HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: You know when you're hacking too long when...
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 00:00:47 GMT

In alt.folklore.computers and talk.bizarre,
anton@cv.ruu.nl (Anton H.J. Koning) signs in full 80 column splendor:
\begin{sig}
********************************************************************************
*   ____  . __   ___ *             The mist crawls from the canal              *
*  (__   / /__) /__  *        Like some primordial phantom of romance.         *
* ____) / /  \ /__   *        To curl, under a cascade of neon pollen,         *
*--------------------* While I sit tied to the phone like an expectant father  *
* Anton H.J. Koning  *           Your carnation will rot in a vase.            *
* anton@cv.ruu.nl    *                                    ~ Marillion ~        *
********************************************************************************
\end{sig}

BUAF (32 point Mini-Majiscule Italic), borders, 80 columns.  You know the
drill.

I dunno - I just _hate_ the quote, but I can't come up with anything to say
about it.  And I don't even know who ~ Marillion ~ is/are.

-- 
Paul Tomblin
The Meach turned me back into a frog.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow)
Subject: Re: WANTED GURPS HIGH TECH
Organization: School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 08:41:27 GMT
X-Posted-From: csgi63.leeds.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Completely ignoring George's arrogant little rant about four lines (what is
it with you and four lines, George?) I offer the following sig-ette for your
enjoyment:

In rec.games.frp.marketplace article 
<1992Sep29.220920.12777@mercury.cair.du.edu>, ctompkin@diana.cair.du.edu 
(CHRISTOPHER P. TOMPKINS) writes:
> -- 
> ======================================================================
> |  Christopher Tompkins            |      ||                         |
> |  University of Denver            |  0===||||||||||||||||||>        |
> |  Denver Colorado                 |      ||                         |

Proving once again that the old ones are the best.

-- 
Dan Crow
daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: neilb@scs.leeds.ac.uk (Neil Bowers)
Subject: Re: A good joke!
Originator: neilb@csparc2
Organization: The University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 23:41:47 GMT

In alt.fan.warlord, rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) signs:
>someone else who I deleted re-re-re...-warlords:
>>
>> [LIVIAN's sig]
>
>hey, i claim the points for this one. i did it yesterday.

Hold on, you can't go changing the rules just to get a point!
Anyway, you may have warlorded it yesterday, but what makes you
think that was the first time...?

bah.

-neilb
And NO, you can't claim a point for this followup either :-)
From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: A Warlord
Keywords: foreign
Date: 2 Oct 92 16:29:32 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1ag4rqINNaj@huon.itd.adelaide.edu.au> alex@cs.adelaide.edu.au writes:
>In article <1992Sep30.184017.5205@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
> ...
>|> --
>|> 		-just give me what for,
>|> 	rachel perkins =  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
>|>       "Chastity..the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions...."
>|> 					-Aldous Huxley
>
>an advertisement perhaps? 
>

why, did you want a brochure?

bah.



--
		-just give me what for,
	rachel perkins =  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
      "Chastity..the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions...."
					-Aldous Huxley
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: bigdave@texas.tdd.sj.nec.com (David Sweeney  x2987)
Subject: Re: Dream Theater TOUR DATES!
Organization: NEC-AM TDD, San Jose, California
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:29:50 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.043900.24990@bcrka451.bnr.ca> nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau) writes:
>In article <1992Oct02.013354.26306@gozer.mv.com> klm@gozer.mv.com (Kevin L. McBride) writes:
>>meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach) writes:
>>
>>> Rheal. . . Kevin. . . email me a homebrew, quick!
>>
>>Comin' right up!
>>
>>-- 
>>  __
>> (__)
>> /__\
>>(____)
>>|HOME| RDWHAHB!
>>|BREW|
>>(____) klm@gozer.mv.com (Kevin L. McBride)
>
>Amateur.  I hear Meach likes 'em big and stout, with a good head . . .
>
>                   _-~~-~~~--__
>                  {            }
>                  {_-~~-~-_-~~|__
>                   | | |  | | |_ \
>                   | | |  | | | \ \
>                   | | |  | | |  | |
>                   | | |  | | |  | |
>                   | | |  | | |  | |
>                   | | |  | | |_/ /
>                   | | |  | | |__/
>                   |__________|
>
>The Rhealist       | "*thousands* of false skeptics, frantically calling
>nadeau@bnr.ca      : the Roto-Rooter Man at 3:00 in the morning"
>                   .                           - The Meach

Wimps.


        /---\   /--------\  
      --     ---          ---
    /                        \
    |                        |
    \                        /
     +--\   /----\         /+
     |   ---      \_______/ |
     |                      | ________
     |- - - - - - - - - - - |/  ___   \
     |                      |  /   \   |
     |                      |  |   |   |
     |              .       |  |   |  /
     |              .       |  \__/  /
     |                      |       /
     |              .       |\_____/
     |                      |
     |               .      |
     |               .      |
    /________________________\



--
Dave Sweeney     bigdave@tdd.sj.nec.com
(c) 1992 Witless One-Line Followups Ltd.
From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: what about my sig?
Date: 29 Sep 92 16:33:36 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
In-reply-to: templef@columbia.dsu.edu's message of Tue, 29 Sep 1992 02:49:14 GMT

In article <templef.36.0@columbia.dsu.edu> templef@columbia.dsu.edu (Fred Temple) writes:

>What do you guys think about my sig?
>*****************************************************************
>* Frederick J. Temple - KB0GKD                                  *
>* Madison, South Dakota USA                                     *
>*                                                               *
>* "Create your own programming environment                      *
>*  with the power of the Forth." - F.J. Temple                  *
>*****************************************************************

It's gone way downhill. The first one was much better.

--
Rich Holmes 
Clone-dependent no more.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: daniel@csgi63.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow)
Subject: Re: Hellblazer & McKean
Organization: School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:33:35 GMT
X-Posted-From: csgi63.leeds.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In rec.arts.comics.misc article <1a9kphINN13b@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>,
pstrem@the-sap-pitt.East.Sun.COM (Paul Strem - Sun USOPS WSU Production)
writes:
> 
> 
> 
> 					    ^
> 				The Flea   / \^.
> 					  ^
> 
> 

All that whitespace... oh my. And what on earth could that barphic be?

-- 
Dan Crow
daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk
From: gmcquary@Ingres.COM (George F. McQuary)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: ADMINISTRATION: What's your opinion of my sig?
Keywords: Lurker
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:42:41 GMT
Reply-To: gmcquary@Ingres.COM (George F. McQuary)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501

Once more, a lurker steps forth:
>It seems that the people of this group is devoted to
>giving their opinion of other people's sig.  Please tell
>me your opinion of my sig.  Thank you.

No, this is not a group where we hand out stamps of approval.

This is more a continuous roast and celebration of bad taste, combined with 
the largest scavenger hunt there is. We seek the new and the unusual, the
different and the never before unseen. 

Yours is common, pedestrian and forgettable. It is neither beautiful enough 
nor ugly enough to warrant our attention. However, for ALL LURKERS EVERYWHERE,
HERE IS THE ONLY RULE OF WARLORDING:

Any sig four lines or less cannot be warlorded. Anything larger can be.

Q: What if my sig has Bart, 3-D juggling, a Rush Quote, ugly borders,
   the southern cross, amiga checks, and a map of austalia with bikers, but it
   fits within a four line by 80 column (or smaller) format?

A: We'll laugh our asses off, but we won't warlord it. We are aware of the 
   (small to negligible) effect a.f.w's opinions have on the net, and so
   continue to encourage smaller sigs by guaranteeing that they will be
   left alone.

All further requests of this nature shall now be greeted with a resounding
and guiltless "Buzz Off!" since handholding frosh is entirely too dull of a 
task for my patience anymore.

Coming next week: Find the Barts! Compile all the unique Barts you can find
into one post to a.f.w. As always, style and uniqueness count more than
sheer numbers.


--
George F. McQuary 
"He is mad, bad and dangerous to know." -Lady Caroline Lamb
From: meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v3.0
Date: 28 Sep 92 13:58:18 GMT
Organization: UB

In alt.fan.pratchett <RSHOLMES.92Sep24164329@rodan.syr.EDU> 
rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:

>--
>- Rich Holmes
>"In general, the dance music of P.D.Q. Bach -- although we have no
> documentary evidence of this -- suggests that one of his legs was
> shorter than the other." -- Prof. Peter Schickele

In general, the postings of rsholmes -- which provide their own 
documentary evidence of this -- suggest that one of his synapses
was shorter than the other. -- Prof. Meach

[I have always known that one day I would do something here that would get
me into serious trouble. . .]

--jm
                         __________  __o __o
                       __________   -\<,-\<,
                        ..........(_)/---/(_)..
         The Rhealist and The Meach . . . off to conquer new worlds!
 But which is who, and who is which?  [Is it Rhealive, or is it Meachmorex?]
                meachem@bnr.ca  -=*=-  nadeau@acsu.buffalo.edu
                        Boys and Girls Together - Rush
From: meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: <None>
Date: 28 Sep 92 13:39:49 GMT
Organization: UB

In alt.music.rush <96734@bu.edu> jaeger@buphy.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger) writes:

>>					Love,
>
>
>>	uuuuuu     uuuuu      iiiiiiiiiiii
>>	uuuuuu     uuuuu      iiiiiiiiiiii   Chintan Amin
>>	uuuuuu     uuuuu         iiiii       c-amin1@uiuc.edu
>>	uuuuuu     uuuuu         iiiii       RUSH YES METALLICA REM PEARLJAM
>>	uuuuuu     uuuuu  of     iiiii       Go Illini, Tarheels, Orioles
>>	uuuuuu     uuuuu         iiiii       Go Cowboys, Capitals, Bullets
>>	uuuuuu     uuuuu         iiiii     
>>	 uuuuuu   uuuuuu         iiiii        Michigan Sucks, Iowa Swallows!
>>	  uuuuuuuuuuuuu          iiiii
>>	   uuuuuuuuuuu        iiiiiiiiiiii
>>	    uuuuuuuu          iiiiiiiiiiii
>
>
>
>Please stop wasting bandwidth with OVERSIZED .signature files, it's
>childish :) . Hey, this group only gets five posts a day since the
>NMS came back, it's impossible to waste space here!
>
>
>Iowa Swallows!? Pretty mature, I'd say.
>
>bla bla bla, etc.

There they go again. . . warlording in the wrong newsgroups!  Well, it is
a pretty lame warlording. . . so maybe we'll let it stay there, eh?
                                 
--jm                     __________  __o __o
                       __________   -\<,-\<,
                        ..........(_)/---/(_)..
         The Rhealist and The Meach . . . off to conquer new worlds!
 But which is who, and who is which?  [Is it Rhealive, or is it Meachmorex?]
                meachem@bnr.ca  -=*=-  nadeau@acsu.buffalo.edu
                        Boys and Girls Together - Rush
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: ex
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 03:32:59 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.235421.15452@geovision.gvc.com> pt@geovision.gvc.com writes:
>In rec.humor (were else?)
>tma4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (TERRY MICHAEL AUSPITZ) signs:
>[several lines of quoted text deleted]
>>I have sent this to him be reply.  If anyone else wants this posted let me
>>know.
>>    -TMA
>>+ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +
>>|         ///   ///    ///////                   -=FORTY-TWO=-              |
>>|        ///   ///   /////////           We *ARE* The meaning of life!      |
>>|       //////////  //   ///                                                |
>>|      //////////      ///                TMA4@LEHIGH.EDU - Terry           |
>>|           ///      ///                  SLR7@LEHIGH.EDU - Stephanie       |
>>|          ///     ////////               MRP2@LEHIGH.EDU - Matt            |
>>|         ///    /////////                SES3@LEHIGH.EDU - Sarai           |
>>+ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +
>>-- 
>>+ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +
>>|         ///   ///    ///////                   -=FORTY-TWO=-              |
>>|        ///   ///   /////////           We *ARE* The meaning of life!      |
>>|       //////////  //   ///                                                |
>>|      //////////      ///                TMA4@LEHIGH.EDU - Terry           |
>>|           ///      ///                  SLR7@LEHIGH.EDU - Stephanie       |
>>|          ///     ////////               MRP2@LEHIGH.EDU - Matt            |
>
>Well, we can't thank Inews for saving us from the last two lines of this
>crap, so who _can_ we thank?

I'm not so conerned about who (or what) truncated the second instance of
this .sig, but rather that this is the first .signature I have ever seen
posted by someone suffering from multiple personality syndrome. I'm
quite surprised that the Lehigh computing center gave each personality
his/her own account! Couldn't they all go under one alias, like the
Borg? Maybe they share the same home directory, just like they share the
same brain.

mdw

-- 
Matt Welsh    mdw@tc.cornell.edu        +1 607 253 2737
Systems Programmer, Cornell Theory Center
  "Yow! Up ahead! It's a DONUT HUT!!"
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Police finding bikes? was Re: bike locks
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 11:56:39 GMT

In rec.bicycles.soc, kamprath@space-grant.sprl.umich.edu (Michael F. Kamprath)
signs:

>========================================================================
>| Michael F. Kamprath                   | The University of Michigan   |
>|   kamprath@space-grant.sprl.umich.edu |      Aerospace Engineering   |
>|   kamprath@engin.umich.edu            |                              |
>+---------------------------------------+------------------------------+
>| This country is a _democracy_.  It is NOT a "Two Party Sytem."  DO   |
>| NOT believe The Lie that not voting Republican or Democratic will    |
>| waste your vote.  Vote for who ever you please, and let the          |
>| politicians find out what a democratic government is all about.      | 
>========================================================================

Actually - that's not really a question in _this_ country, since we have 4
parties with seats in parliment.  (And after next election, probably 5)
None of those parties is called "Republican" or "Democratic".  I take that
back - one of them is called the "New Democratic Party".

-- 
Paul Tomblin
The Rhealist made me do it.  (The Meach told him to.)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: daniel@csgi64.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow)
Subject: Re: Lines used in another show  
Organization: School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:29:30 GMT
X-Posted-From: csgi64.leeds.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In alt.tv.red-dwarf article <10292278.82369.9558@kcbbs.gen.nz>, 
Stuart_Foster@kcbbs.gen.nz (Stuart Foster) mumbles something about New
Zealand TV (the world's only broadcast TV station with a Sheep Channel) and
then gives us this:
>
> Stuart_Foster@kcbbs.gen.nz         |  /                  /~~                
> Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland    |_/ /\  |~\ |~\ /\   |   |~ | | /~ | (~ 
> NEW ZEALAND. Ph. +64 9 817 3725    | \ \,\ |,/ |,/ \,\  |   |  |_| \_ | _) 
> Fidonet 3:772/90.0                 |  \    |   |         \__               

Hmmm... looks like an anagram to me. Let's see....

	sup a crap kic

Yeah, that's it. So what Stu-pot is trying to tell us is that he wants
someone to kick him in the teeth. Well, I'm sure *that* can be arranged.
Still not exactly sure why he chose to write this cryptic message in
CrewCut Spindly UglyFont 32 pt. though.

-- 
Dan Crow
daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk
From: meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Old Commodore Racing Game???
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:08:39 GMT
Organization: UB

In comp.sys.mac.games, <Mem7FFW00YV982MO9q@andrew.cmu.edu> pi07+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul L Inman) writes:

['>'s removed to prove that it was *posted* this way!]

*******************************************************************************
**                                      *                               
       * *                                      *                       
               * *    Imagination is more important     *    Paul Inman
- pi07@andrew.cmu.edu   * *    than knowledge. -Albert Einstein  *      
                                * *                                     
*                                       * *                             
        *                                       *
*************************************************************************
********                                                                
             *  *                                                       
                      *   *             Let's order sushi and not pay. -
Punk in "Repo Man"              * *                                     
                                        *   *                           
                                                  *  
*************************************************************************
*******

So I *guess* he really wanted us to look at it like this.

What is it with these Mac users, anyway?

--jm
                         __________  __o __o
                       __________   -\<,-\<,
                        ..........(_)/---/(_)..
         The Rhealist and The Meach . . . off to conquer new worlds!
  But which is who, and who is which?  [Is it Rhealive, or is it Meachmorex?]
                meachem@bnr.ca  -=*=-  nadeau@acsu.buffalo.edu
                        Boys and Girls Together - Rush
From: tim@crash.canon.co.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Public Enemy
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:51:24 GMT
Organization: me myself and i

In alt.rap, mas@Cadence.COM (Masud Khan) tries to sign:
:
|Laters
|
|Citizen-X
|
|-- 
|                /\    /\    /\  ///////
|               //\\  //\\  //\\ \\\
|              ///\\\///\\\///\\\ \/////\
|             ///  \\//  \\\/==\\\     \\\

60pt-Scalextric-Bollox-Oblique?

Tx. [complete it if you dare...]
-- 
Tim F O'Donoghue <tim@crash.canon.co.uk> <uunet!canon!tim>
From: meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Someone *please* help me!!!!!!!
Date: 4 Oct 92 21:19:45 GMT
Organization: UB

In alt <1992Oct4.064334.25716@ra.oc.com> jdavis@wizard.etsu.edu 
(Jason Lee Davis) writes:

>Howdy,
>
>   I've got the followup (f & F) and reply (r & R) down, but I can't figure out
>how to make an "original" posting with rn.  The help makes no mention of this.
>Please help...

[Couldn't resist leaving in the entire post. . . Yepper, Jason!  You've got
them concepts down pat, all right!]

>   /|  Jason Lee Davis                        <jdavis@wizard.etsu.edu>  |\
>||/_|  Shiloh Productions sound co. ____      <s2903d@etsuv2.etsu.edu>  |_\||
>||\ |  Rt. 1  Box 175              (_ |_)     <s2903d@etsuvax2.bitnet>  | /||
>   \|  Klondike, Texas 75448 ________)| _____ (903) 886-2903            |/

Nice sound system, too, Jason!  You've got *that* down pat, too, I see!

The good news is, if any sound comes out of those speakers, the .sig will
self-destruct in no time flat!

--jm
                         __________  __o __o
                       __________   -\<,-\<,
                        ..........(_)/---/(_)..
         The Rhealist and The Meach . . . off to conquer new worlds!
 But which is who, and who is which?  [Is it Rhealive, or is it Meachmorex?]
                meachem@bnr.ca  -=*=-  nadeau@acsu.buffalo.edu
                        Boys and Girls Together - Rush
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: daniel@csgi64.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow)
Subject: Re: DC: Underrated Legion (was Re: Crisis?  What Crisis?)
Organization: School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:51:34 GMT
X-Posted-From: csgi64.leeds.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

There are ugly rumours flying aboput that some "posters" out there in
InternetLand are actually Martians. I know this is not true. How do I
know? Well, I've been to Mars, why I was there just yesterday, and I
had a  nice long chat with those little men in green, and let me tell
you, bub, they certainly aren't interested in Usenet. No siree. Except
that a couple of them admitted to being well-known denzins of afw. I
promised not to reveal their "identities" for fear of recriminations.
Perhaps you might like to take a stab at guessing who they are?

Be that as it may, in rec.arts.comics.misc article
<9210051915.AA28634@lynx.frame.com>, jrd@lynx.frame.com (James Drew) writes:
> 
> ------------------------------
>                              |     "O, *Mary!*" Ron said, rolling his eyes.
> Jim Drew                     |     "Ron," I said.  "Calling people 'Mary' is
> jrd@frame.com                | one gay phrase whose I origin I can't figure
> (Furry: Randy Puritan)       | out.  Does it come from the Virgin Mary?"
> "Innocent, but not naive."   |     Once Ron stopped spitting out his beer, we
> B2h t w- c k s g+(p) rv p    | racked out brains for an origin for the phrase.
> S8/5 g l+ y+ o+ a+ u++- j++  |     "Mary Magdalene would be closer," Ron said.
> {opinions: mine != frame's}  |     I suggested Mary Pickford.  Val brought up
>                              | the nursery rhyme, "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary."
>                              |     "Easy!" said Tam.  "Mary, Queen of Scotts!"
>                              |		- Marc Lynx, "Awl's Fare"

To which I can only say:

	Jimmie, WTMFIIYS

-- 
Dan Crow
daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: klm@gozer.mv.com (Kevin L. McBride)
Subject: Re: Dream Theater TOUR DATES!
Organization: GhostBuster Central - Southern NH Usenet Access, Nashua, NH
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 12:52:54 GMT

nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau) writes:

> Amateur.  I hear Meach likes 'em big and stout, with a good head . . .

Um, but I don't think the context of that particular conversation
included beer. . . :-)

-- 
Kevin "donning asbestos underwear"
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord