HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: msomers@mta.ca
Subject: Have any good pranks?
Reply-To: msomers@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:23:20 GMT

The end of our semester is soon to be here; the last week is called "shaft"
week.  This is where you play practical jokes on eachother.  An example
is to fill a person's room with pop cans.  I need some good tricks to get
the guys in my dorm.  If you have any shenanigans, please do not hesitate
to e-mail me.  Thanks!

				- B. Das -
	send to: msomers@macc2.mta.ca
From: 2691deedyj@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Ignore Andy
Date: 17 Nov 1992 22:18:00 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2691deedyj@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsd.csd.mu.edu

Maybe if everyone simply ignores Andy the cornfield cowboy he will 
just go away...

+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------+
|  Jane M. Deedy              |  "A census taker once tried to test me.  |
|  2691DEEDYJ@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU  |  I ate his liver with some fava beans    |
+-----------------------------+  and a nice chianti."                    |
|  Cell #13, Milwaukee Inst.  |   - Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter,  |
|  for Deranged Students      |     _The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_           |
+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven)
Subject: Re: LA/NY Phone Tapes?!
Reply-To: gak@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:59:14 GMT

In article 9181@news.acns.nwu.edu, athieme@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Aaron Thieme) writes:
>
>Has anyone heard a collection of recorded phone pranks from
>NY or LA?

This sounds a LOT like a Joe Pesci tape (yes, _the_ Joe Pesci) that my
roommate got from a guy who got it from a band called Warlock Pinchers,
and I don't know where they got it.

Rumor has it these phone calls will be coming out on CD soon.  (!)

have fun
gak

---
Richard Stueven       AHA# 22584 |----------| He has erected a multitude of new
Internet:            gak@wrs.com |----GO----| offices, and sent hither swarms
ATTMAIL: ...!attmail!gakhaus!gak |---SHARX--| of officers to harass our people,
Cow Palace:            107/H/3-4 |----------| and eat out their substance.

Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: kanderso@reed.edu (Karl Anderson)
Subject: causing over-reaction as a shenanigan
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:27:56 GMT

Shenanigans in which the perpretrator steps back and lets some dupe do
the dirty work are, in my opinion, among the finest of the ranks.  I
appreciate ANDY because he didn't waste much bandwith himself; he let
a cadre of unsuspecting angry posters do it for him.  Consider also,
ladies and gentlemen, that he would have surely ceased to annoy us if
he had been ignored.  Not very creative, to be sure, but how revealing
about the human condition!

Along these lines follows the
ObShenanigan:  Two years ago some students of Reed College was so
incensed about a column that was written in the student newspaper
(_The Quest_) that they decided to initiate the recall proceedings,
which stated that a vote for the recall of the editorial board would
be collected if enough students first signed a petition.  Since the
writer of the column was a _very_ close friend of mine by the name of
Roy G. Biv, I decided to help him out by putting up my own posters,
based on the opposition's "Recall the Quest" signs:

	SMASH THE QUEST!
The recall proceedings are designed to help the current editors of The
Quest stay in office!  While we waste our time attempting to scrounge
up enough signatures, they're sitting pretty and printing their lies!
	The time has come for ACTION!
Spit on a Quest editor!  Throw a brick through their window!  Take a
shit in their mailbox!  SOMETHING must be done to show these goons
that they are no longer welcome at our school!

I later heard people remarking on how the anti-Quest faction had
overstepped the bounds of proper action.  The recall petition failed,
and I like to think that I helped.

k
From: laposkymatth@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: LEAVE MY LITTLE BUTTIE ANDY ALONE!
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:26:23 CDT
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

yOU stUpId mUthAfUckAs hOw dArE yOU fUck wIth AndY (sOmEtImEs A vOwEl)

tAkE Off Eh!!!!

yOU wAnt tO kIll sOmEOnE kIll mE
gO AhEAd trY mE

I hAppEn tO bE A cOmpUtEr nErd And I cAn mAkE YOUr lIfE shIt If I hAvE tO

hAhA

hOw dO yOU lIkE thIs bItch?

I wIll sEnd hOArdEs Of hEll's AngEls tO rApE And pIllAgE yOUr tOwns.

gO sOAk yOUr cOllEctIvE hEAd.

Oh And bY thE wAy pUll yOUr thUmbs OUt Of yOUr EvEr sO tIght AssEs And 
tOkE Up.

lOvE,
cOwpOkEr mAtt
From: maire@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Phone shenanigans
Date: 21 Nov 92 05:11:51 -0500
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

In article <7222920528597@grafix>, jim@grafix (Jim Kuiper) writes:
> 
> At an office I worked at we had four phone lines and a com line that
> could buzz other offices.  The initial shenanigan was to buzz someone's
> office, and when they picked up say "Wind" and then hang up.  Usually they
> *thought* they knew who it was and promply "Winded" them back.
> 
> When people started getting wise, the routine became to call through the
> secretary which made it seem like an outside call.  Once a guy was on the
> phone with a possible new employer, got a second call and hung up on the
> first call by mistake.  The second call was only one word long...
> 
> It got interesting when people started moving to other jobs.  "Wind" calls
> were cheap, quick, and let the person know they weren't forgotten.
> 
> The all time classic was a long distance one to Denver.  "Tom" and "Joe" were
> former Winders that had moved to the same office there.  "Betty" was Joe's
> semi-secret girlfriend that had also moved on from our office.  We Winded
> Tom, and he said "Wait, wait!  Betty is visiting Joe right now - get her."
> He gave us Joe's home number and said she was there.
> 
> I'm sure she still doesn't know how we caught her.
> 
> +-------------------------+--------------------------+
> | Jim Kuiper              | "Hey! Look what Zog do!" |
> | jim@spatial.eid.anl.gov |            - Gary Larson |
> +-------------------------+--------------------------+
This reminds me of something I had going on a few years back.  In the
book _Catch-22_, a situation similar to the one you just described
happens, except that several people get phone calls in which the
person on the other end says, "T. S. Eliot," and hangs up.  (Read the
book if you want to know why.)  I found this to be hilarious and
told all of my friends about it.  Soon we were all calling each other,
saying, "T. S. Eliot," and hanging up.  I also made a point of calling
my former high school every day and doing likewise.

The crowning achievement of this running joke happened when I went
away to college.   During lunch one day, I explained the whole joke
to a friend.   Later, the friend and I went to get our mail.  The
only mail I got that day was an unsigned letter which said, "T. S. Eliot."
Perfect timing!

Tina M. Wood
maire@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
maire@drycas.bitnet

Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: 890530m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Darren MacKenzie)
Subject: Re: Where the hell is the cap key???
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:25:36 GMT

hc56@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Hannah Cox) writes:

>	The only thing that I have to say about all caps is that I get a
>headache trying to read it because I am just a little bit lysdexic, or is
>it dislyxic ;-).  So I don't even try anymore.

>-bitch

Whenever I see something in all CAPS, I simply hit the "n" key without
even reading it.
-Doc

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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: cougar@acm.rpi.edu (Erik Collin)
Subject: Confuse-a-Prof
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:16:49 GMT


One day I arrived early for chemistry class.  I hid all the erasers except
one in to which a stuck a straight pin.  I tied a thin fishing line to the
pin and put the eraser at one end of the tray under the blackboard and ran
the fishing line down the length of the tray, up to the ceiling and over
to my seat.  When class began I gave a few tugs on the line and the eraser
started its travels across the tray.  Of course everyone but the prof
noticed and there were giggles from around the class.  By the time the
Prof was ready to erase something the eraser had moved about three feet
from its original position and everyone was waiting for the poor Prof to
make a grab for it.  When the big moment came the Prof reached for where
the eraser had first been (seems he saw it when he first came in and assumed
it hadn't moved).  After a moment of hesitation he made a grab for the eraser
and I pulled on the line.  The timing was perfect and the eraser zipped from
its resting place an instant before the Prof would have gotten it.  After
another moment of hesitation he pounced on it catching me unprepared.  He
picked it up and gave it a thorough going over but in picking it up the
straight pin was pulled out and he couldn't find anything unusual with it.
The Prof seemed to just shrug it off but the rest of us thought it was great.

--

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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: devol@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (WILLIAM DEVOL)
Subject: dear andy, cornfield cowboy
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 17 Nov 1992 11:32 EST  

Hey, Andy, take a Playboy to the bathroom and calm down, pal.  It will help 
you get over that adjustment problem you've been having ever since you 
graduated from high school and can't be on the audio-visual team with the 
other kids any longer.

*******************************************************

Friends don't let friends go to Miami University!

Bill
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Saturday, 14 Nov 1992 12:29:48 MST
From: <AUJGH@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: phone phun

This is something I used to do to kill time a long time ago.
I used to have two phone lines in my room, a house line and my own.  Apparently
the wires on the second line were on the two pins that are normally
unconnected, so by taking a phone line splitter and plugging it into the
back of a phone, i could dial one number on one line, then plug in the second
line and dial a second number and they'd be connected.  why, you ask?
All sorts of fun.  My favorites were things like calling up two different
grocery stores. ("A&P" "PathMark" "Can I help you" "This is PathMark" "This
is A&P" (major confusion)) or any two competing buisnesses.  Also good for
starting fights between people i didn't like for some reason or another
(keep connecting them very late at night..."Stop calling me you ****" "I
didn't call you!" and other such words to that effect).

   greg h
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: wyvern@iastate.edu (Nuno Bettencourt)
Subject: Re: Gur subject yvar.
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:37:56 GMT

In article <92322.161912IO10781@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Kind of a stupid game isn't it? <IO10781@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
>    As V have ernq in fbzr postings n shenanigan vf something gung
>a crefba does jurernf the crbcyr who gur shenanigna vf done gb have
>bar of guerr reactions.
>
>    1) Gurl look ng the furanavtnaref oddly fnlvat "Why obgure?"
>    2) They ynhtu at gur shenanignaers naq stand nebhaq to jngpu
>       the erfg of gur show.
>    3) Gurl laugh jvgu th..... ["adkjfhjka" deleted]

	No no nooooooo! Don't fall for it! :)

wyvern@iastate.edu


Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: tlund@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Thomas Lund)
Subject: Re: Phone shenanigans
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:46:03 GMT

	Another neat aspect of conference calling is that it is recursive.
Some friends of mine in High School planned one time to start a chain where
one person calls another with conference calling, who calls another...  
Optimally, the last person on the list should call someone from the Guiness
Book.

 /\//\
  //
\//\/

PS I was too lazy to find out if it really worked.
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: ogd@selway.umt.edu (ozymandias G desiderata)
Subject: Re: The subject line.
Organization: ::AOAIOXXYSZ::
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:07:49 GMT

In article <92322.161912IO10781@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Kind of a stupid game isn't it? <IO10781@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
>     As I have read in some postings a shenanigan is something that
> a person does whereas the people who the shenanigna is done to have
> one of three reactions.
> 
>     1) They look at the shenaniganers oddly saying "Why bother?"
>     2) They laugh at the shenanignaers and stand around to watch
>        the rest of the show.
>     3) They laugh with the shenaniganers after being the brunt of
>        whatever the joke happens to have been.
> 
>     Keeping these pseudodefinitions in mind, I post this with all
> the intentions of people ignoring it and moving on to the next
> posting without a second thought. According to the first reasoning
> this still counts as a shenanigan. Thanks. I'd like to be included
> as the first person to pull off a one-person shenanigan. If you
> think this is a little to forward of me, well ... maybe you're
> correct. I just want a little piece of the action.
> 
> 
> .------------------------------------.----------------------------------,
> | Are humans nothing but the Earth's |  Captain Ugh may be reached at   |
> | mid life crisis? You be the judge. |     VB10781@Maine.maine.edu      |
> `------------------------------------^----------------------------------'

	What are you _talking_ about? I don't see what's so funny or
weird about your posting. Did I miss something? I mean, besides you
misspelling "shenanigan"? I guess that's sort of a subtle shenanigan
in itself, but jeez, that doesn't even make me say "why bother?" I
guess I just don't get it...

confused,
ozymandias G desiderata
(ogd@selway.umt.edu)
-- 
----
		"Give me your hand and I'll tell you your future,
		 give me your wallet and I'll tell you your past."
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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: rjones@dsd.es.com (Ray Jones - Perp)
Subject: Re: Update: Shenanigans on alt.shenanigan
Followup-To: alt.null
Reply-To: rjones@dsd.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 17:06:44 GMT

In article <HERMIT.92Nov20021827@am.ucsc.edu>, hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward) writes:
>In article <Bxxt79.6DL@rice.edu>, paulus@owlnet.rice.edu (Paul Nathan Crocker) writes:
>) In article <1992Nov18.232753.10368@reed.edu> kanderso@reed.edu (Karl Anderson) writes:
>)>Now, these fine shenaniganers deserve recognition, but I do believe
>)>that ANDY, CORNFIELD COWBOY should be listed as a member of thier
>)>ranks.
>)>
>)>Why, by pressing a single key on his keyboard, he has touched off a
>)>veritable tsunami of opprobrium!
>)
>) I would tend to disagree.  There is a difference between playing
>) annoying someone and leaving them asking "why would anyone do that"
>) that I think eveyone here is well aware of.
>
>WHAT MAKES YOU SAY THAT?  THERE IS NO HARM IN USING ALL-CAPS FOR
>POSTING.  IT IS A SHENANIGAN, IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD.  THERE'S NO
>HARM DONE, AND IT IS DONE FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING PEOPLE WONDER "WHY
>WOULD ANYONE DO THAT?"

Look.  I was there when shenanigan was defined.  It has to be funny,
It has to make people say, "Why would anyone go to the trouble?"  And
it has to be clever, like a good practical joke.  Writing in all CAPS
is about as far from a shenanigan as you can get.

Some people dismiss ANDY's posts without thinking about them.  "An all
CAPS post.  Yipee.  Is next."  I took the time to think about it.
"It's on alt.shenanigans, it's probably trying to be funny."  But
that's the problem.  It's not funny.  It's painfully hard to read,
yes.  But funny?  No.  

"Okay.  Maybe it's trying to make people say 'Why?'"  But no one says
that.  Because it's so easy to write in all caps.  Hit CAPS-LOCK, and
go on.  

And it's certainly not very clever.  It's an old joke, if it can even
be called that.  BIFF got to it first, ANDY.  Get a new gimmick.

Now, the post that was rot-13 *every other word*.  Now that was a good
shenanigan.  Weird, Without reason, and reasonably interesting.  I
went through and read it, even though I really didn't care what it
said.  It made me say, "Why?"  Perfect.

I don't care if ANDY writes in all caps or not.  I, like most people,
have trouble or just dislike reading in all caps, so I get through the
first line, then hit 'n'.  I suggest everyone else do likewise.  But
on no account should his posts be added to the list of shenanigans
perpetrated on this group.  

-- 
                                          rjones@dsd.es.com
From: silk@nectarine.ucsb.edu (Kenneth S. Mencher)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: CLOSED MINDED? READ THIS.(YOU IDIOT)
Date: 20 Nov 92 23:30:16 GMT

<lots and lots and lots of uppercase letters removed>

ok, ok....you've made your point...now would you please stop shouting?

(some of us are trying to get some sleep...)

silk
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: jkies@amandil.next.nd.edu (jason kies)
Subject: Re: grocery store intercom
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:18:04 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.042747.21304@reed.edu> kanderso@reed.edu (Karl  
Anderson) writes:
> Today I was returning some bottles at the local grocery store when I
> noticed that there was a phone just out of sight of the bottle counter
> with a pretty red button on it...> Disclaimer:  never yell fire in a  
crowded theater.

	Hmnmm. . . . I go kicked out of a K-mart once during my wild and  
crazy teenage years for announcing blue light specials.

	jk
From: johnsonchris@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: WHY I LOVE THIS NEWSGROUP(IN CAPS)
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:48:35 CDT
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

Why, I am suprised at you folks! How can it be that little old me has 
caused such a furor? Why, I was merely unaware that the little button that 
reads "lock" on the side of my keyboard was such a powerful INSTUMENT OF 
DESTRUCTION! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA! SIE! HIEL! SIE! 
HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL! SIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE! HIIIIIIIEEEEEEL!
OH, FLAME ME SOME MORE! I DO SO ENJOY YOUR ATTENTIONS! i MASTURBATE 
PROFUSELY while READING this NEWSGROUP, don't you KNOW! AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!
I WOULD LIKE TO BE LISTED IN "UPDATE" AS THE BIGGEST ASSHOLE EVER TO POKE 
HIS PIMPLY SCROTUM INTO YOUR SACRED RANKS! OOOOOOOHHHHH! I'M NOT WORTHY! 
I'M NOT WORTHY! UH! UH! UH! UUHHHHHH! UH! UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH! OHHHH! THE 
BEST! YOU'RE THE BEST! OOOOOOOOH! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHA!
REPLY TO THAT, FILTHY WORMS! 
ANDY, CORNFIELD, NAZI, KKK, RACIST, TRANSSEXUAL, CROSS BURNING ASSHOLE!
From: 002519m@ace.acadiau.ca (KRISTIAN AARON MACCALL)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Phone shenanigans
Date: 15 Nov 92 23:59:40 GMT
Organization: Acadia University

In article <1992Nov14.154756.26406@ms.uky.edu> al@ms.uky.edu (Al Smith) writes:
>From: al@ms.uky.edu (Al Smith)
>Subject: Re: Phone shenanigans
>Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 20:47:55 GMT

>cmcurtin@bluemoon.use.com (Matthew Curtin) writes:

>>Telephones are wonderful devices, and can provide hours of entertainment 
>>for you and your fellow pranksters. Some of my favorites:

>>1. Call the local number for the weather and record it. Then call some 
>>poor person (preferably someone you know :) , and play back the recording.

>>2. Call someone's answering machine, record thier message. Call them back, 
>>and play back thier greeting as your message. Some people actually get 
>>worried that thier answering machine is broken...

>Another Cool thing to do, along the same lines is, 
>If you have conference or three-way calling,  when you call someone and
>their answeringmachine answers, take this opportunity to click over to
>the other line and call the local weather number.  Then click back to
>connect all three lines.  When their machine beeps, it will record part, if not
>all of the weather as the mwssage.

>HAHA!

>Have fun
>.

Some friends and I did something like that once.  First, we called this     
1-800 number (something about space-camp or whatever...)  and after that we 
clicked over and dialed a pay-phone that we knew the number of.  Somebody 
answered, and all they heard was this buddy going on about spacecamp, with 
some really tacky background music.  The guy on the payphone was busting up 
laughing and getting his friends to come over and listen, etc...

Anyway, I've also played various cassettes into the receiver and left music 
or comedy skits or whatever on answering machines too...

I haven't been involved in phone pranks in a while...I should get back into 
it...
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Wednesday, 18 Nov 1992 15:34:10 EST
From: Kind of a stupid game isn't it? <IO10781@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Where's the hidden message?

  Upon reading the last few postings, I find it hard to believe
that nobody discovered the secret message in one of my previous
articles ... "Wouldn't you just rather be beaten about the head
with a broadsword?". Furthermore, I have been added to the list
of shenanigan perpetrators without any acknowledgement by other
readers as to one of these shenanigans even being pulled. Well,
this in mind, I give you another chance.

            Orono Mysticism
            ----- ---------
You searched for so long, and I bet it was tough.
But evidently you didn't quite long enough.
Now keep on trying. The answer will become clear,
If you just keep going to a thing's rear.
There are two clues that show on your screen.
One up on high and one in between.
A little mistake could help you find it.
As if a certain key you did hit.
One might call it the fucntion key of fate.
It is marked with a number as of late.
Yet another hint to dispell your sad pout.
Why not try to print this thing out?
Even Hiz Lord Dimentia couldn't find the damn thing.
Or Andy of Cornfield despite his YELLING. :)
Now is your chance to find it for once.
I'm reposting again so you won't look a dunce.
Thanks goes to Steve for enjoying my last post.
You wouldn't happen to live on the Ivory Coast?
Ok. I know. That line was quite weak.
But give me a break would ya? I've just - YEEK!
I'm out of ideas for this post's passage.
Now is your chance, find the damnned message!

In the name of shenanigans, live to be noticed!
-+* Captain Ugh *+- IO10781@maine.maine.edu
* * * End of FiIe * * *





No! No! You have found my secret hideout. I am vanquished!   AAAUUuggh ..
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