HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mkane@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Margaret Kane)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: PUBLICATIONS
Date: 14 Apr 92 01:49:04 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <71670@netnews.upenn.edu> mrice@eniac.seas.upenn.edu writes:

>Here at Penn, our paper (the Daily Pennsylvanian) runs a joke issue 
>every year, some time in the spring.  It never comes out on the same day,
>and the only way to tell it's the joke issue is to read it.  (They have an
>editorial telling about the history of the joke issue, but other than that
>they don't acknowledge that it's a bunch of hooey.)
>Some of the stories and headlines they've had in the past few years are:
>*Dan Quayle awarded and honorary law degree by the U.>
>*U. applies for state school status (the state was going to cut Penn's funding>*U. buys Drexel University (A university that borders Penn to the north)
>*Sex banned in U. dorms
>|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
>|   mrice@eniac.seas.upenn.edu            This space intentionally    |
>|   Matthew Rice                                 left blank           |
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As the current City Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian, I feel compelled to 
a) thank Matt Rice for letting everyone know how cool we are. (we are.)
b) let him and everyone else know that we not only fool the students, but we
have been known to cause heart attacks in the president's office and send at
least one editor of _The Philadelphia Inquirer_ screaming into the newsroom and
c) fooled allthe stupid schmucks at Cornell. 
	The last happenned last year when the _DP_ made up a fake issue of _The
Cornell Daily Sun_ drove all the way up to Ithaca, and distributed in teir
dorms and buildings before the final football game of the year. Not only did we
mock their school, (a common theme in all joke issues), but we also made fun
of_The Sun_ which is a total rag. We aren't really worried about anyone doing
the same thing to us, (Harvard did it to Yale a few years ago) because no one
wants to go running around West Philadelphia at 6:00 in the morning.

Margaret Kane Engineering '93
City Editor
"How do you cover the city? Like a blanket."



Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: sas3h@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Sheryl Anne Smoot)
Subject: Re: Creativly Named Buildings (Not!)
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:49:56 GMT

In article <4dt4oGq00VRSAANbQ0@andrew.cmu.edu>, jf41+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan R. Ferro) writes:
> 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.
> 
> [MIT numbering sceme deleted]
> > 
> For example, here is a drawing of about 1/3 of the main campus.  (I
> didn't feel like finishing it, but you can see where the hallways north
> are dangling off into space--there are several more buildings in the
> 30's connected together up there, as well as a bunch more off to the
> east.)
> 
>                                                 NE43
>                                                  ^Tech Square (AI Lab, LCS)
> .  . :.  Vassar St.  .  .  .
>      :                                  +-+20-+-+
>      :                              |   | | | | |
>      :                        |    26   + + + + +
>      M        |              22     |         ^TMRC
>      a        9               |    16---56-------66--+
> W20  s        |    11        12     |
>      s        7----+----10----+-----8 <The Infinite Corridor
>      .        |    |          |     |
>               5    3          4     6
>      A        |    |          |     |
>      v        |    |          |     |
>      e        +----+          +-----+--+----+
>      .        1                     2  | 14 |
>      :        +----+          +-----+  +----+
>      :
> = = = = Memorial Drive = = = = = = = = = = = = =
>      :
>     | | < Harvard (Smoot) Bridge
>     | |   ~ ~ Charles River ~ ~


Just had to mention that I am glad to see that you called the bridge
the Harvard (Smoot) Bridge.  My father was the Smoot that the bridge
is unofficially named for and I am happy that other people remember it.


> 
> --
> Jon Ferro		MIT Transportation Modelling Research Center (TMRC)
> jf41+@andrew.cmu.edu	"We can hack it!"
> SGNTR VRS VRSN 3.1B: Strppd nd cmprssd fr qckr trnsmssn! nfct yrs tdy!

-- 
##################################################################
##                         #                                    ##
##  Sherry Smoot           #    University of Virginia          ##
##  sas3h@Virginia.EDU     #    Charlottesville, VA             ##
##                         #                                    ##
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From: jvance@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Joachim Vance)
Subject: Re: Boldly Not Going Where No Man Has Not Gone Before
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Reply-To: jvance@ics.uci.edu (Joachim Vance)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:35:45 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.152157.6442@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>
>Instead of using fences to keep people from cutting across the grass,
>it would be better if Physical plant* were to plant bushes - they perform
>the same function as fences, and are a whole lot more attractive.
>
   At UC Irvine they've tried planting bushes.  Then people trample
the bushes.  So they plant more bushes and put up the plastic "Do Not
Cross" tape or something similar.  And people cut the tape and trample
the bushes and perpetuate the path.  Always seemed stupid not to build
a stair or pave a path in these places.
   In some places they started making Railroad tie stairs and paths
with gravel.  Where do they get these Civil Engineers anyway?

--
Joachim Vance
^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
     I am antisesquipedalian--Opposed to the use of long words.
^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
From: jhitch@crash.cts.com (Jeffrey Hitchin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Weird Profs, mit accents yet
Keywords: Bayerich Deutsch, Francophones, Oy Vey
Date: 13 Apr 92 04:57:55 GMT
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA


	A Spanish Composition professor I had at Brandeis (Dora Older
for anybody who cares) once made an embarassing slip of the tongue
one day in class.

	She wanted the class to start with a discussion of a poem
called "Gringa/Chicana."  However, this is what she said:

"Buenos dias, clase.  Empezamos con ching-"

	Three of us (including me) cracked up.  The rest of the class
was quite confused.  In English, she said:

"Good morning, class.  We're going to start with fuck."

	I had to explain this to a few people while she collected
herself.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.privacy
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Cordless phones
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:09:27 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.154218.4196@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> jrd5@po.CWRU.Edu (Jacob DeGlopper) writes:
>In a previous article, s8759859@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone) says:
>>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...
>
>No, you wouldn't.  The ECPA of 1986 specifically exempts cordless phones
>from any restrictions on being monitored.  If you want to protect your
>privacy, don't broadcast your conversations over the air.  The frequencies
>used by cordless phones are shared by toy walkie-talkies and baby monitors,
>as well as anyone else with a cordless phone.  

And what of those people who don't have cordless phones but happen to
be talking to people who do?  Regardless of the legality of it, it's
extremely unethical to intentionally eavesdrop on someone's conversation
when they reasonably believe that it's private.
-- 
Ted Frank          + "Question whether attorney's filing claim for 'stud fee'
1307 E 60 St, #109 +  as countersuit to paternity action was improperly
U o' C Law Skool   +  motivated required remand."  Headnote 9, Committee on
Chi, IL 60637      +  Legal Ethics of WVa State Bar v Douglas, 370 SE2d 325.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: chris@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Chris Wolf)
Subject: Re: Buildings, buildings, and more buildings...
Organization: Alchemy International
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 11:17:07 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.034149.28256@eng.umd.edu> clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:
>
>   Speaking of buildings with blah names, they have Academic One
>and the Theory Center.  Both are pretty new buildings.   They also
>have all these Class of some year dorms called U-Halls.
>
Academic One is now Roberts Hall.  
					- Chris
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.college:1229 soc.college:1829
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college
Subject: Re: still more practical jokes
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:50:09 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

[my spectacular post deleted >-)]
> 
> As for frats my personal opinion of them is that i don't buy my
> friends. It seems that a frat is a bunch of guys to insecure to try
> and make friends at random. Therefore a group is formed with the
> licence to exclude anyone they like as so that its members will know
> exactly who there friends are.
> 

I don't buy my friends either. You form groups with the liscence to exclude
anyone you want, too. Do you hang around with people you dislike? I think not.
Do you exclude from you circle of friends people you dislike? I'm not going 
to bother to answer this one. The money I pay for dues goes to help support 
things like sholarships, our community service work, and things like that.

> I DO NOT BUY MY FRIENDS!

Right. They're all rentals.

Mike
01SYBOK@ac.dal.ca
fratERNITY boy and prou of it!> 
> 
> 
>
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Creative Building Names (NOT!)
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:51:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Apr12.225153.21217
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <70177@ut-emx.uucp> andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard) writes:
>UT has at least its share.

Indeed.  My brother (who's too busy picking on creationists and 
fundamentalists to care about fraternities :) tells me that students
complained that nearly all of the UT buildings were named after
white male Confederate slave-owning war heroes, and insisted that
buildings be named after blacks and Hispanics.  The university gave
in and in a stunning display of tokenism, named the Perry-Castenada (sp?)
Library.  The serendipity of the initials is just too good to be true...
-- 
Ted Frank          + "He wanted to be the car rather than the thimble or the
1307 E 60 St, #109 +  hat."  -- District attorney explaining Marc Cienkowski's
U o' C Law Skool   +  murder with bow and arrow of Michael Klucznik in
Chi, IL 60637      +  Doylestown Borough, PA over a game of Monopoly.
From: tgpt_ltd@jondalar.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: RIP: Sander Hall
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:00:53 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

In article <92097.23190900087452@ysub.ysu.edu> 00087452@ysub.ysu.edu (Chuck Slivkoff) writes:
>
>I went up a few times my self.  I even climbed up the
>microwave tower on the top of the building.  Wow, what
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	Isn't this a bad idea if the tower is live?  The phrase "crispy
critters" comes to mind.



--
	Thomas Guptill
	University of Rochester
	tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Mail server)
	
Organization: Freshman, Drama, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Date: Thu,  9 Apr 1992 16:46:27 -0400 
From: David Christopher Wiggins <dw3j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: those wacky chemicals Picric Acid
	<1992Apr7.171936.13252@exu.ericsson.se>

James Hague writes:

>David Christopher Wiggins writes:
>>
>>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. 

I didn't write this, but it doesn't really matter, 'cause I agree with it.

[stuff deleted about private Dallas high school]
 
>The institution in question is St. Mark's school of Texas
>if anyone cares.

Ah yes.. St. Mark's. I was an extra on a movie in Dallas, and the
costumer put us all in jackets with the St. Mark's emblem on them. Those
guys can seriously party. I also smoked the entire Chemistry Olympiad
team from St. Mark's last year, but that';s a different story (and not
much of a story at that)

[sig deleted]

-dave
From: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Naming Buildings
Date: 12 Apr 92 23:44:35 GMT
Reply-To: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: Brandeis University



Here, at Brandeis, they even have trees (saplings, really) named after
people. I have joked about them naming lamp posts (Only $50 dollars! if you
act now, for an additional$10, you can have a trash can in your name too!!) Ex
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wednesday, 8 Apr 1992 17:25:00 EDT
From: Matthew P. Nagler <MPN100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Creative Building Names (NOT!)

     Ok, here is my effort at starting a thread. The latest building to be
 added to the worderous establishment of learning known as the main campus
 of Penn State (sarcasm? ME? B-) has been dubbed the Classroom and Office
 Building, or as my friends have dubbed it the COB. What other buildings
 are there out there that are as creatively named?
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Who really loves the fact that everyone, the minute they start watching
Star Trek, is suddenly a warp-field physicist, Starfleet tactician, and
TV-critic all at once.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: Re: Noisy Neighbors!
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1992 16:49:01 GMT

In article <1992Mar31.165139.16595@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st891831@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>
>	Rob would turn on his stereo, play a particular album, on the highest
>setting, with the speakers pressed to the wall, and leave. The TRULY nasty 
>part was the album itself though. It was:
>
>		THE CHIPMUNKS SING THE BEATLES!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>	Needless to say, this is VERY distracting, even if you AREN'T busy.


I used to have a problem with someone who would turn his stereo up
loud.  I fixed it with a little contraption I made from a power cord
and a slide switch, with a box.  It looked like a box with a switch on
it, and a plug.

When the stereo was on, and I'd had enough, I'd plug the box in, to a
wall socket near the person's dorm room, with the switch set to "off".
Then I'd turn it on.  The stereo would die, and I walk away to put the
short circuit away until next time.

The guy had to then get up and flip the circuit breaker for that part
of the dorm, but hey...
-- 
Howard S Shubs      hshubs@eff.org      I don't represent the EFF,
The Denim Adept     hshubs@BIX.com      but I do agree with them.
From: axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Creativly Named Buildings (Not!)
Date: 9 Apr 92 04:45:42 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: New York University

In article <1992Apr9.004827.9699@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, 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.

The building here that houses most of the Tisch School of the Arts is known
as "721", since it's at 721 Broadway.  Which I guess is a good thing, since
the main building of the undergrad business school is Tisch Hall.

We've also got a Barney Building.  No Fred, unfortunately.
-- 
Aaron Dickey                      Bitnet: axd7104@nyuacf
New York University             Internet: axd7104@ACFcluster.nyu.edu

Al Roker Is God.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: umeitzen@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Steven Eitzen)
Subject: Re: Weird Profs
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 19:32:09 GMT

In <1992Apr8.191840.9715@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> michaelb@shark.cse.fau.edu (Michael Brown) writes:

>Well, someone asked about weird profs.  We have one here in our
>CS department who is in a class by himself.  He's really brilliant
>in his field, but he does some really strange things.  I first
>had him in a undergrad `files' class.  One day he came in a little
>late and started in to this story of how he was late because of some
>traffic jam on the highway and that the police were arresting these
>people who were crossing the median to avoid the jam.  After a few
>minutes of this he stops and say "forget all that, that really didn't
>happen, I was making it all up".  That just shocked up.

That reminds me of an excuse that a Computer Organization and Design
prof of mine gave for arriving late. He walks into class 20 minutes
late, (Just as everybody was getting up to leave, of course) and when
we asked him why he was late, he said:

"I'll spare you the details, but it had something do with my car keys,
a snowdrift and a garbage truck."

We never did find out just what he meant.


><< Michael R. Brown    CS Graduate Student-Florida Atlantic Univ >>

The Admiral
-- 
Steve Eitzen
Computer Science - University of Manitoba - Canada
umeitzen@ccu.umanitoba.ca  #eitzen@ccm.umanitoba.ca
"Admiral on the Bridge!" 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: jkonrath@bronze.bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jon Konrath)
Subject: Re: You know you've been in hack mode too long when...
Organization: No organization. No life. Just emacs.
	<viking.703041768@vincent1.iastate.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 92 22:28:43

In article <viking.703041768@vincent1.iastate.edu> viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:



	   Not even close.  You've been in hack mode too long when you
   are awakened by a rather randy female (assuming you are male, please
   feel free to reverse genders if applicable) and all you can think of,
   in that muddied half-conscious state before becoming fully awake, is
   something having to do with male and female serial connectors and
   how the baud rates have to be synchronized.


one time my girlfriend and i were asleep when she got up to go to the
bathroom.  I would not let her leave, and insisted that the bathroom
was commented out of the rest of the house, because if i compiled
with the code in for the bathroom, there would be errors......

anyone else wake up in the middle of the night with a half-idea
on a program, and cant figure out why your emacs wont let you
enter stuff, before you realize youre not in front of a computer?

-jon


--
Jon Konrath, University Computing  | Jkonrath@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Ultrix)
From: moser@sw.stratus.com (Tom Moser)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: net.celebrities canonical list - version 0.
Keywords: net.celebrities names usenet persons famous
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:38:16 GMT
Followup-To: <1992Mar25.104858.23390@dxcern.cern.ch>
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.


Rudy Rucker	SF and Science Writer and Computer Scientist
		seen in comp.theory.cell-automata

-Tom
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: bill@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (William Logan Lee)
Subject: Re: too involved...
Organization: Uni Computing Service, Uni of Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:16:27 GMT

In article <QdvGkS200VsaE=5XxM@andrew.cmu.edu> jn11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph M. Newcomer) writes:
>I've sometimes noticed on my way to bed that the glass of milk I mixed up
>several hours ago is still on the counter.

Or forget that milk comes already mixed up by the cows...

Actually, its when you start using the weaker hand exclusively to type
with because the other hand's fingertips hurt too much from typing.
(Actually both my forearms hurt, but nothing is more important than typing
this posting into the computer, eh?)

Bill Lee
Or when you find, as I did, you have fallen asleep in bed while reading
Netnews (damn, it logged me out when I hadn't typed anything for two hours).
From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Multitasking and an old 10 hack. Oops
Date: 10 Apr 92 09:53:46 GMT
Organization: Curtin University of Technology

In article <1992Apr7.041703.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>, zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
> Yet another interesting use of PTYs, which I will leave to the reader to
> ponder on for a while:
> 
> .ASighn PTY:
> "PTY42 assigned"
> .PIP
> *pty42:=tty:
> login 1,4
...
Ah spit curse, blame it on late at night....

It should be: login < your ppn >
The opr ppn is completely deceptive. Sorry.

> "password" ^Z
> *^C
> .K/B
> "user foo loged out at 16:44
> saved 10453234 of 1000 blocks"
> .
> 
> If you wondered why PTYs where locked up...
> 
> enjoy
> 
> ~Paul
>
From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Those wackhy K&R guys
Date: 7 Apr 92 11:04:41 GMT
Organization: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany

In article <1992Apr6.120821.54229@cc.usu.edu> ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!) writes:
>
>I was looking through the index of "The Design an Implementation of the 4.3BSD
>UNIX Operating System" and came across the entry "caster oil,266".
> ....
>BTW: they spelled it "caster". I know it's supposed to be spelled "castor".

Indeed. I found it too. And, despite the authors' apparent love of
documentation, my edition (`reprinted with corrections, October 1990')
now spells it `castor oil'.
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