HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pfinerty@nyx.cs.du.edu (patrick finerty)
Subject: jelly    part two
Followup-To: talk.bizarre,alt.non.sequitor
X-Disclaimer: if someone laughs is it funny?
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 00:17:41 GMT


			jam German jelly or
			jam down my throat.
			   
			    it's good!
--
			PJF--->Biochem. grad student
			      PUBLIC ENEMY #1
From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: exit
Date: 22 Nov 92 20:50:17 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

In article <1992Nov21.162313.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca> jbutt@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
|What do you pack styrofoam in when you ship it ??


Glass.

mr HEINOUS
with Klaus Nomi blaring away in the background.
He's singing "You don't own me" in an operatic falsetto
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: good bank gone bad
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 01:03:56 GMT

In article <41412@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> cs199aa@sdcc5.ucsd.edu (Mark Fletcher) writes:
>My life is hell. I used to have a good bank. A nice bank. The kind
 [ ... ]
>Bank of America must die.

BofA recently took over a bank in Oregon (Oregon State Bank, I think). OSB
had a automated transaction handling system, teller terminals, (what were
at the time of installation) supermicros at each office, links to the 
main MIS center, the whole bit. (Some guys sitting about 100 feet from
my cubicle designed, wrote software for, and installed it.)

When BofA took over, they threw it all out. BofA doesn't use teller
terminals and such things. They use a manual system.

The Financial Systems/Field Service people agree with you.

-- 
Gary Heston    SCI Systems, Inc.  gary@sci34hub.sci.com   site admin
The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
"Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Mark-Jason Dominus")
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:12:20 GMT
Organization: Eaters of Wisdom


    Today I noticed that the back cover of my copy of _Borges: A Reader_
(they mean that the book is a reader, not Borges) bears the legend

	``Cover design by Blanche Nonoo.''

    Whenever I come to a new city I look in the telephone book to see
how many people there are named Null and Void.  Baltimore has three
Nulls and two Voids.  Philadelphia has many Nulls but no Voids.  While
we were reading the phone book last week, and discovered that there is a
woman in Philadelphia named Paula Hlavinka, which I think must be the
most beautiful name in the world.

    One of the authors of a textbook I am reading is William W. Wadge.
Ranjit points out that it is faster to say his name than his initials.

    The Engineering School has automatic software to provide a user with
a choice of usernames when they first get their computer account.  The
list is generated from their real name.  I noticed (too late) that one
person, Jun Y. O, was offered, and chose, the username `o'.  You can
write to Jun at `o@eniac.seas.upenn.edu'.

    Sometimes I play a phone book game: I pick a first name and try to
find someone in the phone book with that name.  You don't want to pick
`John', of course; that would be too easy.  `Siobhan' was good.  I was
at Rosa's house and we decided to look for `Rosa'.  I guessed `Nunez'.
Rosa guessed `Rodriguez'.  Rosa won.  There were four Rosa Rodriguezes.

p.s. this is all true
--

                And for to se, and eek for to be seye
Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			    mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu
From: echeverr@scf.usc.edu (5150)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: shit
Date: 23 Nov 1992 18:27:30 -0800
Organization: <censored>
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu


-heads


5150
enough already
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: kohli (Mr. Bad Judgment)
Subject: re: part
Followup-To: talk.bizarre,misc.flying.pigs,alt.der.alpen
Reply-To: kohli@aslmr.med.ge.com (Mr. Bad Judgment)
Organization: Cheesewursts Unfettered, Ltd.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 21:59:27 GMT


mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Angel of Sleet") appends:
>
<-icle
>--
<
the mind boggles at the possibilities.

were you planning on making a Subject="test"
post soon?

the suspense, OH, the suspense.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: carasso@Turing.ORG (Roger Carasso)
Subject: Re: short, shamefilled confession
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:32:31 GMT

lstewart@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (L. Stewart -- IS Office 1058) writes:
)I have done it on the roof of a moving bus.

I have done it in the corner of the pool at the YMCA, 2pm, during the
seniors' pool excercise class.


roger
From: dgross@zeus.calpoly.edu (Dave Gross)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Rictus Hep meets the ghost of William Burroughs, part XVIII
Date: 24 Nov 92 04:36:45 GMT
Organization: Manumission:  The Campus Men's Forum

"Chinese junk yacht sailboat.  Titanic.  Iceberg. Only a modicum of
civilization remaindering around them.  You just can't wait, can you?
Can you?  Can You?  Can You?  Can You Can You?  Can Can?  You You?  You
Can Can You?  Can Can Can.  a.
From: tom.foster@synapse.org (Tom Foster) 
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: X-Industries product
Date: 19 Nov 92 11:32:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: SYNAPSE BBS - GATINEAU, QUEBEC - 819-561-4321
Reply-To: tom.foster@synapse.org (Tom Foster) 

===========================================================================
 BBS: Synapse BBS
Date: 11-18-92 (11:40)             Number: 4236
From: RICK KELLY                   Refer#: NONE
  To: ALL                           Recvd: NO
Subj: Re: X-Industries product       Conf: (1353) UT-bizarre
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RK>>5) The lollipop was well-nigh perfectly transparent, so those
RK>>   natural and artificial colors must have fallen outside the
RK>>   unaugmented human visual range.
RK>>   (I'm guessing on this, as I don't use augments or cybernetic visual
RK>>   implants myself; they seem sort of puerile and passe' these days.)


RK>My sister sent me a box of these from LA.

RK>They came with a package of salt and a lemon-lime candy slice.

RK>The ingredients also refer to the insect larva as Tenebrio Molitar.


        Gee those guys in LA sure must Be into tequila.



RK>Rick Kelly      rmk@rmkhome.UUCP        unixland!rmkhome!rmk    rmk@frog.UUCP

---
 . OLX 2.1 TD . Press "+" to see another tagline.
From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: short shameful confession
Date: 16 Nov 1992 07:47:35 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cobra.cs.berkeley.edu

In article <Bxss3z.Arz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox) writes:
>
>I have purchased 2007 CDs so far this month.
>
>but the total was less than $5000...

Shame on you!  Why I do believe you're making a _profit_.

"Hey, Karl!"

"What is it, Friedrich?"

"Look what we got here!"

"What, Karl?"

"It's a capitalist!  Friedrich, we got us a capitalist!"

"Wahoo!  Heat up them thumbscrews, Karl my man!"

c
didn't have to pay for _my_ KILLED by a BLOW in the HEAD album
and it came with umlauts, too
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: benth@microsoft.com (Ben)
Subject: Duh.
Date: 16 Nov 92 21:01:51 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh.
Duh duh duh duh duh duh.
Huh huh.

BENth


Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail)
Subject: Re: Short Shameful Girlfriend
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:31:14 GMT


In article <1e8h1nINNj5u@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:

   In article <97616@netnews.upenn.edu> kahn@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Amy S Kahn) writes:
   >In article <1992Oct31.013114.3626@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
   >>My girlfriend is only 4' 11". Imagine the possibilities.
   >>
   >
   >Heh.. I'm only 4'10"...

   No good.  Makes for difficulty in the shower.

What do you think the soap dish is for?


Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Elevators
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:04:54 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <002519m.66.721939830@ace.acadiau.ca> 002519m@ace.acadiau.ca (KRISTIAN AARON MACCALL) writes:
>In article <9211151803.54@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>>Subject: Re: Elevators
>>From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
>>Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:03:52 GMT
>>In article <gerald.721806842@gerald> gerald@torolab4.vnet.ibm.com writes:
>>>rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>>>
>>>>I wouldn't argue with you about this.  I do have a basic aversion to buildings
>>>>that are more than four or five stories.  And you would never catch me riding
>>>>up the side of a building in one of those glass elevators.
>>>
>>>I live in Toronto. Buffalo is a 2-hour drive away.
>>>I can see it from my 32nd-floor window.
>>
>>I live in Framingham, Mass where the tallest buildings have at most 6 stories.
>>Which is about right for most route 128 and 495 high tech companies.
>>
>>-- 
>>
>>Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
>
>
>In my hometown (Hantsport, NS) there's a building that is 3 stories tall 
>with ratty old stairways and everything!!!!
>
>From my 2nd story bedroom window I can see my neighbor's house and yard!

With the leaves off the trees, I can go up to the third floor of my victorian
manse, and look across the reservoir to the yuppy hilltop community where
Rocket Roger Clemens lives during baseball season.

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: sabbott@nmsu.edu (SDA)
Subject: <%%%%>
Organization: WHorshipers of Lady LibertY (WHoLLY)
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:16:49 GMT



Microquinta squints through the blindfold.  She is just able
to make out the silhouette of the pinata through the white 
cotton.  She cocks her bat with determination and delivers
a magnificent blow, anticipating sweet candy spilling on the 
ground.  

The little coutyard is rocked with an explosion.  Small brown limbs
are violently seperated from the owners.  Blood squirts, splashes, 
drips.  A dozen children are transformed into scrap flesh.

On the other side of town, Tomacino pops open a sweaty aluminum
cerveza. Stroking his mustache, he turns to his friend Pablo.

"In this world there are two kinds of pinatas my friend, those
filled with candy and those filled with nitroglycerine"

--

"when marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have in-laws"  -R.A. Wilson

	\\\\\sean/////
From: dobson@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael Dobson)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Vending machines are out ta get me
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:46:42 GMT
Organization: National Naval Medical Center

In article <1992Nov16.184851.23185@mail.cornell.edu> jea1@cornell.edu (John Austin) writes:
>In article <BxnpKI.Dw1@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil> LCDR Michael Dobson,
>dobson@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil writes:
>>In article <gerald.721517295@gerald> gerald@torolab4.vnet.ibm.com writes:
>>[vending machine dribble]
>>>
>>>Gerald, the cunning linguist
>>
>>I first read this as 'Gerald, the cunnilinguist'
>
>         *gigaplonk*
>
Wheee!! I got a gigaplonk, yeaaaa!
>
>
>down w/ sigs

Mike "now if I could just get my other system back on line so I could post
from my rdc account" Dobson
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods)
Subject: Re: Actual Dan Quayle Interview
Summary: cruel, even by my standards.
Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:17:36 GMT

In <1992Nov18.151527.11898@spider.co.uk> andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon) writes:
>We change the language to divide, confuse and rule. It's not much, but its
>all we've got these days.

>We used to have an Empire you know.

But I hear they just had a fire sale.
From: jvogel@math.rutgers.edu (jeff vogel)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Want to break world record.
Date: 16 Nov 92 21:00:32 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I want to break a world record. Will everyone please send me at least
one used condom for Christmas. I am a sick and dying child.

And soon, with your help, I will have the strangest wallpaper in the whole
wide world.

					- Jeff Vogel
					Dying slowly
From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] The Wumpus")
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Urinal splitting
Summary: Blarney
Date: 20 Nov 92 00:34:49 GMT
Organization: Eaters of Wisdom
In-reply-to: curtw@euler.jsc.nasa.gov's message of 10 Nov 92 21:17:44 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.211744.6281@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
curtw@euler.jsc.nasa.gov (Curt Wiederhoeft) writes.
> YABBLE YABBLE YABBLE YABBLE YABBLE YABBLE YABBLE YABBLE YABBLE 
> YABBLE YABBLE YABBLE  urinal   splitting  YABBLE YABBLE YABBLE 
> YABBLE YABBLE YABBLE YABBLE YABBLE YABBLE YABBLE YABBLE YABBLE 


    My recommendation: score the urinal carefully down the centerline
with a Dremel.  be sure to bring lots of spare bits; the ceramic is
quite tough.  Once the urinal is scored, put a cold chisel in the score
line at the top where the pipe comes in and give it a few good solid
raps with a mallet.  be sure to hold the chisel perpendicular.  You may
have a little cruft along the fault line if you haven't hit the chisel
sharply enough or haven't scored deeply enough; you can take this off
with the chisel or with a grindstone.  I do not recommend the Dremel for
this.

   Even if the score is good, you may have some trouble around the
joints where the pipe emerges; to avoid this, I advise pouring very hot
water into the urinal or over the pipes just before using the chisel;
the pipes expand more than the ceramic and stress the join so that the
urinal comes free of the pipes.  Don't use boiling water, as this may
stress the urinal too much, leading to a jagged break.  

   The most important thing to remember is that a urinal is not a
bathtub and that you are not doing a simple demolition job here.  The
best way to destroy a bathtub is to beat it with a sledge hammer until
it disintegrates, but even with careful scoring this won't help you at
all with the urinal.

   As always, remember to wear goggles, and safety first.

>   Curt "man, this water's cold" Wiederhoeft

Deep, too.
--

                And for to se, and eek for to be seye
Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			    mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu 

Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
Subject: Re: Whatever happened to Amy S. Kahn?
Originator: jcarroll@ferris
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 20 Nov 92 16:13:14 CST


In article <By14AM.4n6@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, kelley@vet.vet.purdue.edu (Stephen Kelley) writes:
> In article <By0By5.Myt@fulcrum.co.uk> igb@fulcrum.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:
> - 
> - I went into Stacey's in Palo Alto and bought a copy of the perl book,
> 
> IS THAT THE ONE BY STEINBECK, OR THE ONE FROM 
> GROVE PRESS?

No, it's the perl book. You know, the one about the Chinese woman...
From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Short Shameful Girlfriend
Date: 20 Nov 1992 17:50:58 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
NNTP-Posting-Host: grissom.larc.nasa.gov

In article <74526@apple.apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes:
>Dorsey:
>|Yes, but who is going to hold her legs up off the ground?
>
>Oh my dear boy! Surely you went to college...
>
>What did you think milk crates were for? Putting records in?

What?  You want me to put the milk crates in the shower?  Won't that
get the records wet?
--scott
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton)
Subject: short shameful confession
Summary: Rim Dweller On the Road
Organization: t.b, t.p.d, & a.d
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:22:18 GMT

C J Silverio (cj@eno.esd.sgi.com) wrote:
: ---
: I left a comma out of my previous post.
: Here it is:	,

  I went back and looked at the previous post, until I was sure
I knew where that comma belonged.
  In the course of this, I found what I believe to be an extraneous
comma.  Here it is:   ,

  -- Clifton

--
cliftonr@netcom.com     Home: +1 808 521 9073  Work: +1 808 625 3234
Pope of the Church of the Subgenius in Paradise
"Have a revelation, the first one's free/Soon to be addicted to eternity" - HMR
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: John Austin <jea1@cornell.edu>
Subject: ShShCo
X-Xxdate: Mon, 16 Nov 92 21: 43:38 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: jea1@cornell.edu
Organization: BTI
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:38:53 GMT

I still have occasional difficulty with this 80 column thing.


.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
John Austin (jea1@cornell.edu)                                                 
Grafix 'R Us                                                           rim newt
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research                                    
123456789112345678921234.sig *still* under construction...961234567897123456789
From: dmccart@gomez.intel.com (D. J. McCarthy)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Short, Shameful Cowardice
Date: 20 Nov 92 21:23:42 GMT
Organization: Intel ASTG, Santa Clara, CA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


	I have made a GIF of the save-a-drowning-cat-by-spinning-it-
by-its-hind-legs picture I mentioned about a week ago, but I'm too
chocken to post it.


--
| D. J. McCarthy                        The moving walkway is now ending;
| dmccart@gomez.intel.com                               please look down.
| ...!intelhf!mipos3!modl01!dmccart
From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: ssc
Date: 17 Nov 1992 18:40:48 GMT
Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
NNTP-Posting-Host: alfalfa.intel.com

In article <1992Nov16.170902.13206@ncar.ucar.edu> john@lightning.ofps.ucar.edu (John J. Allison) writes:
>Whenever I print something, I continually "lpq"
>until I see "no entries".

Whenever I read the news, I frequently followup
to ensure something intelligent accrues.

				--Blair
				  "Buy War Bonds!"
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (Bakayaroo Banzai)
Subject: Scream and Scream Again
Organization: Return to Traditional Nukeylar Values 
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 10:08:05 GMT



Petticoat Junction: The Next Generation

Kolchak: The Night Watchman

Bonanza: Night of the Living Hoss

Baywatch: Buns of Terror

Battlestar Galactica: Galactica Discovers the Cosbys   

The Sally Struthers Show (no subtitle necessary)

Leave It to Beaver: The Castro Street Years

America's Sombre and Enlightening Home Videos (PBS)

The Jethrine Beaudine Show: I Changed My Sex

The Fecal Gourmet with John Waters



Bakayaroo Banzai
Second Sitcom-Cousin Twice Removed of the Bundys
From: 002519m@ace.acadiau.ca (KRISTIAN AARON MACCALL)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: test
Date: 16 Nov 92 18:52:56 GMT
Organization: Acadia University

-icles
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: caz@owlnet.rice.edu (HWRNMNBSOL)
Subject: Collected Wisdom of the Construction Industry
Organization: Rice University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:35:32 GMT

In my capacity as designer for Grinnell Fire Protection, I have a great deal
of contact with individuals involved in all aspects of the construction
industry.  These fellows, by and large, fit the standard stereotypical
mold -- hulking, hairy, pot-bellied chain-smokers with filthy mouths and
habits.  

However, unbeknownst to the average citizen, construction workers are also
natural philosophers.  They have accumulated a store of wit and wisdom that
serves them in good stead in their line of work -- particularly when they
are installing 5/8" sheetrock.

Here, collected together for your edification, is some of the timeless
wisdom of our noble friends in the girders.

**************************************************************************

"Christ!  Those are the BIGGEST FOCKING TITS I have *EVER* seen!!!"

"That Clinton's a fag.  I bet he got AIDS."

"Okay, who stole my fucking Lunchables?"

"HEY!  ASSHOLE!  That's *MY* ladder!"

"......I dunno.  He got parole, but I think he's still gonna beat her...."

"Hey, you catch _Married_With_Children_ ?  Where do they get those babes...."

"Oh, man -- I'm eighteen feet off the ground, and I gotta take a shit."

"Aw, fuck -- twelve inches, fifteen inches; who's gonna give a shit?"

"WHERE THE FUCK IS MY PAYCHECK?!!!!"

-- 
college got me a better life,
HWRNMNBSOL
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods)
Subject: Re: POEM
Keywords: Data's Poetry
Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:37:48 GMT

In <BxtEKw.6zp@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton) writes:
>In <iZBauB22w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
>>I just thought I'd follow this up for the benefit of those who have CARASSO
>>in their kill files.
>I just thought I'd follow this up for the benefit of those who have
>mathew@mantis.co.uk in their kill files.

I just thought I'd follow this up for the benefit of those who have
me in their kill files.

Wait a minute.
From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: short shameful reality (was Re: How to kill chickens with your computer...)
Date: 16 Nov 1992 20:26:04 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
NNTP-Posting-Host: grissom.larc.nasa.gov

In article <1992Nov14.220646.19477@walter.cray.com> jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll) writes:
>
>The resonant frequency of the longest string on a piano is much higher
>than 7 Hz.
>
>The fundamental resonant frequency of a sousaphone with all three valves
>pressed is considerably higher than 7 Hz.

There are a few pipe organs out there with some pipes that have a 16 Hz
fundamental, but that's about as low as you can really go with any instrument
that is not electronically amplified.  Obviously to generate that low a note
without a very large resonance chamber is difficult.

The 16 Hz note isn't really audible, but it's easily felt.  It's definitely
a strange sensation.  Lower frequencies at louder volumes cause nausea, as
a few electric bass players have found.  (Incidentally some bass amps don't
reproduce the fundamental, but primarily reinforce the second harmonic of
many of the lower notes, but that's another story).

If you want to kill birds, then, I recommend the HP 200CD signal generator.
--scott
From: mha1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MICHAEL H. ALAIMO)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Rictus Hep's Nightmare
Date: 17 Nov 92 17:50:48 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <6993@ac13.cs.nps.navy.mil>, rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
 writes:
>"... well I dreamed there was an island,
> that rose up from the sea,
> and everybody on the island
> was somebody from t.b."
>
>rp -- real life
>      is exactly like
>      talk.bizarre
>      only much,
>      much
>      weirder.

And I heard this guy say "Oh, there's another one of those....Wavey Davey
                                           clones"
And I said "Lookit me!  Loookit me!"
-- 

 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
: MIKE ALAIMO        :
: Brain Surgeon      :    A couple SANGWICHES(tm)
: Rocket Scientist & :       shy of a picnic
: General Neophyte   :
 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Qats
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:18:13 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <1992Nov20.200735.18357@microsoft.com> benth@microsoft.com (Ben) writes:
>If our cats were people, we could have them declared
>criminally insane in no time at all.

If my cats were people, I'd have to build an addition onto the house.

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Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
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