HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Re: CDs cheaper...
Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Dallas, Tx.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:02:12 GMT

I've read that LP's cost more to make than CD's, at least these days.

>How much are new CDs these days? 

As much as $17.99+tax for those silly enough to buy them in stores.  As
low as $7 from Noteworthy.

In the early 80's, a CD cost $11.99 or $12.99 in a chain store, and this
price was expensive relative to LP's, but was supposed to go "way down"
once production ramped up.

Believe it or not, people are still buying cassettes in large quantities.
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From: sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney)
Subject: Re: Car Crime
Reply-To: sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 20 Nov 92 16:39:16 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.164954.22605@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> ccaamrg@rs6-svr-2.cls-4.bcc.ac.uk (Mike Gahan) writes:
>AFOM has recently been issued with a company car. It is quite fancy, and
>he took some pleasure in demonstrating the remote door locking/unlocking
>feature, by which it is possible to lock the doors from some distance
>away using a remote control instrument.
>
>Swiveling the mighty searchlight of my intellect upon its smooth gimbals,
>and bringing its harsh, actinic blaze to bear on this matter, the following
>occured to me:
>
>I assume that the remote instrument transmits some coded digital signal,
>electromagnetic or ultrasonic, to the vehicle, which, recognising its

Uh, infra-red, I believe. Like your TV.

>master, obligingly unlocks itself. The signal must be different for each
>vehicle. To steal a car such as this, I though, would be quite easy.
>
>The thief would merely conceal some piece of electronics, attuned to the
>appropriate frequency, somewhere near the car, possibly disguised as an
>itinerant traffic cone. The unsuspecting owner would use his instrument 
>to open the car, whereupon its cry would be recorded by the devilish
>equipment. The thief then comes and collects his machine, which will
>replay the desired signal to order.
>
You can buy "Universal remotes" that have a learn mode into which you
program all your existing controllers. They are very capable, given
the varitey of signalling techniques the have to recognize and copy.
>
>Imagine my childlike delight when I hear, from a bloke in a pub, that
>such devices are already available in the crime ridden dens of London's
>seedy East End.
>
You can buy these in dixons, never mind the Blind Beggar.

>Can anyone substansiate this rumour, so that I can gloatingly tell my
>friend 'I told you so' ?
>
>Mike Gahan

Can't confirm, but read about criminal use recently. I shouldn't imagine these
things are too expensive. Why don't you toddle off and buy one and you
and your friend give it a try. If it doesn't work, you can still use
it for it's ostensible raison d'etre of replacing the remote from your
HiFi, TV, video, cable, satellite et al.

Tony "can we say 'replay attack'" Sweeney.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes)
Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATMs for $$$$
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Will pay money for food.
Date: 16 Nov 1992 12:07 EST  

In article <1992Nov14.201528.24669@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, 
  PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes...

>In a shopping mall in Cleveland they have an Automatic
>Ticket Machine (ATM).  This device allows one to purchase Browns
>tickets for any game in any section and pay by credit card.

>Jon "But who would want to?" Papai

This reminds me of a UL that I don't recall having seen come up in this group:

 FOAF has <2,4,> tickets to a <insert name of local sports team having a dismal
 season> game, but he doesn't want to go because the team sucks.  So, he leaves
 the pair of tickets on the windshield of his car, with a note offering them
 to whoever wants them.  When he returns to his car at the end of the working
 day, he finds <2,4,6,> additional tickets to the same game on his windshield.

 When I've heard this story in the past, it's usually been about a midwestern
 or eastern NFL team.  This year I started hearing it about the Dodgers.  And
 please, no "it's not a UL; this really happened" replies.  Whether or not such
 a thing actually occurred somewhere, it's still a UL.

 - snopes

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From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: Re: lemurs!
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 13:59:52 GMT

In article <168A7CCC2.C521832@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu> C521832@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu writes:
>Lemurs! I used to be a volunteer at the zoo in Memphis. They had an
>island there (well, a small hillock surrounded by water) on which
>a number of monkeys were kept--hence, Monkey Island.
> 
>The monkeys had a tendency to escape, however; at one point numerous
>ones did so and fled the zoo. Most were caught climbing up the side
>of a tall apartment complex across the street.
> 
>After this, the zoo replaced the monkeys with Lemurs, who were
>much less inclined to escape.
> 
>As a volunteer, I and my co-workers spent many lunch breaks watching
>the lemurs running about the little island in their trademark
>loping gait.
> 

Neat!  I love lemurs.  Did you ever throw Twinkies to them?  What did the
Lemurs eat?

>We coined a simple verb to describe their action : "leeming", or
>"to leem," which is to run about like a lemur.
 
You've mad an invaluable contribution to the field of Lemur fandom. 
Leeming.  What a marvelous word.


>FYI.
> 
>Rev "they leem better when you give them alka-seltzer" John


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bslavens@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Bradley E Slavens)
Subject: Thar She Blows!!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:17:54 GMT


For those of you who are not alt.sex'ers, there has been an alt.sex thread 
about fatal embolism (I think this is getting too much oxygen in the 
bloodstream, but don't quote me.) caused by blowing too hard into a woman's 
vagina during oral sex.

The original poster swears he/she read it, but some med student doubted the 
possibility.

I don't think this is a FAQ'ed urban legend, although it does sound close to 
some disembowelment stories listed.

If this isn't already an FAQ, could somebeody really juice it up to make this 
a quality UL?

Just checking.



Brad   "OK ... but just don't sneeze in it!"   Slavens
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dwight@devnet.la.locus.com (Dwight Tovey)
Subject: Military wit (was Re: Jackpotting ATM's for)
Reply-To: dwight@locus.com
Organization: Locus Computing Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:22:34 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.153713.18181@nntp.nta.no>, styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:
|> In article <4459.740.uupcb@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>, David Scarlett writes:
|> >
|> > (Hey I remember when we had to program by candlelight)
|> 
|> Heh, reminds me about an incident when I was in the army. During some dead
|> boring parade an officer stopped in front of one of buddies who didn't look
|> like the healthy athlete the army would like as a soldier. He looked at him
|> an asked: "you're a programmer, aren't you?" "Yes, sir. I'm a programmer."
|> "Well," the officer said, "I can write programs too. I'm pretty good at it."
|> He produced a piece of paper and gave it to the puzzled fellow. "Here's one
|> I've written for you. It's a Physical Training Programme."
|> 
|> ---
|> YuNoHoo  "Most of it was Basic training."

Ah yes.  The cleverness of Basic Training instructors.  When I was in basic we were not
allowed to make any phone calls until sometime after our 3rd or 4th week.  One day in the
middle of the second week our Company Commander came in and asked how many of us
wanted to call home.  Several of us raised our hands (this was only the second week - we
hadn't learned yet not to raise our hands for anything) and the CC took us out to the phones -
where for the next 2 hours we stood around yelling "HOME" as loud as we could.
	/dwight

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From: arnett@unixg.ubc.ca (Bill Arnett)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.nude
Subject: Re: Driving without shoes
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Date: 19 Nov 1992 09:03:17 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

In article <BxvGqq.6sz@egsner.cirr.com> datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
>>her foot stuck, nor of starvation either, but because she was unable to
>>stop or slow down
>
>As far as I know, all Beetles have manual or effectively manual transmissions.
>She shifts into neutral and slows to a stop.

(1) Ever heard of hills?  Shifting to neutral *could* cause the car to
accelerate rather than decelerate.

(2) Even on a flat surface it takes a *long* time to coast to stop.

(3) This thread has *nothing* to do with rec.nude.  *PLEASE* delete rec.nude
from the newsgroups line before replying to this thread.

Bill.

And I'll add...
(4) That's (partly) what emergency/parking brakes are for.
-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Snuff film?
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:52:37 GMT

In article <1eeun6INN5nr@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> cspot@cats.ucsc.edu (Christopher Edward Hilker) writes:
>jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:
>>be done on purpose (if Spielberg had included the deaths of Vic Morrow and 
>>the kid in "The Twilight Zone," that wouldn't constitute snuff) especially
>
>Actually, John Landis was the director of 'Twilight Zone: The Movie."

I heard it was Joe Dante.

Ted "didn't Monty Python come out with a three-director movie?" Frank
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: maynard@leah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:24:18 GMT

[Discussion about problems with the electoral system deleted.]

I remember as an undergrad seeing a talk on Arrow's theorem. Arrow was an
economist dude who thought about the problem of voting systems. What he
proved was that he put together a set of things one would hope a voting
system would do, then proved that this set of desires was mutually
incompatible. Now one can start quibling about which of the desires one
wants to give up, but the fact is that it's really not that simple to just
say "give us a new system". Partially there is the fact that all the ones
in place in various countries (consider the differences between Britain,
Germany and Australia for example) all have problems, partially there is Mr
Arrow's theorem, and partially there is the reality that the system could
never get passed through Congress cause someone would lose as a result of
it.

Maynard
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.med
From: young@serum.kodak.com (Rich Young)
Subject: Re: Puff the Magic Dragon (was Calvin/Hobbes...) 
Originator: young@sasquatch
Reply-To: young@serum.kodak.com
Organization: Clinical Diagnostics Division, Eastman Kodak Company
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 22:34:59 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.210411.29484@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:

[...Puff, the Magic Dragon lyrics deleted...]

>I am surprised there are so many people who post here who even
>remember PP&M - much less, memorized (somewhat) some of their
>songs.
>
>How many people remember the "Paul talk" cut on their "In Concert"
>album?

	HA!  __I__ still have the album!!!


-Rich Young (These are not Kodak's opinions.)

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american
From: kautaj@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (kauta)
Subject: Re: 1950's Darryle, damnit.
Organization: Indiana University, Department of Mathematics.
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:17:23 GMT

In article <97719@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
>In article <9652@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, pmmst8+@pitt (Paul M Mweene) writes:

>>Is such a difficult thing to infect 30 or 40 year old serum with any virus?
>
>The British sailor who died ~1962 had symptoms that we would today
>recognize as AIDS.

There is a simple explaination to all this...this sailor had AIDS-like 
symptoms without the HIV virus. So Mweenes hypothesis still holds.



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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: Car Crime
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:43:19 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <1992Nov20.162514.2041@adimail.uucp>, tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks) writes:
>Terry "Is a villian what English people call a trillion?" Monks

From the Merriam-Gullible New Collegiate Dictionary (ISBN 1-800-3SIDED), 
"Biographical Names" section:  

      Villian, Francois (1431-1463?), French poet whose lyrics
      were set to American tunes by P.D.Q. Bach.  Author of 
      "Le Doberman Tchoquent" and other classics.  A roman (not
      Roman) Catholic (not catholic), he was never Prime Minister,
      but in the morning *he* shall be sober.

Trillion, on the other hand, is a character in Hitchhiker's Guide 
to the Galaxy.  The cultural ignorance of some people!  Furrfu!

Bruce "I've heard of Joyce, but I've never read her books" Tindall

-- 
Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Mgr., SAS Institute Inc., Cary, N.C. 27513
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Media rantings
Date: 21 Nov 92 01:56:52 GMT
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 28013@Arco.COM, dbsjwb@Edm.Arco.COM () writes:
> [A prostitute] claims to have been with[sic] 250,000 men in the course
> of her 20 year career. [...] Hmmm.... that works out to 1.8 men per
> hour, 19 hours per day, 365 days per year, for 20 years.

You're assuming she did them one at a time?

---
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              The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
                  "You can't fit the truth on a t-shirt, man."
                                 "That'd fit."
From: seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Port Out Starboard Home -- That's the Life for ME!
Date: 15 Nov 92 22:10:13 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: seawasp@unixd2.cis.pitt.edu

In article <1992Nov7.040211.12942@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>In article <9162@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw+@pitt.edu writes:
>>Terry "Does anybody know what IBM and DEC stands for?" Wood

>Itty Bitty Machines and Doing Everything Clumsily.

	No, no!

	"I Bought Manure" and "Diabolic Evil Computers"

				Sea Wasp
From: dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:38:00 GMT
Organization: Will pay money for food.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Nov17.195429.9251@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, 
  billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes...

>It could be done. All it would take would be a few hundreds of millions of
>dollars. 

I don't think so.  Electors are, for the most part, dedicated party men who
already have a significant financial stake in their party's winning the
election.  And the scale of such an operation makes it unlikely that it could
be pulled off undiscovered.  

 - snopes

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Frozen Waste
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:33:04 GMT

Dale.James@cs.cmu.edu writes:
: Well, this may put me in the running for AFU motto of the week, but I'm almost
: certain this is true.  My father was the manager of a Pepsi distributor in
: central WV for years, and about the time that the distributors started putting
: warning lables on their vending machines, I'm certain he told me that the
: parent company (RKO Bottlers, out of Princeton WV) was being sued by some
: would-be theives who got mashed by a toppled machine.  He ended up leaving the
: company before the case was resolved, though.

Well, considering the trivial things over which other people file lawsuits -
it would not surprise me if such a suit was filed by someone who managed to
tip a vending machine over on themselves.

Bill
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: gators 'r us
Subject: Re: Oh Shit (was Re: Nonsparking tools)
	<1992Nov5.054351.2022@tamsun.tamu.edu> <17684@bcars664.bnr.ca>
	<13NOV199209534100@csa3.lbl.gov>
	<1992Nov16.162628.18692@geovision.gvc.com>
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep  5 1992
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:59:16 -0400

In <1992Nov16.162628.18692@geovision.gvc.com>, Paul Tomblin writes:
>jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:
>
>>Joe "Please inform the widow that his last words were, 'Oh, s***!'" Chew
>
>I read somewhere - I think it was Aviation Week and Space Technology - that
>something like 90% of all crashes, the last words of the pilot on the black
>box are "Oh, Shit!"
once upon a time my hyundai excell killed itself while i was driving it.
it slipped on wet leaves, skidded off the road, and landed on its passenger side
in a 5 foot deep ditch.  if it had killed me, my last words would've been
an inarticulate shriek.  since it didn't, i was able to say. "oh, shit!"
immediately afterword.  i said it twice, even though i didn't know this was
the traditional thing to say it such times.  then, with the help of a kindly
innocent bystander, i crawled out the window with nothing worse than bruises.
-- 
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
From: rhuss+@cs.cmu.edu (Robert Huss)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes (a different theory)
Keywords: aliens, voodoo
Date: 16 Nov 92 22:27:18 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

In article <16NOV199212220429@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov> dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes) writes:
>In article <1e4e4sINN9j6@moe.ksu.ksu.edu>, 
>  diverson@phys.ksu.edu (David Iverson) writes...
>
>>This story line seems strangely simillar to the Star Trek episode where the
>>little girl is playing with her imaginary friend when an alien being passes
>>through her brain and thus manifests as the little girls imaginary friend. 
>
>Oh.  Do we know what Calvin's middle name is?
>
> - snopes
>
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	I don't know what Calvin's middle name is, and I haven't been following
this subject, so this may have been already said, but Calvin and Hobbes
are the names of Philosophers (sp?)  I wonder if the strange theories
that you see the two of them throwing around jibe at all with their
namesakes.
Bob "The Real Authority" Huss.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:57:31 GMT

pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson) writes:
: In article <1992Nov19.203850.10960@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
: 
:>Of course, there is also ample evidence that the members of congress should
:>not even be entrusted with the difficult task of "buying a vowel". It is
:>funny that people, having voted these congress creatures into office, think
:>that those creatures are actually going to look out for the voters' interests.
: 
: You're wrong about this, Bill.  One of the standard maxims is that
: people hate congresscritters in general, but love their own.

: A classic example of this continues to play itself out here in Chicago.
: Everyone knows that Dan Rostenkowski is every kind of lowlife scum, but
: the fact of the matter is he continues to bring home the bacon for us,
: and as long as he does that, we'll keep sending him back.
: 
: In fact, after his most recent tussle with the law, there was a pretty
: big debate here about whether we could afford to lose him...
: 
: I.e., he does look out for our interests (probably second only to his own...)
: (As in, don't blame me - I didn't vote for him)

So, maybe he does, for some select part of your population. For the bulk of
the voters, you can bet that he does little, or nothing - unless it is just
incidental to helping those who make campaign donations.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Subject: Old Yeller (was: The hell with
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:59:47 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

They shot the damn dog. End of story. My 6 year old sobbing brain
couldn't absorb anything more except a vow to kill Walt Disney, to
make him die a lingering lonely painful death...which is why his
cryogenically frozen head is said occasionally to exhibit 
tears!!! Bwahahahahaha.
-- 
Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> My bad.     
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Child Molestors - internationally organized?