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
From: JTCHEW@lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Where no bit has gone before
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:40:00 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Honest Ernie's Used Ions
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.252.152

Overheard tale from some computer salesmen standing around
the coffeepot:  Preparing for some unspecified mission early in
the US space program, an overzealous pencil-pusher type
insists that everything in the vehicle must weigh something,
including the software.  After much argument, he decides to 
weigh the punchcards.  A programmer counters that the 
weight of the software should instead be the weight of the holes.

Joe "FOAF Tale: The Nth Generation" Chew
From: harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter) 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: ring-pulls/ cats-eyes
Date: 14 Dec 92 05:53:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Ed Hopper's BBS - Berkeley Lake, GA - 404-446-9462
Reply-To: harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter) 

>henry@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Henry Bloomfield) writes:
>>Are there still inventors of small useful things produced in
>>amazing quantities (SUTPIAQ) who get very very rich by getting
>>a small royalty for every one of these SUTPIAQs made?

>Michael Nesmith's (sp?)(of Monkee's fame) mother invented Liquid Paper [tm].
>Don't know how it's sales are faring in these days of rampant word-processing,
>but she's made a tidy sum off of it so far.


She sold Liquid Paper off years ago, for lots of millions of dollars.
    
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: N.W. Choe <nwc1@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: small but fantastically produced items
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X-Xxdate: Sat, 12 Dec 92 21:09:03 GMT
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:13:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec9.102638.2880@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Henry Bloomfield,
henry@dcs.qmw.ac.uk writes:
>but as nothing more than a rumour...

The Regenstein Library here at the University of Chicago (home base
of Nobel Prizes)
was paid for by the Regenstein Family... who invented/made those
enveloped with
clear plastic windows in them... I
has seen and
used these envelopes. Perhaps they own a patent, or whatever. At any
rate, they
also paid for the Regenstein Halls of Music up at Northwestern
University.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: The salami strikes back
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:53:49 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.185434.23171@nntp.nta.no> styri@nta.no writes:
>Urban legends came up as a topic during lunch today, and one story that
>may be relevant to a recent thread came up - the salami attack. One version
>of the story goes like this:
>
>Crooked programmer modifies program to siphon off small ammounts of money
>generated by an incorrect rounding procedure, eg. during calculation of
>interest, and direct the money to his/her account.

Gee, sounds a lot like Richard Pryor in Superman III.

Ted "I would have expected him to be a member of the Fantastic Four" Frank
-- 
ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
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From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: "Tabloid Readers Not Dumb"
Date: 14 Dec 92 08:22:24 GMT
Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston

In article <27973@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>It seems one Elizabeth Bird has written a book entitled 
>_For Inquiring Minds: a Cultural Study of Supermarket
>Tabloids_ which supposedly reveals some interesting aspects
>of those people who read supermarket tabloids.  
>[...]
>Some other findings.  "There's almost nobody who picks up the
>_Weekly World News_ and believes the whole thing...The tabs
>[tabloids] seem to reinforce people's existing beliefs.  I'd find
>people who believed in UFO stories, but when it came to ghosts
>or psychics, they'd say, 'That's a load of nonsense."

My belief has always been that 75% of the people who buy the tabloids
think, "EVERYONE ELSE in the WHOLE WORLD believes this crap, but only
*I* know better, and ONLY *I* buy it to laugh at the other bozos who
BELIEVE!"

I buy them just to laugh at all the people who think they're laughing at
me--but they don't know that I know this.
							-- K.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: Chelsea clinton (was Re: Puff the Magic Dragon)
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:50:42 GMT

My parents created my name by using a Scrabble board.

or did they use an Ouija board?

Torsten "meet my brothers, Brad, Milt, and Lee" Adair
and my nephew's named Parker (this line is true)
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From: dgreen@thor (David Greenebaum)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Date: 17 Dec 1992 23:48:19 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.berkeley.edu

In article <lj05n6INNago@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> trelford@trelford.Eng.Sun.COM (Trelford Pinkerton) writes:
>Why does Whoopi Goldberg always appear in a funny hat?

Because it fits.

Hypothesis:  Back in the 19th century (when we see Guinan in a much-
less-funny-shaped hat), she looked almost exactly like a human.  But
in the 500 years since then, she's matured, and mature Listeners have
funny-shaped heads.  So she wears a funny hat, to make the non-Listeners
on the Enterprise feel more at ease.

--------------------- 
 |\  | |\  |\  |// |   
 | > | |\\ | \ |/  |   David Greenebaum/University of California/Berkeley, CA
 |<  | | \ |   |   |   dgreen@athena.berkeley.edu, dgreen@garnet.berkeley.edu
 | > | |   |   |   |
 |/  | |   |   |   |   "I make mistakes, but I am on the side of good -- by
---------------------  accident and happenchance." -- the Golux
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman)
Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATM's for $$$$
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 04:48:19 GMT

>the middle of the night and ripped the machine out. They then put it into
>the back of a truck and ran away, having as much time as they liked to
>open it in the privacy of their own home. Clever really.

   Seems like putting an open container of dye inside the machine, so
the ripping out process would dump it all over the cash, would be an
effective countermeasure for that.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: Traffic Light UL's
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 15:33:59 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.114627@IASTATE.EDU>, mkjensen@IASTATE.EDU (Martha K (Puester) Jensen) writes:
|> 
|> I used to live in San Diego, where they have the sensors on the
|> traffic light poles.  While most of the sensors could not be triggered
|> by flashing high beams, there was one particular one that could be.

I used to live someplace where some traffic light poles had IR sensors
pointing in the direction with least traffic. The main road would have
green light at all times if there were neither traffic from the small
road nor any pedestrians. At least that's what I was told (though my
comment about cars with rear engines threw the fact-provider off balance).

|> The traffic light in question was located at the crest of a hill
|> (Genesee and Torrey Pines Road, FYI), and we found that if the car's
|> lights were flashed at the right point when coming up the hill, that the
|> light would change.  I have no idea whether this particular sensor
|> was just easier to trip than others, or if it was due to the hill causing
|> the headlight beams to be higher and actually hit the sensor, but it did
|> work, and I can provide witnesses...

Maybe it was because all the people in the car focused their collective
brainpower at the light and made it change by telekinesis or somesuch.

|> 
|> Martha
|> 
|> ObUL  The word posh actually is an acronym for Port Out, Sherry Home, 
|> referring to the drink lists of first class passengers.

Earning some money as a waiter during my education I always carried the
Port in my left hand and the Sherry in my right. The result is that my
"working" tux still has a smell of sherry on the left side.

---
YuNoHoo  "no officer, I've not been drinking - it's just my tux"
From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Making Urban Legends - Carjacking
Date: 14 Dec 92 14:50:30 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
 
>I suppose the Charles Stuart case in Boston comes to mind.  Off hand,

[ case description deleted...]

>This sounds more or less correct?  Dick?  Someone out there?

Good synopsis, overall.  The whole affair was a SERIOUS embarassment to the
BPD and the city in general.  The falsely-accused "black man" did have a prior
record but I can't recall if he was anything more than a thief.

The case was splashed all over the front pages of the Globe and Herald for
several days, and unleashed some anti-black sentiments until the real story
came out.  Then there was a lot of embarassed silence with a multitude of black
leaders tapping their feet and "ahem!"-ing for an apology, which they got.

The brother was recently convicted on several counts, including aiding and
abetting, obstruction of justice, and the ever-popular "lying to the police."

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dick "personally, I suspected Churchill" Joltes		joltes@husc.harvard.edu
Hardware & Networking Manager, Computer Services 	joltes@husc.bitnet 
Harvard University Science Center

"Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:47:39 GMT

ibacon@seamis1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ian Bacon) writes:
: the higher one went. The bottom floor had a sign saying "Three hour maximum 
: parking, 8am to 6pm", the next floor allowed six hour parking, and the top 
: floor had my favourite sign:
: 	"Twelve Hour Maximum Parking, 8am to 6pm"

Nothing wrong with that sign. It just means that - if you park there at 6pm,
then you must be out by 6am the next morning. 

Hm. If you park there at 6:30 pm , does that mean there is no limit? Could
you store your car there by parking at such a time? Would you want to do so?

Bill
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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Mark Brader Posts!  (Was: Re: Amusing Signs)
Date: 20 Dec 92 09:53:10 GMT
Organization: Escape from Blacksburg, VA

In article <8409@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>In article <BzG610.D1L@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) writes:
> >I found that post in alt.folklore.urban and said "My, I thought Brader started
> >the whole 'hijack a.f.c.' thing because he couldn't get alt. groups at all,
> >yet here he is.'  I then crossposted it to a.f.c, news.groups, and alt.config
> >and neglected to point this out.  I guess I jumped to the conclusion that
> >people would follow my train of thought.  Anyway, Brader apparently has little
> >trouble posting to alt., so any sympathy I had for him (not much) has now gone
> >to nil.
>
>Apparently people are not reading the articles in the group they love so much.
>Mark Brader never has stated that he could not read alt groups.  And if your
>memory is long enough you would remember that he on occasion does post to
>alt groups.  It was Jay Maynard who complained about the inability to read
>alt groups.  These two people are not identical.

nonsense.  two humans so abjectly stupid could not exist on the same
planet.  therefore maynard and brader must be one and the same.
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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers,alt.config,news.groups
Subject: Mark Brader Posts!  (Was: Re: Amusing Signs)
Date: 16 Dec 92 18:48:03 GMT
Organization: Escape from Blacksburg, VA

6.035239.17648@sq.sq.com>
Organization: Escape from Blacksburg, VA

In article <1992Dec16.035239.17648@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes
:
>My favorite combination of signs is in or near Custer State Park, South
>Dakota, USA.  Two yellow diamond hazard signs, one over the other:
>
>        FALLING ROCK
>
>         SOUND HORN
>
>This must be where they're developing those smart rocks for SDI...
>
>(Actually, of course, the two signs are unrelated except that they both
>relate to hazards of mountain driving -- the second of these being a
>short tunnel and a sharp curve.)
>
>Mark Brader        "NO LEFT TURN INTO CLOVERLEAF ALLEY EXCEPT FROM THE
>Toronto             MIDDLE LANE OF THE OUTER ROADWAY -- SUNDAYS AND
>utzoo!sq!msb         ALTERNATE HOLIDAYS EXCLUDED UNLESS CHURCH SERVICES
>msb@sq.com         ARE IN PROGRESS"   [former Killington, VT, road sign]
>
>This article is in the public domain.

Um, Mark, I thought that you couldn't get anything in the alt. hierarchy.  And
yet, here you are.  Kinda blows Jay Maynard's whole argument out of the water,
doesn't it?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: wsmiddel@rodan.acs.syr.edu ()
Subject: Re: "In Bed" - The origin of...
Keywords: in bed
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 13:37:49 EST

While at Cornell, we used to add "in bed" to the sayings on the tags
attached to Tetley(or was it salada?) Tea.  After a while the sayings
changed groups to a new set so we replaced "in bed" with "up my butt!"


Will "Every journey begins with a single step __ __ ____!" Middelaer
From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Making Urban Legends - Carjacking
Date: 12 Dec 1992 17:52 PST
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: world
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Summary: The pun is morbider than the sordid
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>> Son of wealthy furrier 
> He was not the son of a wealthy furrier 

I know the truth can be changed in many ways as it becomes urban legend,
but a furrier transform?

Joe "Been waiting years to use that one -- too bad it isn't any good" Chew
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.skeptic
From: dnash@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dave Nash)
Subject: Re: Wwy is the sky blue? (was Re: Daytime Stars - Not Donahue or Oprah)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:48:38 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.083550.11767@msc.cornell.edu> maynard@leah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley) writes:

>>The frequency dependence of the scattering, at least for things like air
>>molecules, doesn't depend much (if at all) on the size of the molecule
>>doing 
>>the scattering. Scattering's caused by the electrons in the molecule and
>>the 
>>frequency dependence falls out of the equations relating the interaction
>>of the
>>e- with the light wave.  
>>

...

>The bottom line is that the scattering looks like long-wavelenght dipole
>moment scattering and thus goes as omega^4, ie high frequencies (blue)
>scattered much more than low (red). The reason for the omega^ dependence is
>because the induced dipole has strength proportional to omega^2, and
>radiates with a strength proportional to omega^2*dipole_moment.
>
>So I'm not sure quite what the above dude means by electron scattering in
>molecules not being affected by frequency. Maybe this statement refers to

Hey.  Careful here.  I didn't say that scattering by e- was unaffected by
frequency.  (Obvoiously, it is so affected.)

>resonant scattering, whereas what we care about is non-resonant.

Possibly.  I'm recalling an E&M  lecture where we considered scattering
by electrons bound to atoms by a (approximately) harmonic restoring force.
It's been a while, so I may have forgotten some of the details, but the
implication was that this phenomenon -- i.e. forced oscillation of e- bound
in atoms -- is responsible for Rayleigh scattering.  It
does yield the 4th power of frequency dependance associated with Rayliegh
scattering.

Obviously, this is oversimplified.   I apologize if there were details that
either were not discussed or that I have simply forgotten.  If there are really
serious problems with the above (i.e., this mechanism isn't even remotely
close to the mark), I'd like to know, for my own reference and so I can
take it out on certain E&M profs.  ;-)

>Maynard


-- 
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                            | University of Illinois (Urbana)
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From: rct@fulcrum.co.uk (Richard Taylor)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Cats-eyes and some other stuff
Date: 14 Dec 92 09:08:44 GMT
Organization: Fulcrum Communications

In article <1992Dec11.181153.2771@cbfsb.cb.att.com> rcnixon@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (russell.nixon) writes:
>Around about 1975 or so, my wife worked for a company called Amerace Corp.
>They held the manufacturing rights to a number of interesting products, among
>them were "Signal Stats".  These are the "cats eyes" seen with increasing 
>frequncy along the roads in US.  I do not know however, who actually holds the
>patents.  Signal Stats are plastic and do not retract into the roadway.
>Another product they made which has a really interesting name are "Elastic
>Stop Nuts".  Ouch!  Amerace also held the copyright on the dies used to 
>produce the little plastic boxes for holding cassette tapes.  They made a
>bundle on them, $.002 at a time.
>
etc

Cats-eyes were invented by a Yorkshireman (still alive), who I believe became
a millionaire from the invention. Can't remember his name. Damn.

They're all over the UK, and very very helpful!

Regards,
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