HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: wisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wisp)
Subject: Re: Liz Claiborne/Oprah Winfrey UL
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 10:17:28 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.160230.23648@PA.dec.com> snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
>
>In article <mjenkins.718116768@cunews>,
>  mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes...
>
>>One problem: the story is untrue. Claiborne never appeared on "Oprah"
>>and never made such comments. Still, "Oprah" staffers receive 15 calls
>>a week from viewers who insist they saw Claiborne on the show."
>
>I saw it.  She was on the show with Zsa-Zsa Gabor, and she told Ms. Gabor they
>don't make clothes for old people, either.  It was reported in all the
>newspapers.
>
> - snopes
>

Come on, snopes, you can do better than that. Details, details... Like when
was it on? Can you get the producers to confirm it? Can you get the videotape?
Then, maybe, we'll start to believe you...

The Wisp. [who's been waiting *soooooooo* long...   ;-) ]
From: adamsd@crash.cts.com (Adams Douglas)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Famous Alumni (was "Lost In Space" was CLEARLY better)
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:05:59 GMT
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA

In <1992Oct5.101334.9203@vax.oxford.ac.uk> wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>>>>Does anyone else know someone famous who went to their college, or know
>>>>someone who does?

Well my tiny alma mater (Simon's Rock College, Gt. Barrington, MA) was host
to David Brubeck's daughter Cathy. Not to mention the two film-freak
brothers who were in my class -- Joel and Ethan Cohen.
From: sander@cwi.nl (Sander Plomp)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Canadian pennies
Date: 12 Oct 92 12:36:59 GMT

dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright) writes:

>bill nelson wrote:
>: (Phil Kernick) writes:
>:: Australia.  Recently the government stopped issuing 1c and 2c pieces because
>:: it was costing them more to produce them than their face value.
>:: Now our minimum unit of portable currency is 5c (by this I mean that you can
>:: still write a cheque for $10.01 but you cannot give someone $10.01 in cash).
>:: Legislation has been passed requiring vendors to round final prices to the
>:: nearest 5c multiple.
>: 
>: Why don't people just start cutting the coins into wedges, like they used to
>: do with coins here?  Cut the coin into fifths and you have "bits" worth a
>: penny each.  

>Can you imagine the U.S. government passing legislation requiring retailers
>to round prices to the nearest 5 cents?  It seems like an impractical way
>to handle the situation.  This Austrialian phenomenon is really surprising,
>and qualifies as "news of the weird".  The government here would begin
>minting pennies out of less expensive stuff (steel, even wood?)  or, as
>bill nelson pointed out, might issue 5 cent pieces designed to be cut into
>fifths; having channels or perforations.

In the Netherlands the one cent coin was abolished about ten years
ago. Prices are still in cents, and when using cheques or something
like that you still use exact amounts. However, all cash transactions
are simply rounded to the nearest nickel. Just like the Australian
system. It doesn't cause any problems, and goes more or less unnoticed
once you are used to it. Probably bewilders many foreigners though.

One cent coins where appearantly too expensive to mint. Cutting them up
into pieces doesn't help, it's probably the minting and distribution
costs that make them too expensive, not the material. Introducing a 99
cent piece could work, but that probably would be more trouble than the
current system. Though it would deal nicely with all those f1.98 prices
modern man is tortured with.

(The following paragraph can be ignored. It's just there because sendmail
 demands that more must be said than quoted.)

Maybe it is possible to set up some scheme that acts as a money pump,
that is, after a number of transactions you end up with all money and
goods involved back at the original owners, after having gone around to
different people. Now if you could do part of the payments in cash, and
part in electronic form, it could be setup such that the rounding when
it occurs is in your advantage. But I am pretty sure it is one of the
most complex ways imaginable to earn just a few cents. Never heard
about anyone trying, but there must be loonies who think the are very
clever having invented this all be themselves and are going to get very
rich doing it. Never met one though, which is a pity, since it would be
nice UL material.
-- 
Sander Plomp                                    Internet: Sander.Plomp@cwi.nl
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From: markm@bigfoot.sps.mot.com (Mark Monninger)
Subject: Re: ally bad car puns
Reply-To: rapw20@email.sps.mot.com
Organization: SPS
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 22:45:24 GMT

A friend of mine had an Audi named Murphy.

Mark
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From: matthews_k@cubldr.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:39:08 GMT

In article <BvxH5t.13@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, cap36406@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Carlos A. Pero) writes:
> heim@vms.macc.wisc.edu (JOHN HEIM	) writes:
> 
>>In article <1992Oct8.215304.27614@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes...
> 
>>>In article <7035@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:
>>>>In article <1992Oct5.171003.20704@sfu.ca>, pinette@fraser.sfu.ca (Gandolf the 2
>>>3rd) writes:
> 
> [stuff deleted]
> 
> 
>>>Ted "Was James T. Kirk's middle name 'Terry'?" Frank
> 
>>Can't be.  His middle initial is 'R' as seen in the pilot episode 
>>'Encounter at Farpoint' where his name is carved in a tombstone.  
>>The R is for Roy.  James Roy Kirk.  In a later episode, Nomad gets 
>>him mixed up with Jackson Roykirk, his inventor.  (That's Nomad's 
>>inventor, not Kirk's.)
> 
> For my information, could you tell me where in "Encounter at Farpoint" this
> tombstone scene is? I don't recall it. I work in a video store, so I will
> get it and check. It seems to me that his middle name is Tiberius. The
> most profound example I can think of is in ST6:TUC where Kirk is
> under trial and the Klingon says his full name, "James Tiberius Kirk."

This was not, repeat NOT  in EaF.  The tombstone was shown in the first
aired episode of TOS, Where No Man Has Gone Before.  It was an error on
the part of someone.  Since that single episode, Kirk's middle initial
has always been "T" and it stands for Tiberius.  There has been much
debate as to whether the error was on the part of Gary Mitchell (the
character who created the tombstone) or on the part of the production
staff.  I suspect that at the time no one really knew what his middle
name was going to be, so they faked it.

Kellie M-S
internet::matthews_k@cubldr.colorado.edu
From: bakc@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR KR COMAN)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: aluminum siding
Date: 16 Oct 92 06:03:11 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

In article <1992Oct13.204404.11057@rchland.ibm.com> jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
>From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
>Subject: Re: aluminum siding
>Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:44:04 GMT
>In article <1992Oct13.180857.14171@osf.org>, rogers@rosencrantz.osf.org (Andrew Rogers) writes:
>|> In article <1687FBD9F.DSTEPHEN@cmsa.gmr.com> DSTEPHEN@cmsa.gmr.com writes:
>|> ><stories about enterprising citizens ripping aluminum siding off houses
>|> >and selling it to scrap metal dealers omitted>
>|> >
>|> 
>|> There was an article in the Boston Globe just a few days ago about copper
>|> gutters and drainpipes being stolen from Beacon Hill townhouses.  I also
>|> remember a rash of slate roof thefts in Vermont a few years back.
>

In London (UK) about 2 yrs ago there was a thriving industry in ripping off
granite pavement slabs.  Seems that the dudes responsible would arrive in a 
quiet Victorian backsteet on a Sunday morning dressed up in city council 
overalls with a truck, and proceed to do some 'pavement repairs".  The 
old characterful granite slabs would be lifted, driven off and sold on to
builders merchants -- whose main customers were yuppies desirous of giving
their garden paths an " ye olde worlde" ambiance.

BTW, don't forget the ever-popular dodge of nicking cast-iron manhole covers
out of the roadway: great fun for the motorcyclists and Porche drivers at
3 in the morning to encounter.

Keith
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Birth of Kibo
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:57:52 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA

joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes) writes:
: manley@optilink.UUCP (Dave Manley) prophesies:
: 
: >>
: >>NOW I am!
: >>							-- K.
: >
: >Heathens of The Net witness the proclamation of Lord Kibo and be Happy.
: >
: >--
: >Dave "preparing a sacrifice of fatted gerbil" Manley
: 
: Thanks for making me blow coffee all over my terminal, Dave...

"Making" you? Accept a little responsibility for your own actions, man.
You will never be an acceptable accolyte of TGL Kibo (ribbit) until you
do so.

Spend two weeks of penance with Happy Ball and then report back to your
terminal. You are allowed one interlude with a vibrating cactus plant.

Bill "I thought all gerbils were fat" Nelson
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From: heim@vms.macc.wisc.edu (JOHN HEIM	)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Organization:  University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
Date:  9 OCT 92 16:45:37    

In article <1992Oct8.215304.27614@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes...

>In article <7035@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:
>>In article <1992Oct5.171003.20704@sfu.ca>, pinette@fraser.sfu.ca (Gandolf the 2
>3rd) writes:
>>> Kirk is completely wreckless and if you don't believe me
>>> ask anyone on the ship who wore a read shirt...you can't because Kirk
>>> got them all killed! 
>>
>>Picard, a RED SHIRT, is just lucky he wasn't an ACTING ENSIGN in Kirk's day.
>>
>>Terry "Shut-up, acting ensign Picard!" Wood
>
>Acting?  What acting?
>
>Ted "Was James T. Kirk's middle name 'Terry'?" Frank

Can't be.  His middle initial is 'R' as seen in the pilot episode 
'Encounter at Farpoint' where his name is carved in a tombstone.  
The R is for Roy.  James Roy Kirk.  In a later episode, Nomad gets 
him mixed up with Jackson Roykirk, his inventor.  (That's Nomad's 
inventor, not Kirk's.)

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From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Subject: Re: Dead pet UL?
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:56:52 GMT

jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews) writes:

["The Hare Drier" UL deleted]

>     Is there a book with this legend that I can bring to my
>friend as Evidence?  :-)

You've probably received quite a few responses regarding your posting,
Jamie, but I'll add mine.  The urban legend you so perfectly described
(I must admit I hadn't heard the "Chinese are superstitious" addition
before) is covered in one of Jan Harold Brunvand's books, in which he
dubs the tale "The Hare Drier."  (Ha, ha.)  Unfortunately, I cannot
remember the exact title of the book; Brunvand, master of the urban
legend, has written several, all quite interesting.  You might want to
check the FAQ list; "The Hare Drier" gets a mention, along with the title
of the book.

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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: Angels and Pinheads
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:30:50 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.025456.15513@athena.cs.uga.edu> wells@athena.cs.uga.edu (Scott Wells) writes:
>Papal infallibility -- for right or wrong -- has been invoked twice,
>if I'm not mistaken. The first confirmed (?) the Immaculate Conception
>of Mary. This does not mean that she was herself born of a virgin, but
>that she was concieved without sin. The second preported the

Most (but by no means all) of us were conceived w/o sin.

(Let's see...  They were married in June, I was born in April, yeah,
that should be OK...)

			- Whaddya mean I'm illiterate... -

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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Canadian pennies
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:56:24 GMT

derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
:  
: And you describe rounding to the nearest 5 cents as 'impractical' Furffu!!!!
: It isn't that hard to cope with.  No more difficult than having an extra 
: amount added onto your bill as state tax.  You seem to be able to cope with 
: that OK.
: 
: The point is that the one and two cent coins really couldn't be made any 
: cheaper.  To re equip to use plastic or 'wood' would outweigh any savings
: made.

That is why I mentioned the cutting of other coins, like the nickel, into
segments.  It was done before, here in the US. It is the origin of the terms
"two bits" , "four bits" etc.

Bill "Discount opinions for free" Nelson
From: davids@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (David Schwantner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Names (don't do this to your kids)
Date: 9 Oct 1992 16:05:56 -0700
Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
NNTP-Posting-Host: hpsdde.sdd.hp.com

In article <1992Oct9.204634.11263@afit.af.mil> mgaudrea@afit.af.mil (Michele L.D. Gaudreault) writes:
 >This also reminds of the guy in California who thought it would be cute
 >to have a personalized car license plate that said "NONE".  A few weeks
 >later he got something like 700 parking tickets in the mail!!  The
 >computer finally had a license that matched all those tickets issued to
 >the car with license plate number "none"!
 >

Sounds like UL bait to me!
From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Dead pet UL?
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:39:21 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews) writes:

>     Heard this from a friend who *insisted* that it happened to
>her co-worker's cousin.  Seemed like such a classic format for a
>UL that I had to check it out here.  Anyone heard it?

[classic telling of well-known UL deleted]

Yep.  Definite UL.  Known as "The Hare Drier" by our patron saint, Jan Harold
Brunvand, it's in at least one of his books.  Check out _Curses, Broiled Again_
or _The Choking Doberman_, both by Brunvand.  I think it's in one of the two
(possibly both).

Didn't this one happen to Churchill?  Or was it Disraeli?

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Hardware & Networking Manager, Computer Services 	joltes@husc.bitnet 
Harvard University Science Center

"Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."
From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Collected Musical Factoids (was Re: Kirk vs. Picard)
Date: 11 Oct 92 22:40:16 GMT
Organization: Eastern Michigan University

In article <1992Oct8.221028.11407@osf.org> rogers@rosencrantz.osf.org (Andrew Rogers) writes:
>In article <1992Oct7.083220.2587@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>It appears that Rhino Records has re-released the Rutles album on CD. There are
>>allegedly additional songs not used in All You Need is Cash, that excellent
>>parody (pre-dates This is Spinal Tap by a number of years) of the original
>>documentary All You Need is Love.
>
>Not quite.  The CD does contain six additional tracks - Blue Suede Schubert,
>Get Up And Go, Goose Step Mama, and three others whose titles I don't recall
>off the top of my head - but all were used in the movie; they just weren't on
>the original LP release.
>

And the CD drops a lot of the liner notes that the album includes . . . 

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From: djb6@ellis.uchicago.edu (Dennis Brennan)
Subject: Re: Eskimo words for 'snow'
Reply-To: djb6@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 00:47:57 GMT

>>	In one of the puzzle columns in Science(insert year here), there was a 
>>contest to create a sentence that used every letter of the alphabet.  I
>> believe
>>that someone succeeded in writing a twenty-six letter sentence, and that
>> "Cwm"
>>was used in a few of them.  
>>
>>	Torsten at Omaha	A few days ago, a Volkswagen Bug rear-ended a 
>
>The only example I've seen is the rather unsatisfactory 
>
>Quartz glyph job vex'd cwm finks
>
>A (fictitious) newspaper headline describing the anguish of would-be
>graffiti artists on finding that their intended target (a lump of
>quartz in a cwm) had already been graffitized.
>
>This uses every letter once but of course having vex'd rather than vexed
>isn't quite perfect. If anyone can write a perfect one they will go
>down in wordplay history! What about other languages, is it easier/harder?
>My guess is harder because English has so many words.
>
>Matt

I once saw in GAMES magazine the entry:

Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx.

Not perfect either.  It contains a proper noun and two abbreviations.


-- 
Dennis Brennan
djb6@midway.uchicago.edu
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From: fielden@spot.Colorado.EDU (Jeanette A. Fielden)
Subject: Re: Radar Cars (was: stupid cop tricks & t)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:44:39 GMT

In article <5579@balrog.ctron.com> smith@ctron.com writes:
>In article <bakc.142.717313936@giraffe.ru.ac.za>, bakc@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR K
>
>> The owner of the vehicle gets the fine.  If they don't want to pay it, they
>> have to sign some legal document saying that they weren't driving the car,
>> and saying who was.  The driver then gets the fine.
>
>Interesting concept.  But in the United States, spouses are not compelled to
>testify against each other.  So your system sets up a wonderful situation for
>a family, doesn't it?  Accept the fine and take the fall for your spouse, or
>turn him or her in to escape the fine yourself.  Keen.  Lot of thought went
>into that, I'm sure.
>
>Larry Smith (smith@ctron.com)  No, I don't speak for Cabletron.  Need you ask?
>-
>Liberty is not the freedom to do whatever we want,
>it is the freedom to do whatever we are able.

My father got out of a parking ticket last christmas because although
he was the owner of the car I was driving it at the time it was ticketed
and the ticket had his name on it. The judge dismissed it since the ticket
was awarded(written) out to the wrong person. I don't remember exactly
what he cited but there was a law that applied. Wouldn't such a law
also apply to a speeding ticket awarded in that fashion?
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Subject: Re: Please Help
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 23:50:36 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1300004@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse) writes:
>              Please answer these 9 questions and return.
>
>1.) Do you think equal rights for men and women is generally a good idea?

Hey Kingsley, Not only is it a good idea IT'S THE LAW!  
 
>
>2.) Are you pro choice?

Yeah. I like choice,  I make choices every day.  Shall I buy some orange
juice,  will I have a potato(e) top or steak and cheese pie for lunch.

>3.) Are you in favor of adoption?

Adoption of what?  

>4.) Do you think men should be allowed to legally terminate their parental
>rights and responsibilities before fetal viability?

Look, before Fetal viability neither men nor women have enough brain cells
to be able to any decisions about their rights and resonsibilities.  

>5.) What sex are you?

Hey,  how come suddenly there are only 2 options here. 

>Male               [ ]
>Female             [ ]
 
>6.) How old are you?

Only three options...  Talk about dodgy research methods.

>Under 18           [ ]
>19 to 65           [ ]
>Over 65            [ ]
 
>7.) What religion are you?

I see, neatly shoehorn the vast majority of the worlds population into the
'minority' option other.  Sheesh.

>Protestant         [ ]
>Catholic           [ ]
>Jewish             [ ]
>Other              [ ]

>
>8.) What political party are you affiliated with?

Anarchist.         [*] 

>Democratic         [ ]
>Republican         [ ]
>Other              [ ]
 
>9.) How many years of education have you completed?
>Grade School       [ ]
>High School        [ ]
>College            [ ]
>More               [ ]

None of the above.  Although I went to comprehensive school,  oh and then
there was University - but they obviously don't count.

Hey where's this return question?


-- 
Derek Tearne. -- derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz --  Fujitsu/ICL New Zealand -- 
Some of the more aware dinosaurs were worried about the environmental
consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.  
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
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