HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pat@sphinx.phys.Virginia.EDU (pat walsh)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: at the risk of sounding repetitive...
Date: 6 Nov 92 18:21:39 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia Physics Department

Robert Davis (you didn't walk away and leave your terminal logged in, did you?)
writes:

>I guess that this, coupled with the fact that I'm a WASP means
>that I'm automatically wrong and marked for extinction by the liberal
>leftist extremist democrats.  At least the Republicans do not cheat to
                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>win elections and are not cry-babies like Slick Willie is!  
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Whoooeeee!  You didn't happen to be alive and sentient during the years
1972-1974, did you?

I'd suggest you find a good encyclopedia and look up "Watergate".  You might
find it enlightening.  Also, there's a good book named "All the President's
Men" by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward -- I highly recommend it.

- Patrick Walsh
  University of Virginia Department of Physics
  pw@virginia.bitnet, pw@virginia.edu, pat@gomez.phys.virginia.edu
From: v115r4q5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Perry M Jowsey)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Have some respect
Date: 13 Nov 92 16:47:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


   I can't believe the overwhelming disrespect I am constantly encountering in
this newsgroup.  Perhaps it will take a few months of a Clinton administration 
for some people to realize it, but Vice President Quayle has been the best 
political mind in the White House for 4 years, and considering the recently 
elected crop, there won't be a man to top his stature for years to come.  Did 
anyone watch the debate and actually believe that Al Gore won? Be real!
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Bell-weather areas (was Re: Weekly Reader wrong! Who else?)
From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Date: 5 Nov 92 12:13:08 MST
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
Nntp-Posting-User: f67700241

For those of you checking, the NY Times has a long piece on what bell-
wethers for the election failed in 1992.

* Weekly Reader kids picked Bush.
* The loser of the NH primary won the general election.
* Crook County, Oregon, picked Bush.
* Noted psychics Joyce Jillson and Jeane Dixon prophesied a Bush win.
* Ray C. Fair's formula (based on several economic indicators) predicted
a Clinton landslide defeat.  The only previous times it has failed were
1960, 1968, and 1976.
* The Democrats did not carry Texas, yet still won the general election.
* The American League won the World Series, indicating a Republican win.
This test has failed previously only in 1980 and 1984.
* There was a poor Beaujolais grape harvest in France, indicating a
Republican win.

Get the paper...it has conmplete election outcomes for all you numbers
freaks.
-- 
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin           (DQ quote temporarily retired)
f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu

"[George Bush is] the most ruthless white man in the history of the planet."
	-- Richard Ben Cramer, author of _What It Takes_
"The President scores much better than Bill Clinton."
	-- Dan, comparing Bush's record of marital infidelity to Clinton's
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From: sstarr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Starr)
Subject: Re: Integrity
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 17:14:53 GMT


No, no, no!  You just dont understand us commie pinko crazy liberals....
I
I don't have anything against hopeless misspellers.  Nor indeed do I have
any problem whith strongly held beliefs.  The problem I have with Dan
Quayle is that if the dear boy had a battle of wits with a Veg-O-Matic he
would be badly defeated.  You will notice that Gore, who authored a fine
book about the Environemnt and is considered a congressional expert on
ballistic missiles, does not suffer from the same deficiency.

And now it's time to digress!

It seems that some conservatives around here don't like Gore's position
that we will have to get rid of the internal combustion engine some day. 
Well, here's some questions I'd like you to mull over before you call his
position looney:

1.  Do you know what causes smog?  (Car exhaust, almost exclusivly...)
2.  Is it pleasant to live in a city with Smog Alerts?
3.  Is the supply of oil infinate?
4.  Can an over-relience on oil for transportation pull our naiton into
foreign wars?
5.  Do massive oil imports add to (or almost entirely account for) the
U.S. trade deficit?

After mulling these questions over you will probably conclude that they
don't mean anything anyway, they were written by a liberal, and besides
who wants to change their mind...

that's just the way conservitives are! :-)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.clinton
From: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: at the risk of sounding repetitive...
Reply-To: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 00:51:24 GMT

In article <BxD5F0.4IH@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:
>In article <1992Nov7.175748.18160@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> sstarr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Starr) writes:
>>
>>Did you know that Bush's campaign repededly and knowingly
>>told bald-faced lies to the American people?  I personally thought that
>>the best one was the 128 tax increases. 
>
>I thought the best BushLie of the campaign was the commercial played on Black
>radio stations saying that Arkansas had no Martin L King holiday, when in
>fact it has since 1985, and Clinton himself was involved in making it so.
>It's just a flat-out lie... the Republicans *deserved* to lose the election
>because of things like this.
>-- 
>Now's the time on Schprockets when we dance.  |hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
>                                              |WWIVNet 1@2750 
The defining moment for me was not a lie but a sappy and obvious
emotional appeal when Bush called Clinton's patriotism into question
because he (Clinton) was rooting for the Blue Jays.  

Do you suppose he really believes bilge like that, or is everything
politics?  A militant atheist in Illinois had an encounter with Bush
and came away swearing that Bush had told him that atheists weren't
citizens and weren't entitled to the same rights as "real" Americans.

Erik Timmerman
From: michael@albert.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: seconding the motion....
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:25:35 GMT
Organization: Boston University

I'll second the motion that, during the transition period,
we start up alt.politics.humor, or alt.politicians.stupid,
or some such group. A "big-tent" policy, one that includes
ALL of the stupid pol's, dem, rep, and independent alike.

Of course we're going to see Quayle make a go in '96-
his '94 remark was just alluding to the fact that it should
take him about 2 years before the election to completely whitewash his
image. Of course, with us around, perhaps not so many will forget.

In any case, when it comes to the '96 race, I'd feel confident that
everyone else eyeing the White House in the rep. primaries will wipe
jdq out. Keep an eye on Gov. Pete Wilson and Gov. Bill Weld- they're
the strongest rep's with the weakest ties to Reagan/Bush/Quayle.
(Not that *that* means anything...)
With any luck, the rep's defeat will cause them to reform the party,
hopefully ridding themselves of the Christian Jihad movement- just
as the defeat of Mondale and Dukakis caused the dem's to reform to a
more moderate stance.

Oh, yes, before I go, a note to rdavis:
In most freedom-loving countries,
43 is considered a larger number than 38.

Ciao,
Chaplin.
--
=========================================================================
Michael A. Chaplin           If you want *their* opinions, ask *them*.
michael@albert.bu.edu ....The Einstein Papers Project, Boston, Mass., USA
chaplin@husc.harvard.edu ....Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA
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From: chall@eco.twg.com (Charles Don Hall)
Subject: Washington Times, 11-9-92
Organization: The Wollongong Group (East Coast Operations)
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 19:03:04 GMT

The _Washington Times_ had a bottom-front-page story about Our Hero 
yesterday.  He and his aides believe that he stands a good chance of 
getting the nomination in '96, and he's looking for a high-visibility
position in the Republican Party to build his reputation back up. Looks
like it's too early to send out that rmgroup...

[You might think that the man who served as VP to a failed president
wouldn't have much chance of winning the nomination just one term
later, but that didn't stop Walter Mondale in 1984...]

The _Washington Post_ apparently doesn't think that this is worthy
of comment. Their bottom-front-page story was a profile of Socks,
our country's next First Cat.
-- 

===========================================================
Charles Don Hall, Licensed Philosopher  (chall@eco.twg.com)
===========================================================
From: sg@monsoon.com (Sunil Gupta)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: seconding the motion....
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 10:00:52 EST
Organization: Monsoon Software, Inc.

michael@albert.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin) writes:

> I'll second the motion that, during the transition period,
> we start up alt.politics.humor, or alt.politicians.stupid,
> or some such group. A "big-tent" policy, one that includes
> ALL of the stupid pol's, dem, rep, and independent alike.

How about:

    alt.politician.stupid
    alt.politician.stupid.al-d'amato
    alt.politician.stupid.jesse-helms

Sunil Gupta
Monsoon Software, Inc.
sg@monsoon.com
From: nittmo@buhub.bradley.edu (Christopher Taylor)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Weekly Reader wrong! Who else?
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:56:30 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Bradley University

In <8640@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> mitch@seashell.seas.ucla.edu (Robert R. Mitchell (SEAS admin)) writes:

>The Monday Night Football Poll.  Apparently, when the Minnesota Vikings
>win their game on election eve, the incumbents win the election.

Close, but not quite.  They said that when the Vikings won the Republicans 
won, and when the Vikings lost the Democrats won.  Obviously it didn't work 
that way this time.

>Not this time.  Vikings won, Bush lost.  But hearing about the prediction
>was enough to make me root for the (gasp!) Chicago Bears.

Me too--I can't stand the Bears and I thought I may have to root for them 
to win.
From: madhaus@netcom.com (Maddi Hausmann)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Letterman Top 10 List
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:53:56 GMT
Organization: Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things


From the 11/6/92 David Letterman Show:


   TOP TEN THINGS THE QUAYLES HAVE TO DO BEFORE JANUARY 20TH:
   ----------------------------------------------------------
10.  Fill out Dan's Dairy Queen application

 9.  Stock up on Defense Department hair shellac for Marilyn

 8.  Begin difficult process of teaching Dan a new address

 7.  Erase "I can't believe I'm Vice-President" doodles from
     his desk

 6.  Get cushy job from one of President's deadbeat sons

 5.  Break news to Dan that he wasn't re-elected

 4.  Try to meet Bush

 3.  Get Dan's favorite chew toy back from Millie

 2.  Explain to their children that Daddy will never hold
     any kind of political office ever again

And the number one thing the Quayles have to do before January 20th:

 1.  One more blunder for the road


We can do better, can't we folks?  Here are some more things for
Danoe to do before January 20th:

   Use gavel correctly in Senate chambers.
   Sink that difficult putt with the bank shot off Jim Baker's desk.
   Have another debate with Admiral Stockdale.
   Write Vice-Executive Order banning GPAs over 3.0 from holding
     National Guard officerships.
   Throw potatoe at office of Quayle Quarterly.
   Have Marilyn really tell off Garry Trudeau.
   

-- 
Maddi Hausmann                madhaus@netcom.com
Humorist, Satirist, Tech Writer.  Take your pick.

Centigram Communications Corp, San Jose California  408/428-3553
From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: 1996 GOP Veep Choice (Was: Re: Complete this sentence)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 20:06:44 PDT
Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


crb2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Chad R. Berthelson) writes:

> erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith) writes:

> >If we're going to be serious (and, after all, why should we be?), no
> >matter who the Repubs run for the top spot, there's only one obvious
> >choice for Veep: Colin Powell. A chance to grab some of the black and
> >minority vote, keep the anti-gay right wingers, and relive the glorious
> >days of Desert Storm, all in one package.
> 
> >And if the GOP doesn't pick him, Perot will.

> Well, I have 2 points.
> 
> 	1)  Just having a black man isn't enough to rally the black
> 	    vote for the Republicans.   Look at Judge Thomas....
> 	    Colin Powell would be a great choice, but I don't think
> 	    his 'being black' (as an issue) will help any extra.

Well sure it will help, among black voters. It won't get the Republicans
90% of the black vote, or even 50%, but it would certainly get them
more than they got this year (what was it, something like 17%?).

> 	2)  Perot doesn't 'get' to pick...He can only pick from people
> 	    who are willing to take the job (Schwartkoff (sp?) didn't 
> 	    accept this time).

Perot gets to pick just as much as the two major parties get to pick.
Sure, there are people who will turn down the job for any of them. After
all, not everybody is like Quayle.

> both of which boil down to Colin Powell not being a liberal, that..
> more than skin color, will determine who votes for him.

And against him? In a fantasy world, maybe. Take the case of Virginia
governor Wilder, who was listed by focus groups as the best Democratic
candidate when given written descriptions of their backgrounds before
the New Hampshire primary. But when they were shown TV spots and saw
he was black, potential support dropped to zero.

-----
Eric Smith
erics@infoserv.com
CI$: 70262,3610
From: KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu (Kurt Ludwick)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: 50 Years From Now...
Date: 13 Nov 92 02:40:20 GMT
 <92317.012833KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu> <BxLH1M.7n7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>

In article <BxLH1M.7n7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
(Slartibartfast) says:

>        Worked?  REAL GNP decreased 24% between 1980 -1990.  I am sure that
>it didn't decrease that much in two years of a Bush Adm. since his tax raise
>was in late 1990 or 1991.  BTW, figures are from Office of Management and
>Budget.

Sorry, but I don't believe this figure.  Not only does it make no sense
(considering the great economy in the mid- to late- 80's), but we would
have heard a lot more about that if it were true.  I never heard Clinton
mention a _fall_ (!) in Real GNP during the 80's.  It just is not true.

------------
Kurt Ludwick
------------
From: exudtn@exu.ericsson.se (Derek Nelson, xt-dL)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: at the risk of sounding repetitive...
Date: 12 Nov 92 23:01:32 GMT
Reply-To: exudtn@exu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.
X-Disclaimer: This article was posted by a user at Ericsson.
              Any opinions expressed are strictly those of the
              user and not necessarily those of Ericsson.

In article 8643@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU, mitch@seashell.seas.ucla.edu (Robert R. Mitchell (SEAS admin)) writes:
>rdavis@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Davis) writes:
> 
>: Unfortunately, Billy Boy & Gorey Al  won the election even though the peo
>: did select President Bush and VP Quayle via the popular vote. 

Which planet are you from?  Do they have math there?  The last time I 
looked Clinton had about 43,000,000 votes and Bush had
about 38,000,000 votes.  That's roughly 5 MILLION less.   I am a conservative/
moderate and I don't even support your fantasy.  
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
From: M19249@mwvm.mitre.org
Subject: Re: Thanks for the memories...Transition Plan
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA 22102
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:45:35 GMT

In article <TAK.92Nov5122449@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov>
tak@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov (Tom Kreitzberg) writes:
 
>A newsgroup called alt.politics.humor would get too many cross-postings
>from earnest people trying to broadcast their opinions about politics.
>Who wants that?
>
>How about something like alt.fan.political-humor or alt.fan.jokers.elected?
>
>        Tom
 
I vote for  alt.fan.political-humor.  Others have emailed me and have posted
earlier to keep a.f.dq and just let it evolve into a full political humor
newsgroup.  My only problem with that is the role of the newsgroup won't be
apparent to new netters.  Although I must admit it has been funny reading the
posts from those who didn't understand the tongue in cheek naming of a.fdq in
the first place.  Since we're waxing nostalgic did anyone save some of those
priceless posts and cross flames?
-DW
"standard disclaimer"
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From: bigdave@texas.tdd.sj.nec.com (David Sweeney  x2987)
Subject: Re: Transition Team Members Wanted
Organization: NEC-AM TDD, San Jose, California
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:10:30 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.055121.23017@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
 rdavis@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Davis) writes:
>
>Too bad that the U.S. political system failed and allowed Slick Willie & Al
>to become elected, after all, in the the popular vote, not the electoral
>vote, President Bush and VP Quayle WON this election!  However, the
>liberal media is trying their best to downplay this fact, just as they did
>their best to keep the truth about Billy Boy from being told to the American
>public.  

YES!  Everyone knows that it was a Liberal Bleeding-Heart Commie Faggot-Loving
Tree-Hugging Media CONSPIRACY to deny George Herbert Walker Bush his 
RIGHTFUL PLACE in the Oval Office that he WON through the MANDATE of the 
God-Fearin' Commie-Stompin' Cultural-Elite-Defyin' AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Obviously the MEDIA ELITE have pulled the WOOL over the eyes of the fine
AMERICAN public by cooking up fake TOTALS of votes for mass MEDIA consumption.
It's all a huge CONSPIRACY to POLLUTE our Precious Bodily Essences and STEAL
our SLACK[TM].

Sheesh.

-- 
Dave Sweeney     bigdave@tdd.sj.nec.com
I still woulda voted for Frank Zappa
From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: U2 and almost-ex-vice-president-Qualyle
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 08:41:06 PDT
Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
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garrett@Ingres.COM (WE'RE ONLY HERE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT ALL HERE) writes:

> 	U2 cut and spliced the video (it was obvious. They didn't try to
> hide it.) to make the Danster say (in a rap style) "Watch..Watch..Watch
> more TV. Television...Television...Television is doing the job."
>  	They then panned the video to show the president shrub and 
> all the other Republicans applauding.
> 	(To give you an idea of what U2 was trying to get across with
> this message, their tour is called "Zoo TV".
> 
> Comments?

In Chicago before the election Clinton discovered he was staying in
the same hotel as U2, so he went to their suite and hung out with them
for a while. Later they all went to a football game (Bears?) I think.
Maybe he brainwashed them somewhere along the line.

-----
Eric Smith
erics@infoserv.com
CI$: 70262,3610
From: popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Falwell
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 23:46:23 GMT
Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy, Houston, TX

Well, here he comes again.  Jerry Falwell is thinking about restarting 
Moral Majority.  i guess tryinng to pull his University out of near 
bankruptcy left him hurting for cash.  Lots of suckers out there for him 
to fleece.  And of course why leave all the political fun to Pat 
Robertson?  BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!  Go away Jerry!

  And in a more serious vein, there is talk of Bush wholesale pardoning 
all of the possible Iraqscam, Iranscam culprits thgat have misserved in 
the last 12 years in our government.  This prompts me to ask a curious 
hypothetical question.  Suppose Bush does pardon these people in the last 
week of his term?  Suppose Clinton then announces one week later after 
being sworn in that he is revoking that presidential pardon?  Do you 
think that would stand up in court?  After all the constitution does 
support presidential pardons, but is totally unclear on revocation of 
such pardons.  Interesting question if you think about it.
  Maybe it is time to start thinking about an amendment removing the 
presidential pardon clause from the constitution.

Pope Charles    Subgenius Pope Of Houston.   Plots abound.

--
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From: rdosser@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU (rdosser)
Subject: Re: All I have to say
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:13:44 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.151216.15826@rock.concert.net> toddwall@rock.concert.net (R. Todd Wall -- Catholic Diocese of Raleigh -- Computer Services) writes:
>All I have to say is I'll be voting for Quayle in '96.  Hopefully, Clinton
>won't destroy the economy to bad until then.
>

Gosh, it sure would be nice if Quayle was the GOP nominee in '96.
Without incumbency on his side, I doubt he'd even take Indiana. 

rdosser@utkux.utk.edu
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