HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: PJF4081@CC.UTAH.EDU (big daddy hate box)
Subject: Re: I Am
Summary: nope not wrong
Keywords: right, far right
Reply-To: big daddy hate box
Organization: xenophobes of utah
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 16:49:27 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

In <1992Sep25.153232.29456@walter.cray.com> jcarroll@ferris.cray.com writes:

% 
% In article <1992Sep25.135613.16007@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:
% > I am the conway twitty of your soul, croonin you thru rush hour traffic.
% > I am the Upton Sinclair of your gall bladder, and I am the source of your
% > inspiration.
% > I am the Jesse Owens of your frontal lobe, always running.
% > I am the Miguel de Cervantes of your lymphatic system, and the John Coltrane
% > of your second toe.
% > 
% > 
% 
% yes but who is the jesse helms of my small intestine?


	i am the dan quayle of your colon. feed me enteric pathogens please.

	PJF--->Biochem. grad student.
					React with this!
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,rec.music.misc,rec.music.industrial
From: jperry@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (John Perry)
Subject: Re: ABBA Covers
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Distribution: talk
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 16:51:47 GMT

trimper@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg Trimper) laboriously ponders:
>>. . .  What I'd like to know is whether there
>>are other ABBA covers by other people.  
>

   Celebrity Skin does a cover of an ABBA song, although I dont remember
which song they do.  I'll look it up and post later.

				JOhn

-- 
v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-
    "Reality is a sandwich that I did not order."
			       Zippy the Pinhead (for president)
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From: carasso@inference.com (C A R A S S O)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: From the Far Side
Date: 2 Oct 92 00:58:00 GMT


Distant Hills

The distant hills call to me.
Their rolling waves seduce my heart.
Oh, how I want to graze in their lush valleys.
Oh, how I want to run down their green slopes.
Alas, I cannot.
Damn the electric fence!
Damn the electric fence!

Thank you.

...carasso


Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: gschlesi@scott.skidmore.edu (gabriel schlesinger)
Subject: My Recent Dream
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 04:19:09 GMT

So there I was, waiting with a bunch of friends.  Somebody was late,
and we were all getting really hungry.  We just kept waiting and
waiting and the hunger grew to enormous amounts.  Then somebody asked
me "Who are we waiting for?"  I thought about it for a minute and then
said "Me.  We're waiting for me".  
Then I woke up and realized that I was very hungry and very late for
meeting my friends for breakfast.  (This really happened, trust me).

						-Gabe "no quote" Schlesinger
Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:32239 rec.arts.startrek.misc:9853
From: mattb@ctron.com (Matt Brown)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Tobor (was:Re: "Lost In Space" was better hook,line,sinker)
Date: 30 Sep 92 14:12:50 GMT
Reply-To: mattb@olympus.ctron.com (Matt Brown)
Followup-To: alt.bogus.followups
Distribution: na
Organization: Cabletron Systems INc.

jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:
>thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>I don't see what's so special about Star Trek.  "Lost in Space" was
>>clearly superior, but you don't see five newsgroups devoted to Tobor.

>What does Tobor have to do with Lost in Space?  Both Tobors (The
>movie of that name, also the cartoon series "Tobor, the 8th Man") were
>neither in LiS nor ST:either_series.  (The name of the robot in
>LiS was, in fact, "Robot".)

Now, I immediately thought of Tobor the Radar Robot from Proctor & Bergman.

While the LIS robot was a reincarnated "Robbie" from a famous sf film whose
name I am blanking on at the moment (Forbidden Planet?).

ttaM
Never turn a robot towards the sun
From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Love/Hate
Date: 6 Oct 92 05:03:56 GMT
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Originator: jcarroll@ferris


In article <6485@ac13.cs.nps.navy.mil>, rpwhite@ac13.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite) writes:
> jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll) writes:
> 
> >never thought i'd see the day when inxs was considered "golden oldies"
> 
> You know you have lived too long when you can pick up Pink Floyd in one
> of those "Any tape - $4.99" bins.

hey, don't knock it - that's how I got my Robin Trower collection.
From: jvogel@math.rutgers.edu (jeff vogel)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Cats Wanted
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:52:15 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Speaking of cats, did anyone know they make a great food source? Not only is 
the meat tender without being gamy, and not only does one decent size cat 
make a good roast for 4 people, but they're very, very cheap. You can
generally pick them up free from kids in front of the supermarket. I found
you can get 3 or 4 at a time, by telling them I live on a farm.

Q: What's the difference between a dead lawyer in the road and a dead cat
in the road?
A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

						- Jeff Vogel
From: english@alicudi.usc.edu (Joe English)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Why I love talk.bizarre.
Date: 5 Oct 1992 13:21:36 -0700
Organization: Nerds of Action
Distribution: world
Reply-To: joe@trystero.art.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: alicudi.usc.edu
Keywords: defenestrate



The word ``defenestrate'' is used more frequently in t.b
than in any other newsgroup.

Every time I see that word, it fills me with joy.


--joe@trystero.art.com

  ignore this posting
From: reese@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: train ride
Date: 4 Oct 92 13:02:41 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <1992Oct2.194040.2412@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, PJF4081@CC.UTAH.EDU (big daddy hate box) writes:
> well soon i will embark on what seems to be a fun adventure. a couple of 
> friends and i are going to jump on a freight train to wyoming. one of the guys 
> going used to work in a train yard and spent a year riding them around the 
> country so i think we will be ok. i'm pretty excited about the whole event. 
> hope you all have equally exciting weekends. anyone else done this? ciao etc.

We're all glad for you. We're all glad for ourselves too because, presumably,
you won't be able to post to talk.bizarre whilst being sodomized by five
railway engineers.

Jason

> 
> 	PJF--->Biochem. grad student.
> 					React with this!
From: TJM@MATH.AMS.ORG (Tom Maloney)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: RACIST
Date: 29 Sep 92 20:23:52 GMT

Actually, Roger, when you first appeared I thought you were more
of an asshole than a racist. A funny asshole, though. Over the
course of time, some themes tend to keep popping up in your
posts however.

You _do_ seem to have a real problem with non-Jews who live in
the Middle East. Making fun of Arabic names and implying that
they all work on Slurpee (tm) machines does not sound like
criticism of a particular culture and/or government. It looks
like racism, walks like racism, and quacks like racism.

And attempting to take the high moral ground when defending
Israel, whose treatment of Palestinians has been less than
enlightened from the very beginning of the Jewish state, is a
shaky proposition at best.

The worst part (in a t.b sense) is that it's not funny or
bizarre. And your whining about people calling you names is
starting to sound like Dr. Roger Rabbit near the end of his stay
here.

I do not have the graceful, poetic command of the English
language like RICHH, Rigler, or mjd. So, unfortunately, I have
to fall upon the simple and effective prose that has worked so
well before: Fuck Off And Die, Roger

or kill me

Tom
From: sho@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: asdf
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:59:01 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Physics Department

Does anyone know how to say "crawls" in Latin?

-Sho
From: carasso@inference.com (C A R A S S O)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: RACIST
Date: 28 Sep 92 01:47:12 GMT


I've been accused by many cowards of being a racist.  It's complete
slander, and nothing could be further from the truth.  I'd like to
rise a few points, rationally.

1) There is a difference between an individual and the character we
appears to be on the net.  I can say without a doubt that no one on
the net knows anything of consequence about me.

2) Telling a racial joke does not make one a racist.  It makes one a
comedian.  People seem to have a hard time understanding this.  If the
joke is said with vicousness, then maybe that is an indication that
the teller is a racist, but maybe not.  You must ask the joke teller
and ask him his vies, otherwise its slander and gossip and just wrong.

3) People have asked me if I am a racist, and I have clearly and
consistently said I am not.  I think it's very important to understand
the terms of discussion foremost.  A racist means that a race's
genetics predispose its individuals to failure.  The definition is
important, because it allows me to say that the culture that American
blacks are raised in is producing some really fucked up individuals,
and not be a racist, and in fact it allows me to say something very
true.  This is not solely a failure of black leadership, but clearly
of the government's inaction.  Nowhere in Europe is the poverty
difference between blacks and whites as great as it is in the US.

4) People have pointed out that arabs are not a race but that that
makes me a bigot.  Well, I am not a bigot and I don't hate all arabs,
certainly not.  But I am well within my rights to hate the governments
and many aspects of the Moslem culture.  I doubt if you are aware that
every Arab country, some 22 nations, are officially at WAR with
Israel, the Jewish homeland.  Talk.bizarre is not the place to talk
about this, but I find it hard to like a people as a whole that is a
War with Israel, that subjugates women, that does not allow Jews into
their countries, that strongarms with oil other countries into not
selling their goods to Israel, and that practice inhumane criminal
justice.  These are not lovely countries, these are undemocratic
authoritarian countries with a population so bombarded with propaganda
that they believe all the lies.  It is not racist of me to be angry
and to hate those that attack me and people like me.

5) Don't be childish and slander.  If you *really* felt I was a
racist, I should have been sending me email trying to sway me point of
view with rational evidence.  All that I have seen is infantile.


...carasso
Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:32969 rec.music.misc:24697 rec.music.industrial:11459
From: chris@de.ZIB-Berlin.sc (Chris Cannam)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,rec.music.misc,rec.music.industrial
Subject: Re: ABBA Covers
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:11:40 GMT
Distribution: talk
Organization: Konrad Zuse Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin

In article <Bvn71H.Atz@cs.vu.nl>, pverkai@cs.vu.nl (Verkaik PD) writes:
|> osa@wilbur.unh.edu (Bart Simps.. er.. Oktay Ahiska) writes:
|> : 
|> : I just heard a cover of SOS by Man Without Hats.  And everybody has
|> : the ABBAesque EP by Erasure.  What I'd like to know is whether there
|> : are other ABBA covers by other people.  
|> 
|> Lush did a cover of 'Hey Hey Helen' on their Gala CD (I consider it an
|> improvement)...
|> 

Well fuck me, is that ABBA?  I never realised...

|> Patrick

f&b
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: you may now drink champagne for me
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 02:03:03 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <1992Sep30.151617.27692@ncar.ucar.edu> ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern) writes:
>In article <1aa8jkINNpo8@fido.asd.sgi.com>, cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
>> Well, yes, but now I know the two main tenets of motorcycle
>> survival:
>> 
>>     1. They can't see me.
>>     2. They're out to get me.
>
>Well, you and I have a leetle advantage w/r to number 1:  braindead
>cagers tend to notice women on bikes marginally more often than they
>notice men on bikes.
>
>Red leathers and a red bike help, too.


Having owned a motorscooter and several motorcycles, I would say that drivers
of cars can appear to be braindead when coming in contact with motorcycles.
But when I see a motorcycle weaving back and forth through traffic, I usually
make a mental bet as to how long that rider will stay alive.

Defensive driving is most important for motorcycle riders.  The average car
driver, who has never been on a motorcycle, doesn't realize that a motorcycle
can't stop on a dime under most circumstances.  Here in New England, motorists
see motorcycles three months of the year.  And a lot of bike riders don't
realize that many cars have a blind spot on either side of the rear where a
motorcycle can effectively hide from a car.  This can bring problems when
there are sudden turns or stops.

And then there are the assholes who just don't like motorcycles.

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Subject: Re: Russian nuclear workers drink on job for 'protection'
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 23:39:59 GMT

In article <MJD.92Sep30110257@saul.cis.upenn.edu> mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Demiotics") writes:
>In article <russia-alcoholismU2SS1235pe@clarinet.com> clarinews@clarinet.com (GREGORY GRANSDEN) writes:
>   The reason is Russian nuclear workers believe drinking pure alcohol
>   protects them from radiation in case of a serious accident.
>
>I hear that Grand Fenwick is gearing up for an invasion of Russia this year.

Forget it.  The invasion has been called off.  Somebody drank the new
Pinotium bomb.  Maybe they'll manage next year; it all depends on how
the grape crop comes in.
--scott
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: cel@nsscmail.att.com (clayton EDward LEIHY iii)
Subject: Request for Info - LIS (was: Re: "Lost In Space" was better)
Followup-To: talk.bizarre
Organization: NCR Systems Support Center - New Jersey
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:16:40 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.021344.20676@geovision.gvc.com> pt@geovision.gvc.com writes:

[talk about "Lost IN Space" which causes me to wonder -- since my wife's
been bugging me about it]

Does anyone remember the name of the Robot?  Did he/she/it have a name?

advTHANKSance

Eduardo
From: chrisl@sancho.sybase.com (Xian the Drive)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: killer!
Date: 29 Sep 92 23:25:00 GMT
Distribution: na

In article <1992Sep26.061515.7441@alembic.acs.com>, gypsy@alembic.acs.com (hippolyte) writes:
|> 
|> the east coast t.b party (still no date, so
|> don't ask me) will feature a video of the
|> outtakes from this film.  


	GYPSY, BITTER DUE TO THE LACK OF DATE FOR EAST COAST T.B PARTY,
       	GIVES UP ON MALE COMPANIONSHIP. "DON'T ASK ME," SHE SAYS.

...and i was going to send flowers.

damn.


+------------+
|    xian    | "If we don't change directions, we might
| ----<--<@  |  end up where we're heading." - David Bowie,
+------------+      with tin machine, 12/17 1991
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: PJF4081@CC.UTAH.EDU (big daddy hate box)
Subject: busted!!!!!!!!
Followup-To: alt.tasteless.jokes
Reply-To: big daddy hate box
Organization: HATE INC.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 21:21:43 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

well, i got busted by the dudes here at the comp. center for flaming this guy 
from italy. oh well. i guess i should have noticed he was a sys-admin there. 
oh well, now i think i am on some sort of probation. oh screw it.

In <1992Oct4.223923.15163@fcom.cc.utah.edu> PJF4081@CC.UTAH.EDU writes:

> In <1992Oct4.193139.11792@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> vince@ghost.dsi.unimi.it writes:
> % Well, I've always thinked bad about Italians but you cannot even
> % compare them to AMERICANS. American people are very very like large
> % child and they have no history. You know what history is? About 200 yers ago
> % you were traveling from Europe to America, in desperation, trying to
> % survive and change your life. I do not have anything against Americans
> % but I think that they are one of the most ignorant country in the world,
> % and for `culture' I mean the millenary history of south Europe. Think
> % about it, if you can undestrand it. And excume me if I I've been a bit
> % rude, but you have probabily misunderstood every human value.
> % 
> % Ciao,	David
> % -- 
> % David Vincenzetti := {sysadm, C programmer}
> % Dip. di Scienze dell'Informazione,     |  Internet: vince@ghost.dsi.unimi.it

	(MY FLAME DELETED CUZ IT WAS SO OFFENSIVE)
YOU CAN FIND IT OVER ON ALT.TASTELESS.JOKES THOUGH. HEH HEH.

	PJF--->Biochem. grad student.
					React with this!
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: BSD?
Date: 2 Oct 1992 21:22:20 GMT
Organization: SGI TechFrubs
Reply-To: cj@sgi.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: eno.wpd.sgi.com


In article <eD31RB2w165w@west.darkside.com>, guru@west.darkside.com writes:
|Ok.. all you tripadeliacs, can someone (anyone) tell me about a
|drug that was popular about 25 years ago that was called
|something like BSD or something like that...

I knew there was a reason I preferred it to System V.
From: rpwhite@ac13.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: No looking at your neighbors' papers....
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:12:28 GMT
Followup-To: talk.bizarre,misc.test
Organization: Monterey Bay Yacht Club, Monterey CA

shackeld@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (david m shackelford ) writes:

>     A.  Man does not have the capacity to destroy the planet.

Ha ha ha ha ha HO! ha  ha  HA! He he he Ha Ha hA!

Thanks Dave, I needed a good laugh this morning.
From: reese@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: toast
Date: 1 Oct 92 11:48:25 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <1992Oct1.002326.16368@ichips.intel.com>, bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
> In article <1992Sep29.191022.21827@bradley.bradley.edu> latarra@buhub.bradley.edu (Lisa Ehren) writes:
>>> Hair! Hair is all there is!
>>Blair!  Blair, gimme a kizz!
>>--
>>"You cannot just grab a penis and make it erect." 
> 
> If at first you don't succeed...
> 

N ....

Jason

> 				--Blair
> 				  "*Suck*, don't *blow*."
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: John Austin <jea1@Cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: my beard
X-Xxdate: Tue, 29 Sep 92 13: 40:39 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: jea1@cornell.edu
Organization: BTI
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 12:32:59 GMT

In article <1a7t4tINNfs@overload.lbl.gov> , inspecti@carnival.lbl.gov writes
that his beard:
>mostly grows on the UNDERSIDE of my chin.
>
>i don't get it.
>
>imspecti bork

Well, you see, when it grows on the INSIDE of your chin it makes your food
taste funny.  I hate it when that happens.



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Grafix 'R Us                                              Just Say No To Perot!
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From: terri@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (St Theresa of the Net)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: New Game: Find the Thematic Connection
Date: 7 Oct 1992 00:21:22 GMT
Organization: Computing Something Division
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <60914@mimsy.umd.edu> kimy@cs.umd.edu (Yong-Mi Kim) writes:
>We have a winner!  It's the hair!
>(I'm not too sure about the pecs, because I don't recall if
>Val Kilmer ever took his shirt off in _Willow_.  Probably should have)

Oh boy. Hair.

I like hair.

That nice young barrett@tamu or wherever he's beaming in from now has hair
about the same length as mine, only a little lighter. bwahahahahahahhaha.

>So like can I touch it?

Nope. Dibs up the wazoo.

>As for our other contestants:
>the reason "men in tight pants" was not a correct answer was that
>Daniel Day-Lewis (aka "Hawkeye") was *not* wearing tight pants,
>but loincloth and leatherstockings.  Far, far better than pants,
>I must say, especially when Daniel was running around and his shirt
>would flap about and I got a glimpse of his nice firm buns.  Oh, and I
>think Daniel should have kept his shirt off during the entire movie.

wait, wait, I must see this movie.

I don't think waiting for video release is good enough.

Maybe my COOKIE will take me to see it. If Mz Yong Mi is remotely correct,
this should cut down on the foreplay time.

>(Anyway I hope this explanation makes St. Terri feel a little less
>negative)

heh.

hell. at this point i'm *positive.*

>(St. Terri: Daniel has orders of magnitude more of bodacious
>babeness than Keanu.  That's why _A Room with a View_ is one of
>the best movies ever: it has both Daniel Day-Lewis and Julian
>Sands in it, and we get to see Julian nekkid.)



sean, we're going to *buy* you a vcr and rent this movie.


That's an order.


<smooch.>

-- 
A little bit of uh huh and a whole lot of oh yeah.   \  (414)CRUSH-13
T. Flynn's Casa de Interesting: 1755 N Cambridge Ave #306 Milwaukee WI 53202    
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.music.enya
From: angrish@owl.cis.ohio-state.edu (yogesh angrish)
Subject: Re: Enya
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 20:38:12 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.162417.20731@bradley.bradley.edu> latarra@buhub.bradley.edu (Lisa Ehren) writes:
>angrish@maple.cis.ohio-state.edu (yogesh angrish) writes:
>> In article <1992Sep24.224837.17854@dvorak.amd.com> jeffs@dvorak.amd.com (Jeff Sobotka) writes:
>> >In article <1992Sep24.163645.15124@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM> sam@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM (Sam Falkner) writes:
>> >>mbur@nyx.cs.du.edu (MAC) writes:
>> >>>crgoc@orlando.uk.cray.com (Gary O'Connor) writes:
>> >>>>can we stop this bollocks.
>> >>>Can we top the Pollocks?
>> >>shall we arm the robots?
>> >Can we eat the donuts?
>> are you nuts?
>Do you smell people's butts?
If you do - you've got the guts.



Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: hlow@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Handel Low)
Subject: Re: Why talk.bizarre is like an orgy.
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 20:16:11 EDT

In article <6385@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite) writes:
>
>   I read t.b. then I go back to doing something else and I feel
>   good and I don't know who to thank.


Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson)
Subject: Performance evaluation
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:46:03 GMT

Well, just got evaluated today at work.

The subjects of punctuality and usenet NEVER CAME UP.

holy shit, im so happy. i guess thats the advantage of low expectations;
i still get everything done despite being late 9 days out of ten, taking
longish lunches, and spending hours doing usenet.
From: ajd@itl.itd.umich.edu (Arthur Delano)
Subject: Re: rummage sales again
Organization: here there be fynches
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 06:33:26 GMT

In article <a0!pd_a.gooley@netcom.com> gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) writes:
>I nearly bought a custom-built 110-gallon tank made largely of half-inch-thick
>glass...the guy selling it even offered to truck it to my place...full it
>would be near 1000 lbs, but i live in a ground-floor apartment.  Now I
>sorely regret that I do not have it & that some other fool got it for
>only $30 when for $35 it could be have been mine I I could be keeping
>killifish in it or something.

You silly man.  The heavens were calling out to you to begin your own
brewery, and you cast a deaf ear to the summons.

Today i got a 20 liter plastic carboy ($10), a working Timex military
women's watch ($.50 -- looks 'way neat) and a desk phone ($2.50).  I
thot that the desk phone was one of the old-fashioned ma bell models --
you could throw it against cinderblock walls and it would only scratch --
but instead it was some knockoff brand.

Somebody around here is selling an old vt100 terminal, but it looks
gutted.

AjD
heaven would have
garage sales