HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
Subject: Incipient Absenteeism (was Your suggestions for favorite ...)
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: West Coast Immigration Authority
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:53:07 GMT


In article <1993Jan21.042238.3446@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
[stuff]
|>Ted "watching his odds of going to AFU West V dwindle by the hour" Frank

Aw. Too bad... But be sure to send a proxy!

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From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Pasta numerology (was Re: Chocolate Protein Content)
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:28:02 GMT

In article <93027.152949MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>had us identify what the "defects" were in a box of number 8 spaghetti.

It's probably significant that snooty hyper-correct software testers
use the term "defect" to refer to what we more got-a-life types still
call a "bug".  But more to the point...

What is this "number 8 spaghetti," "number 11 cappellini," "number 1066
arrivaderci", etc.?  Is it an international pasta industry standard, or
is it just identification numbers assigned by each manufacturer, or is it
just useless random numbers printed on the package as advertising hype?

Bruce "and did Marco Polo bring the numbers back from China" Tindall

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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Bambi meets Godzilla.
Keywords: bambi cute roadkill
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:53:52 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.220201.16899@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>The well known film 'Bambi meets Godzilla' just came up in conversation.
>
>You know, the one were Bambi just prances around pronking and saying hi to
>all the cute animals and then getting squashed underfoot by Godzilla.
>
>We were just wondering if it ever really existed.  Who were the producers
>etc. and how much did it gross (out?). 

I've seen it.  It's like a ninety-second cartoon.  It occasionally
pops up in animation festivals.  Personally, I don't think it matches
up with "Snuggles (sp?) the Baby Dragon," a similar piece of similar
length, but as one can tell, "Bambi Meets Godzilla" is an easier name
to remember.

>We feel sure that CJL will be able to supply this information and perhaps 
>tell us if Bambi tasted like chicken.  If not someone else must know.  

We don't even see Godzilla.  Just a big foot.

- Deer in idyllic field.  Idyllic pastoral music.
- Big foot comes down and squashes deer.
- Credits run for longer than rest of movie while camera rests on shot
  of foot.  Audience is still laughing.
-- 
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From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Okay, if you're so smart ...
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <1993Jan22.035218.17912@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:12:10 GMT

>Ted "what's German for diode?" Frank

Einebahnelectronstrasse.

Jon "Have to learn Latin before I go to Mexico next time." Papai
....
All seems infected that the infected spy; as all looks yellow
to the jaundiced eye. --Alexander Pope
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From: gj156879@alfred.carleton.ca ( gj student 156879)
Subject: Elron Starts Dianetics on a bet?
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:02:18 GMT

As someone particularly interested in the weirdness of Dianetics and
the church of Scientology, I was surprised (and pleased) to learn that
Elron started his church due to a bet from Robert Heinlein that Elron
couldn't start a religion.  (This according to the alt.urban.folklore
FAQ and supposedly verified as being TRUE.)

Could someone give me the source for this verification so I can pass
the info on to alt.religion.scientology?

                                        Thanks,
                                                  Nik

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From: jdraper@andy.bgsu.edu (johanna draper)
Subject: Re: AFU SOUTHEAST
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:32:38 GMT

AFU Southeast sounds great to me as an alum, not of Duke, but of
Science & Math down the street. (Hey, where else but NC could 
you go to a school called S&M?)

Could I suggest sometime between March 20-28?

Another thread, that of amusing signs: My favorite was seen on a
trip from Toledo to Ann Arbor:
 
"Prison area. Do not pick up hitchhikers."

Webdancer
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: AYDS
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:53:24 GMT
Reply-To: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:

>My recollection was that it was called "AIDS," changed its name to "AYDS"
>when the disease hit, and predictably withdrew from the market shortly
>thereafter.


No, it was always called AYDS.  I remember seeing magazine advertisements
for it back in the Sixties, long before the AIDS epidemic.  Don't know
anything about whether or when the stuff was withdrawn from the market,
though.



Geoff


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From: rct@fulcrum.co.uk (Richard Taylor)
Subject: Re: Jesus freaks and the return of the grand patriarch.
Keywords: jesus,
Organization: Fulcrum Communications
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:57:36 GMT

In article <gkennedy.728166591@cunews> gkennedy@alfred.carleton.ca (Garry Kennedy) writes:
>Upon his recent return from Costa Rica, a friend of mine recounted a
>tale that i had heard repeated in Diane Keaton's documentary
>Heaven.  Although not an uncommon sight while travelling, he ran into a
>wide assortment of Jesus freaks, Mormons, Baptists, and every other
>member of the great lost tribe(s) of Israel.  Interestingly enough
>these modern day crusaders went on at great lengths to remind us all
>that Jesus himself has been reborn.  Living now as a young Indian boy
>in Brixton England, just outside of London, he is currently preparing
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                    quite-a-long-way-inside

>to save all our lost souls upon his graduation.  If anyone can add to
>this i would appreciate it.  I would like to have a few words with the
>young lad myself.  Does anyone know if Jesus would have an e-mail
>account? It would be helpful as my hard-drive is running a little slow
>i could use some help from the big guy himself.  

With errors like this you won't get by The Chan Man. And compress into
one line for Jesus' sake, or you'll never get into the FAQ. Right or
right, Terry??

Richard "I've learnt how" Taylor.

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From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: No one said a mouthful
Keywords: a post with some teeth in it
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:04:30 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael


A little speculation to go with your guesswork:

Is it possible that the drawling associated w/ val-speak is
connected to orthodontic work? I ask that after listening to my
freshly orthodonticized 12 year old fall as easily into 
those rhythms as if she'd been raised on Reseda Boulevard. (Her 
previous vocal productions were as mellifluous and educated as
a cross between Emma Thompson and a dulcimer.)
-- 
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Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:34401 sci.bio:4943
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Subject: Re: My mother the gorilla
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 17:38:07 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller) writes:

> franklir@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Ryan J Franklin ) writes:
> 
> >But the non-functional portions are also not subjected to the same degree
> >of error correction that the functional stretches of DNA are, I believe.
> >After all, why waste replication time making sure you don't misplace a base
> >in the non-coding area?  As long as it doesn't form a start codon, you shoul
> >have no problems.  
> 
> But how do you (or, more importantly, the replication process) know which
> portions are "important" and which are "junk"?  And, if it did know, why
> wouldn't it just quit replicating the "junk" entirely?
> -- 
Because the "junk" can be subject to random mutations without threatening
the viability of the organism. So it doesn't "know", but random mutations
in junk will be passed on, whereas random mutations in what I would argue 
would be important areas (how many heads, etc), would not be passed on very
often, as the organism would be unable to do so, being dead, sterile, or
so bad looking that no one would mate it. So to avoid this bias, check out the
junk.


-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU

"I hate quotations." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Okay, if you're so smart ...
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:52:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.214428.3362@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov> julie@eddie.jpl.nasa.gov (Julie Kangas) writes:
>Yes yes, I know.  English is a germanic language.  I just had
>to have a little bit of fun.  I've got a weird sense of humor :)
>(I *did* put a ":)" there you know :)

That'll be seven-fifty.

Ted "what's German for diode?" Frank
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From: clive@x.co.uk (Clive Feather)
Subject: Re: Extreme place names (was: Amusing street names)
Organization: IXI Limited
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:59:24 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.083132.25529@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
>> Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysililiogogogoch is merely the
>> longest place name in Europe. BTW it's not official any more ...
> I suspect it was the longest single-word official name ever used for
> a railway station, though.  A recent BR timetable shows it as just
> Llanfairpwll.

Wrong. That's the longest single-word official name ever used for a
British Railways station. The longest single-word official name ever
used for a British railway station is:

               '                      ^
  Gorsafawddachaidraigddanheddogleddolonpenrhynareurdraethceredigion

(also known as "Golf Halt" on the Fairbourne and Barmouth Railway).

Clive "but I don't play golf" Feather

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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.fan.lemurs.rec.pets
Subject: Re: Leapin Lemurs
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:18:35 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <1993Jan20.191557.2344@sj.ate.slb.com> desilets@sj.ate.slb.com () writes:
>
>  Okay, so it aint an urban legend, so flame me if you must, but I figgerd
>  this would be the best place to ask.  

alt.fan.lemurs and rec.pets might also be good places to ask. 

>  Lemurs seem to be friendly, intelligent creatures with a fondness for
>  social interaction.  Is it possible, or desirable, or even legal
>  to make pets of them?  Does anyone here actually know anything about
>  the beasties?  I am speaking specifically of the Madagascar Ring-Tailed
>  type lemurs.
>
>  Inquiring minds....

I dunno.  Anyone in alt.fan.lemurs or rec.pets know?
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Bambi meets Godzilla.
Keywords: apres ceci le deluge
Date: 27 Jan 93 06:55:45 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <C1HH0L.4sE@rahul.net> phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>
>Phil "For extra credit, what does Genevieve Bujold have to do with
>all this? cjl responses don't count." Gustafson

I dunno, I'm still in a COMA.

cj "Still visiting the '90's" l
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: leecr@microsoft.com (Lee Crocker)
Subject: Re: Vegetarians and B vitamins
Date: 25 Jan 93 03:29:12 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

>Umm. Since when has yeast been classified as a plant?

Never, and no one suggested otherwise.  Yeast are unicellular fungi,
and can therefore be eaten by vegetarians just as they eat mushrooms
or other fungi.

Vegetarians do not exist solely on plants; even the strictest vegans
simply refrain from eating animal products, where "animal" is usually
defined as vertebrates, arthropods, and other large moving things.
It would be impossible to refrain from eating protozoa, mites, and
some other things that might technically be "animals".
-- 
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From: dfuller@portal.hq.videocart.com (Dave Fuller)
Subject: Re: Aramaic (Re: Okay, if you're so smart ...)
Organization: VideOcart Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:31:38 GMT

lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson) writes:
: 
: Bring out yer dead!
: 
: Drew "African Swallow" Lawson

I'm not quite dead yet.

Dave
"Oh sure, an African Swallow, but not a European Swallow, that's my point"
Fuller

dfuller@portal.hq.videocart.com

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
Subject: Software kills, Take II
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Vernacular Validation Suites, Inc.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:41:58 GMT


Killing software can bring you big bux if you're good at it. I have a friend
whose business it was to write validation suites for U**x compilers gifen a
box of hardware and software and a functional spec. He never met a compiler he
couldn't break.

Anyone out there have any good stories of software murders of this type?

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker)
Subject: Re: Man pays for college with pinball
Originator: jlpicard@woofer.austin.ibm.com
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:11:14 GMT
Reply-To: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Object Technology Products


Jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us (Jay Denebeim) writes:
> jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker) writes:
> > Yet I've been in a number of "amusement arcades" in which certain 
> > machines paid off in tickets, which were then redeemable for various
> > toys, prizes, and nonbio animals. How come this isn't gambling?
> 
> I guess because it has to be something of value.  I can't think of anything
> more worthless than those prizes.

My nonbio friends have asked me to inform you that they,
quote, "fart in your general direction", unquote.

Craig

Not the opinion of my employer.
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Pennsylvania Ave 
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:07:35 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.083000.19605@husc3.harvard.edu> silvers3@husc8.harvard.edu (Jolyon Silversmith) writes:
>That doesn't makee a lot of sense, because almost (I think there's one or two
>exceptions) every state has a street named after it in Washington. It might
>explain why that particular street was named after Pennsylvania, but by that
>same logic, other states got the streets they did because the planners
>(L'Efant, Bannecker, etc;) didn't like them very much...

Whaddya mean?  North Carolina Avenue is worth more than Pennsylvania Avenue.

Ted "sherman act" Frank
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From: hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker)
Subject: Re: The Ultimate Circumcision
Reply-To: Hallam@zeus02.desy.de
Organization: Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Experiment ZEUS bei HERA
Distribution: alt.folklore.urban
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:37:16 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.224003.25783@nosc.mil>, randle@nosc.mil (Mike Randle)
writes:

|>I Recall reading about a medical mishap back in the late 70s (I think).
|>A doctor slipped up during a circumcision of a bouncing baby boy, and
|>recommended to the parents that he should have a sex change operation
|>and be rasied as a girl. Seems that the kid's fledgling manhood was
|>beyond repair.  If I'm right, the doctor was in the military, and the
|>hospital may have been Trippler (Hawaii).  Can anyone confirm this
|>incident, or is this just another urban legend?  If it is true, whatever
|>became of him/her?  What happened to the doctor?

Not that unusual, there was a documentary on the BBC a few years back about
Eunuchs which had a similar case, some poor kid getting his piece of pork burn
off with an incense burner that got dropped...

Just another medical negligence claim to go with the wrong testicle, wrong leg
and wrong lung (!) cases...

--

Phill Hallam-Baker
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From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:47:06 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.235659.11944@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>Besides that, Cleveland is THE birthplace of Czechoslovakia.

But the only peace treaty ever signed in the U.S. was the Treaty of 
Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.  The Encyclopaedia
Brittanica says it was signed in Kittery, Maine, but the tourist 
literature at the Nansemond Hotel in Norfolk, Va., says it was signed
there.  This discrepancy obviously needs to be settled in somebody's
doctoral dissertation, preferably at A.F.University.


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From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Re: Foucalt pendulums (Re: coriollis effect and Foucalt pendulums)
Reply-To: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:44:59 GMT

In article <93021.105425CSD108@psuvm.psu.edu> CSD108@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan20.223401.13885@acuson.com>, lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
>says:
>>
>>At the poles, it takes 24 hours.  On the equator, it doesn't rotate at
>>all.
>>
>>
>So when Foucalt did the experiment, he was standing at the pole?

Well, Foucalt _did_ experiment, but he didn't inhale and he didn't like
it.


Drew "<deleted>" Lawson
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From: jwimp@mcs.drexel.edu (Jet Wimp)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: parking meter nun
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:20:31 GMT
Organization: Drexel University
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A78B1612A70107FC@n1-7-252-mcs-b.mcs.drexel.edu>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 26 Jan 93 16:23:46 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d16

Subject: Re: parking meter nun smash
From: No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB, obrien@netcom.com
Date: 25 Jan 93 09:59:18 GMT
In article <1993Jan25.095918.18066@netcom.com> No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB,
obrien@netcom.com writes:
>
> rchao@netcom.com (Robert Chao) writes:
>>A long time ago I saw in a TV movie where a nun came up to a parking
>>meter and smashed it with her purse or with her hip, and it gave her
>>some time. It cracked me up, because it was a nun.
>>Is there anything to do to a parking meter to cough up some time, apart
>>from inserting slugs or opening the meter? (I doubt it.)
>
        	The best way to cheat parkling meters is to travel to Indonesia
(admittedly, the protocol requires a rather hefty advance investment.) 
Load up your pockets with 50 rupya coins (each worth about 2 1/2 cents). 
US parking meters accept these with no reservations whatsoever.  In fact,
the parking meters in Philadelphia are so confused by them that they
relax and allow you to turn the handle all the way around for the maximum
amount of time on the dial.  I consider myself a moral person.  Why does
doing this cause me such glee??????
From: marcg@electra.alb.gvc.com (Marc Gauthier)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Coke Machines
Keywords: snopes = asshole
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:14:37 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: GeoVision Systems Inc., Services Division, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

In <1993Jan21.220858.8565@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> pz@ANTONIADES.LCS.MIT.EDU (John Pezaris) writes:

>Fact: there was a PDP-11 in the early 80s which controlled a (then) advanced
>technology laser printer (the `XGP') on the 9th floor of the same building
>that was severely customized.  Among the customizations was a single (SINGLE)
>wire snaking out of a side panel with a switch hanging off the end marked
>`Magic' and `More Magic' for the two positions.

>Related Legend: The PDP-11 didn't boot unless the switch was in the `More
>Magic' position.

>	- pz.

as bizarre as this may seem, it is documented in the book
'The NEW Hackers' Dictionary' (i don't know the author)
the author describes this switch in great detail. it's
pretty interesting.
Marc
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From: vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (Vance Kochenderfer)
Subject: Re: Cuttin' the Rug
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, 22 Jan 93 22:01:31 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.180303.5676@netcom.com> bml@netcom.com (Brian Leibowitz) writes:
>
>An interesting thing he mentioned is how the smugglers deal with the mine
>fields on the Iran/Turkey border. (Iran does not permit rugs to be exported.)
>The smugglers trade sheep for rugs so they drive the flock of sheep through
>the minefield to clear the way (they loose a few, but it does a good job of
>making a safe path through the minefield.)
>

ObIranUL:  The Iranian army uses children in the same manner to establish
a safe path through the minefield for the tanks to roll through.  The
children wear little golden (well, gold-colored) keys around their
necks to guarantee entry into heaven.

Vance "'Allah Mode' - Brian Scearce" Kochenderfer
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