HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kadric@faw.uni-ulm.de (L. Kadric)
Subject: Re: test,1,2,3 CASCADE
Organization: FAW (Research Institute For Applied Knowledge Processing, Ulm, Germany)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:35:25 GMT

In article <C1BzHI.JCq@willamette.edu>, bbrown@willamette.edu (Brian Brown) writes:
|> >>>>|> >>>>>>this is just a test, please ignore.
|> >>>>|> >>>>Oh god please! I can't take any more,
|> >>>>|> >>>>My anger is like a flaming lantern,
|> >>>>|> >>>>Try cascading of that.
|> >>>>|> >>>I could, with a whimsical handturn
|> >>>>|> >>>of my magical hat.
|> >>>>|> >>HA HA! now its my turn
|> >>>>|> >>I can't do better than that.
|> >>>>|> >To add to this, I yearn.
|> >>>>|> >But I couldn't do that.
|> >>>>|> Maybe we could all learn
|> >>>>|> to do silly things with a cat
|> >>>>Counselor Troi likes skinny bald guys,
|> >>>>How `bout that?
|> >>>Pick a new rhyme and try to keep time
|> >>>or else your cascade will sound flat.
|> >>The new rhyme is here in front of you,
|> >>Ask my pet iguana.
|> >That may or may not be quite true,
|> >coz Ill stop when I wanna.
|> Whatever you do,
|> don't eat a bananna!
Who ever you screw,
don't f**k Madonna.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:24:09 EST
From: <CSD108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.cascade
Subject: Re: Mushy_O_Phobic v. CloseAirSupport_O_Pho
 <1993Jan21.161657.10337@news.duc.auburn.edu>

In article <1993Jan21.161657.10337@news.duc.auburn.edu>, horntho@eng.auburn.edu
(Thomas J. Horn) says:
>>>: %  An antonym is two words that are spelled the same but have opposite
>>>: %  meanings.  No examples exist in English
>>>:
>>>: $  No, that's an antelope. An antonym is someone who hasn't got a name.
>>>:
>>>: #  No, an antelope is when your mom's sister runs off with the postman,
>and
>>>: #  _Anton Nym_ was an (unsuccessful) musical comedy by Fedor Dostoevski
>and
>>>: #  Dave Brubeck.  The word you want is `antimony'.
>>>:
>>>: Antimony is money you have to pay your ex-wife.  You're thinking of
>>>: `anemone'.  As in "Love your anemones."
>>>:
>>>No, no, 'anemone' is the white plastery stuff they pump your bowels full of
>>>before an abdominal X-ray, you're thinking of 'Admantium', the substance
>that
>>>The Wolverine's skeleton is reinforced with..
>>
>> No, Admantium is a nasal steroid spray, which will "add man to um."
>> The word you want is `apogee.'
>
>No, no, no. 'Apogee' is a word that refers to the seventh red delicious fruit
>in a series.  The word that you need is 'alabaster.'

*SIGH* Alabaster, short for Allah baster, is a holy Arabic kitchen utensil.
You meant to say "antebellum."

-Craig D.

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From: an8014@anon.penet.fi
Subject: Not much
Organization: Anonymous contact service
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:01:38 GMT

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Just wondering if this was coming out in english, sorry.
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From: pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Philip  Wang)
Subject: Re: Another test
Reply-To: pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Philip  Wang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:19:58 GMT

In article <C1C189.K8s@willamette.edu> bbrown@willamette.edu (Brian Brown) writes:
>>>This is just a test.
>>Is this your best?
>We'll have to see the rest.
Surely you jest

wei hao
Wei Hao Wang                            E-mail at pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
"Where would we be without the ability to let our minds wander? And where could
 we go if our emotions were submerged down under our souls? Their master
 control plan will fail as the young minds prevail in pure genetic wisom."
Newsgroups: alt.cascade
From: rsr4936@cc.utah.edu (Reay, Robert S.)
Subject: Re: Not much
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: 27 Jan 1993 21:30 MST  

In article <C1J30v.97p@coral.cs.unm.edu>, sgupta@coral.cs.unm.edu (Sarang Gupta) writes...
{In article <1993Jan25.202426.6905@fuug.fi> an8014@anon.penet.fi writes:
{>X-Anon-To:  alt.cascade
{>
{>Just wondering if this was coming out in english, sorry.
{A British truck is called a lorry...
You murdered Chuck!  This is too gory!


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From: Pads@ravel.udel.edu (Steve Padbury)
Subject: Re: Not much
Originator: pads@ravel.udel.edu
Organization: Here!? Yeah, Right!
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:13:53 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.232125.16163@coe.montana.edu> icsu0260@cs.montana.edu (Eric) writes:
>In article <C1J30v.97p@coral.cs.unm.edu> sgupta@coral.cs.unm.edu (Sarang Gupta) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan25.202426.6905@fuug.fi> an8014@anon.penet.fi writes:
>>>Just wondering if this was coming out in english, sorry.
>>A British truck is called a lorry...
>Cinderfella is a great story...
You guys are starting to make me worry...

----------------------|---------------------------------|
Stephen J. Padbury    |Current campus record holder for |
University of Delaware| most ways discovered to crash a |
pads@ravel.udel.edu   |  hard drive in one week : 4     |
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From: dcampbel@neumann.une.edu.au (King Arthur)
Newsgroups: alt.cascade
Subject: The Blast...
Keywords: Idiots from New England
Date: 22 Jan 93 06:20:23 GMT


 THE BLAST
------------

 Once upon a time, there was a dude
 With this girl he wanted to get rude
 But she was too much of a prude 
 So he went and got some food 
                    
 On the way he met a hooker
 But she was a bood looker 
 So he went to see chooka
 And then Chooka went and took 'er
                     
 So I went and had a... 
 Dinner with a bloke that was gay
 Which made my nerves fray 
 So I  ran, far away... 
            
 To the mystical land of Tibet
 An action I soon learnt to regret 
 Evan tho I won a bet 
 And had a date with Yvette  
        
 Next came an action which brought me grief
 I had a run in with a Chief
 For a loincloth he wore a leaf
 And he ate way too much beef
    
 To the big Oz, is where I now go 
 Going out west, learn how to sew 
 Have lots of beer, and an enormous throw 
 That's the West, yeah, I know 
 
 But what they best is puke
 Not an easy fluke 
 Especially for a Duke
 But the duke was a CIA spook  
 
 To me this is all Greek
 Cause I'm a real geek

*cancelled due to poor ratings*


King Arthur
dcampbel@neumann.une.edu

Rhomulos - Head Jester
mharris@nyx.cs.du.edu

Chaos
From: mascdb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (C D Burdorf)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Board Snappage!
Date: 25 Jan 93 10:12:09 GMT
Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK

In the referenced article, leif@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Leif Eric Johnson) writes:
>   The real drag was, that was my newest board, purchased in October ('92) I
>think.  A 6'4" Campbell Bonzer design, almost no dings, full front and tail
>astro-deck patches.  I'm seriously bummed!  So, anyone know if I can at least
>somehow remove and re-use what's left of the astro-deck? 
>

Don't bail on the board!  You can glass it back together.  I've seen
people do it at Mundaca, Spain where boards get broken all of the time
and replacements are way too exspensive.  Strip off the old glass around
the break, laminate the board together with strong glue, then glass over
the break with extra-strong glass.  You'll be amazed at how nice it
can turn out -- if you do it right.

Chris
From: kiviat@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Brian Kiviat)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Surfers for Envir. Action
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:25:00 GMT
Reply-To: kiviat@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Brian Kiviat)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

Does anyone have an address or phone # for SURFERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
ACTION?  I am currently a member of the Surfrider Foundation and have
not been to happy with them. I sent them my membership money, and haven't
heard much since. I  received one newsletter months ago but since then
nada.

Maybe with Al "ozone" Gore in the White House and Dan "toxic slime"
Quayle gone, some real progress on the environment can be had. No more
VP's Council on Competitiveness to gut clean water act regulations.

   O
   I\   Brian Kiviat (301)227-1833
   I \  kiviat@oasys.dt.navy.mil
  /     David Taylor Model Basin
   \___________________________
			     \\
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From: johnlake@microsoft.com (John Lake)
Subject: Re: Board Snappage!
Date: 26 Jan 93 06:48:24 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1993Jan25.101209.29609@gdr.bath.ac.uk> mascdb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (C D Burdorf) writes:
>In the referenced article, leif@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Leif Eric Johnson) writes:
>>   The real drag was, that was my newest board, purchased in October ('92) I
>>think.  A 6'4" Campbell Bonzer design, almost no dings, full front and tail
>>astro-deck patches.  I'm seriously bummed!  So, anyone know if I can at least
>>somehow remove and re-use what's left of the astro-deck? 
>>
>
>Don't bail on the board!  You can glass it back together.  I've seen
>people do it at Mundaca, Spain where boards get broken all of the time
>and replacements are way too exspensive.  Strip off the old glass around
>the break, laminate the board together with strong glue, then glass over
>the break with extra-strong glass.  You'll be amazed at how nice it
>can turn out -- if you do it right.
>

Also something that helps the board keep it's strength is a trick that
that my buddy Al who owns The Surf Shop up here taught me, is to take 
a couple of popsicle sticks and put them on either side of stringer at the 
break (buried into the foam) and then re-glass it (instant super stringer).
Of course this will add a bit of extra weight, but it usually works pretty
good (the whole process).  I don't know if this is common practice, but Al
taught me this a number of years ago when I broke my first board.  I know 
who has the board and it's still ridable.  Not one of these boards that All
has fixed this way has ever broke in the same place again.

If ya don't care about fixing the board and can afford a replacement, they 
make great wall hangers.  I have the back 3 feet of a 7'10" that I broke 
about 5 years ago (the nose just disappeared somewhere with the tide) and
I cut out a perfect little 8" by 10" square down to the foam and replaced
it with a picture of the place I broke it at that was taken on the same
day I broke the board.  It makes a great picture frame. (ooops correction,
I meant to say I placed the picture in the underside of the board not the 
deck, but I guess that it's not really that important).

On a board breaking note, one of my friends and his wife just got from 
5 months in Mexico and one of the last places he surfed was Puerto Escondido
and he surfed it for a couple of days at a solid 18 foot faces.  He said 
that the barrels were sooooooooo big that he would just pull in and be able
to look around inside cause the lip was throwing out so far.  He's got 
loads of pictures from the whole trip.  Too bad I don't have a scanner
yet!




(Brother) John H. Lake
From: andy@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Andy Michael USGS Guest)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: How's Cocoa Beach these days?
Date: 26 Jan 1993 22:44:46 GMT
Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences
NNTP-Posting-Host: pangea.stanford.edu

In article <38271@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> gch@cypress.cis.ufl.edu (Greg Hartman) writes:
>In article <1isnd6INNoe3@morrow.stanford.edu> andy@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Andy Michael USGS Guest) writes:
>>At the end of the week we'll be spending a few days at a friends
>>wedding in Cocoa Beach, Florida.  I was wondering how the surfs been
>>lately and if there is anywhere to rent boogie boards near there.

Well we're back.

>The waves have been great the past week and today for almost the whole coast
>of Florida down to Ft. Pierce.
>But it looks like it is dieing out. So good luck, there should be a little
>swell left (about shoulder high i predict at least).
>Cocoa is also infamous for mushy waves. Real fun at times, but real mushy.
>It is a rare time that you see a wave pitch top to bottom there.

Mushy is pretty much how I would describe it, but that didn't stop me from
getting two sessions in.  One of which may be *very* important.

>As far as rentals goes, there is the infamous Ron Jon surf shop (open 24
>hours a day). They have rentals, and it is worth seeing the spectical, so 
>check it out.

Looked more like the Ron Jon t-shirt shop to me.  The place was about a
block from my hotel and is the size of a decent size department store.
But all the boards were hanging from the ceiling.  Nice collection but
I didn't get the impression they sold very many of them.  At least not
compared to the many t-shirts.  On the other hand we did rent two boogie
boards from them.

>>Also, what's the water temp like?  I lent my dad my wetsuit for a
>>couple of weeks so it'll have to be doable in just a bathng suit (and I
>>am used to fairly cold water, Long Island in the summer for instance).
>the water is somewhere in the mid 60's right now. 
>(60 degrees up in St. Augustine)

Felt damn warm to me, compared to either Northern Cal right now or even
Long Island last summer.

Anyway, why would a boogie boarding session on mushy 3 to 4 foot faces
be so important?  Because I got my wife to try it with me.  Previously
she has tried body surfing but without contacts in.  This time she tried
boogie boarding with her contacts in and she had a GREAT time.  Mostly
she got whitewater rides, but it was actually pretty hard to get much else
on these waves.  On one of her first takeoffs she was fairly late and went
through the washing machine, but she didn't care and once I told her it
wouldn't get much worse than that in these conditions she really relaxed.
I think she is definitely psyched to go out more.  If it wasn't for all
the friends we had around that we wanted to visit with I bet we would
have gone out again.  She actually did want to dawn patrol the next
morning before we headed inland but then she stayed up till about 4AM
chatting and it was almost flat anyway (we were up by 8AM anyway to
watch the space shuttle come down).  Anyway, I got me a surf buddy!
A real nice one too. :-)

Andy
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: gilgan@ug.cs.dal.ca (Tommy Gilgan)
Subject: Later gang
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:56:00 GMT

Well, I got my ticket reservation yesterday, and I am of...

 2 months in sunny barbados.. I don't know if I'll still have this account
when I 
get back so, I had better say "see ya " to everyone out there.
if anyone is going to be in barbados, look for me either a: in the surf
or b: in the Harbour Lights guzzling beer....but seriously if anyone is headed
down that way drop me a line and we'll hook up.. I lived there two years ago
so I know the place pretty well.

and if I don't get back to the newsgroup in a while, have a good time
surfin' y'all. take care, and be excellent to one another..


one love,


Tom Gilgan

gilgan@ug.cs.dal.ca
From: mascdb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (C D Burdorf)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Polluted Beaches in Australia
Date: 24 Jan 93 18:09:06 GMT
Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK

In the referenced article, ludwig@cm.deakin.OZ.AU (Ludwig Omachen) writes:
>In article <3519@peking.gdwb.oz.au> pthomas@gdwb.oz.au (Peter Thomas) writes:
>>ludwig@cm.deakin.OZ.AU (Ludwig Omachen) writes:
>>
>
>
>My humblest apologies for providing incorrect information :-(, I should
>have checked the current situation instead of answering off the cuff,
>and regurgitating  my out of date experiences of surfing at the
>southern end of 13th beach.
>

I think you're letting him off to easily Lud.  Nowhere does he say
what kind of treatment is being done (it should be tertiary).  And
nowhere does he describe the levels of viruses and toxic chemicals
being pumped into the ocean which are far more dangerous than E-coli
bacteria.  Finally, cost is no excuse for destroying the ocean.  The
pollution of the ocean has a far greater economic impact than does
the cost of treating sewage.   I'm glad something is being done,
but it's not clear that enough is being done.

Chris
From: leo@wk69.nas.nasa.gov (Leo Dagum)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: any ding repair tips?
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:47:48 GMT
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California

I guess the moon and stars just haven't been in alignment for me.  You
may recall I just had the fin replaced on my 6'6" thruster, well, I caught
my first wave on the newly fixed board out at Pleasure Point (27th street?)
on a dusk patrol last Saturday.  This had not been a familiar break for me
until then, when I became intimately aware of where the reef begins as I
landed my board straight on the rock and continued head first over the
nose.  This not only left a nice 4" crack on the bottom of the board, but
also succeeded in confirming my wife's suspicion's on my surfing abilities
as this was one of those rare occasions where she was actually watching.
To quote her brother, who also was watching and lives down there, "You
don't usually see surfers fall off in front of their boards."  At least,
not after they've caught the wave anyway.  

So this leads me in a roundabout way to my question of the day.  Are 
there any special tips for patching up my board.  I've already gotten 
some practice from patching my green behemoth but I wasn't too concerned 
with the quality of the result there.  I don't know if water got in the 
board but I'm letting it dry for a few days anyway.  There's an ugly
brown streak where the glass is cracked, is there a way to get back the
original color?  And how do the pros get their patches to be (a) almost
invisible, and (b) so smooth?  Any advice (other than to quit surfing) will 
be gratefully accepted.

- leo
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: cmaeda+@cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Maeda)
Subject: Re: WHERE'S THE SURFERS?
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:18:10 GMT

In article <5.426.uupcb@yob.sccsi.com> erich.lim@yob.sccsi.com (Erich Lim)  writes:
>-> I'm still here.  Not much for surf here in the gulf.  The winter
>-> weather is not favorable for wave generation.
>->
>-> Wish I were back home.  Haliewa  would be pumping.
>
>  Yeah, the gulf is pretty dead now.  WIsh I could be in Haliewa too!

Sigh .  I was there a couple weeks ago.  There was a big storm off to
the northwest so the whole island was going off.  Makapuu (home base)
was closed to swimmers, Waimanolo, instead of being completely flat,
was an unprecedented 1-2 with 3 foot sets, and the beach break at
Waimea was 8-10.  Unfortunately, the surf break at the right shoulder
of Waimea (where the big wave classic is held?) looked about the same
size as the beach break but that might have been because I was
watching it from a quarter mile away.  I didn't jump off the big rock
either.

Here in Pittsburgh, the Monongahela is flat with occasional 1 foot
sets due to a passing barge.

-- 
Chris Maeda, Grad Student and RetroGrouch <cmaeda@cs.cmu.edu>
"A unix signature isn't a return address, it's the ASCII equivalent of
a black velvet clown painting. It's a rectangle of carets surrounding
a quote from a literary giant of weeniedom like Heinlein or Dr. Who."
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: jmeacham@world.std.com (James Meacham)
Subject: SoCal Rentals?/DelMarVa Surf
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:32:10 GMT


As I posted a while back, I'm making a sojourn from my frigid environs in
Boston, MA to Los Angeles at the end of February.  Several people were
kind enough to send me lists of decent breaks.  Since I think that trying
to bring my 8'3" longboard on the plane would be risky at best (it's
hardly overhead luggage-rack material) or tragicomical at worst (visions
of Three Stooges skits come to mind), I'm going to need to rent a
longboard while I'm out there.  My shortboard experiences have mostly been
unpleaseant/unsuccesfull due to my neophyte surfer status (at 28 yrs. old)
so I'm looking specifically for places that would rent me a longboard. 
Thanks in advance for your e-mail jmeacham@world.std.com.

In the I-can't-beleive-how-goddam-cold-it-is dept., I got a chance to try
out my christmas gifts (a hood, booties, gloves) in Ocean City, Maryland
over the weekend and early this week.  My primary memory of the experience
is COLD.  I guess a 4/3 suit is a little thin for 39F water, no matter how
many cool (warm) accessories you've got.  The surf was variable
throughout, starting strong on Friday then dieing out toward monday.  At
it's best it was chest-high with the occasional shoulder high set, though
it was mushy from saturday on.  The offshore wind on Friday made for some
decent rides, but because OC is all beachbreak, it was tough catching
anything.  By monday it was knee-high or less, fun only to me and my
longboard (hey, I know it's uncool, but if you live north of Hatteras,
only longboarders get a chance to surf much).

BTW, has anyone caught the new pepsi commercial, the one with the graphic
"MINISTERS WHO SURF"?  Quite a suprise to me since I thought I was the
only one (well, almost one, I'm still in Seminary).  The guy in the
commercial must be a Unitarian, too.  Can't imagine a Presbeterian busting
out with some decadence the likes of laying around in the ocean all day
praying to the wave-gods (on the other hand, the butt-numbing experience I
had in OC last week might just appeal to a Calvinist!!)

Also, what are the ocean temps in the LA area?  Should I bring my 4/3 and
accessories, or will a spring suit suffice (remember, 60F is *tropical*
for a New England surfer).

PAX DEI

James MEacham
From: jmunro@wyse.wyse.com (Jim Munro x2497)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Board Snappage!
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:24:33 GMT
Organization: Wyse Technologies San Jose, Ca


If your board (and stringer) is broken, clean off the old glass around the 
break and cut some lengthwise grooves across both pieces.

Glass some pieces of glass rope into these slots. They will add a lot of
strength and some weight before repairing the original external glass job.

I broke my long board ten years ago and had it repaired this way. Its still
going strong.

Jim Munro
From: johnc@muppet.bt.co.uk (John Cummins)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Bummin' at 38F (3C)
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:27:51 GMT
Reply-To: johnc@muppet.bt.co.uk
Organization: BT

In article 2J4@cck.coventry.ac.uk, esi001@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Dicky-Jim) writes:
>In article <29776@oasys.dt.navy.mil> kiviat@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Brian Kiviat) writes:
>
>>The .gif files over the wave_list have been an evil tease these days....
>>KEEP EM COMING
>>   O
>>   I\   Brian Kiviat (301)227-1833
>>   I \  kiviat@oasys.dt.navy.mil
>>  /     David Taylor Model Basin
>>   \___________________________
>>			     \\
>
>
>Could someone send me instructions on how to get these .gif piccies , I'm
>in need of something to cheer up this screen while dreaming of the surf !!

Could you send them here too please -> johnc@muppet.bt.co.uk

John Cummins
Newsgroups: alt.surfing