HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: Bugger off
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 11:43:09 GMT

spencer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun) writes:

>let's not forget "piss off" :-)

>I guess that gets placed somewhere between "bugger" and "f---" on the
>offensiveness scale..

Erm, just how offensive is bugger anyway? I once used it in a letter to
a distinguished friend, and I'd like to know whether to take a new
identity or not is necessary now. That's the problem when you got your
English from a lot of comics, DNA and TP books.


May the Cool Be with Me!

(C)OOL mcmxcii
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Culcha? Moi?                            
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 11:14:14 GMT

In article <BsuArv.ELL@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com> Chad Childers <chad@quality.ta.ford.com> writes:
>>And if you do, how did O.S. Card get away with calling his aliens buggers

>He got away with it because Ender's Game was an outstanding book,

Ender's War was an outstanding short story. Enders Game was more like
something Haldeman would have written. He should have quit while he was
ahead.
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From: mxr@neptune.dsc.com (Max "Spectral Hootenanny Honker" Rible)
Subject: Re: explaining things
Organization: Digital Sound Corporation
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:42:29 GMT

jjverkui@cs.ruu.nl (Hans Verkuil) writes:
>I have another joke that I don't get, this one from Good Omens. Every tape
>that Crowley (sp?) plays in his car turns into a tape with music from Queen.
>Every reviewer of the book found it funny, but I don't see the joke. Then
>again, I also know very little about Queen.

>Anyone willing to enlighten me? Thanks in advance...

I'm not a Queen fan myself, but two friends of mine are rabid for them,
so I've managed to learn a good deal about them.

Queen--- a British rock? heavy metal? does it matter? group--- has
been around for quite some time (late 60's-early 70's, I forget which,
probably the latter) and produced a number of albums, including hits
like "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Bohemian Rhapsody".  They did
pioneering work in playing to stadium-sized audiences.  Good Omens
specifies that it's not just Queen music, but specifically Best of
Queen, that tapes kept in any car for too long mutate into.
Presumably, any group that popular is going to have a lot of Best Of
tapes floating around.  (I'm a reclusive eccentric with more than
twice as much Tangerine Dream than anything else in my collection, so
I'm not exactly in touch with the rock'n'roll scene. :-) What makes it
*really* funny is the notion of leaving a demon trapped on the
answering machine tape in the car until he turned into Freddie Mercury
(the lead singer of the group).

Unfortunately, Freddie Mercury died of AIDS recently, so they can't
use his voice in the Good Omens movie for the demon giving Crowley an
assignment.
/-------------v-----------------------v---------------------------------------\
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|             | rible@vorpal.ucsb.edu |                         - Neil Gaiman |
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From: jjverkui@cs.ruu.nl (Hans Verkuil)
Subject: Re: explaining things
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:25:51 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science

I have another joke that I don't get, this one from Good Omens. Every tape
that Crowley (sp?) plays in his car turns into a tape with music from Queen.
Every reviewer of the book found it funny, but I don't see the joke. Then
again, I also know very little about Queen.

Anyone willing to enlighten me? Thanks in advance...

				Hans Verkuil

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  could pee through a dozen mattresses --"                (Terry Pratchett)
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From: "rui madeira" <rui.madeira@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: porcupine =?= hedgeho
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:36:26 EST
Reply-To: "rui madeira" <rui.madeira@canrem.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

PDS> In article <12536@ecs.soton.ac.uk> prj91@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Paul James)
PDS> writes:
PDS> >I may be wrong, but aren't hedgehogs much smaller than porcupines?

PDS> About the size of croquet balls.

   And, according to Lewis Carroll, more of a challenge to hit in a
croquet match.

PDS> Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX  +1 713 568 0480/1032
PDS> -!-

Rui Madeira - rui.madeira%canrem@lsuc.on.ca
    Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. - C.D. Jackson

--
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: porcupine =?= hedgehog
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 03:37:17 GMT

In article <12536@ecs.soton.ac.uk> prj91@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Paul James) writes:
>I may be wrong, but aren't hedgehogs much smaller than porcupines?

About the size of croquet balls.
-- 
                                                                `-_-'
                         Have you hugged your wolf today?        'U`

Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX  +1 713 568 0480/1032
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Subject: Re: Cohen the Barbarian
From: lesley@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz (Lesley Walker)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 23:31:34 GMT
Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ

tdc1004@dircon.co.uk (Barry Freeman) writes:
>
>I always used to refer to him as 'Conan the Barbiturate' cos 
>he always put me tov sleep... <grin>

I remember many many many years ago seeing a Mad Magazine story called
"Conehead the Barbiturate".  I didn't really understand it at the time,
I led a very sheltered life in those days.


-- 
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Subject: Re: Culcha? Moi?
From: richard@nacjack.gen.nz (Richard Vowles)
Date: 16 Aug 92 18:06:46 GMT
Organization: Malleus Maleficarum - Nil Mortifi Sine Lucre


>    "A favourite trick of Ephebian gods ... was turning into some animal
>    or other in order to gain the favours of highly-placed Ephebian
>    women. And one of them had reputedly turned himself into a golden
>    shower in pursuit of his intended. All this raised interesting
>    questions about everyday night life in sophisticated Ephebe."

> Is US slang different enough that that one got past the censors ? Or
> is it only my perverted mind that sees anything in it ? (Requests for
> explanations to alt.sex.bizarre ;-))

Maybe they don't know? I would presume the majority of the New Zealand
population didn't know what a golden shower (as in B&D terminology means
to have a person urinate on you) except that it was written up in detail
in the national newspapers that reported on a case of 'murder' (the man
had a heart attack in a B&D session and was taken by the proprietors
and dumped over the Hooker (sp?) Falls ("I said Hook My Balls, not
Hooker Falls!").


For those who have read Witches Abroad... imagine a gloden shower... :-)


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From: robertc@sco.COM (Robert Chansky)
Subject: Re: alt.fan.pratchett FAQ
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 19:59:26 GMT


In article <RSHOLMES.92Aug9035759@rodan.syr.EDU> rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:
>After all, our Earth goes around a much bigger circle (93,000,000
>miles) (ok, so it's an ellipse, sue me) in the same amount of time,
>and no one complains. Not about centripetal acceleration toward the
>Sun, anyway.

Ah, but the centripetal force from THAT rotation is balanced by the
gravitational force of the Sun-- the two forces pull equally on each atom of
your body.  The Disc rotation is artificially induced (though there is quite
a blur between artificial and natural phenomena here).

-- 

                                 . 
                     (.signature at 50 meters)
From: ans0@aber.ac.uk (Austin Newton Shackles)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Swedish weather
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:59:21 GMT
Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth


 hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
>Why does this require a net.query? In Fargo, ND we get, but do not
>necessarily appreciate, weather reports for all over
>the US, sometimes the planet. We usually get reports for Minneapolis-
>...

you sad person...

personally i thought, even though it might have been a serious question, that 
it was very funny...

why does everyone have to take everything so damn' seriously all the time?

hasn't anyone got a by-our-lady sense of humour anymore?

and while on that subject, in G O, where they describe the "compositor's 
error" in the buggre all this bible...

(might not be accurate)

"buggre alle this for ay larke! master bilton is no gentleman, and master 
scagges nothing but a tight-fisted southwarke knobbesticke. i telle you, on ay
daye like this, annyone with halfe an oz. of sense would be oute enjoying the 
sunneshaine, not stuck in thie mowldye old by-our-ladye workeshoppe!"

if it's wrong, it's cos i havent got the book here to look at...and i last 
read it about 3 months ago.

-- 
   Austin Newton Shackles   |   Why do I get this feeling these days that
   ans0@uk.ac.aberystwyth   |   life is like going up the down escalator?
   DoD#0467 1981 Z440 Ltd   |           My opinions are just that   
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From: t88swa@tdb.uu.se (Sven Wallman)
Subject: Re: Swedish weather
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:58:03 GMT

hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
: Why does this require a net.query? In Fargo, ND we get, but do not
: necessarily appreciate, weather reports for all over
: the US, sometimes the planet. We usually get reports for Minneapolis-
: St. Paul about 200 miles away. Of course one can always make a long

I have BBC Europe on cable (I think they changed the name for it) and they
have 'around-the-world' weather reports. I hope the natives are being nice
to him. I still haven't decided whether I should attend the convention or not.

--
Sven Wallman, S:t Larsg. 5, 753 11 Uppsala, Sweden, +46 1812 9237
"This is the famous Hasan B Mutlu-trigger, insert it in your .sig file today!"
From: jonathan@jspc.wimsey.bc.ca (Jonathan Story)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: GO: Error or Joke (and whose?)
Date: 12 Aug 92 09:48:42 GMT

*** Note: Spoiler ahead for those who haven't read Good Omens ***



I was thumbing through _Good_Omens_, Corgi edition, the other day and
noticed something curious.  When the discorporated Aziraphale joins
Madame Tracy's seance, his first words are:
    Sprechen sie Deutsche?
    Parlez-vous francais?
    Wo bu hui jiang zhongwen?

    Unlike the first two, the third query does *NOT* mean "do you speak
Chinese?"  According to my rusty Mandarin, this 'query' (regardless of the
trailing question mark) is not a question, but a statement, meaning: "I
don't know [how to] teach Chinese."  [For the curious, an acceptable
alternative might be:  Ni hui bu hui shuo zhongwen?]

    The question is:  who was having who on?  Was Terry/Neil playing some
subtle joke on us?  Was their translator toying with them?  Inquiring
minds, etc.  Were this and the "0800-CASH" gaffe corrected in the US
edition?

    One last thing.  I liked the mixing of historical fiction and fact,
namely the Device/Gadget/Gizmo stories, and especially the witch burning
history. This is very like George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman chronicles,
which we learned has favourably impressed our Author's palate.  The main
difference is Fraser's explanatory endnotes, which are as truthful and
accurate as he can make them.  It would have been nice if _Good_Omens_ had
carried an afterword or something that explained the witch-burning period
for those of us who are, er, diachronically-challenged.
From: Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Culcha? Moi?
Date: 20 Aug 92 08:23:33 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson) writes:

>I don't think most Americans are terribly offended by "bugger off"
>simply because the word "bugger" is not in common circulation here.
>In fact, I think a more likely situation would be for a USAmerican
>to know that "bugger off" is how the British say "get lost", but for
>that same American *not* to know what "bugger" means at all.  (And
>therefore to use the phrase in a job interview or something, thus
>embarrassing himself, which is what we USAmericans are best at after
>all.)

In fact there is a proiduct available in the US called "The Little
Bugger". It is a radio locator for your children. To a British ear
this provides a wonderful interplay of punning meanings, but does in
the US?

L.
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Subject: Confused
From: adavid@elaine.ee.und.ac.za (ANGUS DAVIDSON: FOURTH)
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:46:50 +0200
Organization: Electronic Eng., Univ. Natal, Durban, South Africa

Can some out there please explain to me the meaning behind 'Reflected 
sound...' as this is about the only phrase in Color of Magic that I could 
not work out, and it is bugging me no end.

Thanking you in advance.

Drop reply on alt.fan.pratchett or if you want mail another Pratchett fan
send email to adavid@elaine.ee.und.ac.za
From: widenius@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Widenius)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: To all my friends, I did it...
Date: 22 Aug 92 17:11:17 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

No warlord; this is just my favourite subject line in the alt.suicide
froup. Here's his .sig anyway. Notice the utter resemblance it pays to
a tombstone, sideways.

In alt.suicide.holiday and others megazone@wpi.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23) writes:

>###############################################################################
># I have one prejudice, and that is against stupidity.  Use your mind, think! #
>#Email megazone@wpi.wpi.edu  Moderator, WPI anime FTP site 130.215.24.1 /anime#
>###############################################################################

[actually he(?) had only passed a kamikaze exam or something]
-- 
risto widenius:widenius@cc.helsinki.fi:inutili terrae pondus:
            the white zone is for loading and unloading only
From: gmcquary@Ingres.COM (George F. McQuary)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Balloon Launches
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:57:31 GMT
Reply-To: gmcquary@Ingres.COM (George F. McQuary)
Distribution: sci
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501

In article <Bt7Kpw.3xo.1@cs.cmu.edu> 18084TM@msu.edu (Tom) writes:
>
>-Tommy Mac                     .  "                  +
>.------------------------  +                      *       +
>|   Tom McWilliams; scrub       ,     .                        "        +
>|  astronomy undergrad, at     *       +;.     .  '             There is
>| Michigan State University   '                      .    "   no Gosh!
>|   18084tm@ibm.cl.msu.edu                        '      ,   *
>|       (517) 355-2178       ;  +  '                                 *
>'-----------------------


It's Orion, the most recognizable constellation visible in the Northern
Hemisphere after the ansterism of the Big Dipper in Ursa Major. I think
it's rather cute that he actually took the time to represent the different
stars by magnitude.

However, the "There is no Gosh" comment is so dweebish that one must assume
Mr. McWilliams to be the type to have "Darwin fish" with feet walking over the
back of his car. Certainly his admitting to be both an undergrad AND a scrub
leave no argument that this man has problems.

He is like Wonder Bread: too white, full of science rather than anything
nurishing, and becomes stale quickly.


--
George F. McQuary 
"He is mad, bad and dangerous to know." -Lady Caroline Lamb
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: daniel@csgi63.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow)
Subject: Re: PLANK
Organization: School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds
Keywords: Unknown
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:23:55 GMT
X-Posted-From: csgi63.leeds.ac.uk
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In alt.comedy.british article <1992Aug21.093948.3604@darwin.ntu.edu.au>, 
nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN) writes:
> 
>   Has anyone ever watched "The Plank"?.
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      GET SET TAX DODGERS....It's JsNO BAR----NUNN (shit not him again :( )
>                                  DARWIN, NT
>   We need a another bloody Cyclone!!: (a) Need the rain,
>                                       (b) Put Darwin back on the map.
>           nunn@pandanus.cs.ntu.edu.au, nunn@nutmeg, nunn@calytrix
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

Good lord, a call to all a.f.w fans indeed. Let's get those Darwin Fish
integrated into those ascii Oz maps a.s.a.p. Come on pilgrims, you know
he loves you.

-- 
Dan Crow
daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk
From: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Doctor Who
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:10:35 GMT
Reply-To: rpwhite@cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Followup-To: alt.fan.warlord,misc.test,alt.test,alt.newbie
Organization: Monterey Bay Yacht Club, Monterey CA

jevans@ius.indiana.EDU (JEVANS) writes:

)        ""
)       "Z?"
) ZDDDDDDAADDDDDD?
) @BBDDDDBDDDDDBBY
)  33    3     33     THE DOCTOR -
)  33    3     33       "Oh well, why not? We live in an
)  33    3     33       imperfect universe: But why can't
)  33    3     33       people just be nice to each
)  33    3     33       other, for a change?"
)  33    3     33
)  33    3     33
) ZAADDDDADDDDDAA?       JEVANS@IUS.INDIANA.EDU
) @DDDDDDDDDDDDDDY

Well, what is it????
From: swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Buffum)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Good question
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:56:11 GMT
Reply-To: swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Buffum)
Followup-To: alt.stupidity
Organization: Just Some Guy
Originator: swb@mickey.cc.utexas.edu

(article deleted since it's from alt.stupidity, which is self-explanatory)

- Rod
- --
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-  *       *   *       *   *       *  | The Games of the XXVth Olympiad |
- *         * *         * *         * | Barcelona   July 25 to August 9 |
- *       *******     *******       * |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
-  *     * *   * *   * *   * *     *         August 8th -- Day 14
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-       *         * *         *       |    RSwiftRW@cc.Curtin.edu.au    |
-        *       *   *       *        | Rod Swift     Curtin University |
-         *******     *******         |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

        Oooh, nice touch.  Hexagonal rings.  Caught in a press, perhaps?

--
Steve Buffum           | "Don't confuse me with facts!  I've got a closed mind!"
swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | -- Earl Landgrebe, former Indiana Senator
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: bigdave@texas.tdd.sj.nec.com (David Sweeney  x2987)
Subject: Re: REALLY CLUELESS FROSH!
Organization: NEC-AM TDD, San Jose, California
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 00:36:14 GMT

gmcquary@Ingres.COM (George F. McQuary) announces:
>
>Since it IS the season, I announce:
>
>The First Annual A.F.W Frosh Tournament!
>-----------------------------------------
>
>It's open season on frosh --how many can YOU bait?
>
>Who ever manages to get the most newbie followups by the end of September wins.
>I may even make little certificates to mail out to the winners. So far, the
>only rules I can think of are:
>
>1) Cascades, no matter how long they go on, only count one point.
>
>2) Likewise, pingponging followups will be disqualified. Flame wars dense
>   in '>>>>>>>>>>>>'s on the left side and that require an index to keep track
>   of seldom exhibit cleverness, and in truth are seldom read in the first
>   place. They should still be taken off line,
>
>3) Since I'm the only person keeping score so far, presence within my 
>   killfile will automatically disqualify you from the competition.
>
>So the idea is to bait the most with one single clever post, and discount
>the later "monkey see, monkey do" frosh followups that are all too common.
>Remeber, cleverness and originality count!
>
>Score 8/17/92
>-------------
>neilb@borris.eece.unm.edu				+2



I'd like a point for this one, even though it was unintentional on my part 
and the perp is hardly a newbie...


In alt.slack...
In article <1992Aug20.155032.20409@gozer.mv.com> klm@gozer.mv.com 
(Kevin L. McBride) writes:
>bigdave@texas.tdd.sj.nec.com (David Sweeney  x2987) writes:
>
>> mjhostet@athena.mit.edu (Mat Hostetter) writes:
>
>> [Cavalcade of Scientologists deleted]
>
>> The page numbers are a nice touch.
>The raging plumbers are a bit much.

-- 
Dave Sweeney     bigdave@tdd.sj.nec.com
why do I bother...
From: nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: alt.sex.clergy.kitchen.utensils
Date: 13 Aug 92 03:53:11 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada

In this very group, aj923@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (P. J. Remner) signs:
>
>-- 
>____    __ ____  ______________________________________________________________
>_____   __ _____ ______________________________________________________________
>____ __ __ ____  ______________________________________________________________
>__    ___  __ __ ______________________________________________________________

I been reading this group too long - I can actually read this BUAF!

Is there a cure, or am I doomed?

The Rhealist - Rheal Nadeau - nadeau@bnr.ca - BNR doesn't warlord!