HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kretz@remus.rutgers.edu (Kevin Kretz)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.politics.correct
Subject: Re: RICHH:  SHORT NON-PC P.J. O'ROURKE QUOTE
Summary: Out of context quotes do nobody justice
Date: 12 Sep 92 15:44:07 GMT
Followup-To: talk.bizarre
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In article <1992Sep4.193836.11584@midway.uchicago.edu>, hasn@midway.uchicago.edu (Sheheryar Hasnain) writes:
] In article <txm-"nqbb.ri"chh@netcom.com>, richh@netcom.com (richh) writes:
] > 

] > P.J. O'Rourke(whom I just missed at a reading and book-signing at Border's 
] > a few months ago) explains why he is not a liberal:
 
] > (I paraphrase)
 
] > "Say what you want about the Nazis, no woman has ever had a fantasy about
] > being tied up and beaten by a man dressed as a liberal."
] > 
] 
] Sounds like another facist white male (i.e. one of may facist white males).

_Don't_ paraphrase if you are intellectually incapable of doing so.

       The actual quote follows the chapter "Hunting the Virtuous- and
How to Skin and Clean Them".  The chapter simply pokes fun at
know-nothing do-gooders, and makes quite a few good points.

       After all this, as if to defend himself from the expected
barrage of PC epithets about "white male fascists", he seems to set up
a defensive paragraph but ends up with a very P.J. - like goofy
rationalization: 

(reprinted without permission)

There! It was good to get that off my chest.  Now that I've had my
say, however, you may be wondering - don't I sometimes get called a
Nazi?  Yes, name-calling, in which conservatives such as myself are so
loath to indulge, is a favorite tactic of the liberals.  I have often
been called a Nazi, and, although it is unfair, I don't let it bother
me.  I don't let it bother me for one simple reason.  No one has
_ever_ had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished
by someone dressed as a liberal.

Now, I must say that I only read the last post by accident, since
alt.bizarre is first in my .newsrc, and I forgot to put
'rec.motorcycles' after 'readnews'.  So if you want to flame me, send
mail, because I probably won't be back here again.  Thanks.

                                           Kevin
From: sef@Veritas.COM (Sef Kloninger)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: This Group Is Perfect For Deep Thoughts
Date: 11 Sep 92 20:17:55 GMT
Organization: VERITAS Software

In article <1992Sep11.100616@usno05.nor.chevron.com> mjra@usno05.nor.chevron.com (Mike Raymond) writes:
>|> >>>>Beautiful.  Just beautiful.
>|> >>>But what has that got to do with type inference in a country cottage ?
>|> >>Please don't post articles about lipstick to this group.
>|> >I disagree completely, except for those parts dealing with cougars.
>|> The cost of cat food is rising rapidly these days.
>Some assembly is required, void were prohibited by law.
Them bats use radar.
-- 
------------------
Sef Kloninger
Veritas Software                        Stanford University
sef@veritas.com                         sef@cs.stanford.edu
From: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: SSC
Date: 12 Sep 92 16:28:42 GMT
Organization: Elkhorn Yacht Club, Moss Landing CA

I sometimes confuse Don Dodson with Rob Dobson.

rp -- but then again, I sometimes confuse Virginia with Purdue.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: adw3345@ultb.isc.rit.edu (A.D. Williams)
Subject: Re: medium length shameful confession
Originator: adw3345@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 01:00:48 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.175456.1241@mr.med.ge.com> kohli@aslmr.med.ge.com (Mr. Bad Judgment) writes:
>
>or was it a PUBIC WIG?  if so,
>HOW was it MOUNTED?
>
>and did this cause the PUBIC WIG market
>to achieve GREATER penetration?!?
>

 Today's fun fact:

 A "pubic wig" is called a 'merkin' (Webster's).

 This concludes today's fun fact.


                                             Derrick "Merkins R Us"


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From: PJF4081@cc.utah.edu (mr. wonderful)
Subject: road kill
Summary: dead things are cool
Keywords: kill die death love it oh yeah
Reply-To: big daddy hate box
Organization: committee for the advancement of disgust
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 19:17:46 MDT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.10

this evening i decided to go on a ride up one of the swell canyons here in salt
lick city. big deal, you say to yourself, but it was. on my way up i passed a
presumably dead squirrel. it looked just like it had falled asleep on the side
of the road. for a moment i thought about moving off into the bushes. then i
thought that if i picked it up it would jump at me. i thought it might be
pretending to be dead and just waiting to trick a fool like me. i think i am
getting a bit paranoid lately. oh well.

PJF--->Biochem. grad student
					"Oh God, how i love to hate!"
								Mudhoney	
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: grp@nazareth.sni.de (Peter Greinert)
Subject: Re: Birthday greetings
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 05:29:28 GMT
Cath: nazareth!grp
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany

In <pl0vo2s@fido.asd.sgi.com> kenj@kambo.wpd.sgi.com (Ken ``Blackfur'' Jones) writes:


>I send to Dean Akamine my warmest, most loving, snuggly, and sloppy
>birthday greetings.

>Pity he doesn't have a network connection.

>- Ken
From: greg@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gregory Nowak)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: RICHH:  SHORT NON-PC P.J. O'ROURKE QUOTE
Date: 10 Sep 92 10:32:15 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster

In article <1992Sep9.050417.15813@alembic.acs.com> gypsy@alembic.acs.com (hippolyte) writes:

}the only one i can think of is louise.  but i
}don't think you want louise.  

I can add a big ten-four to that one, Cowboy. Louise is an Adventure
with a capital "Q".

}besides, she only
}likes men with glasses who are tall and blond
}and will treat her like shit.

Hmmm... Guess I wasn't blond enough for her. 

She still holds the record for "passenger who came closest to being
pushed out of my car while it was exceeding the posted highway speed
limit".



--greg                                     greg@phoenix.princeton.edu

"Excuse me, but I created alt.sewing, and participated in the move to
rec.crafts.textiles."        --sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
From: plord@pioneer.uspto.gov (Paul Lord)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Compare and Contrast
Date: 5 Sep 92 19:57:22 GMT
Organization: United States Patent and Trademark Office


"Tommy" with the works of Jacques Lacan

Paul
"Go to the mirror, boy."
From: dlee@usc.edu (ROGER DAVID CARASSO)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: RULE OF THUMB
Date: 14 Sep 1992 21:54:54 -0700
Organization: ROGER DAVID CARASSO
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu


Rule of Thumb:  Do not hit thumb with a hammer.
From: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Gray Areas Magazine: Premier Issue Announcement
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:29:52 GMT
Reply-To: rpwhite@cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Followup-To: talk.bizarre,alt.newbie,misc.test
Organization: Elkhorn Yacht Club, Moss Landing CA

grayarea@well.sf.ca.us (Alan Sheckter) writes:

>Starting this fall, on a quarterly basis Gray Areas will review live
>video and audio tapes of bands like Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane,
>Allmans, Zappa, Little Feat, Led Zeppelin, Phish, REM, etc.

Alan,
   Given the subject matter of your new publication, the talk.bizarre
naming committee has decided that your magazine would more accurately
titled "Gray Hairs". Please make the appropriate changes.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: please continue
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 23:06:54 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <1992Sep3.160716.25696@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> mbrockma@bank.ecn.purdue.edu (Matt Brockman) writes:
>In article <labagpINNbka@aludra.usc.edu> rone@aludra.usc.edu (Ron Echeverri) writes:
>>nj:
>>>He plunged his hands into the vat of teeming lice, then poured them over his
>>mother, making sure to cover her well.  "Ok, Mum, when you're ready, make sure
>to breathe thru your nose. He then proceeded to take the paper bag full of
stewed prunes, and began to evenly distribute them over the length of her body

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
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From: mmr@asgserver.canberra.edu.au (Micheal Rainford-Watson)
Subject: Re: please continue
Organization: University of Canberra
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 07:09:33 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.033009.24343@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> aaron@space.ualberta.ca writes:
waldbyjf@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (No one you know) writes:
: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey) writes:
"Exit 'Loons On The Tree'," said the voice in my ear.  I jumped involuntarily
when a gun cracked sharply behind me. A dark shape fell from my shoulder to the  
ground. The raven croaked up at my faceless skull, "Rodriguez, I always  
suspected you were a gold-digger, but I never thought I'd catch you with the
shovel in your hand and a bucket full of ore."

"Good shooting, Chloe," I said.  "Now let's get the fuck out of here before

my underpants explode!". The ravens body decomposed into a dial-a-pizza, which


-- 
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Administrative Systems Group  /      \  Phone : +61 6 201 2397
University of Canberra        \_.--.*/  Mail  : PO Box 1 BELCONNEN ACT 2616
'Give a man a fish...'  -  Arrestive Development
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.config,rec.humor
From: gunnarh@dhhalden.no (GUNNAR HORRIGMO)
Subject: Re: Turtles
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:26:12 GMT

In article <hoahosth.44.715528548@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au> hoahosth@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au (ANDREA HOSTH) writes:

>In article <16567@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> sami@charles.ucdavis.edu (Kari Kaarna) writes:
>>From: sami@charles.ucdavis.edu (Kari Kaarna)

>>  
>>The fundamental question is:


>>                     Where do the Turtles go?


>When nuclear dust has extinguished their betters,
>Will the turtles surviving wear people-necked sweaters?


COWABUNGAH!

---G

Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: chaos@netcom.com (chaos)
Subject: Re: Shameless birthday wish
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 17:56:26 GMT
Organization: tyrninog and the heisenberg vortex

In article <!vrntbr.gooley@netcom.com> gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) writes:
>
>So I'm supposed to define these:
>
>  syzygy
>	[the root means "yoking-together"...I forget.  It's an astronomical
>	 term having something to do with positions of planets.]

from the delightful Theodore Sturgeon's "It Wasn't Syzygy":

	"Here it is," I said triumphantly. "The last word in the S
	section." I read from the book. "'Syzygy--either of the points
	at which the moon is most nearly in line with the earth and
	the sun, as when it is new or full.' What are you trying to tell
	me--that I'm caught in the middle of some astrological mumbo-
	jumbo?"

	"Certainly not," it snapped.  "I will tell you, however, that
	if that's all your dictionary says, it's not a very good one."
	It vanished.

a story highly recommended for gooley, in any case.


chaos

whose wimpy dictionary doesn't even bother to define it
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: larryh@cabezon.uucp (Larry Huntley)
Subject: Re: Rutabaga and Stephie
Organization: Logic Modeling Inc of Beaverton, Oregon
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:31:39 GMT

In article <1992Sep13.154723.19252@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> klein@frith.egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein) writes:
>>Rutabaga wrote assembler to make his machine crash.
>>Stephie had a marine boyfriend
>>Rutabaga was happy - he could make his box go down.
>>Stephie hangs out at frats
>
>[yabba dabba yabba]
>
>When I started reading this post, I autoomatically tried
>singing it to "Ob-la-dee, Ob-la-dah".
>
>Didn't work.
>
   And a damn shame it is, too.  Great concept, though.

	- Larry Huntley

-- 
         (larryh@lmc.com)         | You played golf; you watched football;
     Logic Modeling Corporation   |   you drank beer -- we EVOLVED!
          Beaverton,  OR          |         - Rhonda,  "Thing-Fish"
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: mneeley@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark Neeley)
Subject: Re: Nineteenth century bizarre
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 16:26:39 GMT

In article <fulton.716220416@silver> fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton) writes:
>"I shudder to think what my ancestors buried in this chapel think of my deeds."
>
>"But you forget, sir, you just bought this mansion, and the stucco
>on your baronial walls is barely dry."
>
>"Frederick!  In this castle are ancestors, you cannot deny that!  When I 
>bought this mansion, I bought the chapel and everything in it.  I don't
>know whose ancestors they were, but I know whose ancestors they are!  And
>I grieve to think that their descendant-by-purchase, if I may so describe
>myself, has brought dishonor onto what I have no doubt was an unsullied name."

Tarantara tarantara.   :-)

	Mark (who never could figure out the last 2 words of the M.G's speech.)

Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:29035 alt.config:5494 rec.humor:27937
From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.config,rec.humor
Subject: Re: STOP this Crap/bush
Date: 3 Sep 92 12:56:52 GMT
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

act@csc.canberra.edu.au (Cyclops) writes:
> rybicki@uctvax.uct.ac.za writes:
> >> alt.politics.bush	love bush
> >Whose bush?
> A Bush in the hand is likely to upset her husband, thats who.

One in Kate Bush is worth two in the hand.


mathew
-- 
"Even the most bizarre of the unions (probably that between a cat's gall
 stone and a single note 'G' from CNN's ident theme) managed to convey a
 sense of rampant impropriety."  -- 'Fortran Five', Simon G. Lawrence Leonard
From: dave@irv.icl.com ( Dave Hill)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Wishing you assholes would shut the fuck up
Summary: shut up
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:49:42 GMT
Organization: ccicpg

In article <1992Aug30.181309.8148@sci34hub.sci.com>, gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
> In article <1992Aug20.165004.5895@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> aaron@space.ualberta.ca writes:
> 
> Better run a test scan first; that letter combination probably occurs in 90%
> of all t.b articles.

I found myself wishing you wingnuts would take your
discussion to talk.dumb.fucks.

I guess we're just all going to be disappointed
this week, huh?

You lame-brains are JUST barely worth the effort
it takes to type this in.

TRY FUCKING E-MAIL, this is occasionally talk.bizarre.

	Dave

--

		"It's too dark to put my keys in the ignition"

uunet!ccicpg!dave                                    dave@irv.icl.com
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Re: please continue
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 01:32:18 GMT

osa@orville.unh.edu (Bart Simps.. er.. Oktay Ahiska) writes:
 Aaron Humphrey <aaron@space.ualberta.ca> writes:
  adam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Adam Hamilton) writes:
   eepmatt@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Matthew Friedman) writes:
    rone@aludra.usc.edu (Ron Echeverri) writes:
     nj writes:
He plunged his hands into the vat of teeming lice, then poured them over his
mother, making sure to cover her well.  "Ok, Mum, when you're ready, make sure
to put the hat on." He ignited the butane torch and slowly approached the
terrapin tank.  Carefully opening the lid at arms length he pushed the flame
back into the torch with his right hand while his left hand was grabbing the
small furry animal, which stood silent all the while, but which started to
swing its tails around frantically while he positioned it in front of the torch

--
---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
"What have I done to piss the gods off?"  ---Terence Trent D'Arby
Current Album--Indio:Big Harvest
Current Read--John Updike:Rabbit, Run
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From: rwd4f@h00ters.tailhook.navy.mil (LCDR Robert W. Dobson)
Subject: RP White
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:51:52 GMT


TO: Naval Investigative Service

Last night I was down in the 'fag' bar section of San Franscisco. Not that
I go there for pleasure, of course, I go there hoping to find some
enlisted men violating Navy Policy and the Will Of God (usually the
same thing). Anyway, while I was there, I saw Lt. RP White at a bar
called the Pink Spiked Poodle. I observed him snorting some white
powder which appeared to be cocaine, and then he did an obscene dance
and sang an obscene song. Not only did he remove his clothing and
let other men fondle his genitals, he also sang a song, which contained
a blasphemous refernce to Our First Lady and a water buffalo.

Death is too good for this rouge sailor. He gives the navy a bad name.

--
LCDR Robert Williams Dobson
Head, Super-Secret Mearness of Viscosity Lab and Beauracracy
Disclaimer: I speak EXPLICITLY for the Navy. Everything I say has
been approved by higher-ups.    Internet:rwd4f@h00ters.tailhook.mil
From: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Let's Turn Up the Flames on the Barbee!
Date: 10 Sep 92 17:01:20 GMT
Reply-To: rpwhite@cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Followup-To: misc.test
Organization: Elkhorn Yacht Club, Moss Landing CA

rnt@druwa.ATT.COM (Bob Thomas) writes:

|2120158@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU says:

|>   3) And I must admitt even though I think most Americans are loud-mouthed
|> egotistical BARSTARDS, without their help, it would've been unlikely that
|> Britain (and her allies) would've been able to open a second front in France.

:-)Matthew,

:-)As an American, I can scarcely hope to achieve the level of urbane
:-)sophistication exhibited by all walks of life in Australian society.
:-)Refined, dignified behaviour (yes, I can spell it with a ``u'') is a
:-)timeless tradition that has made Australia the cultural Mecca that
:-)it is today.  You must be bristling with pride.

I have no joke. I just like saying: "Austraila, the cultural Mecca."
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From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Re: now
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:13:09 GMT

tzau4@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
: Now, now, tell me know, I want to know, now, tell me, tell me, now, I want
: to know all of it, now, tell me now, now, all of it, YES!

Now look what you did.  You got your keyboard all sticky.

--
---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
"What have I done to piss the gods off?"  ---Terence Trent D'Arby
Current Album--Pink Floyd:A Nice Pair
Current Read--John Updike:Rabbit, Run
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From: mlegare@wetware.com (BoBteCh)
Subject: Re: short sharp shock
Organization: sulphur & oxygen
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 06:56:51 GMT

jea1@Cornell.edu (John Austin) writes:

] In article <1992Sep9.174416.27850@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> MAC, mbur@nyx.cs.du.edu
] oozes:
] >Damnit!  I got the wrong one...  
] 
] Secret Service protection, CJ.  Now.  


no.  she already has the best deterrent:

Massive Retaliation.

I will find whoever did it and beat the shit out of them with Don Dodson.

of course, the papers will say it was a "crime of passion".

BoB
teCh
takes ~ 10 min, if you get some really good swings in


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From: gypsy@alembic.acs.com (hippolyte)
Subject: Re: Safe, legal rape
Keywords: sarcasm
Organization: the church of the latter-day polish amazons
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 05:25:56 GMT

In article <Bu0EMI.KpC@encore.com> kschnitz@encore.com (Kevin Schnitzius) writes:
>
>Ferchrisake, lighten up already.  Check the goddam keywords.

attempting to justify posting something that
offensive (and, i might add, neither bizarre
nor funny, not to mention utterly lacking in
logical content) by calling it sarcasm is not
an adequate safeguard against flamage. 

anyway, it should have been obvious even to
someone of your limited mental capacity that
ata boy INTENDED to be flamed for that post.
he pulled the string clearly labeled "Pull
For Flame From Gypsy," the mechanical knee
jerked, and the flame popped out.  that's the
way things work in t.b.  anyone who has any
clue at all knows exactly which bait to lay,
and for whom.

there are, dear, certain subjects that JUST 
AREN'T FUNNY.  EVER.  just take my word for
it.  i'd hate for you to find out the hard
way.

>What's with the knee-jerk responses around here?  Did it get renamed
>to talk.bizarre.serious?

no; i have simply taken it upon myself to
ensure that it does not have to be renamed
talk.bizarre.misogynist.  

>Or will it be twenty-eight days till the next nasty post?  (Couldn't resist)

and that sentence explains why i feel i have
to flame the living shit out of certain people
here.  fuckwad.  why, exactly, do you think i
would have to be experiencing menses in order 
to work up enough anger to flame?  i have PLENTY
to be pissed off about, and jokes like that one 
only make it worse.  

shit, you guys think THIS is something.  wait
till i really AM having PMS.

m

better fireproof your eyebrows, gentlemen, because it's coming soon.
-- 
"...at night they lurk outside the tall barrier staring with curious
 wild eyes into the flat field, feeling cheated." -- Beryl Markham
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson)
Subject: Re: OK I don't believe this shit
Followup-To: alt.fan.rob-dobson
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 13:29:12 GMT

>Hey carrasso!!  How much will you pay me to give YOU an rdc account here?
>
>Mike "who gave Jim Small an account and may live to regret it." Dobson

I DONT BELIEVE THIS SHIT.

In all my life, I have never ever once met someone named Dobson who wasnt a
relative.

I heard of the Dobson fly, and Betty Dobson, but LCDR Michael E. Dobson?!

I dont believe it.

-rob


Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: chaos@netcom.com (chaos)
Subject: short shameful confession
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 08:26:35 GMT
Organization: tyrninog and the heisenberg vortex
Distribution: na 


i first read _Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency_ within
six months of first meeting matthew paul legare.

i could at that time, and still cannot, imagine anyone but matthew
playing Dirk Gently.


chaos

he's PERFECT for it, you know
From: dolan@nrlmry.navy.mil (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: trilobyte or trilobite?
Date: 10 Sep 92 17:27:52 GMT

Christoper Williams asks:

> how big is a trilobyte?

  If memory serves, up to about three meters long.  At the conversion via
  e=mc^2, more than enough energy to store a slew* of information.

> what is the sound of a non-trilobyte being filled with a day's news spool?

  Quite like the sound of a bit-bucket being emptied.

  Each involves the transfer of a slew of bits which have lost their value
  through overuse.

Kent, the man from xanth.
"The Birthright of humankind is the stars!"
--
(*) "slew" - technical term of art for "a very large number"; see Xanth
             series #12, _Isle of View_, for the exact reference.
--
Could it be our boy's done something rash, like let old habits take over his
spelling gland?**
--
(**) - "spelling gland" -- an organ peculiar to xanthian magicians.
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