HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sasha@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (David A. Tumarkin)
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 19:31:39 GMT

latarra@buhub.bradley.edu (Lisa Ehren) writes:

> mikkelson%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
> > Yeah, and "Lost in Space" was on longer, so it had to be better.  At least 
> > "Lost in Space" guys were able to build a robot that you couldn't destroy j
> > by confusing it.
> 
> Yeah, but at least in Star Trek, they didn't have the entire show caused by
> a neurotic wimp <Dr. Smith> hiding on a spaceship...where was the security?
> 
> And where is "Lost in Space: The Next Generation"?  Hmmmmm?

Read the LOST IN SPACE comic book by Innovation.  It's a continuation of 
the series.  But be warned:  It's not like what you've seen before (Ex:
Judy Robinson isn't as innocent as you think.  And she's developed 
rather well ;-).


                                       - Sasha

P.S:  If you ever get the chance, listen to Bill Mumy (Will Robinson) 
      speak.  Amusing stories on the set of LIS and its fun talking to 
      one half of Barnes & Barnes (yes, he wrote "Fish Heads")  - S.

P.P.S:  So who's gonna start alt.tv.lost.in.space?   - S.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: andrew@utopia.resntl.bhp.com.au (Andrew Lewis)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Organization: BHP Research - Newcastle Laboratories
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 04:03:44 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.161247.3082@PA.dec.com>, snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
|> 
|> But it's *not* a foreign word.  It's a word of foreign invention, but that's
|> completely different.  "Celica" isn't a word identifiable (at least to most
|> Americans) as belonging to any particular language, much less Japanese.  So,
|> Americans are going to pronounce it according to American rules of
|> pronunciation: "CEL-ick-a".   Europeans, perhaps, would look at the word and
|> give it more of a Spanish or Italian pronunciation, but that's just a guess.

And I guess *no-one* wants to see it pronounced "Silly car".

Andrew
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From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.alien.visitors,talk.rumors
Subject: Re: Perfect Knowledge
Date: 1 Oct 92 11:46:14 GMT
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

In <1992Sep30.174933.14274@unixg.ubc.ca> morgan@sitka.triumf.ca (Morgan Burke) writes:

    ETERNAL'S Original Measures contain Total Knowledge...

    Personally, I think it's a secret code of some sort.  Any ideas or
    suggestions as to its real meaning?

It means "send money".
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Network from Hell
Date: 1 Oct 92 05:01:40 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Sep30.164417.5906@sbil.co.uk> jim@spitws117.sbil.co.uk writes:
>
>>Phil "Well, they couldn't control Froggy's Magic Twanger" Gustafson

We had a discussion of Pluto being a naked dog, and Goofy being a clothed ?

If Froggy is another ? with a "magic" twanger, what would an ordinary
twanger look like, and what creatures are these that have twangers?

(For the young newbies:  Froggy was called a "Gremlin" and was a form of
hand-puppet on the Smiling Ed Show, later called Andy's Gang, when Andy
Devine took on the show when Smiling Ed died.  Froggy didn't move, but the
clearly stiff hand-puppet was sort-of rotated from the middle by an unseen
hand, nothing more.  Froggy was sort of a grotesque frog-like face and 
large feet, not much of a body.  Froggy was definitely a negative role model
as a trouble maker who usually got away with mischief which went unpunished.
You were encouraged to laugh at his "victims" in ridicule, etc., usually
played as one of several recurring mythical "experts" in the later tradition
of Prof. Erwin Cory, etc., except they are bumbling fools that get tricked
up by Froggy cuting them off periodically and saying nasty words that the
prof repeats that totally changes the meaning.  Said prof mostly played by
long-term character actor Billy Gilbert, probably best known as the
Italian father of 12 who comes into the bed department in the Marx Brothers'
movie The Big Store.)

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: good@pixar.com (Law of the Yukon:  Only the lead dog gets a change of scenery.)
Subject: Re: "U.S. has 70 % of the world's lawyers." -Dan Quayle
Organization: Pixar -- Point Richmond, California
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 07:13:43 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.181746.24024@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
:
:... So when Quayle, or his hired brains, juggled the figures,
:they omitted most of the other catagories, even though they
:perform the same kind of non-trial work that most American
:lawyers do.
:
:And that's how they came up with the 70 percent figure - by not
:bothering to count a few million people who are trained in the
:law, do legal work and by American standards would be considered
:lawyers.

Abraham Lincoln once asked, "If we called a tail a leg, how many legs would
a lamb have?  Four.  Just because you call a tail a leg doesn't make it one."

And, no matter how you juggle the figures, we have too many lawyers.

Now, would someone kindly explain in what fantastically remote way
Royko's article has anything to do with this newsgroup?

		--Craig
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From: jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us (Jay Denebeim)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Gang Bang" series
Date: 7 Oct 92 01:31:12 GMT
 <1600@seqp4.sequoia.com> <1992Oct5.182156.20670@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: Not very.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <1992Oct5.182156.20670@athena.mit.edu>, Richard A Shandross writes:

>                                                                      My *point*
> (which is now somewhere off in never-never land on this threae) is that it is
> NOT impossible for such things to happen.  


All together gang... "It could have happened so it MUST be true."
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From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:20:01 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Sep28.151407.27646@PA.dec.com> 
mikkelson%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (The Snopemiester) writes: 

>Yeah, and "Lost in Space" was on longer, so it had to be better.  At least the
>"Lost in Space" guys were able to build a robot that you couldn't destroy just
>by confusing it.

It has been widely accepted that the character for "Wesley Crusher" is based
upon the character that Billy Mummy played on "Lost in Space".  Also, DATA
is based upon Lost in Space's robot.  Some believe that Gene Roddenberry
actually was a big fan of Lost in Space and patterned many of TNG crew
around the best Lost in Space characters.  Worf, for example, is clearly
derived from Dr. Smith and Troi has the same brilliance as "Penny" and June
Lockhearts characters combined.

With the introduction of so many of the "CHEERS" actors into TNG it is now
becomming apparent that TNG is just a 90's production of Lost in Space.

Rumor has it that DEEP SPACE 9 will be a rehash of "Gilligan's Island".

Terry "LESS FILLING -- TASTES GREAT -- Drink Corona Beer" Wood

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh)
Subject: Emergency Showers (Re: the weight of the water)
Reply-To: hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh)
Organization: Interleaf, Inc.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 17:36:45 GMT

In some places, the runoff from emergency showers has to be trapped and
treated as toxic waste.  Therefore, no drains--just a shallow basin trap.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jlysagh@hubcap.clemson.edu (james joseph lysaght)
Subject: Re: Stone Age Sex
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:12:58 GMT

ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk (R Clement) writes:

>In article <26502@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>>scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us writes:
>>  +> "but Otzi is the first known homosexual
>>  +>man that enjoyed being fucked. ...
>>  +
>>  +i don't see how they could tell whether he enjoyed it.
>>Yep, might have been the first evidence of necrophilia.

Or he could be the first evidence of homosexual rape 

Jim
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Subject: Re: Possible UL alert(was Re: Videotaping rapes)
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 04:39:35 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.120235.3839@darwin.ntu.edu.au> comp_oper@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes:
>In article <1992Sep25.224847.24402@engage.pko.dec.com>, nancyb@os2lan.enet.dec.com (nancy b.) writes:
>>     Last year there was a TV show that had an episode about a fraternity 
>>     that taped rapes, and one of the tapes was found (stolen?).
>
>The show was "21 Jump Street".  The frat boys had kept the tape for their own
>kicks and showed it to a new frat who turned out to be the victims brother.

My goodness--two UL's for the price of one.

Now if only they had engaged in toad-licking while watching the videotape...
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From: eeopensh@cybaswan.UUCP (j p openshaw)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Date: 2 Oct 92 18:36:50 GMT
Reply-To: eeopensh@cybaswan.UUCP (j p openshaw)

In article <1992Oct1.194549.4583@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> agillum@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Aaron C Gillum) writes:
>>  What I'd like to know is why the artificial gravity never gives out.  The
>>engines fail, the life support fails, but the gravity never fails.
>
> Perhaps gravity has highest priority, because without it, the crew wouldn't be
>able to function at %100, and thus couldn't fix the other systems.
>

I find that fresh air comes in quite handy from time to time.
I suppose that if it runs out, they can breath the gas that they pump
into airplanes to keep the passengers subdued...

John (space gills) Openshaw

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen)
Subject: Re: Possible UL alert(was Re: Videotaping rapes)
Reply-To: nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de
Organization: STONE Project, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
	<H.qByMjh0x1UA@harvee.billerica.ma.us>
	<1992Sep28.232648.8023@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:00:10 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.232648.8023@midway.uchicago.edu>
thf2@quads.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell) writes:

> In article <H.qByMjh0x1UA@harvee.billerica.ma.us>
> scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us writes:
[...]
> >when i was about 9, i figured out how to count on my fingers in base 5(one
> >hands for ones, the other for fives.) i could get up to 30 that way.
> 
> That's okay, I got up to 1023.

Counting in binary was too complicated for me (yes, I have to admit
that), but I found the scheme useful someone else posted here some
time ago:

One hand is ones, the other tens. Then use the thumb for a five on
both. That way you get up to 99.

--
Juergen Nickelsen
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: vpaf5@jane.uh.edu (Kal)
Subject: Re: Fine Art {was: A Goofy Question was Re: Flavored Condoms (was: Re: Stupid cop tricks)}
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:04:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.012501.26036@adobe.com>, hawley@adobe.com (Steve Hawley) writes...
>joslin_paul@ae.ge.com (Paul Joslin) Writes:
>>Okay, you asked for it:
>>
>>Today's pressing question is "What kind of animal is Goofy, anyway?"  If he
>>is a dog, how come he wears pants and Pluto doesn't?  Is it because Goofy
>>can talk, and Pluto can't?
> 
>I sent a letter to Disney asking what kind of animal was Goofy.  The answer:
>a dog.  Initially the character was named Dippy Dawg, later Dippy the Goof
>and finally Goofy.
> 
>Steve Hawley
>hawley@adobe.com

Isn't it a little *sick* that one dog (Goofy) owns another dog (Pluto)?

I think I'll go suggest this in alt.conspiracy, and see what kind of Walt-
supported-slavery-and-is-in-fact-frozen-with-three-slaves scenario they can
come up with.

Then again, maybe I won't.

Kal  vpaf5@jane.uh.edu                 My opinions are almost, but not quite,
                                       entirely unlike my those of my employer.
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Is the electric chair an Edison publicity stunt?
Date: 29 Sep 92 05:20:50 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1992Sep28.201626.24368@engage.pko.dec.com> moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:
>billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>
>ObElec-ChairUL:
>
>A prisoner sentenced to 'the chair' spent his time gathering pins, pieces of
>wire etc. and sticking them under his skin all over his body.  When
>electrocuted he blew out some of the equipment.

Can we say - 
"What are all those infected lumps and sores all over your body mister convict?"

I suspect someone trying this would die a much more horrible lingering and 
painful death than the electric chair.  Probably just as his/her appeal comes 
through.

Derek "What does this switch do? No, wait!" Tearne


-- 
Derek Tearne. -- derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz --  Fujitsu/ICL New Zealand -- 
Some of the more aware dinosaurs were worried about the environmental
consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.  
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: 666 Cable TV
Date: 2 Oct 92 03:29:01 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <BvGtyy.Ly1@world.std.com>, lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund) writes...
>	The topic was cable TV and pirating extra TV's inside your home off
>a socket.  I was "informed" that
>	a) The cable company can test electrically for the number of live
>	   connections.
>	b) When they discover a site is cheating they send a powerful electric
>	   current thrugh the cable and destroy (explode?) all the TV's in the
>	   offenders' house.

>Before you hit followup I am aware that a) is possible and b) is a howl.

a) Yes, the cable company could theoretically measure the impedance of the
feed to the house to see if the 'pirate' used a simple cable 'T' connector.

b) This has to do with the 'magic bullet' that took out many illicit
cable converter boxes in NYC (I think)  As I understand it a large number of
these boxes were clones of a legit box that was subscribed to full service.
The 'bullet' was simply a command to the legit box to shut down.  Of course
all the clones obeyed as well.  Now the media made it look like that there
was some sort of signal that 'blew out' or 'fried' all illicit boxes somehow,
probably with the cable company not exactly wanting to correct matters...

-Mike
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: 666 Cable TV
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Distribution: alt
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 06:37:24 GMT

cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:
: 
: I heard something similar to "a" about the phone company.  According
: to my source (who knows about as much as me about this whole subject),
: the pnone company checks every so often to see how many devices are on
: the line.  When they check, the phones are supposed to "chirp," ie
: just go through one very short ring.

They used to be able to tell, when all the devices hooked to the phone
were supplied by Ma Bell and had about the same ringer equivalent.
Now, devices take varying amount of ring power - from negligible to
about 1 RIN. There is no way the phone companies can tell how many
devices are connected.

: About "b," I heard (from another source, though the level of expertise
: of the sources in these things is comparable) that a cable company in
: NYC had figured out a way to zap cable boxes that had bee illegally
: altered to receive premium channels for free.  He is sure he heard it
: on the radio in the car (FHORIC?).

Not exactly. What they did was identify a command sequence that would
cause the illegal clones to shut down. It did not affect the legal
boxes - regardless of whether they had been modified or not.

: ObUL:  You can wipe out cable service in your neighborhood by applying
: a large voltage across your coaxial cable.

Maybe, unless they have DC blocking filters on the input.

Bill
From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Videotaping rapes
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:01:28 GMT
Organization: Will work for food, but not for DEC.



>Also, the couple is (or was) getting divorced, so there may be some reason to
>doubt the varacity of the charges.

Shouldn't that be 'voracity'?

- snopes

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From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Presidential UL's
Date: 29 Sep 92 00:00:49 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <1992Sep24.233239.12170@unlv.edu>, edcrwfrd@unlv.edu (Edward 
Crawford) writes:
> My favorite presidential succession question is, suppose
> my dad run's for the House of Reps, accends to the speaker
> of the House, and then the Prez and Veep both die. The problem
> is that while he has the qualifications the by a congressmen,
> he was born a Canadian and thus doesnt have the qualifications
> to be president, but by succession, he is in line to be prez. So
> would he or wouldnt he be President?

He would definitely not be.

"Subsections (a), (b), and (d) of this section [3 USC 19, dealing with 
Presidential succession] shall apply only to such officers as are eligible to 
the office of President under the Constitution."  3 USC 19 (e).

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.alien.visitors
From: morgan@sitka.triumf.ca (Morgan Burke)
Subject: Perfect Knowledge
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban,alt.alien.visitors,talk.rumors
Organization: TRIUMF, Vancouver BC
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:49:33 GMT

Found in the Popular Mechanics classifieds:

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ENJOY The riches of Heaven of Time Station Earth!  No mail.
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Personally, I think it's a secret code of some sort.  Any ideas or
suggestions as to its real meaning?

-- Morgan Burke (morgan@reg.triumf.ca)
From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: One, Two, Many revisited.
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:35:29 GMT
Organization: AT&T


In article <26484@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:

>phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>
>+In English, we have "pair" and "brace". The latter is used almost exclusively
>+to describe deceased fowl.

I seem to tremember that in J. R. R. Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS,
Sam Gamgee uses the phrase "brace o' conneys" to describe a pair of
rabbits, though they were indeed dead at the time.

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