HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Mike.Hoffmann@sniap.mchp.sni.de (Mike Hoffmann)
Subject: Re: ME-163 Komet
Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG, AP 712
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 11:33:14 GMT

In article <92212.164939WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
>the time, novel tail structure it also lacked landing gear using a belly-
>skid for take-offs and God knows what for landings.

It wasn't all that bad. Compared to some other of these birds - like the
Fi-103 (V1)/manned version or the Bachem Natter - landing a Komet was as
easy as in a Cessna 172.

>Most of the fatalities attributed to the Komet not surprisingly occured upon
>take-off.

That is correct, but mostly because of lack of experienced pilots.

>When airborne the planes were spunky little devils with a +500kt top speed but
>about 30 minutes worth of fuel.  They often overflew Allied squadrons closing
>at speeds too rapid to be effective while leaving Allied aircrews with a "What
>in the Hell was that!" in their headphones.

No. Close to the end of the war a squadron of them was instituted around
a German industrial site - could have been Darmstadt, I'd have to look it up.
The Me-163 was equipped with 30mm cannons (at least this version was, some
were supposed to carry missiles), so one or two bursts at a B-17 would
literally rip them apart. And they did. The figures were about 35 B-17
against 14 lost Me-163 (mostly crash landings, not shot down)

Of course the USAAF could stand the loss of 35 B-17s better than the Luftwaffe
the loss of 14 Komets, but the war was over anyway. It's just the usual
"what if there had been more or they had come sooner"

Mike
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From: merlyn@digibd.com (Merlyn LeRoy)
Subject: Re: NetNews/CD - USENET News Available
Organization: DigiBoard Incorporated, Eden Prairie, MN
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:18:29 GMT

mikkelson@breakr.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
>In article <1992Jul16.215834.7404@Warren.MENTORG.COM>, 
>  tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) writes...

>>>Actually, that's not an issue.  CD-ROMs have a greater capacity if you
>>>run a green felt-tip marker around their rims.

>>Actually, you can just flip them over and record on the other side.

> Well, since all newsgroups are in mono, couldn't they just put two on a side,
> and let you choose by adjusting the balance knob?

Only if your knob goes up to 11.

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Merlyn LeRoy
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From: soley@trooa.enet.dec.com (Norman Soley)
Subject: Re: Man Shot In Head Survives!
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:44:33 GMT


In article <bs5iyw.447@wang.com>, dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong) writes...
>cbarker@dxcern.cern.ch (Carl Barker) writes:
> 
>>Hello.
> 
>>This is a story you've probably all heard before, but I would be interested to 
>>know the reactions.  The story is this:
>
> [Improbable story deleted]
> 
>I heard several people last month (who didn't know each other) say
>that some guy got shot in the head with a crossbow and lived
>through it - even to the point of taking the thing away from his
>assailant who was about to fire a second one.  It was supposedly
>his roommate (probably his ex-roommate, by now).
> 
>He could see the point of the arrow pushing on the skin of the
>inside of his forehead, supposedly.
> 
>It sounds too bizarre to be true, but if it was in the paper, several
>people saw it and believed it.

A few years ago a constuction worker in Toronto fell off a ladder while 
drilling and somehow managed to wind up with the dril bit embedded in his 
skull up to the chuck, he reversed the drill, backed the bit out and 
managed to get himself to the hospital somehow. No apparent permanent 
damage was reported. 
--
    Norman Soley, Specialist, Professional Software Services, ITC District
    Digital Equipment of Canada                   soley@trooa.enet.dec.com
    Opinions expressed are mine alone  and do not reflect those of Digital 
    Equipment Corporation or my cat Marge.
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Ginsu Body Count)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Barefoot in the park, or anywhere else...
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Date: 31 Jul 1992 18:57:25 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <6376@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> bradn@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM 
(Bradford H Needham) writes:

>    The case [of elephantiasis] pictured here was even worse.

So how is it treated, then?  And how does the parasite enter the host?


>Hookworms exist in the USA.  Here's their life cycle:
>    The larvae live in soil.
>    They burrow through the skin and enter the bloodstream.
>    They meander around the body in a disgusting way, traveling from
>    bloodstream, to lungs, up the windpipe, down the throat, and into the
>    stomach.
>    In the stomach and intestines, they grow and reproduce.
>    Their larvae exit the body through feces.
>    The larvae then lurk in the soil, waiting for the next victim.  They
>    can hang around in the soil a *long* time.

But what harm is done to the host?  Not that I really like the idea of
something crawling around in me like that, but nothing mentioned so far
sounds all that serious.


Geoff


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From: rogers@rosencrantz.osf.org (Andrew Rogers)
Subject: Re: Banks + Short Term Car Loans = Scam?
Organization: HICAM/OSD
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:33:23 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.125611.6496@scifi.uucp> njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich) writes:
>Conjecture: A bank follows the legal minimums in terms of advertising
>the vehicle, and *suprise* they are the only bidder at the legally
>required public auction.  They bid what you owe on the car and thus
>they are now the legal owner of the car, and owe you no money.  Now
>they own the car free and clear, and can sell it through normal
>channels and make a profit on it.
>
>Or they bid even less than the amount you owe, and now you owe the
>difference (unsecured) and auctioneers fees and the like.
>
>I heard someone relating this as happening to a friend of a friend,
>honest!

Sorry to disrupt a.f.u. with something that can actually be verified, but
I read in the Boston Globe that several banks/finance companies signed
a 'consent decree' ("we didn't do it, but we won't do it again") with the MA
Attorney General concerning the practices you describe.  (I don't have an
exact reference, but I remember that I was car shopping myself at the time -
so that would place it at late '90, possibly early '91.)

They agreed, among other things, to refrain from overcharging for 
"reconditioning" and "preparing the car for sale" - there was one case
where they deducted almost $3000 for "reconditioning" a car less than
six months old (no, it hadn't been in an accident).

An earlier poster mentioned that he had written a program to determine the
book value of cars as they neared the end of the loan period.  Guess which
city those banks were located in...

AWR


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From: jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth)
Subject: Re: Cat colouration (was Re: Egg Creams)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 16:30:38 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <110564@muvms3.bitnet> swk004@muvms3.bitnet (CONNIE LEINEN, SWK004@MARSHALL, HUNTINGTON, WV) writes:
>In article <1992Jul17.132934.2858@geovision.gvc.com>, pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin) writes:
>> arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva) writes:
>
>
>> ObUL: All 'calico' cats are female
>> ObObservation: Tortoiseshell is hard to spell.  Calico is not.
>> -- 
>> Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com or {uunet,cognos,revcan}!geovision!pt
>> (This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
>> Ever seen a Delorean with "dealer" plates?
>
>
>I read in a novel that all tortoiseshell cats have an identical twin 
>born in the same litter.  Besides which I thought tortoiseshell was a
>cat that was predominantly dark whereas calico (or calicoat) referred 
>to a cat with a significant amount of white.
>
>Connie

Well, I have one calico cat (White chest, feet, face and the rest black and
tan) and one tortoiseshell (all black and tan).  They're are both female.
I still am not sure if this is an UL about only female versions of these
cats, since two is not a very representitive sample of all cats.
From: floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: From rec.aviation, a warning (was Re: Homebuilt plane crash in MT)
Date: 31 Jul 92 03:39:36 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Institute of Marine Science

In article <25082@dog.ee.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov writes:
>>This makes the 7th light plane crash in the last 3 months here in Montana.
>>Unfortunately, that's about average.  Please be careful out there...
>
>ObUL:  In Alaska, light aircraft outnumber pilot's licenses
>by something like 2.5 to 1.  Fact or folklore?

Donno, donno... but there used to be more small airplanes than cars.
I'm sure (ahem...) that the ratio of airplanes to people is higher
here than anywhere.
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:20195 rec.arts.sf.misc:2299 rec.humor:24951
From: bcash@crchh410.BNR.CA (Brian Cash)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.sf.misc,rec.humor
Subject: Re: Agnostics and Athiests
Date: 31 Jul 92 01:51:23 GMT
Reply-To: bcash@crchh410.BNR.CA (Brian Cash)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.

In article <1992Jul30.195059.1713@news.cs.brandeis.edu>,
st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER) writes:
|>Let me repeat: I am an agnostic. I am also a practicing Jew. while I admitt
|>that I am an exception, not all agnostics are "agnostic athiests"
|>(ie practicing athiesm) 
   
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA  HOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This has got to be THE FUNNIEST thing EVER posted in rec.humor!!
MAN, this guy can tell a joke!
(It must be a joke: it's in rec.humor!)

Anti-Brian  \-|-/
==============================================
I'm not an athiest, I just play one on TV...
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From: 13r43@math.ucrf.edu
Subject: Re: who was Sam Walton ( was When did Isaac Asimov die?)
Organization: McGill University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:47:53 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.055402.21928@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz  
(Derek Tearne) writes:
> In article <1992Jul23.210523.23111@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com  
(Gary Heston) writes:
> >
> >The saddest part about his death, though, is that he died the same weekend
> >as Sam Walton, and $am got allmost all the press coverage. Wonder which one
> >will be better known in 50 years?
> >
> 
> OK who was Sam Walton?  Whoever he was I saw no coverage of his death.
> 
> I think that probably answers your question as well!

For those people outside of North America, Sam Walton was the founder of  
Walmarts, a chain of stores in the US. He was also one of the richest people in  
the US.
From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: College Pranks (Was Re: Vacation Time!)
Keywords: Ditch Day, vanishing room
Date: 28 Jul 92 09:54:33 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.

In article <2327@israel.nysernet.org> warren@nysernet.org writes:
>The way I heard it, they sent back a whole case of small bits,
>marked to say LARGE.



No, no, no that's the Russian Condom joke.




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From: dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Microwaved cat explodes
Date: 31 Jul 92 13:34:53 GMT
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA

ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig) writes:

>The following story was told to me by a friend, who said she knew the person
>who had done it.

>A man put a cat into microwave to dry; when taken out, the cat was
>curiously stiff, and when he set it down, it exploded.

>[...]

I love this.  Let's see:

	FOAF
	Cat in mic, explodes
	Possible explanation using abridged principles of physics

Yep!  It belongs here!

Dave

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From: denebeim@brtph254.bnr.ca (Jay Denebeim P025)
Subject: Re: New UL!
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:27:27 GMT

In article <1992Jul16.165437.28720@engage.pko.dec.com> moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com () writes:
>I like the idea of deliberately starting an UL to see what happens, but...

How about 'Italy is in the western hemisphere?'
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Orange Julius (Re: Moxie, submarines)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Date: 30 Jul 1992 19:11:17 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <1992Jul30.141208.1270@javelin.sim.es.com> gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler) writes:

>I once saw a recipe for Orange Julius that included a raw egg.


Back in the Sixties, a raw egg was offered in Orange Julius for twenty-
five cents extra.  I tried it once and didn't notice any difference in
flavor, so I guess it was intended for people who wanted an Orange
Julius as a quick meal substitute -- sort of a midday equivalent of
Instant Breakfast.

Of course, they can't offer that nowadays.  People are afraid of getting
chickenosis.



Geoff


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From: chuang@micro (Michael Chuang)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Vacation Time!
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:26:20 GMT

>: >egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:
>: >: 
>: >: There is a story from Caltech about a student who left for the week
>: >: to visit his girlfriend.  His friends got a lot of plaster, and made
>: >: his dorm room door vanish; they even installed some wiring, and put
>: >: a lamp where the door was.  When their friend returned to find
>: >: the wall, they denied knowing who he was, as sort of existentialist
>: >: prank.
>: >

_The Tech_ at MIT reported that a similar stunt was pulled on
MIT President Charles Vest shortly after he arrived from the
University of Michigan.  Supposedly some people moved one of
the giant floor-to-ceiling bulletin boards and installed it to
cover his office door.  He was not fooled, says the paper.  I don't
have the date of the article at hand, but it should be easy to
find if anyone wants more detail.

art@wvus.org (Art Nicolaysen) writes:
> A similar stunt was carried out to get back at a particularly grouchy
> and unfriendly-towards-undergrads staffer.  The perpetrators located her
> parking space, and made it disappear by repainting all the white lines

An urban legend of my high school concerns a silver Porsche belonging
to then-principal Ron Tesch.  He always parked it so that it was 
visible from his office window (quite far away, however).  Some students
bought a clapped-out VW bug for a pittance and painted it silver.
An accomplice teacher lured Tesch out of his office while the students
dragged the Porsche away and replaced it with the VW, which had been
smashed unmercifully.  Returning to his office, Tesch had the expected fit
and rushed out to be greeted by the smirking perpetrators.  He took it
quite well, all things considered.  Rumored to have happened around 1980
or so.  (Huron High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA).

chuang@micro.ll.mit.edu
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From: cel@nsscmail.att.com (clayton EDward LEIHY iii)
Subject: Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Summary: Have it your waya
Organization: NCR Systems Support Center - New Jersey
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:17:48 GMT

In article <1992Jul20.145848.17741@PA.dec.com> mikkelson@breakr.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
>
>In article <35855@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, 
>  pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes...
>
>>Well, I went to Taco Bell today...   ...they charged me extra).
>
>Try ordering one taco, no lettuce or cheese, double meat, and another
>taco with no meat, but double lettuce and cheese.  You'll probably end up
>paying the cost of four tacos.

What you need to do is go to Roy Rogers, get your (cheese)burger/chicken/etc.
then take it right over to Roy's Fixins Bar.
Load on your lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle, all kinds of sauces -- no
extra charge (it's probably built in to everybody's price).

I've occasionally loaded by sandwich up with enough veggies to have a
small garden salad along with my burger; just pile it on top, then close
the wrapper over it and go sit somewhere and eat it.

Ed ("Can I have a fork for my hamburger?") Leihy
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.humor
From: parris@cs.scarolina.edu (Barry Parris)
Subject: Re: Stupidity (was Re: that'd be in the butt, bob)
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date: 24 Jul 92 01:14:27 GMT

spg@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Stephen P. Guthrie) writes:

>In article <parris.711470586@fig.cs.scarolina.edu> parris@cs.scarolina.edu (Barry Parris) writes:
>>
>>Shortly after South Carolina adopted daylight savings time, a woman wrote a
>>letter saying that she hated daylight savings time...the extra hour of sunlight
>>was killing all her plants!
>>

>Oh yeah? The versions I heard in Australia were            
>- Houswife complains that extra hour of daylight is fading her drapes
>- Farmer claims that daylight saving causes cows to get confused and produce
>  less milk.

Are these people the Australian equivalents of rednecks?
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From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: Re: College Pranks (Was Re: Vacation Time!)
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 29 Jul 92 07:49:29 GMT
Keywords: Ditch Day, vanishing room

gl = zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)

me: The way I heard it, they sent back a whole case of small bits,
me: marked to say LARGE.

gl: No, no, no that's the Russian Condom joke.

What does this have to do with broomsticks?
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From: mikkelson@breakr.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: that'd be in the butt, bob
Organization: Salivation Army
Date: 22 JUL 92 12:50:18    


In article <1992Jul21.212142.29839@pony.Ingres.COM>, 
  rogerl@Ingres.COM (Roger Leuthner) writes...

>> It's the "I saw it, so it happened" argument that's insufficient.  It's up
>> to someone to demonstrate that it happened, not for us to demonstrate that
>> it didn't.

>Tell this to a courtroom where there is a witness to a murder.

Flawed analogy.  This is akin to a witness testifying to have witnessed a 
murder, without a dead body or any other evidence that a murder even took
place.

>That someone has written in a book that it didn't happen is fine for you,
>but not first hand accounts written in a news group?

Yeah, never mind the coroner's report, 'cuz millions of people have seen Elvis.

- snopes

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From: tad@ssc.wa.com (Tad Cook)
Subject: Re: Modem tax back
Organization: very little
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:51:19 GMT

In article <1992Jul18.061630.25536@bang.uucp> bam%bang@trout.nosc.mil writes:
>
>
>A similiar tax proposal was defeated in 1987.  The old proposal
>kept popping up over the years in a very 'shergold-like' manner after
>it was dropped.  Now it may be back for real..
>
>

No, there was no "tax" in 1987.  What happened was that when the
FCC set carrier access charges (these are payments made to local
telephone companies by long distance carriers) they decided to
termporarily exempt data networks.  When the exemption was about
to time out, Compuserve got users all riled up, convincing them
that the evil FCC was about to levy a "modem tax", and the FCC
decided that even though the exemption was unfair (why should
local telephone users subsidize Compuserve's connection to
the local network??) it was politically expedient to let them
continue to enjoy it.

Now Compuserve is trying the same trick again, only on some
different charges.

There are some issues to be worked out regarding who pays for
some advanced network features in the telephone network.
These features are not available yet, but Compuserve
apparently thinks they can get a free ride again by riling
up the populace by calling these charges a "modem tax"!
Its incredible, but apparently they think that local
phone users should subsidize their operations even more.

Before writing to the FCC, be sure to see a copy of any
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.  Without an NPRM number
on your correspondence, it goes into the round file,
because there is no reference to any rulemaking procedure
that the FCC can file your comments with.

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From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Eat the rich"
Date: 22 Jul 92 04:58:42 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.


I'm almost certain that the movie postdated at least Krokus.
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