HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 14:52:03 GMT

bill.duetschler@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Bill Duetschler)  writes:

>DT > * How did "Avenue Street" in Toronto get it's name?    
>  
>Perhaps from the same place as "Street Road" in Bucks County, PA.   

Is Avenue Street in Toronto anywhere near Avenue ROAD, which is parallel to
Yonge Street in Toronto?

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Microwave Fun
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 04:33:31 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <C0MK8x.Br3@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.231912.12795@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan6.221754.22052@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>> 
>>>1) Microwaves are not airtight.
>>
>>So true.  After all the average microwave is somewhat smaller than the 
>>average air molecule!
>>
>   Ummmmmmmm, define "average".
>   In the microwave oven I have in my kitchen the microwaves come out at
>2.45 GHz. This corresponds to a wavelength of about ten centimetres.
>   The air molecules I have in my kitchen are significantly smaller than
>this. Perhaps they're bigger in New Zealand?

Who said anything about wave_length_?

ObPreviousObUL: It's two products in one. It's a wave, it's a subatomic particle.

Derek "Light must have a real identity crisis" Tearne


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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:49:29 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1993Jan5.194825.29359@cabezon.uucp> larryh@fawlty.lmc.com (Larry Huntley) writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.035821.22678@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> andrewb@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Andrew Bevin) writes:
>>
>>Actually the single Light My Fire has the guitar and keyboard solo's combined,
>>where as the LP has the solos separated.
>>
>    Not exactly.  In the full-length version, there is a distinct organ
>    solo, followed by a distinct guitar solo.  Then the two instruments
>    play ensemble in a sort of ersatz counterpoint, achieve mutual orgasm,
>    and finally return to the opening motif and the song.
>
>    The single did away with both solos and just used the last part of the
>    ensemble section (the simultaneous orgasm part where the guitar starts
>    going "Doot-doot-doot-dooo" and the organ starts building up to the big
>    finish with double-stops in A minor.)

When I first heard the song, I heard the single version.  The phrase "the time
for hesitation's through, no time to wallow in the mire" didn't make any
sense, but after hearing the full-length version it was very clear.

cj "Jose Feliciano's version was quite different" l
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: alex@animal.Bell.CA (Alex Laney)
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Organization: Bell Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:51:51 GMT

Stephen M. Lacy (sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:


: One last thing that has always puzzled me:

: My CD player, and many on the market today, are toted as having "one bit
: digital to analog converters"  Now, anyone who knows diddly about how
: these things work, knows that if you really hooked up a "one bit" DAC to
: the data on a CD, you'd get complete static. So, whats the deal with
: this?  What does it really mean.

: BTW, some brands call this "MASH" (I believe Technics, Panasonic, and
: their subsidiaries)

It truly is a one-bit decoder. The music is reproduced by varying the space 
between the 1's and 0's. A form of pulse modulation. Anyway, I find the
results to be superior...

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB)
Subject: Re: Why care what percentage? (was: Gay Likelihood)
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:41:23 GMT

flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>dsegard@nyx.cs.du.edu (Daniel Segard) writes:
>>Please explain how those of us who don't fool around with
>>anyone and don't do drugs, etc are going to contract AIDS?
>
>By being raped.  No one is absolutely safe from that.

ObException: the poor fool somewhere in the UK who, last week, grabbed
the super-glue instead of the soothing anal preparation he wanted.

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From: ilaine@panix.com (Liz Stokes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Dead Cat - other stolen object
Date: 4 Jan 93 11:39:59 GMT
Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC

In article <13757@optilink.COM> walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh) writes:

>Somehow, we got the bright idea of peeing into our
>empty milk cartons, though disposing of them was a
>precarious matter.  One evening, Eric put his pee-filled
>milk carton on the sidewalk just outside the front door.
>When we got to work the next day, it was gone.
>
>We continued this practice on an almost daily basis
>for the rest of the summer, and without fail the tainted
>cartons would disappear.  We never did figure out who
>took them or why.

obviously it was a desperate dyer in search of mordant.
	Liz "ask me about Ilaine's E-Z pregnancy test" Stokes

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Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:33281 rec.music.misc:30263
From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.music.misc
Subject: Trombones (Was: Re: Upside-down burglar)
Date: 12 Jan 93 04:56:59 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <1993Jan11.204549.3758@netcom.com> jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:
>In article <1993Jan11.142349.16346@adimail.uucp> tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks) writes:
>>Cynthia Kandolf (cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no) wrote:
>>: 
>>: There is no such note as E-sharp.  One half-step above E is F.
>>: Sometimes you will see an E-sharp written on a piece of music, but
>>: it's to be played as an F.  There is no key called E-sharp on a piano.
>>: 
>>I believe this is wrong. If you name the notes in the triad for C sharp
>>you will say C sharp, E sharp and G sharp. There is no F in the key of
>>C sharp. The keys on a piano are immaterial, as you know, there is no
>>E sharp key on a trombone either.
>
>Right - any brass player worth their mouthpiece will know that a E-sharp
>is a different note than an F, and that an A-sharp is different than a
>B-flat. On the piano, of course, those dweebs can't tell the difference
>which is why trumpet players are worth so much more than piano players.
>Remember that next time you have a choice between dating a mere pianist
>and the more god-like trumpet player (or if you can't find one, the 
>very acceptable trombone player).

What I hear is that trombone players can do it in seven positions.  Only
problem is, in the eighth it falls off.
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From: das@emmapeel.ca.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz)
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Organization: Yet Another Graphics Project, Bellevue, WA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:48:50 GMT

I previously posted:
>>>
>>I love Elf's stories, and really wish he would publish them in book form.
>>They're available by ftp from: 
>>
>>            128.2.209.227:~/pub/stories/journal_entries
>>
>>
>Several people have emailed me saying they were unable to logon here, so it
>may be no longer valid.  My site doesn't have ftp access, so I never actually
>used the above myself, just copied it from an old posting I saved.  
>Sorry for passing on possibly inaccurate information.
>
A followup to my own followup:

I just received the following piece of email, so it may help those who were
not able to logon:

>Debbie, just a short note to let you know that I have been able to ftp
>to 128.2.209.227 (stories). Therefore your information was correct.
>(you do have to login as anonymous though!!)

Those who are having problems might want to get help from their sys admins.
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From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Date: 4 Jan 93 18:42:15 GMT
Organization: Eastern Michigan University

In article <1992Dec28.185939.18874@husc3.harvard.edu> wichers@husc4.harvard.edu (JJJJJust JJJJJohn) writes:
>In article <1992Dec25.122232.21686@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>I bought a couple of CD's the other day, and noticed some strange things
>>about them.
>>
>>The other, the new Nine Inch Nails album, has just six tracks listed on
>>the cover, but continues to play through empty tracks 7 through 97 before
>>finishing with an additional two songs on tracks 98 and 99.
>
>Actually, it's not the new one ('Fixed'), but the one before that, 'Broken'.
>It has the same gap on the tape, which is even more annoying than on the CD.
>

Well I must have a mutant copy of 'Broken' then because mine doesn't do
this.  What I *do* have is an approximately 26 minute CD with six tracks
that definitely stops after track six and a little 3 inch CD in a seperate
sleeve with 15 minutes or so worth of two extra tracks with no titles
given.

Did they do different pressings or something?

		-- Stewart "confused" Tame

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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: 9-1-1, football pool
Date: 12 Jan 1993 02:36:36 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Distribution: alt
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

  +Well, I  *witnessed* an analagous event just as unbelievable, and
  +if it happened...then there is no reason to believe that above has
  +not occurred.

Look you guys.  I realize that there could be at least one
motto for every entry in the FAQ list, but let's try to 
take it easy okay?

Terry "Recycle or die!" Chan
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Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:33106 rec.sport.baseball:37345
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Trademarkability of personal names (Was: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar)
Date: 10 Jan 93 15:40:46 GMT
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates

In article <1993Jan8.213043.7416@photon.com> jbn@photon.com (Joe Naiman) writes:
>Allegedly the Baby Ruth bar was named for President Cleveland's daughter,
>but since Cleveland was out of office for decades, it's popular belief
>that the Curtis Candy Company wanted to avoid paying the Yankee slugger
>royalties and claimed that it was named after the President's daughter.

Does this make any sense?  I'm pretty sure that people's names are not
trademarks.  I could make a Richard Nixon candy bar, and I doubt I would
have to pay royalties to any of the Richard Nixons in the US or anywhere
else.

This, of course, leads to the funny legal positions of, e.g., somebody
named "Joe MacDonald" opening a restaurant named ...

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From: schumach@stortek.com (Kurt Schumacher)
Subject: Re: FIZZIES (was: Re: Cheese popcorn)
Reply-To: schumach@stortek.com
Organization: Storage Technology Corp
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:21:50 GMT

When I was in grade school, we had an annual field trip to the local zoo.
One year, we were sitcking branches through the fence at the camel enclosure,
watching them eat the leaves.  Then we started feeding them the apples from
our lunches.  One of my classmates slipped a Fizzie to one of the camels, who
proceeded to run around the enclosure making horrible noises.

The next year at our trip to the zoo, when we came up to the camel enclosure,
the camel came charging up to the fence, stopped right in front of the guy
who gave him the Fizzie the year before, and spit right in his face.

I was present at both occasions; the second year I was standing right next to
the guy (I even got splashed with camel spit).  I know it was the same camel,
because they only had two and this one was larger and had a distinctive scar
on his side.


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From: kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: Under the Streets of D.C. [was Re: Amusing street names]
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 14:16:57 GMT

In article <63289@mimsy.umd.edu>, sjsmith@cs.umd.edu (Stephen Joseph Smith) writes:
|> 
|> ObPuzzle: Pick the *first* shape in the series below that does *not* appear
|> in the name of a D.C. Metro stop:
|> 
|> Circle, Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon, Septagon...
                                                ^^^^^^^^
 That should be HEPTAGON. Or haven't you seen the new plans for the 
purple line?
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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Two-fifty
Organization: Dynamic Graphics Project, University of Toronto
Distribution: alt
Date: 7 Jan 93 00:13:07 GMT


Y'all may be amused to know that there are signs posted all over the University
of Toronto's St George campus (the big downtown Toronto campus) which say only
"250", just those three characters.  (Actually, one of them says "furrfu" on
it, but I must confess to adding that myself.)

I have no idea what they're talking about, but I wisely declined to make a
purchase.
From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Epileptics and computer games
Date: 9 Jan 93 19:24:44 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1993Jan8.185444.7206@nntp.nta.no> styri@nta.no writes:
>Some time ago there was a thread where epilectic sezures caused by
>tv monitors was discussed (among a zillion other things). 
>
>I remember somebody posted an article claiming that this was a
>rare event. What's the background for the above story? Are there
>any US reports on this? If not, is that due to the US using 60 Hz
>and Europe using 50Hz? 

Only about 5% of all epileptics are photosensitive (reference: Wilkins
et al., Brain vol. 102 p. 1, 1979), and the frequency of flickering
light that affects the largest number of those people is 15-25 Hz.,
although frequencies below and above that also affect some people
(ibid., at p. 15).  A TV scanning at 50 or 60 Hz, however, causes
seizures in people who are not sensitive to a simple flickering light
at the same frequency -- but there is a high correlation between
sensitivity to linear patterns (like a TV raster) and TV epilepsy
(reference: Stefansson et al., British Medical Journal, 1977 vol. 2,
p. 88-89).  "Line jitter" caused by low signal strength, and slower
flickers caused by picture-rolling or TV set malfunctions, may also
contribute to seizures (ibid).

"Space Invader epilepsy" (actually caused by the game "Astro Fighter")
was reported at least as early as the 28 February 1981 issue of The
Lancet (at p. 501).  

There is a long discussion of TV epilepsy and preventive measures
in Wilkins et al., "Common forms of reflex epilepsy," in Recent
Advances in Epilepsy, no. 2 (Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1985),
Pedley & Meldrum, eds.  Among other things, they state that watching
the TV with one eye is less dangerous than watching with both; high
contrast increases the incidence of seizure; and a screen smaller than
25 cm in diagonal measure is safer than a larger one.

Bruce "very sorry to inject so many facts at once" Tindall

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From: dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Phone Calls at 2/3 the Speed of Light
Keywords: phone, telephone, speed
Date: 12 Jan 93 11:49:39 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.

jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker) writes:


>dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning) writes:
>> 0.66C isn't too bad for phone cables, I've seen much worse.
>> 
>> It's mainly due to the interna; capacitance and the inductance of the cables.

>Aside from propagation delay, I thought there were also significant delays
>associated with going through the switching circuitry, etc. Taking them
>into account, 440M mph sounds a little high.

Then, of course, there's the delay between the words leaving your mouth and
reaching the mouthpiece and the delay at the other end when the sound leaves
the earpiece before hitting your eardrum. Then you have the delay between
the signal striking your eardrum and you brain processing that sound.
Now THAT'S slooowww.

I'd imagine the delays in in a digital exchange would probably be around 10
to 20nSecs fixed. Cable delays would be a function of their length. A 10km
length of cable with a prpogation factor of 0.66C would have a delay time
of....oh hell!! Why do you Us'ers have such funny measurements!!! MPH???!!
...gimme m/sec!!! You can work it out yourself!!

Dynes?..gimme watts!!
poundels???..what the hell is that!!
m/sec?..gimme furlongs/micro-fortnight.


Dave

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From: das@emmapeel.ca.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz)
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Organization: Yet Another Graphics Project, Bellevue, WA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:35:24 GMT

I previously posted:
>>
>I love Elf's stories, and really wish he would publish them in book form.
>They're available by ftp from: 
>
>            128.2.209.227:~/pub/stories/journal_entries
>
>
Several people have emailed me saying they were unable to logon here, so it
may be no longer valid.  My site doesn't have ftp access, so I never actually
used the above myself, just copied it from an old posting I saved.  
Sorry for passing on possibly inaccurate information.

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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Late breaking potential UL!
Date: 6 Jan 1993 22:04:03 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
  +
  +Speaking of the Saviour, what is His middle name?
  +
  +I've heard:
  +
  +1) Jesus H. Christ
  +2) Jesus Q. Christ
  +3) Jesus F***ing Christ
  +?

Come on Jonathan, do I REALLY need to clue you in on this?

ObHint:  "T"

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: terry awards
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 23:10:16 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <Tk1PwB6w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
>
>ObUl: English commuter upset with loud walkman on subway. Removes scissors
>from briefcase. Cuts wire from headphones to walkman. Other occupants on 
>subway cheer wildly.

But Wayne - subways in Britain aren't a major part of the average commute.
Most of them are so noisy with buskers or big Rastafarians with ghetto 
blasters that a walkan would be ignored.  

If someone got a pair of scissors out in a subway most people would run 
away very quickly!

Derek "Perhaps you meant the Tube - aka the London Underground" Tearne



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From: trice@brtph330 (Tony Rice P885)
Subject: Re: Rush!Rush!Rush!
Organization: Bell Northern Research, RTP, NC
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:46:52 GMT

92636828s@csghsg5a.bitnet wrote:
: Any Rush fans around?????
: -- 
: \_\_                 \_\_       ** The world's biggest Rush fan **

Wouldnt' you think that the "world's biggest Rush fan" would know about
alt.music.rush?

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From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
Subject: Re: Phone Calls at 2/3 the Speed of Light
Keywords: phone, telephone, speed
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:58:19 GMT
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              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.


>Electricity has a lower than light speed. Cooper wires give you 
>about 1/3 of the speed of light. So I guess AT&T gets the 2/3 figure
>by using fiber optics and satellites whith near c speed.

Small quibble: Right idea, wrong numbers. Any good coaxial cable 
will give you about 4/5ths c.