HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Robyn_Clark@mindlink.bc.ca (Robyn Clark)
Subject: Re: unlikely ship names
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 01:05:09 GMT

...well for starters, Canadian naval vessels have the prefix H.M.C.S. (Her
Majesty's Canadian Ship) NOT M.C.S.

   So how about H.M.C.S. Unsinkable II...


Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: andy@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (andy.russo)
Subject: Womanist Humor - offensive to men [sexual] (rot 13)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Holmdel, NJ - Jello Studies Group
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:32:35 GMT
Keywords: male put-down

	Svefg Jbzna: Jung qb lbh pnyy n qevc ng gur raq bs lbhe cravf?
	Frpbaq Jbzna: N zna.

Naql (Fbzr Bs Zl Orfg Sevraqf Ner Zra) Ehffb
Xref: sparky rec.humor:37074 alt.tasteless:14429
From: cobra@jab.tucson.az.us (Ken Thompson)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,alt.tasteless
Subject: Re: A Reminder
Keywords: Reminders?  Everyone needs one...
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 12:17:50 MST
Organization: Just Another Bbs. Tucson, AZ

sweide@uceng.uc.edu (Steven Weide) writes:

> Remember, only 364 more shopping days untilo Christmas.

Yes; I hope you're going to get all of us something this time!
From: "frank rosenbaum" <frank.rosenbaum@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: don't read me. only a tes
Date: 29 Dec 92 23:31:42 EST
Reply-To: "frank rosenbaum" <frank.rosenbaum@execnet.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Executive Networks Information


AO/In article <Bz3xA2.Hs8#news.ucs.mun.ca> jfarrell@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (James Farrell) writes:
>In article <702.9212101345#thor.cf.ac.uk> scocjk@thor.cf.ac.uk (Christopher Kyle) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec8.185407.15398#Princeton.EDU> sguha@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Saumyen Guha) writes
>>|In article <61190004#acf3.NYU.EDU> wut@acf3.NYU.EDU (Tom Wu) writes:
>>|>/* acf3:rec.humor / mwasserm@diana.cair.du.edu (MARC Y. WASSERMAN) / 10:42 am  Dec  7, 1992 */
>>|>In article <ByvLyF.MBt#news.ucs.mun.ca> jfarrell@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (James Farrell) writes:
>>|>>In article <1992Dec6.212621.12609#spock.UUCP> bane@spock.uucp (Cameron Huang) writes:
>>|>>>In article <184434#pyramid.pyramid.com> vkhare@misdev.mis.pyramid.com (Vilas Khare) writes:
>>|>>>>.this is a test message, please ignore.
>>|>>>You are a dork, and your post's a bore.
>>|>>That's not very nice. You're just being sore.
>>|>Perhaps he's ironic, and wants some more.
>>|>Quit dancing around, and let's get to the core.
>>|As if , you are talking to a whore!
>>He knows that, he knows the score.
>What the hell are we doing this for?
  /two months on the last one, let's go fo four!

NO! NO! DON"T MAKE ME READ ANY MORE!

               Frank in White Plains NY
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Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Simpsons program
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 20:33:50 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

In article <1992Dec18.135352.6262@desire.wright.edu> pgunterman@desire.wright.edu writes:
>In article <1992Dec15.165704.28145@burrhus.harvard.edu>, glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier) writes:
>> sorry, that should be /pub/simpsons
>> -- 
>> "A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@ 
>> I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
>> think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
>> these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
>           
>Hey! A D.R. and Quich fan in America, no less!!!
                  ^^^^ That's "DR & Quinche," man

-- 
"A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@ 
I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
From: paul@hsh.com
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: >> Other ways to say vomit..
Date: 29 Dec 92 20:52:36 GMT
Organization: HSH Associates

In article <Bzrxx9.JGq@unccsun.uncc.edu>, jagrizza@uncc.edu (James A Grizzard) writes:
> In article 724991554@vipunen.hut.fi, hhelanto@vipunen.hut.fi (Henri R Helanto) writes:
>>In <2B30BFA0.5741@deneva.sdd.trw.com> kieffer@spf.trw.com (Robert Kieffer) writes:
>>
>>>In article <9235010.3928@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> sead@mundoe.maths.mu.OZ.AU  
>>>(Sead Mujushi) writes:
>>>> In article <jonathan.724311093@author.ecn.purdue.edu>  
>>>jonathan@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan L Neuenschwander) writes:
>>>> >markc@compnews.co.uk (Mark Cooper) writes:
>>>> >>One culled from a Mike Harding song about Australia...
>>>> >>Going for a groan down the white telephone...
>>>> >Did anyone say spewing?
>>>> >Then there's:
>>>> >Bazooka barf (particulary nasty.  :-)
>>>> >Roaring the rude arc.
>>>> >
>>>> >Jonathan
>>>> 
>>>> It might have been already posted but how about ...
>>>>   Crying Ruth (think about it 8^)
>>>    "Jet scream"... my college nickname.
>>
>>	A couple of terms I and a couple of my friends use...
>>	"Speaking norwegian" (no offense to norwegians intended!)
>>	"Talking to porcelain telephone"
> 
> "technicolor belch"
> "praying to the porcelain goddess"

Around this part of the world they tend to be:

 "Yelling 'New York'"  
 "Spewing Food"
 "Blowing Chunks"  aka "Blowing Lunch"

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Internet: paul@hsh.com   Compuserve: 70410,3507  America On-Line: HSH Assoc
  ...Any opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the company...
From: barryg@hplsla.hp.com (Barry Gunn)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Need info on - humor (use of in ads)
Date: 10 Dec 92 16:47:35 GMT
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA

I just last night saw an ad for an Oldsmobile with the slogan:

              "YOU DESERVE SOMETHING BETTER"
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: zmyd02@hou.amoco.com (Denton Meredith)
Subject: Re: Credit Validation
Reply-To: zmyd02@hou.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:24:26 GMT

In article h198@hosp.med.umich.edu, h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum) writes:
>In Article <C0192x.KyB@cs.dal.ca> "franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)" says:
>> In article <NAEEM.92Dec29104546@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Naeem Mohaiemen) writes:
>> >In article <1453700022@igc.apc.org> Skip Vogt <skip@igc.apc.org> writes:
> 
>  [Stuff Deleted]
> 
>> insecure or offended by what you see as an obvious stereotype. If one cannot
>> laugh at themselves, they will most surely be laughed at by others.
>           ^^^^^^^^^^
>           oneself 
> 
>  Are you laughing, or shall we?   :-)



What about:

>> laugh at themselves, they will most surely be laughed at by others.
			^^^^
			 one


I can no longer sort out who the original sinner was, but I'm sorry...this was just in fun!      ;-)

Newsgroups: rec.humor,alt.soc.usa
From: thomasl@silver.ucs.indiana.edu ((thomasl))
Subject: help: toe socks (remember them?)
Summary: odd friend wants 'em for xmas
Keywords: 70's, rainbow-colored, 10
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:02:01 GMT

ok, my friend is really sorta odd.
he's a 70's kinda guy and we were sitting around talking and
it turns out that what he wants MOST for christmas is...
a pair of rainbow striped toe socks
yeah, toe socks.
you remember them?
each toe a different color?
realllllllllly dippy?
we all had them?
a novelty item?
silly?
uncomfortable?
anyway, that's what he wants most
(aside from a big round ball of a chair
such as the kind number one sits in on the prisoner t.v. show)

anyway, i can't find these sox anywhere
if anyone out there can help get a pair of the aforementioned sox to
me, they will have helped make someone's holiday truly memorable

send all info, please
please please
thanking you,
l.

Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle)
Subject: Re: LIMRICK
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Date: 21 Dec 92 19:22:56 GMT

jhobson@SU19F.harris-atd.com (Harv Hobson) writes:

>In article <BzEMJx.G8C@cs.dal.ca> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec17.001118.11284@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com> record@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com writes:
>>>In article <BzCvz2.GDw@cs.dal.ca>, franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:
>>>>In <1ghiflINNel4@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> cs_e373@ceres (Matthew Simpkin) writes:
>>>>
>>>>>There once was a lady from Ham,
>>>>>Who wanted to ride on a tram,
>>>>>When she kissed the conductor,
>>>>>He turned round and fuc*ed her,
>>>>>And now she is pushing a pram.
>>>>
>>>>There once was a fellow named Matthew
>>>>Who's spelling was awful but grant you,
>>>>His rhyme was no better,
>>>>He forgot a letter,
>>>>It's limerick, but spell as you want to.
>>>
>>>The limerick you wrote, I have read it
>>>I hope never before you have said it
>>>For it was not funny
>>>It can't be worth money
>>>And what's more, I might add, I DON'T GET IT!!!
>>
>>I pray that you please will stop shouting.
>>Of verbal goo please cease your spouting.
>>The subject is wrong,
>>Been mispelled all along,
>>Perhaps you are smart, but I'm doubting.
>>
>A limerick cascade's in the making.
>To most it is not so earthshaking.
>But bottles of green,
>Are making me scream.
>My need rec dot humor's now slaking.

A limerick cascade -- indeed!
You'll have everyone upset and pee'd!
As if driven by wind,
The flames will not end.
Oh well, take a deep breath and proceed...

Xref: sparky rec.humor:37293 soc.religion.quaker:372 soc.culture.celtic:8509 soc.culture.jewish:24442
From: trifid@agora.rain.com (Roadster Racewerks)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,soc.religion.quaker,soc.culture.celtic,soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: Seriously, a joke.
Date: 3 Jan 93 09:55:31 GMT
Organization: Open Communications Forum



I, too, find "offensive" a bit too strong...

Although we nowadays are taught to be more careful about stereotypes, they do
often have some foundation in fact if you go back far enough.

Scots had to be thrifty because they (Highlanders, at least) came from a place
where it could be very hard to make a living, and often had little to share.
They were noted for their hospitality, but did *need* to drive a hard bargain.

Jews, during the Middle Ages (and later in many places) were usually quite
restricted in where they could go, how they could make a living inside their
ghettos, and even what they could own. (Which is why they often went into 
easily-portable work like goldsmithing...) They, too, were forced to be very
careful with a penny.

I know less about why the Quakers had this reputation, but since they were also
an oppressed minority at one time, I assume it may have been similar to what
gave the Jews their reputation.

I don't see the harm in this joke, so long as people realize that the old
stereotypes are not very true in modern times, due to the increase in the
possibilities open to all these folk.

Now, if you were daft enough to *believe* the stereotypes..... :-(
But we aren't that stupid, are we?


Suze
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: Robyn_Clark@mindlink.bc.ca (Robyn Clark)
Subject: Re: A Reminder
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 00:21:27 GMT

        Actually there are LESS than 364 shopping days until Christmas.  You
forgot to subtract weekends and holidays, etc. (grin)!!!

From: mort@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jeff Mortensen)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 03:21:23 GMT
Subject: Re: someone finish these songs
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: rec.humor

In rec.humor, evahramian@mta.ca writes:

> jon,
> 
> maybe you should try getting laid....relax!
	Naw, that would be to easy.  I think he should kill himself
	and put him out of our misery.  Better yet Jon, just turn the
	radio off or to another station....

Mort > 
> 
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: sangercd@nextnet.csus.edu (Carl D. Sanger)
Subject: Re: California is NOT representative of the US as a whole
Keywords: language
Organization: California State University Sacramento
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:28:03 GMT

In article <1i7om3INN3n9@agate.berkeley.edu> wft@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Tell) writes:
>
>I think if you had to choose one state as representative of the U.S.
>as a whole you could only choose California.  It has 30 million people
>from most parts of the world, is by itself a top 10 global economic
>power, has lovely beaches and mountains, and the great city of
>San Francisco.   And at least we don't all speak in twangy voices
>and listen to Garth Brooks.
>
>WFT
>

Like, totally!

-- 
Carl Sanger				|| sangercd@csus.edu
California State University, Sacramento
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: bored-out-of-my-skull <clane@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: (none)
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:07:31 GMT


Hey could somebody repost the version of "Night Before Xmas" that has the
naughty words in it?  (bad description but hopefully someone will know what i
mean)




later               Sponsered by: Chuck's Bar, Barbeque, Bed and Breakfast
chuck!                              "Breakfast is FREE at my restaurant!"
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Desiderata
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:52:09 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

In article <GUY.92Dec22102751@rocannon.harlqn.co.uk> guy@harlqn.co.uk (Guy Snape) writes:
>I think I saw someone asking about an alternative version of
>Desiderata here recently.  Here's one a friend sent me.

This is from National Lampoon; it's a recent annual (don't know the date,
but there's a cake that says "Eat Me" on the cover; somethinkth anniversary
issue I guess) There's also a recorded version of the following on one of
their albums

>
>Go placidly amid the noise and waste,
>And remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
>Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of sleep.
>Rotate your tyres.
>Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself,
>And heed well their advice - even though they be turkeys.
>Know what to kiss - and when.
>Remember that two wrongs never make a right,
>But that three do.
>Wherever possible, put people on 'HOLD'.
>Be comforted, that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment,
>And despite the changing fortunes of time,
>There is always a big future in computer maintenance.
>
>	You are a fluke of the universe ...
>	You have no right to be here.
>	Whether you can hear it or not, the universe
>	Is laughing behind your back.
>
>
>Is that what you were looking for, WHOEVER YOU ARE?!
>
>Have a COOL YULE, and an inebriated New Year, y'all, love Guy xx
>
>Those who like pirate noises say "Aye!"	          guy@harlqn.co.uk
>Those who like horsey noises say "Nay!"   #|My opinions, not my employer's|#


-- 
"A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@ 
I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: js5190@oktext.sbc.com (Judy Sneed)
Subject: Re: Seriously, a joke.
Reply-To: js5190@oktext.UUCP (Judy Sneed)
Organization: Southwestern Bell
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 22:12:57 GMT

In article <725679841snx@crynwr.com> nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
>A Quaker is someone who can buy from a Jew, sell to a Scot, and still
>make money.
>

And stays calm and smiling the entire time.


From: keung@teecs.UUCP (Joseph Keung)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:57:53 GMT
Subject: asz
Organization: Litton Systems, Toronto ONT
Newsgroups: rec.humor

z:.
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: morlan@afit.af.mil (Bruce W. Morlan)
Subject: Re: Undocumented Assembly
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
Distribution: rec
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:20:34 GMT

jopi@stekt.oulu.fi (Jouko Valta) writes:

>	Undocumented Assembler Commands:

>	[scads of Assembler codes deleted - but missing this one:

	BWABL     Bells, whistles and blinking lights
-- 
Bruce W. Morlan, Major, USAF             Air Force Institute of Technology
Deputy Department Head (Military)        AFIT/ENC
Department of Mathematics                WPAFB  OH  45433
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: cnk@rgm.com (Claims No Knowledge)
Subject: Re: interesting christian-surname combinations
Organization: RGM *nix - Sacramento, CA
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:23:32 GMT
Keywords: Funky Christian Names

stevel@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Steve Lancaster) writes:

>In article <H3ZHwB1w165w@jab.tucson.az.us> cobra@jab.tucson.az.us (Ken Thompson) writes:
>>My wife claims to have gone to school with a girl named Candy Kain...
>>
>>(I say claim only because we went to different schools...  :)  )
>A friend of mine has a daughter that goes to school with Shady Lear. And
>this is in a town famous for Ima Hog.

Your wife is probably telling the truth. . . I went to school with a 
Candy Kane.
From: vince.maiocco@satalink.com (Vince Maiocco)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: interesting christian
Date: 2 Jan 93 04:53:00 GMT
Reply-To: vince.maiocco@satalink.com (Vince Maiocco)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

CC>OK, how about "Ophelia Dik" in my friend's (a school teacher) 2nd
CC>grade class a few years ago. TRUE! She was Vietnamese apparently.

Let me just say that I find it hard to believe Vietnamese parents 
would name their daughter "Ophelia"<G>.


OBJ:  Did you hear what Jesus said to Mary, as he was hanging on the 
cross,with her crying beneath him?

He said, "Don't worry, Ma, it's just for the weekend."

<G>



--- WinQwk 2.0 a#0
                                                                            
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: jxr1092@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Jens Rodenberg)
Subject: Santa Claus is coming to town!
Reply-To: jxr1092@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:28:58 GMT







You'd better not pout,
You'd better not cry,
You'd better watch out,
I'm telling you why,
Santa Claus is


    DDDDDDD           EEEEEEEEEEEEEE         AAAA         DDDDDDD
    DDDDDDDDD         EEEEEEEEEEEEEE        AAAAAA        DDDDDDDDD
    DDD    DDDD       EEE                  AAA  AAA       DDD    DDDD
    DDD      DDDD     EEE                 AAA    AAA      DDD      DDDD 
    DDD        DDD    EEE                AAA      AAA     DDD        DDD
    DDD        DDD    EEEEEEEE          AAAAAAAAAAAAAA    DDD        DDD
    DDD        DDD    EEEEEEEE          AAAAAAAAAAAAAA    DDD        DDD
    DDD        DDD    EEE               AAA        AAA    DDD        DDD
    DDD      DDDD     EEE               AAA        AAA    DDD      DDDD
    DDD    DDDD       EEE               AAA        AAA    DDD    DDDD
    DDDDDDDDD         EEEEEEEEEEEEEE    AAA        AAA    DDDDDDDDD
    DDDDDDD           EEEEEEEEEEEEEE    AAA        AAA    DDDDDDD



Merry Christmas, everyone!

Jens

Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: georgen@pooky.cs.mun.ca (George Noel)
Subject: Meaning?
Summary: Numbers
Keywords: Which one?
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 02:37:44 GMT


>509  35 votes  23ad7 225ga 6b954 67a93  5b1b 229h5 a9655 5dd22 11dd7 3d991
>509  3.1 mean   3.6   3.9   2.7   2.9   3.1   3.6   2.6   2.5   3.7   2.8

When you see this at the beginning of an Oracularities Digest (this one
came from #514) - are those the averages of the entries in the *current*
digest or in the number it says (those averages came from Digest #509?)

-=*George*=-
From: rgm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Menke)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: Meaning?
Date: 22 Dec 92 13:16:02
Organization: TEAM CS -- Making Tomorrow's Mistakes Today!
	<BzoDvv.50q@polaris.async.vt.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: cory.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu's message of 22 Dec 92 19:23:54 GMT

In article <BzoDvv.50q@polaris.async.vt.edu>
jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) writes:

   While we're on the subject, what do the codes (23ad7, a9655, etc.) mean?

Vote distribution: the position specifies the rating (1-5) and the
number/letter specifies the amount (0-9 corresponds to 0-9, a-z
corresponds to 10-35, and A-Z correspond to 36-61).

In other words, 23ad7 means two people voted 1, three rated it 2, ten
voters gave it a 3, etc...
--
					|  Robert Menke
"Ba Wheep Gra Na Wheep Ninny-bong..."	|    rgm@cory.berkeley.edu
		--Universal greeting	|    ...!ucbvax!cory.berkeley.edu!rgm
From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: An oracle post *I* got that never made it into the Oracularities
Date: 23 Dec 92 08:37:41 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
Your question was:

> Tell me, o mighty Oracle, whose picnics are as the picnics of heaven and
> whose potato salad is Never infested by ants,
>
> Why is corned beef called "corned beef"?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

> Because if we called it "reinforced concrete" people would get confused.
> Architects would unknowingly build skyscrapers out of luncheon meat, while
> innocent children would end up with a mouthful of broken teeth after biting
> into their sandwiches. All in all, it's better this way.
>
> You owe the Oracle a yellow submarine sandwich.

Personally, I thought that was a howl.  Totally out of the blue.  Never
would have thought of answering the question that way.  What do you all think?
From: luikero@pcuf.fi (Lauri Kero)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Woodchuck question answered or not?
Date: 25 Dec 92 13:07:07 GMT
Organization: The PC-users of Finland


  Sorry if this is a FAQ but has anyone ever answered the woodchuck
question and if so, what was the answer?
From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: Meaning?
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:23:54 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <1h624dINN17c@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bc770@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (George Burgyan) writes:
>
>In a previous article, georgen@pooky.cs.mun.ca (George Noel) says:
>
>>>509  35 votes  23ad7 225ga 6b954 67a93  5b1b 229h5 a9655 5dd22 11dd7 3d991
>>>509  3.1 mean   3.6   3.9   2.7   2.9   3.1   3.6   2.6   2.5   3.7   2.8
>>
>>When you see this at the beginning of an Oracularities Digest (this one
>>came from #514) - are those the averages of the entries in the *current*
>>digest or in the number it says (those averages came from Digest #509?)
>>
>>-=*George*=-
>
>It is for digest 509.

While we're on the subject, what do the codes (23ad7, a9655, etc.) mean?
From: barnett@convex.com (Paul Barnett)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: Woodchuck question answered or not?
Date: 29 Dec 92 14:32:05 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In article <BztGFw.3Lq@pcuf.fi> luikero@pcuf.fi (Lauri Kero) writes:

>  Sorry if this is a FAQ but has anyone ever answered the woodchuck
>question and if so, what was the answer?

Isuzu has just started running a radio commercial in the Dallas area
that goes:

"How much can an Isuzu pickup pick up?"

"All the wood a woodchuck can chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood."

(followed by a number of similarly inane answers)

At least this puts an upper limit on the amount in question.

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