HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: amorgan@csd-d-3.Stanford.EDU (Crunchy Frog)
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Originator: amorgan@csd-d-3.Stanford.EDU
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organizatoin
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:19:08 GMT

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.

My dictionary tells me that rabies is transmitted by a virus.  Am I
missing something here?

C Frog
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: End of the world. Rapture...
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 08:49:51 GMT

In article <BxD7w9.7Ds@rahul.net> phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:

>
>Phil "In the Whole Earth tradition, the book points to a couple hundred
>other books.  Buy it and get smart." Gustafson

What about 99?

cjl
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From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:02:46 GMT
Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Followup-To: sci.skeptic
Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
In-reply-to: mrice@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Matt Rice)

In article <97197@netnews.upenn.edu>, mrice@eniac (Matt Rice) writes:
>I don't know anything about Soviet propoganda, but I do know that the Wistar 
>Institute of Anatomy here at the University of Pennsylvania was accused of 
>engineering the HIV virus in the 50s while racing Salk to find a polio 
>vaccine.

No.  The Wistar polio vaccine was grown in monkey kidney cell cultures,
and the only charge was that tragically these cultures were infected with
SIV, which no one knew about at the time.  Second, we weren't racing Salk
to *find* a polio vaccine--he and Saban had already succeeded.  Hillary
Koprowski, our recently retired director, was then a young researcher
racing to find a way to mass produce the vaccine.  He succeeded.

>The only way this could be checked was to thaw out samples kept from
>that research.  A review board was set up by somebody (CDC?) over the
>summer, and preliminary conclusions are that these charges are a
>bunch of hooey.

So far, one teaspoonful of original vaccine has been found.  The review
board did not study the material, but went over the chain of cause and
effect very carefully, and decided it was a very long shot.  (That's
what our people said at first, but under the circumstances, it was not
clear whether that was calm analysis or mere defensiveness.  The review
board has presumably engaged in the former.)  When the story first broke,
there was an internal memo setting up an extra layer of bureaucracy for
the removal of biological samples, just to be more certain that nothing
old is disposed of thoughtlessly.  I don't recall seeing the rescinding
memo.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
I normally do not bother making disclaimers, but being an employee of the
topic of discussion, let me point out that the above may or may not be the
same as official opinions--I'm too lazy to check our PR department.
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Usenetball
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 07:57:02 GMT

hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson) writes:

: #include <stdio.h>
: main()
: {
:     if (rand(0) & 1)
: 	puts("Heads");
:     else
: 	puts("Tails");
: }
: 
: 
: >Derek "I call Tails" Tearne
: 
: Hugh "Bill, I guess you're 'Heads'" Grierson

I proposed that we spin you. Since this is to be a three team
game - what is the third choice. Can you land on edge? How do
we determine if you do so?

Bill "I think Bubba should be the spinner of the spinnee" Nelson
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From: dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: The Japanese Connection
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:42:00 GMT
Organization: Will pay money for food.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Nov5.180452.5096@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, 
  vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (vance kochenderfer) writes...

>_Clinton_Conspiracy_: Clinton should resign his candidacy because he was
>found to be backed by Sicilian Mafia, IRA, Yakuza and Noriega.

What?  What about Shining Path, the Illuminati, the Tri-Lateral Commission,
the PLO, the ANC, the Mexican Mafia, and EDS?

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| "An idea or belief is not necessarily true or false because your parents,   |
|  your friends, or you or your children have believed it."                   |
|                                                           - Abel J. Jones   |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  David P. Mikkelson        Rocketdyne Systems          Chatsworth, CA  USA  |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Trelford Pinkerton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.
Date: 6 Nov 92 05:17:30 GMT
Organization: The Bishop Sandwich Band.
NNTP-Posting-Host: positive

I heard, sheesh, that Bill Clinton has a secret plan that he will
put into effect in his first few weeks of office.   The secret plan
will eliminate PACs, Special Interest groups, Lobbyists, and pork barrel
projects.

The details of the plan are too secret to tell you, but
speed is of the essence.   Watch the skies.   You heard it
here first.  Eat some toffee.


--
   Inventor of the Lambada-Calculus.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
Subject: Re: Nonexistant cars
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:13:36 GMT

In article <2564.434.uupcb@ehbbs.gwinnett.com> harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter)  writes:
>>There was a story in the October 1990 issue of 'Car and Driver' about a
>>scam in the early to mid-1970s about a car called the "Dale".  Apparentl
>>this woman had started this bogus auto company, and even had people lini
>>up to invest and to start up dealerships, all over a car (and company) t
>>didn't exist!  The only thing real was the mock-up that prospective
>>investors and dealers were shown.  Supposedly the engine displayed in th
>>mock-up had "Briggs and Stratton written on it!!  Pretty good story abou
>>selling a car that didn't exist.  The article even mentioned hat this
>>car was offered as a prize on 'The Price is Right game show in 1975(?).
>
>There was a later insinuation that the woman wasn't a woman at all, just a
>clever male scam artist.  Carrol Shelby once described the Dale with,
>"Anyone trying to corner in this thing is gonna lose the outside cheek off
>his ass....."
>
>When investors attempted to forclose on whatshername, they found "an empty
>office and assorted devices used by female impersonators".
>
While Shelby's comments weren't in the article, the part about the scam
artist being a guy in drag was a major part of it.  There was a photo of the
car, IMHO the most god-awfl ugly thing I've ever seen, not counting some
cars that are acually in use today!!  I've often wondered where I could get
some more info on this.  Although not a real UL, it's still fun to read about.
Selling a car that didn't exist is probably the best scam I've read about.
(the "before" and "after" photos in the article are startling!!)
From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Question about "T." in James T. Kirk !!!!!! (As seen on TV)
Keywords: We don' nee' no stinkeen' keywords!
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:31:10 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <11NOV199211072089@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov>, 
dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes) writes:
> In article <BxGwLn.HEo@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>, 
>   bwbrock@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Benjamin Warre Brock) writes...
> 
> >Tiberius
> 
>  Oh.  What does the "V" stand for?

Versus.

Terry "U.S. v. Satan" Carroll

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
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From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Rape at Disneyland/World?
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:49:10 GMT
Followup-To: alt.flame
Organization: University of Virginia

> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

>Since I never watch the news (I get *my* info from
>Rush Limbaugh, and he is on at 10 here), this was all I saw of it.


wow. you sure are well-informed. no wonder you got into such a kool skool
like UChicago.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: Microwave Death
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: The Cookie Club
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 14:56:07 GMT

In article <H.ea.n9brucFnFlg@harvee.billerica.ma.us>, scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator) writes:
|> In <CINDY.92Nov11202231@solan10.solan.unit.no>, Cynthia Kandolf writes:
|> >
|> >Microwaves do NOT cook things "from the inside out".  If you don't
|> >believe me, put something that melts easily, like a small block of ice
|> >or a bowl of ice cream, in a microwave.  Zap it for short periods of
|> >time, checking the melting pattern as you go along.  The stuff nearest
|> >the outside will go first, because there is nothing shielding them
|> >from the microwaves.  Microwaves cook from the outside in. 
|> 
|> all true.  *but* if you overcook some things in a microwave (the one time i
|> tried a recipe for microwave biscuits for example), they burn inside while
|> the outside doesn't.  when you burn biscuits in a regualr oven, the outside
|> truns black.  this may be the source of the confusion.

Sure, but I think it's things like choc chunks that overheat.

---
YuNoHoo
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Airport security
Organization: a2i network
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:56:27 GMT

Rather some years ago, I was in a great hurry to get on a plane at Santa
Ana airport, later called Orange County and even later called John Wayne.

The beeper kept going off. I gave up my keys, I gave up my Swiss Army
Knife, I gave up my pocket change, and the damned beeper still went off.
It turned out that the offending object was a foil package of ketchup
I had snarfed at a fast-food outlet.

I made the plane, barely.  But watch out, Santa Anans, for perfidious
mustard smugglers.

Phil
-- 
Phil Gustafson <phil@rahul.net>
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From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Trilateral commission
Date: 10 Nov 92 09:14:03 GMT
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

The Trilateral commission is the ruling group of three Terries who
control AFU.

-- 
/|/-\/-\       In real life, the Vice President chastises Murphey Brown
 |__/__/_/     for her morals.  Bill Clinton plays the sax on "Arsenio
 |warren@      Hall."  Though "Batman Returns" is fiction, it's not too
/ nysernet.org much stranger than truth - Caryn James, The New York Times
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 06:33:52 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117


First, flar@iastate.edu (Bradley M Armitage) writes:

  +>: > All I wanted was some information, if you don't have it, don't post, if
  +>: > you have nothing inteligent to say, say nothing

On USENET?  Surely you jest.

Then cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:

  +>: Gosh, Brad hasn't been reading this group very long, has he?

Followed by billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) who writes:

  +>Nope. He doesn't know the depths of depravity of which this group
  +>is capable.

flar@iastate.edu (Bradley M Armitage) replies:

  +You got that right, and I quit, pretty silly thing, I really enjoy the
  +subject area.......
  +
  +And I am not talking about spelling.!

Nor punctuation I take it.


Terry
--
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Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe Per Diem
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: forpost-WWII Japanese soldiers
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:51:55 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.162520.16702@linus.mitre.org> ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei) writes:
>
>>Derek "it must be nearly 20 years since the last one was found" Tearne
...
>     The last one I heard of was sometime in the last 10 years or so -
>they had to dig his CO (who was in his 80's) out of retirement to get
>him to agree to come out of the jungle.
>
>     It's theoretically possible that there are some left - they'd be
>in their 60's at the youngest.

What I want to know is how these guys eat.  I mean, it is just a little
hard for me to imagine that they are out and about getting food and
such, and still don't figure out that the war is over.  Wouldn't the
need to score food and water imply the need for interaction with other
humans?  It is just about impossible to imagine having 30 years worth of
food stockpiled (not to mention water).

At least in Gilligan's Island, the story was that he had been sailing
around and around under water - course, wouldn't you expect him to run
out of gas at some point?  Maybe it was a nuke powered sub...

Seriously, isn't it always said that an army runs on its stomach -
meaning that it will come to a crashing halt the minute supplies stop
arriving from back home?

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From: v462etnn@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (David L Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Trilateral commission
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:13:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Nov6.150237.24924@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes...
>What is the Trilateral Commission?
> 
>-Neal

Look it up in _More of the Straight Dope_ by Cecil Adams.
Basically, a group that holds meetings to discuss politics,
the quality of hired help, life, the universe, and everything.
The Tri refers to what was thought to be the future world
superpowers: USA (of course, all modesty aside ;-)), Europe, 
and Japan.

They don't do anything worth mentioning.

David
From: hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Famous Americans on Christianity
Date: 10 Nov 92 02:44:05
Organization: Computing and Telecommunications Services, UCSC
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


I found these quotes on a local BBS.  I can't verify the accuracy of
the quotes, but it's interesting.  It was posted on flyers around
campus here at the Univ. of California, Santa Cruz.

"The government of the United States of America is not in any sense
founded upon the Christian Religion." - John Adams
 
"I am no Christian" - Ethan Allen
 
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the
Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the
Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of.  My own mind is
my own church."  - Thomas Paine
 
"The religion of every man & woman must be left to the conviction and
conscience of every man & woman: and it is the right of every man &
woman to excercise it as they may dictate." - James Madision
 
"Question with boldness the existence of a God." - Thomas Jefferson
 
"I don't know that athiests should be considered citizens, nor should
they be considered patriots.  This is one nation under God." - George
Bush
--
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From: amcbride@axion.bt.co.uk (Alan McBride)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: ...is this a UL??? (3)
Date: 10 Nov 92 16:09:22 GMT
Reply-To: AMcBride@axion.bt.co.uk
Organization: British Telecom Research Laboratories



A friend-of-a-friend had a birthday coming up,
and his parents were to be away for the weekend.
This suited him fine.  He bought lots of beer and
arranged a party for the night of his birthday.
His girlfriend arrived early and they got amorous.
He took her doggie style and they were just getting
really into it when the phone rang.  For a bit of
a laugh he stayed inside her and directed her to
crawl to the phone, and her answered it and talked
to the person on the other end.  They still did not
interrupt their coitus.  Next the decided to continue
the fun by proceeding into the kitchen and to the
fridge in the same fasion.  The played a little 
with cream and cola from the fridge; eating, drinking
and covering each other while remaining connected.
The phone rang again, and they went to answer it,
still connected, but this time went into the 
dining room which was nearer.  They shuffled and
grunted their way in, turned on the light and there
waiting for them was a host of family and friends
and a big surprise party.


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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: dishwasher trick
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 08:30:10 GMT

diverson@phys.ksu.edu (David Iverson) writes:
: 
: >Put some clean plates in your dishwasher before your start it.
: >You will see that the rest of your dishes get cleaner than usual.
: >--
: >Christian Dechamplain|
: >(819) 563-8951       |
: >dechc00@dmi.usherb.ca|
: >----------------------
: 
: This Christian guy is an ASSHOLE!!!! I tried his little trick and it took
: the pattern off my plates!!! Thanks a whole ------- lot!
: 
: -Diverson

Teach you to attempt washing paper plates.

Bill
From: Jay.Ashworth@p8649.f160.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jay Ashworth)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Legal Tender
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 15:56:00 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3603/160.8649 - Hacker's Haven, Clearwater FL

Geoffrey M Fritz, to All on 10 Nov 92:

 GF> From: gfritz@bell.ecn.purdue.edu (Geoffrey M Fritz)

 GF> Any money printed by the U.S. government that has the "This note is
 GF> legal tender... etc." CANNOT be refused as a payment for debt.  If you
 GF> owe your landlord $300 for rent, they must accept cash -- even if it
 GF> were all in pennies.  They could require you to count all $300 worth of
 GF> the pennies, but they'd still have to accept it as payment.

I've heard, from (the requisite) usually reliable source (a banker), that people can refuse pennies in numbers greater than 25c, legally.

 GF> Don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise.  Cash is the only thing that
 GF> can't be refused.  No matter what.
 GF> If anyone has a problem with my answer, take it up with the department
 GF> of educatiuon in North Carolina -- not me.

Gee, _another_ thing to go look up at the library...

Cheers,
-- jra
Ashworth & Associates * jra%acorn@tct.com * jra@psycho.fidonet.org

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From: wbrown@access.digex.com (William Brown)
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:34:56 GMT

In article <rKB=qf-@engin.umich.edu> dem@engin.umich.edu (Darryle E Merlette) writes:
>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.

[stuff deleted]

>	Darryle

Point of order, Darryle - It is both possible and common for viruses to
cross species.  We simply don't pay attention to the zoological equivalent
of human diseases, even when caused by the same organism.  (unless, of
course, you are a vet...)

Peace

Bill

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From: pye@enel.ucalgary.ca (Steven Pye)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: The Star Lost (was some other thread)
Date: 9 Nov 92 22:41:51 GMT
Organization: ECE Department, U. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

In article <1992Nov7.051633.12487@u.washington.edu> grimjack@milton.u.washington.edu (Leslie Basel) writes:
>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
>

Keir Dullea played Dave in 2001 and its followup 2010.  He's almost unrecognis-
able with long hair and mustache, but its him in this series.  The guy
who played Devon, is now a weatherman on CFTO, a CTV affiliate in toronto.

The series was can-con (canadian content) for CTV in the early 70's, along
with another series called Swiss family Robinson.  The women who played
Rachel dropped of the face of the earth as far as I can tell, but
she may have been a french canadian, and just returned to french language
TV.  All of the guests were canadian, including walter koeing, and the
guy who played Dr. Daestrom (sp?) in the guy who brought the computer
on board the enterprise, that then went nuts.  For its time it wasn't too
bad.

later
ed bourne,
elbourne@descartes.uwaterloo.ca
ed_bournn@rom.tcpl.ucalgary.ca