HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dbonner@netcom.com (David C. Bonner)
Subject: Re: Earthquake Songs
Keywords: music, earthquake
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:03:21 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.043752.26835@leland.Stanford.EDU> calliope@leland.Stanford.EDU (Joanna Salgado) writes:
>
>Okay, everyone.  What I need is a list of earthquake songs to play
>when disaster strikes.
>
>Examples: "All Shook Up"  Elvis (is alive)
>          "I Feel the Earth Move"   Carole King
>
>
>Any Suggestions?
>
>Thanx,
>
>calliope@leland.stanford.edu
>%[;-)

How about "Shake, Rattle, and Roll"?

-DCB
From: sgupta@coral.cs.unm.edu (Sarang Gupta)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Read this in case of fire.
Keywords: cascade
Date: 24 Jan 93 03:23:47 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of New Mexico

In article <1jsdmaINNpri@crcnis1.unl.edu> e_p@unl.edu (edgar pearlstein) writes:
>
>   Not now, you idiot.  IN CASE OF FIRE.
Hey! This post really raised my ire...
From: pa_ross@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Mr Rossy)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Occupations/Names (was interesting christian/surnames
Date: 21 Jan 93 14:16:44 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol

In article <C0v5C7.FB8@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> bmetcalf@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Metcalf) writes:
>
>	How about a dentist named Dr. Cocagne?  (cocaine)  My friend goes to
>him.
>						BTM
	 have a fre

I have a friend that was operated on by Dr. Butcher

					 Paul
				=---=
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: comptec92076@camins.camosun.bc.ca
Subject: Re: Misc Traffic Rules
Organization: Camosun College
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:33:08 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.190243.19706@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, alrobins@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Amanda Robinson) writes:
> In article <1993Jan23.082410.28167@cunews.carleton.ca> fenton@scs.carleton.ca (Trevor Fenton) writes:
> 
>>	Montreal has to be the only city I know of in the world that puts signs
>>on most traffic signal standards instructing drivers: "Attendez le feu vert."
>>ie, 'wait for the green light.' Only in Montreal!
>>trev
> Nope.  Not only in Montreal.  There are a couple signs around my house (the 
> first one I noticed is at Pontiac Trail and Orchard Lake Road in West 
> Bloomfield, Michigan for the two people world-wide who care) that say "Proceed
> on green signal only". 

My personal favorite is the sign usually found on the highways...

Maximum 50km/hour when children present on highway.

gee.. only 50? but it's more fun hitting them at 75 or so....
:^)
From: teb2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (TIMOTHY EUGENE BAKER)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Read this in case of fire.
Date: 26 Jan 93 00:52:02 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1jsdmaINNpri@crcnis1.unl.edu>, e_p@unl.edu (edgar pearlstein) writes
:
>
>   Not now, you idiot.  IN CASE OF FIRE.
>Surely of this you tire
From: cb599@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Robbins)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Misc Traffic Rules
Date: 23 Jan 1993 04:23:17 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


During simultanious arrivals at 4way stops, pickup trucks with
rifle racks have first right of way......
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From: adam@saki.com.au (Adam Donnison)
Subject: Re: as useful as
Organization: Saki Computer Services Pty., Ltd., The Patch, Vic., Australia
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 02:55:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.042035.8499@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> pts2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PAUL THOMAS STROBL) writes:
>In article <1993Jan20.211246.26743@ccd.harris.com>, kdauplai@controls.ccd.harris
>.com (Kim Dauplaise) writes:
>>
>>As useful as tits on a bull .  (learned at my Mother's knee. And I thought she
>>loved me!)
>>
>I originally heard it as:
>
>   As useless as tits on a nun.
>
>
>            --Tex
In Australia it always been tits on a bull, or as my mother phrased it :

Mammary glands on a male bovine.

-- 
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From: teb2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (TIMOTHY EUGENE BAKER)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: This is a test
Date: 26 Jan 93 00:51:09 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <C1Br1F.Eo4@willamette.edu>, bbrown@willamette.edu (Brian Brown) writ
es:
>>> >>> >>>This is a test.
>>> >>> >>Be my guest.
>>> >>> >cascade fest
>>> >>> Surely you jest.
>>> >>Is that your BEST?
>>> >Give it a rest.
>>(sigh) Such a pest.
>--Go out west
>------------------  bbrown@willamette.edu  (Brian W. Brown)  -----------------
>Old Computer People never die, they just go to bits, lose their memory, and
>cache in their chips.  Old Mathematicians never die, they just disintegrate.
>------------ Walt Disney didn't die.  He's in suspended animation ------------
>
From: gk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Gavin Kerr)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: 999,999,999 Green bottles
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:41:39 GMT
Reply-To: gk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Gavin Kerr)
Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U

In article <1993Jan25.173511.2828@vax1.mankato.msus.edu> engan@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan25.175105.4340@bradford.ac.uk>, A.D.Brown@bradford.ac.uk (AD BROWN) writes:
>> veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca (veenstra christopher) writes:
>> 
>>>In article <mPu4uB12w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker) writes:
>>>>> >>>>>>:>>>>>>> 999,999,999 Green bottles hanging on the wall
>>>>> >>>>>>:>>>>>>> 999,999,999 Green bottles hanging on the wall
>>>>> >>>>>>:>>>>>>> and if one green bottle should accidentally fall
>>>>> >>>>>>:>>>>>>> they'd be....
>>>>> >>>>>>:>>>>>>
>>>> ____________________________________
>>>>|                                    |
>>>>|    ETC   ETC   ETC   ETC   ETC     |
>>>>|____________________________________|
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 999,999,985 Green bottles hanging on the wall
>>>>> 999,999,985 Green bottles hanging on the wall
>>>>> and if one of those bottles should happen to fall
>>>>> they'd be...
>>>>
>>>>Come on, cascades don't have to be THIS stupid.
>>>>
>> 
>>>Well, personally, I find this far more amusing than any cascade.  I haven't
>>>seen this many people get this annoyed at any cascade yet!  I almost get
>>>sick from laughing at all these people telling them to stop.  I love it!  In
>>>fact......
>> 
>>>999,999,984 Green bottles hanging on the wall
>>>999,999,984 Green bottles hanging on the wall
>>>and if one of those bottles should happen to fall
>>>they'd be...
>> 
>> A chain reaction that would cause half the bottles to fall each time
>> so:
>> 
>> 49,999,992 Green bottles hanging on the wall
>> 49,999,992 Green bottles hanging on the wall
>> and if half of those bottles should happen to fall
>> there'd be...
>> 
>24,999,996 Green bottles hanging on the wall
>24,999,996 Green bottles hanging on the wall
>and if 72.6 percent of those bottles should happen to fall
>there'd be...


6,849,998 Green bottles hanging on the wall
6,849,998 Green bottles hanging on the wall
and if e^(i*PI) green bottles should accidently fall
there'd be...


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Subject: Re: Whats Brown and Sticky
From: tumidity@netlink.cts.com (Joel Garry)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 14:00:14 PST
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

adawal@scorch.apana.org.au (Adam Walsh) writes:

> OK .. 
> 
> Q. Whats Brown and sticky?
> 
> <Page Down for answre>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> A Stick
> 
> OK OK It's a shit joke, no need to send lots of mail to me telling  me
> so!
> 

what do you call a (insert minority here) pole-vaulter?























Shit on a stick.

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From: sml@mfltd.co.uk (Shaun Lowry)
Subject: Re: The Hidden Brain Damage Scale
Organization: Micro Focus Ltd., Newbury, UK
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:14:16 GMT


In article <1jn5nnINNmbq@sumax.seattleu.edu>, jfox@sumax.seattleu.edu (<-----Shadoxx----->) writes:
 
> Hidden Brain Damage Scale:
> 
>  Enter T or F
>  __1. People tell me one thing one day and out the other.

[ ... damage deleted ... ]

> __34. I don't like any of my loved ones.

A friend of mine (he's Dutch, donchyaknow), used to come out with lines
like these.  A few of my favourites:-

"I know!  I'll write it in C!  Oh no I won't, I don't know how,"
"I think.... no I don't,"
[ about card games ] "Don't talk to me Dave, it's just numbers,"
and my favourite ...
"Oooh, I feel like I've just been born!"

One of my favourites of all time, however, was uttered by a girl I used
to know, at a fairly raucous party.  She stood up in the middle of the
floor and said 

"Everyone stop talking and listen to ME!....." ... dreadful silence ... 
"... not now, when I've got something to say!"

Haw Haw,

    Shaun.
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From: fret@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Jim Viner)
Subject: Re: waxwork clinton
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:25:57 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.091923.2955@dct.ac.uk> mlsdb1sab@dct.ac.uk (Steven Byers) writes:
>I was watcing the news last night and they were showing you the new waxwork
>model of bill clinton.
>
>
>
>is it just me or does the expressin on it's face look like someone just
>shoved a sausage up his bum
>
>
What a frank-spurter?
From: mkeiser@sccarace.EBay.Sun.COM (Mark Keiser)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Canonical List of Somalian Jokes Needed -> fast!  Please email
Date: 22 Jan 1993 18:03:22 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: mkeiser@sccarace.EBay.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: sccarace.ebay.sun.com

A few samples below:

Q:	How many Somalians can you get in a telephone booth?
A:	All of them.

Q:	Who is the patron saint of Somalia?
A:	Karen Carpenter

Q:	What do you call a Somalian standing in a field?
A:	A rake.

Q:	What do you call a Somalian with a sheep?
A:	A vegetarian.

Q:	What do you call a Somalian with two sheep?
A:	A pimp.


Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle
From: spackman@disco-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de (Stephen Spackman)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: For your inspection and reading pleasure
Date: 26 Jan 1993 15:22:57 GMT
Organization: DFKI Saarbruecken GmbH, D-W 6600 Saarbruecken
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Reply-To: stephen@acm.org
NNTP-Posting-Host: disco-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de
In-reply-to: phudl@csv.warwick.ac.uk's message of 25 Jan 1993 18:41:48 -0000

In article <1k1c9cINNc7g@emmental.csv.warwick.ac.uk> phudl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S J Liddicott) writes:
|   And what the priesthood feel like posting with their name attatched to
|is THEIR business.  For whatever reasons.  And as far as that goes they can
|and do speak for themselves.
|   Their behaviour oughtn't to be layed out so strictly in rule form.
|Is "it's funny" the only criteria?  I think you'd be silly to try
|and define what the criteria is.  My criteria is different from
|yours, I'll guess.  They post what THEY feel like, it's their privelidge.
|   We see from this newsgroup that many people think the priests missed
|something funny.  So what?  Is there some quality which is missing
|from the regular digests?  Not that I find.

Well, but as I recall, this thread started with one of the priesthood
agonising about how they WANTED to post this thing and eveybody thought
it was EXCELLENT but it was too gross. They seemed to feel just awful
about having "had" to do this. Nobody's trying to remove options, I'm
just suggesting that there's another one, already conventional, already
in place: when the r.h.f editors WANT to post something but it's too
risque or too disgusting, they rot13 it, put on an "at your own risk"
label, and let it go out.

It's NOT a question of twisting the priesthood's arm; it's a question of
sitting them down (as it were) and explaining to them that their arm
isn't being twisted. Everyone here's a grownup, and if we have a little
warning they can go ahead and post whatever they want.

So let me say it again: I don't think that a message that the priesthood
WANT to digestify should be suppressed because they are worried that *I*
(or you, or anyone else) will be grossed out. A warning and a rot13ing
are more than enough protection.

| >(And remember, Mr. Liddicott: the best responses are written after
| >reading the question...).
|
|?  Did I answer one of your questions badly and leave my signature on it
|or something??

No; I was just really amazed when my staunchly anti-censorship,
pro-priestly-judgment post was interpreted as the converse.... And your
"in real life" name is unusual in carrying an explicit gender marking.
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Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: noe@cs.uiuc.edu (Roger Noe)
Subject: Re: For your inspection and reading pleasure
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Comp Sci, Urbana, IL
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:11:38 GMT

In article <1jpbjkINNh5r@tamsun.tamu.edu> davidr@cs.tamu.edu (David E Randolph) writes:
>If I understand the system correctly, when
>an oracularity is submitted, it is sent to exactly one priest[ess],
>who decides alone whether it is fit to be passed on to the other
>priests for a general vote.  This means that an oracularity is at
>the mercy of a single priest's sense of humor, values, and even mood.

You're even more at the mercy of one single Priest than you think.
There is no general vote--Kinzler alone decides which of the
submissions stamped OK by the individual Priests will make it into
posted digests.  And he has the same lack of humor, values, and
fickle mood as the Oracle himself. :-)

>2)  As a compromise, all submissions are sent to one random priest as
>    before, but if the priest is not sure whether the others would
>    find it funny, he or she can opt to have the submission sent to
>    some other randomly selected priest for approval.

We already have the super-secret, ultra-secure PriestNet by which
members of the Oracular Priesthood can consult with one another.  Most
of the comments are along the lines of, "Look what THIS total
loser/dweeb/dolt wrote!"  There are even contests, where each Priest
tries to top the last one, as in "If you thought THAT was bad, just
read THIS."  Once in awhile, one of the Priests sends a message to all
the others, saying something like "I dunno, this submission doesn't
suck rutabagas, but I don't want my name attached to it in the
digests--any of you desperate enough?" :-)
--
Roger Noe                            noe@cs.uiuc.edu
Department of Computer Science       40:06:39 N.  88:13:41 W.
University of Illinois               (217) 244-6173
Urbana, IL  61801  USA
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: Me
Subject: What do ya'll think?
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:15:57 GMT

 Greetings.  I got this response from the Oracle and found it hilarious.
However, it never made it to an Oraclarity (sp?) digest.  Did it slip past
the system, or do I just have an off-beat sense of humor?  
 (BTW, in the real world, my political opinions are best described as
moderate. Please keep that in mind - I don't want to deal with flaming
Democrats.)

The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
Your question was:

> My friends are unable to answer this and I heard about you being able to
> answer the impossible questions.  So, if it's not too much trouble, please
> 'tell me':
> 
>   What's a Republican to do now?
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
>  A Republican Who's A Rather Decent Fellow
>  (real name witheld for obvious reasons)
> 

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Dear (real name withheld for oblivious reasons),
} 
} Tough call.  I mean, with the GOP continually losing congressional seats,
} there just aren't enough jobs to go around for you up-n-coming types.  So
} basically, you can either found a right-wing newspaper or televangelical
} TV show, or you can go to a country where you'll fit in on either side of
} the political fence....
} 
} RUSSIA!  That's right, our post-cold-war pals the Slavs will embrace your
} ideologies, one way or the other.  Whichever side has job openings will
} suit you just fine.  
} 
} THE REFORMISTS share your phobic hatred of communism, or indeed any
} governmental control over public life.  Like you, they want to minimize
} the size of the centralized government!  
} 
} THE CONSERVATIVES match your love for the status quo and hostility towards
} change!  Dammit, they like things the way they are; if it was good enough
} for us, it's good enough for our kids!  
} 
} So you see that both factions agree with your politics!  A quick course in
} Elementary Russian and you, with thousands of loyal Republicants just like
} you, can go show our friends the Russians a thing or two about good ol'
} American Republicanism!  
} 
} You owe the Oracle a one-way ticket to Russia, with love.  

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From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: For your inspection and reading pleasure
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:05:05 GMT
Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
In-reply-to: stcmille@panix.com (Steve Miller)

In article <C1FDDn.B9B@panix.com>, stcmille@panix (Steve Miller) writes:
>Hmmmm.  Seemed to me that the problem with the cannibalistic post was
>not that it was tasteless or "shocking."

I thought the tastelessness was quite tasteful, and hence should have
been accepted.  It's at the level of certain camp songs, like "Great
big gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts, mutilated monkey meat, itty bitty
baby feet/French fried eyeballs boiled in a bowl of blood, oops I forgot
my spoon....But I remembered a straw...."
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: auer@cs.swarthmore.edu (David S. Auer)
Subject: Re: Gory oracularity
Reply-To: auer@cs.swarthmore.edu (David S. Auer)
Organization: Computer Science, Swarthmore College, PA, USA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:31:23 GMT

Congrats go out to kalki who correctly observed that "The Casque of
Montecristo" should actually be "The Casque of Amontilado".  Thank you
to those who have singled out my oracularities as good.  You know who
you are.  (I sent you email.)
From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: Problem seperating out posts with xrn!
Date: 20 Jan 93 19:15:39 PST
Organization: BBS

> Most newsreaders can accomodate digests and either split them up
> into separate articles for you -- either automatically ala nn or on
> request ala notes.
 
Not mine.
 
And I only get one choice at this site.  It's not a **ix system.
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: ic10203@meibm10.cen.uiuc.edu (Ian Chai)
Subject: Re: Bill Marcum's Question!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:04:01 GMT

>Don't be ridiculous.  Lemur's don't chuck wood.  They chuck Lemmings.
[etc]

Haha! 4,

Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis)
Subject: #524-02
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:08:26 GMT
Reply-To: Arlie Davis <aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu>
Organization: University of Louisville

Kudos to whomever wrote the reply to 524-02.  It could have realted to the
question a little more, but it was pretty interesting on its own.

Too bad, though, the author didn't pick up on the pun in "UNIX".  :)

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From: noe@cs.uiuc.edu (Roger Noe)
Subject: Re: priests
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Comp Sci, Urbana, IL
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:15:17 GMT

In article <paulk.3frr@terapin.com> paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) writes:
>How come when I sent in 522-05 I was told that it was deficient and needed
>work, and then I sent in a new version, and then the old version was put in the
>digest??

The Oracle moves in mysterious ways. :-)
--
Roger Noe                            noe@cs.uiuc.edu
Department of Computer Science       40:06:39 N.  88:13:41 W.
University of Illinois               (217) 244-6173
Urbana, IL  61801  USA
From: aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: 525-8
Date: 28 Jan 93 13:44:57 GMT
Reply-To: Arlie Davis <aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu>
Organization: University of Louisville

The Oracle writes in #525-8:

} The Oracle, of course, serves as the Font of All Knowledge and Most
} Wisdom.  (Hey, knowing what is wise and DOING it are different
} things.)  You were put here to kiss my Oracular butt and grovel
} profusely, and to take care of that incident that will come to light
} in about a week.

Is the Oracle bitmapped, or scaled, or both?  Can he be rotated through an
arbitrary angle, or is he limited to 90 and 45 degree rotations?  Is the Oracle
himself Times or ITCAvantGarde?  Can he underline, bold, italic, and still look
good?  Does he look consistent on all platforms?

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From: davidr@cs.tamu.edu (David E Randolph)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: For your inspection and reading pleasure
Date: 25 Jan 1993 06:34:05 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
NNTP-Posting-Host: solar.tamu.edu

In article <C1E3JE.CE@cs.uiuc.edu> noe@cs.uiuc.edu (Roger Noe) writes:
.>In article <1jpbjkINNh5r@tamsun.tamu.edu> davidr@cs.tamu.edu (David E Randolph) writes:
.>>If I understand the system correctly, when
.>>an oracularity is submitted, it is sent to exactly one priest[ess],
.>>who decides alone whether it is fit to be passed on to the other
.>>priests for a general vote.  This means that an oracularity is at
.>>the mercy of a single priest's sense of humor, values, and even mood.
.>
.>You're even more at the mercy of one single Priest than you think.
.>There is no general vote--Kinzler alone decides which of the
.>submissions stamped OK by the individual Priests will make it into
.>posted digests.  And he has the same lack of humor, values, and
.>fickle mood as the Oracle himself. :-)
.>
.>--
.>Roger Noe                            noe@cs.uiuc.edu
.>Department of Computer Science       40:06:39 N.  88:13:41 W.
.>University of Illinois               (217) 244-6173
.>Urbana, IL  61801  USA

So, if there is no general vote, then when is the submission's score
determined?  Where does the score come from?

-Grasshopper

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