HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kahn@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Amy S Kahn)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: SHORT SHAMEFUL GLEE
Date: 20 Nov 92 07:02:14 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1eeh2kINN5oa@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu (Arthur Delano) writes:
>
]Do you work at the Borders bookstore there?  do you?  Well, up here
]in the cold frozen south of Michigan, we have a Borders bookstore.
]It is the first Borders bookstore.  I mean, it was the one that the
]Borders boys started.  well, Borders was bought by K-Mart last
]month.  that's probably not news to you.  in fact, i'm certain that
]you had heard about it before i did.
>
No.. I don't work at Borders.  I work at a chain called Basset Book Shop.
We are owned by KMart also.  We were created as KMart's chain to appeal
to an upscale crowd.  The first store was opened in Stamford, CT.  The
2nd (where I work) was opened in July.  Another one opened on Long
Island.  I don't know what others were opened.
Then KMart bought Borders.  I don't know exactly how the two chains are 
going to be merged, but I know they must have plans to do that because
we now accept Borders gift certificates and credit slips.

>When madonna's book arrived two weeks later, i am certain that this
>woman took that as a sign that border's had irretrievably slipped
>into the hands of the sodomites.
>
Heh.  I can't remember if I posted it here or not, but the first week
the Madonna book went on sale, we sold enough copies (at a 10% discount)
to pay for 2 years of my tuition at RIC.  

 -- ASK
(interesting work study option, eh?)
From: osa@wilbur.unh.edu (Bart Simps.. er.. Oktay Ahiska)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: ssc
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:33:22
Organization: Springfield Elementary School
	<1992Nov17.150104.20728@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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In-reply-to: aaron@space.ualberta.ca's message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:01:04 GMT
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Comments: Nudists are people who wear one-button suits


Guy Cole (guycole@netcom.com) wrote:
: I have a secret urge to hear Rush do a cover of "Achey Breaky Heart" [tm].

Aaron Humphrey <aaron@space.ualberta.ca> writes:
=> I have a secret urge to hear They Might Be Giants do a cover of
=> "Achey Breaky Heart" [tm].

I have a not-so-secret urge to hear They Might Be Giants do a cover of
"Jesus Built My Hotrod" [tm]. 

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From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Dominus the Bilious")
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Elevators
Date: 18 Nov 92 21:56:12 GMT
	<9211141635.34@rmkhome.UUCP> <gerald.721806842@gerald>
	<9211151803.54@rmkhome.UUCP> <002519m.66.721939830@ace.acadiau.ca>
	<9211171405.20@rmkhome.UUCP> <BxxC8B.MnF@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Eaters of Wisdom
In-reply-to: thoth@uiuc.edu's message of 18 Nov 92 18:19:20 GMT


    I used to live in the same apartment building as the woman who
played `Maria' on _Sesame Street_.

    My sister used to babysit for her.  Apparently the worst thing about
being Maria is that when you walk down the street with your husband, you
can't get too close, or you get dirty looks from a lot of four-year-olds
who wonder why you're not with Luis.

p.s. this is all true.
--

                And for to se, and eek for to be seye
Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			    mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu
From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: From an Amide Critique, of an Unknown Painting - by Dali.
Date: 23 Nov 1992 04:02:39 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley CS Dept.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cobra.cs.berkeley.edu

"But the molecules are coming to the rescue!"

c

Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: billbill@wetware.com (Bill Bill)
Subject: Why you can't quit your job
Followup-To: misc.test
Organization: Castle Wetware
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 03:09:40 GMT

There's too much old email to decide what to keep.

                              billbill@wetware.com
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton)
Subject: Re: Investment Tip
Keywords: For some reason, Lemur
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:25:15 GMT

In <1992Nov21.204635.20429@gagme.chi.il.us> pv@gagme.chi.il.us (Paul Vader) writes:

>Feel free to subscribe to alt.whimpering.fuck and get the hell out of here,
>you microcephalic excuse for a Homo Sapiens. PV

>P.S. Yeah, I know. This happens sometimes when I get over-excited. Try me
>     again in a few minutes.

It's just one comma.  Oh, and a few periods.  Calm yourself.

-- 
ben
fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
I'm especially good at expectorating.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
Subject: Re: C'mon, guys...
Originator: jcarroll@ferris
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 16 Nov 92 09:59:11 CST


In article <1e6mcbINNeqa@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>, operjfw@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Waldby) writes:
> Hey, who's the joker. You thought you all
> could pull one over on me. Give me my brain
> back.
> 
> C'mon guys, this isn't funny. First you
> try to hack my account, and now someone's
> walked off with my brain.

Please, sir, allow me to advise you of the utter futility
of searching for a brain here.

Might I recommend rec.org.mensa or rec.humor.funny? It is
rumored that there are many brains there.

You might also try alt.tin-man.

*Your* brain, however, is more likely to be found at the fertilizer plant
in downtown Terre Haute.

jkc (wishing that he'd been looking for a heart, as the net is ripe for
     the newgrping of alt.cowardly-lion)
From: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Computer Services
Date: 22 Nov 1992 03:45:49 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, trimper@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg Trimper) says:
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>With all the PCness affecting even Computer Centers, which are now
>called "Computer Services" Centers or somesuch,  I find it
>amusing that "Computer Services" is an anagram for "Corrective MessUp"

 trimper@edsi.plexus.com -- anagrams
*************************************
  1. Corrected simple mixups.          (@=c)
  2. Computer sex is prime, lad!       (@=a)
*************************************

-- 
=======================
"Endeavor to persevere"
=======================
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 17:42:08 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Mark-Jason Dominus") writes:
>     The Engineering School has automatic software to provide a user with
> a choice of usernames when they first get their computer account.  The
> list is generated from their real name.  I noticed (too late) that one
> person, Jun Y. O, was offered, and chose, the username `o'.  You can
> write to Jun at `o@eniac.seas.upenn.edu'.

Almost makes me want to enrol.


mathew
[ Segmentation fault.  Core dumped. ]

Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:25:01 -0500 
From: Mark Joseph Delano <md4y+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Short Shamefull Physics

There was a standing wave in my orange juice this morning.

I counted the nodes.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,soc.motss
Subject: Re: I Become a Marrow Donor
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:02:04 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <1ebi1aINNd6m@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>In article <1992Nov17.191136.5352@macc.wisc.edu> heim@vms.macc.wisc.edu (JOHN HEIM	) writes:
>>In article <MJD.92Nov16230149@saul.cis.upenn.edu>, mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Crash Dominus") writes...
>>
>>>    But American Red Cross thinks it's better to die from leukemia than
>>>be injected with my queer blood.
>>> 
>>>    Fuck you, Red Cross.
>>
>>Don't flatter yourself.  The Red Cross doesn't care whether you're gay 
>>or not.  Every time you go into give blood the questions are different.  
>>Now they asking if you've had multiple sex partners in the last 
>>year - not caring whether they're same sex or not.
>
>Do they care if it's at the same time or not?
>--scott
>   (who can't give blood anyway)

At one time, now in the dim past, the Red Cross would ask donors if they
had _ever_ taken LSD.  If the answer was yes, then out the door you'd go.

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: dhw@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us (David West)
Subject: Re: Whatever happened to Amy S. Kahn?
Organization: Plex-1, Michigan's Public Access Usenet Gateway  (Ann Arbor).
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:46:01 GMT

In article <97614@netnews.upenn.edu> kahn@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Amy S Kahn) writes:
>I've been working in a bookstore.
>For 2 months I was chained up and bound in leather [...]

and all she has the show for it is the gold lettering on her spine and a
simply _exquisite_ set of marbled endpapers.

-- 
-David West            dhw@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us

"Ce n'e'tait pas un empire comme il faut, mais nous nous sommes diablement
bien amuse's."  -Col. Fleury, aide-de-camp of Napoleon III
From: adam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Adam Hamilton)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Today's Question.
Date: 16 Nov 92 14:20:08 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <6978@ac13.cs.nps.navy.mil> rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite) writes:
>
>          How do you challenge someone to a duel?
>
	The correct protocol has been well explained elsewhere and the role
of the seconds, too.  Just make sure that your seconds know the correct
procedure for explaining to your chosen duellee that asking for satisfaction
while wearing black leather means something other than what he (she?) thinks.
From: 2ck1racicr@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Philosophy
Date: 21 Nov 1992 09:31:00 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2ck1racicr@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu


			Why am I?

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Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,rec.food.drinks,alt.support.big-folks,sci.chem
From: gerald@torolab4.vnet.ibm.com (Gerald Oskoboiny)
Subject: should be taken only on the advice of a physician
Summary: I drank what? - Socrates.
Originator: gerald@gerald
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:40:39 GMT
Reply-To: gerald@torolab4.vnet.ibm.com
Organization: November is seafood month
Followup-To: talk.bizarre,misc.test,alt.politics.clinton

For the last week or so, I've been substituting a "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."
for my afternoon coffee. Instead of using normal sugar, I decided to use
the little yellow packets of "Sugar Twin[tm]" instead. I like using this
substitute, because it jumps around a lot when I add it to the tea, as
if it is alive. Sugar just clumps at the bottom.

Today, I read the fine print on the package:

	Contains dextrose 66.5%, sodium cyclamate 33.0%, and
	silicon dioxide 0.5% and should be taken only on the
	advice of a physician.

Why would anyone use this chemical junk as a substitute for sugar? Just
because it's "only 2 calories"? I could probably eat my shoes without
gaining much weight, but that doesn't mean they would be good for me.

Gerald
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: John Austin <jea1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Elevators
X-Xxdate: Thu, 19 Nov 92 13: 13:33 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: jea1@cornell.edu
Organization: BTI
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:08:12 GMT

In article <BxxC8B.MnF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Ben Cox, thoth@uiuc.edu writes:
>>With the leaves off the trees, I can go up to the third floor of my victorian
>>manse, and look across the reservoir to the yuppy hilltop community where
>>Rocket Roger Clemens lives during baseball season.
>
>My parents live on the 49th floor of the same building as one of the
>Chicago White Sox.  Unfortunately, I can't remember his name, because
>I'm a Cubs fan.

I grew up 300 feet from George Steinbrenner's house, soaped his windows on
Halloween, got caught, and lived to tell the tale.

Hank went to private school, so the neighborhood kids only saw him during the
weekend  football games.  We figured he was well insured and tackled him with
particular relish and gusto.


John Austin (jea1@cornell.edu)                                                 
Grafix 'R Us                                                this space for rent
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research                                    
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From: hennessy@acsu.buffalo.edu (DOG BASEBALL!!!)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: What do the 'Net and the Victorian Empire have in common?
Date: 18 Nov 92 08:33:45 GMT
Organization: Ministry of Information, Lower Volta.


	Of course, the answer is easy.  The sun never sets on either of them.
I think of this, since I'm typing at 3:30am waiting for my freshly laundered
bedsheets to dry (don't you hate warm sheets?  I just gotta have my cold
sheets and cold comforter and cold pillows in Buffalo in November), and god
damn, there's new posts popping up all over usenet from all the dark and dingy
corners of this globe!  whew!  And I'm listening to CFNY, and they're playing
Talk Talk's _It's My Life_ which is one of my favorite songs, to boot!  whew!
and hopefully when I wake up my whites will be done, thus clean underwear so I
don't smell like a dungheap.  
	I still can't get over how Usenet & trn are like high tech skinner
boxes, tap the skinner spacebar and get your braintreat.  morsels of news like
food pellets keep me going all hours of the night, keeping me away from lots
of more productive stuff.  Vonnegut was right, my damn brain is just too self
destructive and it gets me into all sorts of unsavory shenanigans.  Ooh, a
vonnegut quote.  how pretentious of me.  too bad my mock turtleneck is still
awaitin the dryer.  better put on my black scarf and smoke french cigarettes
but not too many 'cause I'm a chronic asthmatic.  Also lacking black
sunglasses unfortunately so hey I guess I won't be fooling any art punks.. 
	whee.  I'm starting to go off on tangents even I can't follow.  better
stop while the stoppin's good.  Shall I dangle a participle in front of you,
like a carrot before a donkey?
	No.


-- 
   /I\          Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.
  /(*)\         hennessy@acsu.buffalo.edu                 
 /IIIII\        "Leave EVERYTHING to ME!" - Powdered Toast Man       
/IIIIIII\       Happiness is a warm gun.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: benth@microsoft.com (Ben)
Subject: Short, Shameful Party
Date: 19 Nov 92 19:56:03 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>>There are a few pipe organs out there with some pipes that have a 16 Hz
>>fundamental, but that's about as low as you can really go 

Would these be the lead pipes referred to by the Scorched
Earth party? 

BENth
How low can Vogel go?


Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: josh@cqs.washington.edu (Josh Hayes)
Subject: Two days in the belly of the bureaucracy
Keywords: feds, salmon, string
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:09:09 GMT

I spent two days in meetings in Portland at the Bonneville
Power Administration, discussing what to do to save the salmon
runs in the Columbia and Snake Rivers.

At one point, one of the participants inexplicably began
referring to salmon as "Amazon Guppies".

A consultant described a task he thought of as useless as
"pushing on the end of a wet string".

The group leader managed to use the phrase "flood control"
five times in a single sentence.

I didn't fall asleep. Not once. Having a quadruple short
mocha every morning helps enormously.

	-the doctor

--
Josh Hayes, Quantitative Sciences HR-20 U of Washington
josh@mowgli.cqs.washington.edu             206 543-5004
Let's talk about your car. It's screaming, "Wash me please!"
From: terri@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (St Theresa of the Net)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Xibo retoins
Date: 20 Nov 1992 03:53:17 GMT
Organization: Computing Something Division
Distribution: talk
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <XIBO.92Nov19005030@fido.fido.econ.arizona.edu> xibo@fido.econ.arizona.edu (Mr. Coates) writes:
>The upshot of all this is that since I no longer have a girlfriend, I'm free
>to angst again, and I should be returning to USENET once more.
>I hope you're happy now.


Thanks, Josette. This is all your fault.


But hey, what's really funny is once you break up and get a Real Life and
turn into a goddess, he marries some brainless schmuck who thinks pi is 2
point something.

No, really.

-- 
A little bit of uh huh and a whole lot of oh yeah.   \  (414)CRUSH-13
T. Flynn's Casa de Interesting: 1755 N Cambridge Ave #306 Milwaukee WI 53202    
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering)
Subject: Re: How to get the MORTIMER Story
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 03:04:28 EST
Organization: Esoteric Order of Dagon

In article <9511@buster2.Michigan.COM> rabbit writes:
>
>The MORTIMER story can be retreived from a special archive server...

Hey, Johnny, you spelled "retrieved" wrong.

ljd
gotta admit he does know how to spell "rabbit" though
Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:38699 misc.test:13235 alt.politics.clinton:17444
From: xibo@fido.econ.arizona.edu (Mr. Coates)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,misc.test,alt.politics.clinton
Subject: Re: should be taken only on the advice of a physician
Date: 19 Nov 92 08:26:14 GMT
Organization: Xibological Perimeter

mrx@sgi.com (you: coma: marilyn monroe) writes:
#
# >Why would anyone use this chemical junk as a substitute for sugar?
#
# the fact that you have to ask this
# questions shows just how much you
# need to learn.
#
#
#		   mister x
#
#		   better living through science

Mr. X, it appears there is a movie out now about you.  Is this
the long-awaited talk.bizarre movie we've all been hearing about?
Did you use lots of high-tech special effects in it?

Really, Mr. X, I had no idea that you were black.  It's amazing
how little we all really know about each other...


Xibo
From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: "I Love LUNIX"
Date: 23 Nov 1992 18:03:06 GMT
Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
NNTP-Posting-Host: stealth.intel.com

So THAT's why the plots of all the new OS's look
familiar...

				--Blair
				  "Remember when she was working
				   in the printer driver and the
				   output queue kept speeding up
				   and she was stuffing characters
				   in her mouth and down her shirt?
				   Ha! that cracks me up every time."
From: terri@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (St Theresa of the Net)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: leather
Date: 18 Nov 1992 01:06:32 GMT
Organization: Computing Something Division
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <sf1r95g@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
>I stopped at the Peet's there.  I bought a pound of beans, the 
>Viennese Blend and a huge black mug.

Oh, good one, ceeej. ya gotta get a huge black mug. I refer to mine either
as the Swimming Pool of Coffee or my Security Mug.

It is my friend, and when I drink coffee from my Huge Black Mug, i am
competent, serene, and in control of whatever baboons i'm temping for.


-- 
A little bit of uh huh and a whole lot of oh yeah.   \  (414)CRUSH-13
T. Flynn's Casa de Interesting: 1755 N Cambridge Ave #306 Milwaukee WI 53202
From: crisper@deeptht.armory.com (Crisper Than Thou)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Dying Words for Dueling (was Re: Today's Question.)
Summary: Many, many options
Date: 22 Nov 92 04:13:46 GMT
Organization: The Armory, Santa Cruz

>In article <1992Nov19.020123.21327@cabezon.uucp> Larry Huntley,
>larryh@cabezon.uucp writes:
>>  that "I die that France may live!" is already in use.  I suppose we should
>>  canvass the froup for a suitable deathless declaration.

Some possibilities, as one reels and expires:

"You _pain_ me, little one."

"Next time, *I* get to be the villain."

"The end-- it comes like lightning, or slow molasses!"

"Aunty Em...? Toto...?"

"I didn't need that lung anyway."

"Look to your faces!"

"I weep for your karma."

"Laugh while you can, monkey-boy!"

"-hack- *cough cough* bleahhhhh -retch-"

	--The Elder Dan
	"Rosebud..." is NOT an option, however.
From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Artemis Deserts Me
Date: 17 Nov 1992 03:46:38 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cobra.cs.berkeley.edu

In article <MJD.92Nov16205126@saul.cis.upenn.edu> mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Crash Dominus") writes:
>
>This post would have been a lot better if you'd told us you'd shot Artemis.

Magniskivorous Rats!

If the SS will hound you unto the ends of the earth for merely
discussing lawn decoration, lord knows what'd you'd get for
publicly confessing to _premeditated deicide_.

Play safe, folks.

c
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
Subject: Re: Actual Dan Quayle Interview
Originator: jcarroll@ferris
Keywords: deja vu 
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 19 Nov 92 09:49:09 CST


In article <shosqg4@zola.esd.sgi.com>, cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) writes:
> 
> In article <28172@castle.ed.ac.uk>, damianj@castle.ed.ac.uk writes:
> |>cj writes:
> |>>I follow-up my own post to bring you this breathless update: Lance
> |>>summarizes Maddi as:
> |>>	Fucking Princeton Mensa Wank
> |Are we using "Mensa" in the sense of "pseudo-intellectual worm"?
> 
> Is there any other use?
> 
> ---
> c j silverio
> at the generate/print stage


Since this followup has now been posted in essentially the same form
by three people, I hereby petition the t.b cabal to declare it an
Official Talk.Bizarre Catchphrase.

jkc (still waiting for my Official T.B Rot-n Decoder Ring)