HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 04:36:07 GMT

In article <28125@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>
>  +I was told we wouldn't have to wear helmets in this group.
>  +
>  +cj "black tie" l
>
>But where do you wear it, Charles?
>
In New York.

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Trademark legends
From: Geoff@equinox.gen.nz (Geoff Mccaughan)
Date: 28 Dec 92 12:51:03 +1200
Organization: Equinox Networks
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Simon E. Booth (sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu) wrote:
>Even stranger, I read on the net (so it must be true!) somewhere a story
>alleging that Bayer was in operation before and during WWII, making not
>aspirin but such nasty military chemical products as Taubin and Zyklon,
>which were nerve gases.  No reference to the Bayer company appears in any
>accounts of the Nuremburg trials.

Zyklon B was simply hydrogen cyanide crystals. Manufactured by I.G. Farben.
I have no idea if they have any relationship to Bayer [I have vague memories
that there may be a tie-up to BASF, but I wouldn't put money on it].

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From: datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper)
Subject: Etymological matters (was Re: African-American-top)
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 04:08:08 GMT

Bruce Tindall wrote:

>And to round things out, in German, following the logical rule that all
>diminutives are neuter, girls have no gender at all.  Das Fraeulein
>(neuter)
>is the diminutive of "die Frau" (the (feminine gender) woman).

Mmmmm... if I remember correctly, young children _in_general_ are
referred to in the neuter. The word for a young boy is "das Knabe",
I believe. In fact, that's where we get the words "ego" and "id".

In German, those terms are translated as "das Ich" and "das Es".
Young children, whose desires are more primal and uncontrollable,
are called "it". It is not until later in life, when they acquire
an identity or sense of "I", that they can reason things out.

Or something like that... no, I'm not a psych major, and would
greatly appreciate a response from one who could fill in the details.

Point is, though, that you really shouldn't condemn anything as
sexist until you know for sure that it doesn't apply equally to
male and female. "Das Knabe" and "Das Fraeulein" is one example--
nowadays, "Frau" is even becoming more common as a form of address
to young women.

Tep--blabbering on
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From: obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re:    Skyscraper FALLS DOWN.
Date: 29 Dec 92 06:45:54 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

In article <1992Dec28.213747.5311@unislc.uucp> pjd@unislc.uucp (Priscilla Davidson) writes:
>From article <92356.223300MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, by <MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>:
>>      Can this be substantiated? I read in an architectural trade mag that
>> the World Trade Center is extremely unstable due to the fact that it is built
>> on landfill. 
>
>     [parts deleted]
>
>>      BUT, can one of them actually fall down? The thought of a mountain
>> of steel, glass, office equipment and attourneys splatting all over Battery
>> Park is terrifying, but somehow also strangely compelling.
>> 
>What a terrible waste of steel, glass, and office equipment that would be!
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

And just what do you consider it to be _now_?


ObUL: Dan Quayle's law degree was partially chewed up by the dog

	Bob "just heard that on KPIX" O'Bob
>
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From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: I Live to FAQ!
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:52:48 GMT

ldoering@engin.umich.edu  writes:
> In article <1992Dec22.194453.27356@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards) writes:
> >
> >The numbers and letters do, in fact correspond to the Federal Reserve Bank
> >that issues the note.  The large black letter that appears in the middle of
> >the Federal Reserve Bank seal (the black seal to the left of the portrait),
> >the letter at the beginning of the serial number, and the four black numbers
> >that appear towards each of the four corners, but still within the white
> >area of the bill, all correspond to the issuing Federal Reserve Bank.  The
> >banks are numbered (and lettered in the order in which they were
> >established.  An incomplete list of the banks (going by what I presently
> >have in my wallet) follows:
> 
> Well, lessee...  according to the contents of _my_ wallet, the following
> gaps are filled:
> 
> >          Boston, MA             1     A
>            New York, NY           2     B
>            Philadelphia, PA       3     C
> >          Cleveland, OH          4     D
> >                                 5     E
>            Atlanta, GA            6     F
> >          Chicago, IL            7     G
> >                                 8     H
>            Minneapolis, MN        9     I
> >                                10     J
             Dallas                11     K  (this explains JFK)
> >          San Francisco, CA     12     L

I believe that Kansas City and St. Louis are sites as well.  Being a poor 
college student, I only had $5 in my pocket.  Geographically and beaureau-
cratically, I would think that Denver would also have a Federal Reserve Bank.
> 
> Also, looking closely at Lincoln's beard (on my Minneapolis $5 bill, series
> 1988 A), you can see the name "Nina" several times in the cross-hatching.
> Was Al Hirschfeld responsible for the design or something?

No, but look at the postage stamps that Hirschfeld designed a few years ago.

Torsten at Omaha, a branch city of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank
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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Walking Between Rain Drops !!!!
Date: 23 Dec 1992 04:45:14 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117


  +>>bs24@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Bruce Sarte) burbles:
  
     [In response to a somewhat tangential response to his query]
 
  +>	Thank you, damn, I could get down and just kiss your Rosey
  +>	Red Rectum !!!!  I knew there would be an asshole out there
  +>	that would be the first to flame a respectable post, and
  +>	guess who it was !!!!

Rosey red rectum?  Glad to see that we're in keeping with the
spirit of the holidays!


Terry "Falalalala" Chan
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From: mlegare@wetware.com (Dr. Robert (BoB) Tech)
Subject: Re: Walking Between Rain Drops !!!!
Organization: The Flying Killfile Ranch
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:36:26 GMT



some people can walk between the raindrops.


some of us merely have the good sense to come in out of the rain.



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From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Re: Cheese popcorn
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:51:26 GMT

>I like to use the Kraft Parmesan on my popcorn ... just sprinkle it on with
>a little salt

Salt?  Naahhh.  Pop the corn in a uwave sans oil, and shake the popped corn
with House of Tsang's "Mongolian Fire Oil", then shake it with whatever
you'd like to adhere.
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: The El
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:01:07 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.121246.9303@ms.uky.edu> fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis) writes:
>In article <92356.102137MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>>What to do with
>>the steel? It turns out NYC put all of it on several cargo ships and sold
>>all of it to Japan, who was HUNGERING for all the precious steel they could
>>get for their various war plans, including China.
>
>Fabled in song and story. This even made it into a poem by e.e.cummings.

What connection to this has the Kennedy family?

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: wisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wisp)
Subject: Napoleon snuffed (was Re: Legal language)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:14:09 GMT

In article <8uD3VB5w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:

[stuff about the Bible and lethal doctors...]

>But wasn't it shown that Napoleon was in fact murdered (by arsenic)
>posioning by his second in command?
>

Not quite. It seems likely that he died of a gastric/duodenal ulcer (may or
may not have been cancer), and that the arsenic poisoning he was suffering
from was as a result of a mould growing on the wallpaper in his house.
(Honestly: conditions were right for it, and the mould excretes the arsenic
as some gas or other. The dye in question was some bright green thingy that
was full of arsenic...)

The Wisp. [a *very* lethal doctor...]
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: acase@reed.edu (Andrew Case)
Subject: Re: Prolonged erection victim
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 03:16:46 GMT
Summary: you aren't going to believe this

Found this on soc.motss thought y'all might be interested.
>
>PROLONGED ERECTION VICTIM HAS DIED
>
>Erizefani Mugoya, the unfortunate man who has been going through untold
>agony following an abnormally prolonged erection of his penis for the last
>two weeks, has finally passed away after being hospitalised at Kamuli
>hospital during the course of his ordeal.
>Sources from Kamuli told the Star yesterday that Mugoya, who was last heard
>of to be semi-conscious and suspended on drip, by courtesy of his stubbornly
>stiff painful organ, died after an episode of two weeks' misery.
>Mugoya's death struck at a crucial moment when his relatives were also
>reportedly engaged in serious negotiation with one John Mutyabule, the
>husband of the wife with whom the deceased fornicated before his genital 
>became unbearably stiff.
>Mutyabule of Bukholi in Iganga had previously demanded a ransom fee before
>he could uncast the charm he had put on Mugoya.  (stuff deleted)  Doctors
>are said to have gone ahead and operated on their rare patient.  Sadly Mugoya
>never recoverd from the surgery, confirming Mutyabule's threat not to involve
>Western medicine in this traditional debacle (sic?).
>Mugoya, a lively middle-aged man from Buwenge, 17 miles from Jinja ventured
>to Bukholi from where he eloped with Mutyabule's wife...After fraternising on
>that fateful night, Mugoya was alarmed when his penis challengingly remained
>erect in spite of the man's exhausation.
>As matters grew worse, Mugoya was rushed to hospital after his lover had
>failed to alleviate the problem with soothing warm water.  He was admitted
>at Kamuli where doctors prescribed injection after injection in an attempt
>to calm the dangerous-looking organ but to no avail.
>(stuff deleted)
>The ransom was too much for his relatives...By the time of his operation 
>Mugoya had lost consciousness and he never recovered from the surgery

......Andrew "hmmmmm...." Case

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From: a_fraser@level.dec.com (Andy Fraser)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Dead Cat
Date: 28 Dec 92 12:20:49 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


        I heard a variant of these in Glasgow (Scotland) in the '50s.

        Seems the  obligatory  FOAF  had to bring a urine sample to the
        Infirmary and the  only container available was an empty Scotch
        bottle.  She duly  placed the bottle containing the amber fluid
        variously on top of her  shopping  bag/on  the tram seat beside
        her  and  as  some guy jumped  off  the  tram,  he  swiped  the
        bottle...

Andy Fraser     a_fraser@spezko.dec.com
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From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The testicles of the sheep
Keywords: Park here all day they never check
Date: 23 Dec 92 20:05:45 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <ljh7bcINN4uk@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM
(Peter van der Linden) writes:

>"Ripping Yarns" was an all-too-short six or eight episode situation
>comedy.  Each self-contained episode was a pastiche of a 1930's-style
>boy's adventure yarn (example: "Across the Andes by Frog!").

There were a total of nine episodes.  Every one a classic.

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From: cel@nsscmail.att.com (clayton EDward LEIHY iii)
Subject: FIZZIES (was: Re: Cheese popcorn)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Summary: anybody know?
Organization: NCR Systems Support Center - New Jersey
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:27:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.214131.22221@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.095001.556@news.cs.indiana.edu> dbreece@cherry.ucs.indiana.edu (Dave Breece) writes:
>>In article <1h7970INNe2c@bigboote.WPI.EDU> driel@wpi.WPI.EDU (Deborah
>>M Riel) writes: 
>>>>Have you ever tried to buy the cheese stuff they use to make cheese
>>>>popcorn?  [stuff deleted]

>>>I wanted to make my own cheese popcorn once [stuff deleted]

>>I don't know if they make this anymore, but a few years back, Kraft
>>was making grated cheddar cheese [more stuff deleted]

>The Kraft Mac & Cheese mix is essentially the same [ditto]

>Ted "also misses Grape Tang" Frank

1) Does anybody know where/why?...
2) Are there any ULs (no apostrophe) about?...
3) Also misses...

Fizzies!!

Anybody else remember them?  Came on a foil-backed card of eight (I
think); you dropped one in a glass of water, and like an Alka-Seltzer(TM)
it would fizz into a drink, but of whatever flavor tablets you bought.

I always loved the root beer ones.

Seems like they suddenly disappeared off the shelves one day.

Answers to 1) and/or 2) gratefully appreciated.

Ed Leihy 
NCR (an AT$T company)
From: bml@netcom.com (Brian Leibowitz)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Tripping on exams
Date: 23 Dec 92 02:15:54 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

The stoned guy driving 5MPH and thinking he was speeding reminded me of 
another story I heard (supposedly the teller knew the guy)

A student went to a philosophy exam tripping (I forget on what) and
didn't remember what he did, but he got an A.  He did the same thing for the
final and got called into the Professor's office - he had filled the
blue book with gibberish.

Brian       I jest to Oberon and make him smile - Will.S.
From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: African-American-top
Date: 1 Jan 93 00:03:59 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1992Dec31.140618.15453@panix.com> ilaine@panix.com (Liz Stokes) writes:
>	I heard a similar story about a newspaper that always replaced 
>'fireman' with 'firefighter' which worked fine until they ran a story about 
>19th century locomotives.

The News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C., recently ran a story about the
racist incidents in Germany which referred to "the Kristallnacht program."
Apparently some idiot with a spelling checker but without any knowledge
of history had fixed the word which had unaccountably been corrupted
to "p-o-g-r-o-m" in transmission.

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From: Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Anyone here read the Fortean Times?
Date: 22 Dec 92 10:27:07 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK


        I read through the UL FAQ last night, and I got to wondering ...

        Have any of you guys seen the Fortean Times? It was started yonks 
ago by a Mr Forte (or some such.) It exists purely to report ULs. They make
no attempt to explain the causes - scientific vs spooky - they just report
wierd newspaper stories, strange occurrences, etc. The pictures and stories
are fabulous. Many of the (untrue) legends from the FAQ I have already
seen reported in this magazine. I'm just suprised it's not in the FAQ, 
itself.

        It comes out (I think) quarterly, and is in W.H. Smiths, the
major stationary chain store here in the UK. It's worth checking out a copy
If you read this group.


 Brian "I'm not related to anyone who produces this 'zine, honestly" Milner

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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: AIDS risk/Duesberg
Followup-To: talk.politics.medicine,sci.skeptic
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:51:16 GMT

In article <BzoG7o.3p6@umassd.edu> pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU writes:
>    You should have read my AIDS post. Duesberg says there is no peer-reviewed
>paper which proves the HIV-AIDS _hypothesis_. Is he right?

Didn't see your post (my site just got t.p.med), but Duesberg's been discussed
in sci.skeptic, and I defer to the expertise there.

>    He says modern AIDs is caused by the hard drug lifestyle of malnutrition, 
>sleeplessness, and chronic tension, classic causes of immune deficiency.

Of course this alternative theory doesn't explain why hemophiliacs and
infants and blood transfusion recipients get AIDS.  Or why it's so
prevalent in Africa.  My first guess would be to reject Duesberg's
theory as having less explanatory power than the current theory.

>    I say scientists are morally intimidated by egalitarianism and so claim
>that all groups are equally at risk. Duesberg says homo. druggies.

Well, all groups that get exposed to HIV *are* equally at risk.  But some
behaviors more likely to spread AIDS are more prevalent in some groups than
others.  But between the religious right and the activist left, the
educational message conveyed has been less than fully accurate.  

>    Also, the Am. Psychiatric Assoc. permitted itself to be lobbied and intimi-
>dated by homo. activists around 1970 and, without new science, changed their
>public judgement about the psy. unhealthiness of homo.

Of course the original judgement of the APA was hardly based on "science"
to begin with, but rather on Christian social norms.  There's no reason 
to think that either of their public judgements are accurate.

I'm more concerned about the hijacking of fetal tissue research, despite
the multitude of controls to prevent it from being used to encourage
abortions, than I am about what the APA considers "normal" this week.

>    I am not a scientist but a person who recognizes that science is a tool of
>survival and that it is being corrupted by political correctness.

Would Popper call psychiatry "science"?  Probably best not to discuss
this here.  I certainly wouldn't.

>[advertising plug and Ayn Rand .signature deleted]

Followups out of a.f.u.
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From: curt.tucker@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Curt Tucker) 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: I Live to FAQ!
Date: 19 Dec 92 02:01:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Ed Hopper's BBS - Berkeley Lake, GA - 404-446-9462
Reply-To: curt.tucker@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Curt Tucker) 

TC>846a872,873
TC>> F. Some 1963 $1 bills have a 'K' for JFK, 11 for mth of death, commemorate
TC>>    ["The Kennedy Note" in TMP]

Haven't read TMP, but all US $1 currency (and other denominations)
has a letter and numbers sprinkled around the front side as an
alleged deterrent to counterfeiters (real successful, since we all know
about it).  Example above:  "k" is the 11th letter in the alphabet. The
only remaining money in my wallet is a dollar bill with "F" and "6."

I've heard this for years and have found no counter-example.  The
Numbers/letters may or may not correspond to particular regional Federal
Reserve Banks.  I bet the Fed or the Treasury Dept. would explain if
anyone cared enough to call.

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From: kasprj@jec310.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: African-American-top
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:35:16 GMT

In article <mjenkins.725757417@cunews>, mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
|> Here's an UL...at least I've been told my everyone I tell my story to
|> that its an UL (and I don't recall seeing it in the enormously-huge
|> FAQ)
|> 
|> [story about global search-and-replace changing "black" to 
|>  "African-American"]
|> 
|> But as I say, every time I tell this story, people throw "UL" in my
|> face. I admit it has a lot of UL tendencies....
 
 I give it about 6.4 shergolds.
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