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From: wichers@husc4.harvard.edu (JJJJJust JJJJJohn)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Dialing random numbers
Date: 15 Dec 92 00:12:39 GMT
Organization: The Harvard Lymph Node Fan Club

In article <1ggcbkINNak6@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cg071@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (P. J. Geraghty) writes:
>My own number, spelled out "FAT-MICK."
                             ^^^ ^^^^
>No, I won't tell you which area code.
>-- 
>P.J. Geraghty                "Maybe you should try Hare Krishna."
>5020 Battery Lane          --Kermit the Frog, to the "lost" agent
>Bethesda, MD 20814              GW Internet: JX655C@GWUVM.GWU.EDU
>(301) 409-0648    Cleveland Freenet: CG071@CCLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU
  ^^^
Looks to me like PJ just pulled a shenanigan on himself...

--jjw

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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: berk@techsys.mcws.fidonet.org (Berk Walker)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: wrong number fun
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 09:41:06 PST
Organization: Private for Now

announcing the time of the funeral shekes 'em up, too.

Berk Walker                           berk@techsys.mcws.fidonet.org
From: J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Shenanigans and pranks
Date: 14 Dec 92 14:19:17 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0b1@newshost.dartmouth.edu

I think we can all agree that the following qualifies as a prank
(although I would love to have seen the expression on the victim's
face!) and not a shenanigan.  The story came over the AP wire this
morning around 6:00.

"Suit Charges Mountain Dew It Wasn't"

"Marianna, Florida -- Brandon Hatcher wanted something cool to drink
when he opened a bottle of Mountain Dew.  But the Florida panhandle man
charges his drink didn't come from any mountain.  A suit filed in
district court alleges the Mountain Dew bottle was filled with urine. 
The suit states -- quote -- "Upon drinking said beverage, plaintiff
realized that the contents of the bottle did not taste like Mountain
Dew."  His lawyer says a lab analysis revealed the nature of the liquid
inside.  The defendants have 20 days to file their responses to the
suit in court."

And the man could actually tell the difference between Mountain Dew and
urine!  :-)

--Ted Schuerzinger
email: .zed@Dartmouth.EDU
"I should have known it would be bad vodka when all the label said was
'Russian Vodka'."
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: dwarner@milo.ub.com (Dave Warner)
Subject: Re: Laser Stuff
Organization: Ungermann-Bass
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:22:06 GMT

In article <+4R=4+C@engin.umich.edu> ftit@engin.umich.edu (Sergej Roytman) writes:

>A while ago I posted an article to this newsgroup about shooting lasers
>from a dormitory lounge at passersby and seeing the fun.  Several people
>emailed me asking where I got my equipment, and I told them that I'd
>find the address and post it.  Well, I've only been able to get around
>to it now (honest!  It's been that kind of semester.)  So, here's a few
>addresses you might want to check out.  I'm looking at catalogs from a
>couple of years ago, but you should still be able to build up a laser
>for around $60-$70 (US $s, don't know the conversion factors.)

>Sources:

>All Electronics Corp.
>tel. 800-826-5432
>A friend and I got stuff from them just last week, so we know they're
>still around.  There are some neat things in their catalog; check 'em
>out.

>Herbach and Rademan
>tel. 800-848-8001
>Their catalog says, "since 1934," so I assume they're still around.

>Allegro Electronic Systems
>3 Mine Mountain Rd.
>Cornwall Bridge, CT 06754
>no telephone number given
>A rather small catalog, but if it's got what you want, who cares?

>Again, I apologise for the delay in getting this list out.  I wanted to
>do this before the end of this term in order to get this information to
>people who have achademic accounts that expire around the end of the
>year.

>For those of you who emailed me about parts, I expect full descriptions
>of the neat stunts _you_ pulled within -- oh hell, just do it.

>--
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>|  ftit@engin.umich.edu   |   "... a stainless steel rat in the       |
>|    (Sergej Roytman)     |  ferroconcrete wainscoting of Internet"   |
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>Say no to four-line .sigs.

Also look in this months Radio-Electronics Mag, there are several offers.  
Gateway Electronics (St. Louis, San Diego, somewhere in CO,) also sells them.

dave

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                                         not) and are not likely to be
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From: jon@Turing.ORG (Jon Gefaell (KD4CQY))
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Fruit in an Elevator
Date: 20 Dec 92 19:48:01 GMT
Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host

In article <1992Dec20.034832.20948@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> dchiasson@mta.ca writes:
>In article <1992Dec19.185031.20099@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, jon@Turing.ORG (Jon Gefaell (KD4CQY)) writes:
>>In article <BzG6H8.G23@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> formula4@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Formula 409) writes:
>
>  What the hell are you doing in this group if you can't appreciate a good
>shenanigan. You should take your net-cop attitude elsewheres.

Who said I couldn't appreciate a good shenanigan? Perhaps we have different
standards. Beyond the cavalier attite which is endemic of our first world
perspective, there wasn't anything remaining that was anything more than
a 'you had to be there' kind of slapstick. Not the essence of a good prank,
or shenanigan (whatever the diference is)

At any rate, your 'net-cop' characterization is utterly bogus. I merely 
stated my perspective, an opinion. You're free to do whatever you please.
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
Subject: Re: Lawn Ornaments
Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 01:36:40 GMT
Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
X-Posted-From: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

n5gax@leo.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax) writes:
>
>PS -- Is a perpetrator of shenanigans a "shenaniger"?

No.  A shenanigator.  Or shenaniganist.

Seth L. Blumberg          \ Warning: This posting has been determined to cause
slb22@columbia.edu (play)   \ cancer in laboratory animals.  Please make sure
sethb@ctr.columbia.edu (work) \ that no white mice are allowed to read it.  
    > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: maxwell@deep-13.gizmo.com
Subject: Re: Net Shenanigans
Organization: Gizmonics Institute Inc.
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:26:25 GMT
X-Posted-From: fnalo.fnal.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Dec20.035206.21289@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, dchiasson@mta.ca writes:
> 
> A good newsgroup to raid is alt.transgendered. They get pretty irate when you
> post something in their group. Their responses are good for a laughor two.
> The takeover is actually in progress as of now. Join in on the fun.

Don't be a phobic asshole.  
There's a big difference between silliness and hatemongering.
try again.

mmonningh@igc.org
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: dtasman@NMSU.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Re: Dialing random numbers
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:39:25 GMT

In article <1ggcbkINNak6@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cg071@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (P.  
J. Geraghty) writes:
: 
: My friends and I, in our younger middle school days (daze? perhaps)
: would sometimes be bored enough to dial obscene phone numbers,
: such as "F**K-YOU* or "FAT-B**CH" etc.  It was amazing when we
: could actually reach people (back then, many of the numbers were
: not in service) and tell them how obscene their numbers were.
: 
One boring night, a few friends and I tried calling 1-800 (toll free) numbers  
which spelled out "interesting" words.  Many combinations (1-800-WET-C*NT0 and  
the like) referred you to a 1-900 number, which usually cost upwards of $4.95 a  
minute.  Some ring on and on, and others actually connect to a legitimate  
business.  If I recall correctly,  1-800-PENISES (or something related to male  
genetalia) is the national number for Orkin Pest Cntrol. 

Occasionally, you'll hit a number with a recording telling you the number has  
changed or it was recently disconnected ... maybe someone told them what their  
phone number spelled out.  We got the "number has been changed" message for  
several racial slurs.

--
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From: sabo@phakt.usc.edu (Jim Sabo)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Laser Stuff
Date: 12 Dec 1992 12:44:22 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

Gee, I hadn't realized that we'd been doing this shenanigan for the past few
weeks and not even realizing it. I work for the daily paper at Southern Cal,
and our office is on the top floor of the student union, which is right at the
center of campus. So we've been having fun going in the editor's office,
turning out all the lights, and waving the laser around people walking by, and
watching as they try to figure out where it came from.

The best so far was when they sighted the president of the university standing
right below the window, and went into gunsight mode. Unfortunately, this guy's
the electrical engineer who figured out how to make LCD timers or something,
so it took him all of about 3 seconds to realize what was going on, trace the
laser back up to our window, and wave hello...

Jim

-- 
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University of Southern California | they taste good, and as soon as you've
sabo@scf.usc.edu                  | had one, you want another." -Homer Simpson
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: rusty@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Hall)
Subject: Re: Pennies
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 09:34:00 GMT

>   We tried it a while back on our RA...  Get together with a friend or
>someone and have him or her push as hard as they can against the door,
>without making a lot of noise.  Then, shove as many pennies as you can in
>between the door frame and the door (lay the penny flat against the door
>and slide it in between the slot made by the door and frame).  If your
>dorm's doors are like the doors of most, there won't be enough space for
>the door to swing free of the frame, and it won't open.  Make sure you
>push against it HARD, and stack pennies in the slot if you need to.  At
>least, that's how we did it... 8-)
>x0
> 

FYI for all involved....


This is a sure fire way to get yourself removed from the dorm when I 
went to the University of Maryland.  This can be a rather dangerous 
stunt to do to a person.

Kilroy
From: ladislas@sobeco.com (Ladislas A.)
Subject: Re: Singin' Those Apocalypse Blues
Organization: Sobeco Ernst & Young
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 07:09:34 GMT

This thread is really attracting a lot of attention.  Very interesting ideas
have been brought forth concerning the use of nanothechnology, space 
resources and energy usage.  In one article, there was mention of standards of
of living and of everyone having enough to eat.

(This is off the subject of magick, but I think the point is being missed
 when it comes to the subjects I mentioned above)

"_Food_First_" by Frances Moore Lappe & Joseph Collins.  Houghton Mifflin
Company, Boston, 1977.  Copyright (c) 1977, Institute for Food and Development
Policy.  ISBN: 0-88515-116-X

I mention the title to a very interesting and somewhat revolting book.  It does
smack of socialistic views (the way the facts are presented - which is what
makes the book revolting), but the general information regarding land
ownerships and use gives a good idea of why third-world countries are in such
dire straits.  It also makes the reader take a new look at what the real
problem with the human specy really is: greed.

As long as greed (meaning that the industrialized nations just can't seem to
have enough energy, luxuries et al.) is stronger than common sense (meaning
a different way of managing the planetary wealth) our civilization is bound
for self-destruction.  Do not read "total annihilation" though.

Stopping here since the whole case should end up in some other newsgroup.

Ladislas.
From: stanley@verga.enet.dec.com (What a long, strange trip it's been)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: Singin' Those Apocalypse Blues
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:22:31 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <JOSHUA.92Dec15095519@bailey.cpac.washington.edu>, joshua@cpac.washington.edu (Joshua Geller) writes...
> 
>the thing is, you haven't really offered a solution. in fact,
>you have said that you don't think there is a solution (or
>rather, that you don't think the solution is feasible (reducing
>consumption, the whole lifeboat thing ... I agree, it is not
>feasible)). you merely cry 'doom doom' and recommend heading
>for the hills.

Maybe one single solution isn't feasible but many on-going solutions
would be.

> 
>tell you what, I'll bet you $1000.00 that civilization will not
>fall by any date you care to name. I'll go further; I will bet
>$1000 against your $10 that civilization will not fall by any
>date you care to name.
> 
>josh

:-)... Can I get in on this action too?  I'm with Josh.

Strynge Trypper
Newsgroups: alt.magick
From: "sonia brock" <sonia.brock@canrem.com>
Subject: widening gyre
Reply-To: "sonia brock" <sonia.brock@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: alt
Date: 20 Dec 92 12:13:00 EST


SM> I beg to differ. In Pound's case at least, his "inner vision" was
SM>facism.

Hmmm.  You seem to know what you are talking about.

I will scout out the Pound biography.

What you are saying about fascism ties in pretty well with a book I am
reading now, "Among the Thugs by Bill Buford", about British soccer
supporters.  There is a very telling chapter in the book about the
far right trying to 'harness' the violent energy of these groups.

Always good to keep up the evolution of society.  Amounts to 'knowing
your enemy'.

Sonia Brock
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Newsgroups: alt.magick
From: dkurtev@edvzbb2.ben-fh.tuwien.ac.at
Subject: Re: ftp sources
Organization: EDV Zentrum, Technische Universitaet Wien
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:17:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec5.060139.8267@u.washington.edu> mimir@hardy.u.washington.edu (Al Billings) writes:
>From: mimir@hardy.u.washington.edu (Al Billings)
>Subject: Re: ftp sources
>Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 06:01:39 GMT
>In article <1992Dec02.233826.12030@microsoft.com> tonypo@microsoft.com (Anthony Popek) writes:
>>I downloaded some zip files from "slopoke.mlb.semi.harris.com", but
>>can't seem to get the files unzipped.  I have a dos machine, and the
>>files are probably in a unix format, but I couldn't find an executable
>>zip program on slopoke and there isn't one on the unix server I use
>>for ftp access.  Anyone got any suggestions?  Any help would be much
>>appreciated.  Thanks in advance!
>
> The files were zipped using pkzip on a DOS machine. I zipped most of them
>myself. Try downloading them to your DOS machine and doing it there. There
>are Unix unzips around but I don't know where they can be gotten.
>
>Wassail,
>Grendel
>


make sure you use  tenex  mode to transfer zipped and other binaries from 
unix to pc.  then all should be fine.

cheers,
vanKurt.
Newsgroups: alt.magick,alt.pagan
From: joann@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
Subject: Re: The Yew Working, another runic ritual
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 06:52:39 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.073641.12084@u.washington.edu> mimir@carson.u.washington.edu (Al Billings) writes:
>
> The Yew Working
>
> spring; visualize this as pitch black and then intone the formula
> uuuuuuuuuuuu. As this force rises from the center of the Earth and
>
> head. Visualize the zone of white energy of infinite expanse, intoning
> the vocalic formula aaaaaaaaaaaa as this force flows from a wide
>
> becoming deep blue as you intone the vocalic formula iiiiiiiiiiii and
>
> During this process, intone the vocalic formula eeeeeeeeeeee. Once this
> Intone the vocalic formula oooooooooooo during this process.
>
> structure with the vocalic formula eeeeeeeeeeee (a lax neutral vowel
> sound during which all the muscles of the mouth as relaxed). The energy
Are these pure vowel sounds? That is, in order, oo ah ee ay oh ay?
Or standard American:  you ay eye ee oh ee?

*) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *)!(* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (*
Jo Ann Malina, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Neither Stanford nor the DOE would be caught dead with these opinions.
Nor do they consult me when formulating theirs.
From: jasonp@bungie.prime.com (Jason Pascucci)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: Hello
Date: 21 Dec 92 04:21:21 GMT
Organization: Prime Computer R&D

In article <1992Dec21.040744.8897@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Lupo the Butcher) writes:
|> In article <BzL6o7.Gpy@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ba@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (B.A. Davis-Howe) writes:
|> >harish.reddy@factory.com (Harish Reddy)  writes:

The nature of the first student is well. The nature of the
second student is poor. 

--
Jason R. Pascucci
jasonp@primerd.prime.com
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: pentagrams and sepher sephirot
From: dpschneider@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 19 Dec 92 15:35:51 EST
Organization: Wesleyan University

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

     I was pondering the question "Where does the inverted penagram point to?",
and my guess would be that it points to the microcasm. The idea of bringing the
divine into the magus (invocation) is an extremely common theme. This would
also seem to explain its association with anti-Christian themes since, as
Crowley points out, "Satan" can be taken as a qabalistic cipher for "true
self". Using this meaning of the word, the act of affirming the perfect
representation of the macrocosm (and all the Gods and Goddesses who are 
symbolic of the macrocosm) within yourself can easily be interpreted as Satan 
worship.

     Well its just a thought... but now I have a question. In "Sepher Sephirot"
it is clear that at times Crowley does not use the numerical attributions of
the final letters. At first I thought this was just a matter of using what
works best, but in the back of The Law is for All, there is a listing of all
the Hebrew letters and their numerical equivalents. This list clearly ignores
the "special values" of the final letters, by specifically listing their values
as equal to the value of the normal letter. It does not even refer to the idea
that these letters can be anything. but the same numerical value as their
normal counterparts. Does anyone know why this is?

     Thanks....
                                       Love is the law, love under will. 

                                             Dan
From: lazarus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: MUDs and Reality (Theory, LONG)
Date: 17 Dec 1992 04:37:14 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

It's an interesting topic, but one thing bothers me...
I THINK that the "D" in MUD stands for "Dungeon", as in, 
these are merely computerized, interactive forms of the
game Dungeons & Dragons...

Bart -Laz- Smith
The 'Cat
From: oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: Singin' Those Apocalypse Blues
Date: 14 Dec 92 02:43:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Dec12.002631.8867@u.washington.edu>, grimoire@byron.u.washington.edu (John Greer) writes...
>In article <JOSHUA.92Dec11143746@bailey.cpac.washington.edu> joshua@cpac.washington.edu (Joshua Geller) writes:
>>
>>In article <1992Dec11.182521.19366@u.washington.edu> 
>>grimoire@byron.u.washington.edu (John Greer) writes:
>>
>>I will admit things will probably get sort of grim, but I really don't think
>>that is too likely (in other words, over the next 50 years or so, I fully
>>expect systematic exploitation of off-planet resources to get off the ground).
>>these club-of-rome, rifkinesque sayings of doom also fail to take into account
>>the development of new technologies (like nanotechnology or fusion power)
>>which are also more than likely in the near future.

The vision comes first, then the action.

>Ah, technological band-aids.  I probably should have addressed this point 
>up front some time ago.  Since about the 1950's, when people first started
>noticing the disastrous long-term consequences of what were then emerging 
>trends, there's been a spate of what I suppose could be caled "techno-
>optimism" -- claims that some technology, or combination of same, would
>prevent the otherwise inevitable overshoot and crash.  The first one I

And with this sort of pessimism, we'd still be in the 
dark-ages.  

- Peggy -
From: malcolmc@spider.co.uk (Malcolm Campbell)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: misc.magick...
Date: 17 Dec 92 16:56:37 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK

In article <JOSHUA.92Dec16004436@bailey.cpac.washington.edu> joshua@cpac.washington.edu (Joshua Geller) writes:
>
>how about sci.hermetic? how about making it moderated (by several people
>of disparate views, and with a pretty open policy about letting posts
>through, say)?

I think moderation is probably a bit over the top for this, dont you? And do
we want to limit ourselves to hermetics? Other traditions have been
discussed here...

--- Malcolm

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From: lance@Circle.Raleigh.NC.US (Lance A. Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: Pentagrams
Date: 21 Dec 92 05:11:59 GMT
Organization: The Full Circle BBS, Raleigh NC - DOS/Waffle 1.65

locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Lupo the Butcher) writes:
> As far as the "ankh" being a "satanic" symbol, while Satanists may wear such
> jewelry, it "satanic" symbolism is peripheral as far as I know. It is no
> more "satanic" than any other non-christain symbol. I never heard of invertin
> an ankh...

Well, as I understand these things, any jewelry that is not OBVIOUSLY 
christian MUST be satanic. *snicker*

Lance


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From: markk@pongo.West.Sun.COM (Mark Allen Kampe)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: MUDs and Reality (Theory, LONG)
Date: 17 Dec 1992 15:36:53 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: markk@pongo.West.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: pongo.west.sun.com

I appologize for including all of Thagi's post at the end of mine.
I hit the post button before deleting it.