HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: grimjack@milton.u.washington.edu (Leslie Basel)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Useless StarLost trivia (was Re: [Insert series here] better than START TREK
Date: 7 Nov 92 05:16:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov7.051633.12487
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Nov4.060127.28792@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>In article <1992Nov3.192304.8511@bcrka451.bnr.ca> seanna@bnr.ca (Seanna Watson) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov3.072552.29895@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>>Two men and a woman (one is called Garth, the women is Rachel, one of the
>>>men is Keir Dullea) are the recurring trio attempting to located the
>>>bridge.  
>>
>>Keir Dullea's character is Devon.
>
>Yes, Devon, Garth, and Rachel.  Can you name the other two actors?
>
>cjl


Nope, can't name another but the writer's name is listed as 
Cordwainer Bird -- this is the name Harlan Ellison puts on the 
scripts of his that have been trashed beyond recognition.

Rodger
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From: J105270@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Re: Gender denoting pictograms on restroom doors
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 20:46:15 GMT


>>There is a restaurant in Toronto which had, the last time I was there
>>at least, two euphemism rooms (water closet, rest room, bathroom,
>>salle de bain, whatever your favourite euphemism for toilet is).  The
>>first was marked "MEN/WOMEN" and the second "WASHROOM".
<there is one in cambridge, massachusetts(grendel's in  harvard square), which
<has two single-stall you-know whats.  one is labelled "either/or", and the
<other, "or/either".

I've gotten tripped up at Madison Bear Garden, Chico, CA by the sign of a hand
with "Men's Room" written on it posted on the womens b-room door but pointing
to the actual men's room. Of course, the actual men's room has the sign
pointing the other way with "Women's Room" written on it...Havn't had any women
walk in on me, they must be smarter...

MJG (no, I didn't go to school at CSUC)


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From: maynard@sarah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: Re: Free Pets -> lab test animals ???
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 02:00:47 GMT

In article <1992Nov2.061209.21614@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>,
billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>spooge@sizone.UUCP (Cyberpolka On Da Jeep) writes:
>: 
>: Consensus: scratches are trenches in the CD surface. They have sharp
>: edges. Sharp edges are highly reflective. (Why is the Stealth so
>curved?
>: Guess...) The abrassives in toothpaste smooth the edges, making them
>: less attractive for laser beams to track instead of the music.
>: 
>: (Note, when you do this, rub in a radial fashion, and rinse with luke
>: warm water, and clean hands... dry on a soft towel, again in radial
>: fashion - dont want to add more scratches. This DOES work. I've fixed 5
>: CDs this way... also gets reflective fingerprints off...)

Is this stuff about Stealths being curved actually true? I was under the
impression (but I'm no conoisseur of military hardware) that this was due
to bogus artist's impressions and that real Stealth planes (both the bomber
and the fighter) looked VERY angular with sharp edges everywhere.

Maynard Handley
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From: vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (vance kochenderfer)
Subject: Re: forpost-WWII Japanese soldiers
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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 20:55:05 GMT

[stuff about Japanese soldier defending island for 20 yrs after VJ day 
deleted]   

In article <1992Nov9.162520.16702@linus.mitre.org> ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei) writes:
>
>     As snopes points out, this really happened a few times. I can
>remember reading a book one wrote after he surrendered in 1953.
>
  Abbott and Costello once did a bit like this, except it was an
American soldier defending a trench after WWI (TOW).

  I'm sure someone will correct me if it was actually Laurel and Hardy.

Vance "I guess I'm not that old after all" Kochenderfer
Virginia Tech             |   "You want to get ahold of Mrs. Potter? I don't
vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu    |    know, she's awfully ticklish.." -Groucho Marx
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From: nolan@lurch.twg.com (!Stirling Moss)
Subject: Re: Automotive wonders
Keywords: Ol an baine, a-stoirin
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Henry N. Manney III Society
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:15:11 GMT



I said: ...Phil, jump in and rescue this beauty!

In article <6886@news.duke.edu>, klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj) writes:
|> Yes, yes, but did anybody die in it?

Let's see how long Phil lasts when he buys it.

--
Nolan "Man enough to do woman's work" Hinshaw
Internet: nolan@twg.com			Dingalingnet: (415)962-7197	
"Never fight with your wife. Just dicker" Harry Maulsby
From: cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Date: 7 Nov 92 04:24:55 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

ingraham@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (James Ingraham) writes:
> (Perhaps the theory that AIDS is
> a man-made disease will spread and become something of a UL

I saw an article about the alienation of the urban black population.
Among the statistics quoted by the author was a study showing that a
large minority (~40%, if I remember correctly) believed that AIDS was
cooked up by the CIA.  I don't remember the source or the exact
statistics, but maybe this will ring a bell with someone who does.

I've heard a theory, espoused mostly by right-wing types, that the
Soviets (back when there was such country) were actively engaged in
propaganda to persuade third worlders that AIDS came from the
laboratories of the CIA.  I've never seen any documentation of this
particular theory, and the sources I refer to are probably less than
credible. 

--Scott
From: uni@acs.bu.edu (Shaen Bernhardt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: College Coed Murder UL
Date: 6 Nov 92 10:24:20 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <1992Nov5.211623.11540@bsu-ucs> 00kjfehn@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:

>	A girl and her roommate were sitting in their dorm room and one was 
>going to take a nap.  The other decided to go to the library to study. 
>The first one packed her school bag, put on her coat, turned out the light, 
>and left the room (unlocked?).  She gets to the library to study and remembers 
[Parts (although interesting) deleted]


>	After hours of studying, she returns to her room.  She finds to her
>horror that her roommate has been horribly murdered (decapitated, etc.).
>Scrawled on the mirror in her roommate's blood is something along the lines
>of "Be happy you didn't turn the lights on."

[more parts deleted]

>Has anyone ever heard this story before?
>Is there any fact to it?
>Did it happen at Purdue? Or anywhere else?
>Is this just a good Halloween/scare freshman story with no basis in fact?


I have... but with some differences. First off it was at Wellesly (sp)
out here in Mass, and second, the roomate went out bar hopping on a
weekend (This adds a stay home and study on the weekend and die note)
when the roomate comes back (left her ID) the lights are off, looks
around the room, finds her purse or whatever and goes back out
Comes home, lights still off, so undresses and stuff in the dark
(she's a little drunk) and then falls asleep.  She dreams she
hears some horse breathing or gasping, like someone trying to draw
their last breaths (the gruesomeness of this part is subject to the
tellers imagination)  Then in the morning she wakes up to find
said message written in blood.. (Aren't you glad you didn't turn on
the light?)

I like this version better... sleeping next to the body all night adds
some shivvers... The breathing is assumed to have been real, the last
dying breaths of her roomate... and the story is usually used to set
up the "If your roommate dies, you get a 4.0" bit...

uni


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From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: Re: Frozen Waste
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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 02:01:03 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.144913.14868@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>Chicago Tribune, 11/7/92, p.16
>
>SEATTLE (Reuters) - A stinking basketball-sized chunk of frozen waste that
>	smashed through the roof of a suburban Seattle home came from a
>	United Airlines DC-10 flying overhead [...]
>	The FAA said such incidents occur occasionally...
>	Leroy and Gerri Cinnamon were watching a football game on television 
>	in their living room when the block of bluish ice smashed through
>	their roof and ceiling and shattered on the floor.
>	The Cinnamons summoned firefighters and a hazardous materials
>	response team [note to PvdL: idea for new reality-based TV show?]
>	to their home.
>	But as the ice melted, the fragments were identified as frozen waste
>	from an airliner [United Airlines Flight 461 from Chicago to Seattle] 
>	passing above.
>	"It stunk real bad," Gerri Cinnamon told reporters. [a.f.u. motto of
>        the week?]
>	[FAA Spokesman Dick] Meyer said service records indicated a plumbing
>	problem did exist and it was fixed.

And I bet the Cinnamon family had never expected their home to be the
target of an I.C.B.M.!
From: 00kjfehn@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Sorry to Inject Some FAQs
Date: 13 Nov 92 02:49:48 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

In article <2566.434.uupcb@ehbbs.gwinnett.com>, harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter) writes:
>>Fb.Driver runs over exotic animal,wraps in coat for fun photo;it revives
>>   off!  Similar story: A hunter poses for picture w/deer w/rifle in ant
> 
> A variation on this is true - a guy hit a deer, stopped his car, got out
> and put the deer in his car.  The deer revived, bit him on the neck, and
> kicked the crap out of the interior of his car.  He killed the deer with
> his knife, and a big dog came up, and wanting the deer, also bit him.
> 
> I've heard the tape of the driver's call to 911, with expletives bleeped.
> The caller sounded drunk, but sincere.  As a matter or fact, I have it as
> a digitized sound file.  It's a big 'un.
>             
I must second this opinion.  That phone call is the funniest thing I have
heard in a long time.  They play it here constantly on WFBQ (Q95) in 
Indianapolis constantly.  I anyone out there can get a copy of it
I highly recommend it!

Keith Fehn
00kjfehn@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
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From: lagrangj@unvax.union.edu (Joshua C. LaGrange)
Subject: Re: HERE'S HOW TO SHUT DOWN THE NET!
Organization: Union College, Schenectady, NY
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:37:27 GMT

wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher) writes:

>Others said
># Now if you posted something about a Gene Roddenberry sighting at a
># Burger King in Columbus, you might get somewhere.

>I saw him here at the Library of Congress with Asimov. They're
>working on a biography of Cordwinder Bird.
**Is that the one that they are working on with Heinlein?
-- 
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Email: lagrangj@unvax.union.edu*                                               Phone: (518) 370-6908          *
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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Where can I look for any scholarly info....
Date: 10 Nov 1992 06:35:58 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
  +...
  +|>Phil "I'm actually a pretty nice guy.  Really!  Ask PvdL, or any of several
  +|>Terries, or even our Canuck crony Brian.  I know how many l's there are in
  +|>'intelligence', though" Gustafson

Sure, I'd vouch for that.  At least he didn't spill salsa on me
like SOME people....speaking of which, nolan@twg.com writes:
  
  +It's all a matter of opinion, Phil. Take a diode adjustment break.

I concurr.  Take it easy Phill.

Terry "It's Milller Time" Chan
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From: rapp@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Brian Rapp)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Gender denoting pictograms on restroom doors
Date: 11 Nov 92 14:42:30 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark

In article <1992Nov9.222632.22946@mdd.comm.mot.com> rudoff@mdd.comm.mot.com (Doug Rudoff) writes:
>
>Restroom doors generally have either a figure in a dress or a figure
>in pants to denote the mens' and women's restrooms (of course that is
>in itself culturally and/or sexually biased; not all women wear
>dresses and not all men wear pants).
>
>In 1984 I made two week trip to Poland. In Poland, mens' restrooms
>were maked with a circle, womens' with a triangle. I don't remember
>seeing many pictograms used anywhere.
>
>When I returned to the U.S. I began to notice (and still notice) that
>often, the plaque with the pictogram on restroom doors would have the
>same shapes I saw in Poland; triangular for the womens' room and
>circular for the mens' room.
>
>I suggest you start looking at restroom doors to find this out for
>yourself.
>
>So, what's the deal? Did this start in Poland and migrate around the
>world? Is there some organization that regulates standards for
>bathroom gender indentifying pictograms and plaques? Is this a
>success of the mostly failed International Communist Conspiracy?
>

The "Triangle = Male, Circle = Female" scheme is commonly used in
genealogical charts and such.

Some twisted individuals believe it has to do with certain
"pointy-thing, hole-like-thing" connotations.

Not to doubt your voracity [sic], but are you sure the symbols weren't
reversed?

--------------------------------------------------
| Brian Rapp | rapp@freezer.cns.udel.edu | Ferret | "and many times confused"
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From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ex-presidents
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:58:19 GMT
Organization: a2i network

In article <27255@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>  +
>  +	How about Rockefeller and Agnew?  Are they yet dead?
>
>Yep.  But they're doing more for their country now then they ever did.
>
Hmpf.  Nelson Aldritch Rockefeller met his maker in the arms of a 
26-year-old art dealer (heh) way back in 1979.  I believe that
Spiro Theophilus Agnew, the first vice-president to resign to avoid
jail, is still with us.

Of course, I could be wrong.  And I have no idea where his penis is.

[For the record, we must mention that Rockefeller might have survived
with prompt medical attention.  The bimbo used the precious time to
call a friend to help her get the former veep's pants on.  Sheesh.
At least we can make a good guess about the state of his penis.]

Phil "Theophilus? Tiberius? Tirebiter? Agnewstics want to know!"
Gustafson

-- 
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From: atekant@wimsey.bc.ca (Argun Tekant)
Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATM's for $$$$
Organization: BC News and Mail
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:07:51 GMT

>
>>By the way, what does the middle initial 'T' in ATM stand for?
>
>"Terry," I think.  That, or "teller."  I think it's the first one.

It stands for "Tiberius".

oops. wrong newsgroup. 


Argun "couldn't resist" Tekant.


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From: jrs@zippy.unet.com (John Switzer Frame 3.0)
Subject: Re: Toilet paper: over or under?
Organization: Network Equipment Technologies, Redwood City
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:38:37 GMT

In article <27409@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>schneid@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Schneider) writes:
>  
>  +What's the deal?  When you put toilet paper on the roll, is 
>  +the loose end supposed to go over the top of the roll or come
>  +from under the roll?
>
>I recall someone asking Dear Abby or Ann Landers (they all
>look alike to me) about this.  She basically said, there's
>no one right way, but she preferred it coming out the bottom.
> 
I hate to insert logic into a.f.u, but if you've ever had a dog (or a child),
you'll understand why you NEVER put the toilet paper with the loose end 
going up over the roll. All it takes is to come home once and find your 
angry pooch has unrolled the toilet paper all over the house to convince
you to put the loose end under.
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From: mporter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mitchell Porter)
Subject: Re: Trilateral commission
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 05:39:58 GMT

We all know what ELSE TLC stands for...
WHAT DOES THIS TELL US?
From: dechc00@tohi.DMI.USherb.Ca (CHRISTIAN DECHAMPLAIN)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: dishwasher trick
Date: 7 Nov 92 21:19:46 GMT
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- departement de Mathematiques et
	d'Informatique


Put some clean plates in your dishwasher before your start it.
You will see that the rest of your dishes get cleaner than usual.


--
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From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Courgettes (was Re: doggy style)
Date: 7 Nov 92 18:16:05 GMT
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

RH = rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt)

RH: the potato was not found in a rectum, but in an uterus. It seems that
RH: a middle-aged Eastern European immigrant regularly used a potato as a
RH: device for menstrual blockage (don't try this at home, toxic
RH: shockers), and at some point, one got lost. Several months later, in
RH: severe distress, she went to doctor, who suspected some sort of
RH: growth. Seeing as how the spud had sprouted, I guess it really was a
RH: growth.

FAQ: U. Woman had "tree in the bedina" -- potato used as pessary, sprouted...
-- 
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From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Water Tower Suicide.
Date: 11 Nov 92 12:05:09 MDT
Organization: Omega:  The Final Solution

In article <1992Nov10.211253.8771@ac.dal.ca>, egilmour@ac.dal.ca writes:
> About six months later, people in this small town were beginning to 
> feel ill and the illness was mainly linked to the water.  Workers went
> up to the water tower in the middle of the town to see if somehow the tower
> was responsible for the unpure water.  When they looked inside the tower, they 
> found a badly decomposed body that proved to have been inside the tower
> for about six months, and was the man that had gone missing earlier.

     That explains why the squirrel was in the well at that
campground.  Suicide!  Squirricide?  But we found out in sufficient
time that no one got sick.

Patrick "almost no one BLEEARGH" Clark
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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Toilet paper: over or under?
Date: 12 Nov 1992 17:54:59 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

schneid@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Schneider) writes:
  
  +What's the deal?  When you put toilet paper on the roll, is 
  +the loose end supposed to go over the top of the roll or come
  +from under the roll?

I recall someone asking Dear Abby or Ann Landers (they all
look alike to me) about this.  She basically said, there's
no one right way, but she preferred it coming out the bottom.
 

Terry "toilet paper?" Chan 
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Usenetball
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 01:09:45 GMT

phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
: 
: Now that I think of it, I know a Bill Nelson who was a big dumb crew
: guy at MIT in the early 60's.  Are you him?

Not that I remember. I was in high school in the early 60s. I also an
not that large. Whether I am dumb or not is something people will have
to decide for themselves.

Bill 
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:28057 soc.culture.african.american:10892 sci.skeptic:19333
From: szielins@oracle.com (Stephan Zielinski)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Date: 10 Nov 92 20:12:35 GMT
Organization: Oracle Corporation
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              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <rKB=qf-@engin.umich.edu> dem@engin.umich.edu (Darryle E Merlette) writes:
>
>I'd suggest viewing "The Strecker Memorandum" video. In this video
>a (white) doctor explains in scientific detail how the AIDS virus
>is genetically engineered (ie. man-made). Among other things, it is
>not possible for viruses to cross species, so that story about AIDS
>originating from the African green monkey is even more impossible.
. . .
>	Darryle

	Regarding viruses crossing species: rabies, anthrax, phages... I'm
sure we can think of others...				-Stephan Zielinski
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From: wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales)
Subject: Bizarre customs declarations (was Re: Airport security)
Reply-To: wales@CS.UCLA.EDU (Rich Wales)
Organization: UCLA CS Department, Los Angeles
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 06:54:55 GMT

A friend of mine told me once about a Scandinavian exchange student at
his high school who asked him to send her a case of some soft drink she
had become fond of.

My friend, whose sense of humor tends at times toward the mischievous,
cheerfully complied with her request; but on the customs declaration
for the package, he identified the contents as . . .

"Metal Canisters".

The recipient eventually got her case of soft drinks, but after several
months in customs it had gone a bit flat. :-}

I imagine my friend's story would have had an even more interesting
ending if he had also prominently identified the contents of the package
as a "GIFT".  (Hint:  "Gift" doesn't mean "gift" in the Scandinavian
languages.)

--
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