HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kasprj@operators.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re:    Skyscraper FALLS DOWN.
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:08:37 GMT

In article <92356.223300MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, <MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
|>      Can this be substantiated? I read in an architectural trade mag that
|> the World Trade Center is extremely unstable due to the fact that it is built
|> on landfill. While putting the two buildings up, one of the unfinished
|> structures was so unstable the chief engineer feared it would actually
|> fall over on its side.
 
 Yes; this is the reason that the planned third and fourth towers were 
never built.

|>      Now, I know that the complex never actually was able to anchor itself
|> into bedrock like the Empire State Building was and that the sidewalks and
|> streets around the building show extreme signs of stress from torsion of the
|> moving and relatively unsecured complex.
|>      BUT, can one of them actually fall down? The thought of a mountain
|> of steel, glass, office equipment and attourneys splatting all over Battery
|> Park is terrifying, but somehow also strangely compelling.
 
 Two World Trade Center was secured by means of underground cables anchored
to the bedrock outcropping somewhere in the close vicinity of the Woolworth
Building. There were originally six of these cables, but rumor says that one
of them was cut through during student protests in the early 70's.
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From: lordSnooty@cup.portal.com (Andrew - Palfreyman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Walking Between Rain Drops !!!!
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 16:24:54 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <1992Dec22.194931.10972@cit.dubna.su>

Const. Ocrainets writes:
	In old times, when ussr did exist, in wonderful
	math-phis. magazine "Quantum" (for schoolboys) 
	i'd read this question and later the explanation.
	Shortly, they proved that under realistic conventions
	there is no difference.

Welcome to talk.bizarre on this wunnerful christmas day, Gospodin.
Kak vi pozhivayete? ...Da, Khorosho. Have a crisp ferret?

The magazine "Quantum" was of course very popular here in the States.
As I recall, the article to which you refer was replaced by two smaller
ones: "How To Wax Your Skateboard And Shorts" and "What It's Like To
Have Really Hot Sex With Madonna !!" There was always an extra-interesting
column on Zits, and of course the mandatory interview with David Lee Roth.
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
| lord snooty @the giant |  How's Gary Powers These Days?                  |
| poisoned electric head |              andrew_-_palfreyman@cup.portal.com |
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From: tom@drutx.ATT.COM (MaddenTC)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: They used to think...
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:33:01 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Denver

In article <8709.21373@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM>, jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman) writes:
> 
> I know, I looked at this after I had written it, and said
> "Say, what?"  But I kept thinking back, and kept thinking that
> I swear she said "father goddess," and decided to leave it in
> and see if anyone caught it.  ;-)  This person is known for
> putting her foot in her mouth regularily, anyway.  (Hmm, but
> does it lead to babies?)

Only if the foot first passes through the scrotum of a civil war
soldier.



Tom "isn't that covered in the sodomy laws somewhere?" Madden

____________________________________________________________________ 
Thomas C. Madden  tom@drutx.att.com  AT&T Bell Laboratories  Denver                                                  
These are my opinions only!! 

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From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF)
Subject: alt.dev.null.mnemonics?
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: Sat, 26 Dec 92 04:09:53 GMT

I'd just like to say, for the record, that I passionately hate and despise
the frequent "Mnemonics" threads that pop up in alt.folklore.urban.  I
love a.f.u but I *hate* seeing posts come by from people who delightedly
explain that _this_ little nursery rhyme reminds us of the order of
stellar classes, and _that_ little rhyme reminds us what the colors on
diodes mean, and _this_ little bit of doggerel tells us the order of the
planets.  I have "mnemonics" permanently embedded in my killfile but still
seem to spend an inordinate amount of time killing still other threads
that someone manage to turn into mnemonics threads.  Given that there seem
to be an infinite number of a.f.u lurkers who will pop up unexpectedly and
share *their* favorite little mnemonics, I propose we have done with it
and make:

alt.folklore.mnemonics OR
alt.idiocy.mnemonics OR
alt.fan.mnemonics OR
alt.dev.null.mnemonics.

Which one we go with doesn't bother me.  I'd just like to give the crazed
mnemonics lovers a place to GO TO where they can swap rhymes and doggerel
and silly sentences until the end of time.

Joel "I really hate mnemonics" Furr
jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
From: Terry.Smith@f870.n800.z3.fidonet.org (Terry Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Proper pronounciation of 'Kibo'
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:49:19

 te> : Isn't kibo declined
 te> : 
 te> :  Kibo
 te> :  Kibas
 te> :  Kibat
 te> :  Kibamus
 te> :  Kibatis
 te> :  Kibant
 te> : ?

      Now try it as a noun :-)
Terry Aurifex



 * Origin: Elizabeth Park BBS (3:800/870.0)

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Driving without shoes
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:08:00 GMT

styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:
: In article <1992Dec21.210420.3268@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com
: (bill nelson) writes:
: >
: > The officers usually state that - when there are skid marks. All it means is
: > that the person was attempting to make a panic stop. It says nothing at all
: > about how efficient/effective that effort was.
: 
: Sometimes skidmarks will tell you. ASB may create a nice on-off-on-off mark.
: An irregular pattern may indicate defective brakes or an attempt to avoid
: blocking. Skidmarks that aren't straight also tell a story.
: 
: > The implication that you can "stand on the breaks" and stop in the shortest
: > distance. There are only two times when that is true - if you have anti-skid
: > brakes or if you have defective brakes.
:                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: 
: And, you should also have extreme luck. (And, why is the word "defective"
: used here?)

Because, I consider brakes that are out of adjustment to be defective. If
you cannot lock up non-ABS brakes, then you cannot shop in as short a distance
as when the brakes are properly adjusted.

Bill
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: AFU Flan Cub
Date: 23 Dec 1992 19:33:19 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 22380@midway.uchicago.edu, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
> I heard that a pound of butter weighs more than a pound of feathers.

This is, oddly enough, true.  Butter is weighted using avoirdupois
(French for "have some peas", since peas go so well with butter)
measurements, whereas feathers are weighed using troy (corruption of
French "troi" (three), since feathers come in groups of three)
measurements.  ("Metric" can also be used to weigh (or rather "mass")
feathers, as it is an anglification of "hat trick", French for "three
in a row".)

Don't believe it?  Cook up some peas, and put some butter on them.
Good, isn't it?  Remove the feathers from your pillow.  Count them.
The number you get will be evenly divisible by three (unless your
pillow was improperly stuffed).

Speaking of flans, I had some really good ones while in Manitoba.  It
was at the Flin Flon Fen Flan Fun Fling, an annual bake-off/party held
in the swamps outside of the town.

Brian "No Flin Flon flames, please" Scearce
---
Brian Scearce                                           bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
              The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
                  "You can't fit the truth on a t-shirt, man."
                                 "That'd fit."
From: klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: WAY stupid things to do with guns (was self-i
Date: 29 Dec 92 20:04:37 GMT
Organization: Duke University

In article <yR5gwB3w165w@unkaphaed.gbdata.com> popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell) writes:
>PIG CASTRATED DENTALLY
>
>Harmony, Tx - An East texas school board voted to fire Dick Pirkey
>an agriculture teacher, after one of his students used his teeth to 
>castrate a pig during class.
>  Testimony before the harmony School Board reavealed that a 16 year old 
>special education student orally castrated the pig in Pirkey's class.

  The unfortunate student (to say nothing of the pig) was actually told to
"orally _castigate_" the pig, ala: "What a pig you are!".  All a simple
misunderstanding.  Can you blame the kid - trying to keep from doubling over
in laughter, thinking about the name "Dick Pirkey"?

>  Pirkey took photos during and after the the pig was castrated.

   Were these perhaps evidence of "snip" pictures?

>Don't blame me.  I just post this stuff, I don't write it.

  And well posted it was.

>Pope Charles   SubGenius Pope Of Houston   "Pictures at eleven."
>Houston is NOT considered to be part of East Texas.
-- 
Kim L. Greer                       
Duke University Medical Center		 klg@orion.mc.duke.edu
Div. Nuclear Medicine  POB 3949		 voice: 919-681-5894
Durham, NC 27710  		         fax: 919-681-5636
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Alzheimer's and Aluminum pots and pans
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:39:57 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA

system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
: 
: >   The only reason aluminum was linked to alzheimers in the first
: > place was because aluminum was "found" in the plaques.  Do you
: 
: Well not quite true. As I posted earlier, early dialysis machines did not
: filter out aluminium, causing it to build up in the body. These people then
: exhibited symptoms indistinguishable from Alzheimers.

Documentation please.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien)
Subject: Re: FIZZIES (was: Re: Cheese popcorn)
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Distribution: add
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 06:31:13 GMT

popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell) writes:

[vast quantity of fizzies and/or cheese popcorn stuff omitted]
>
>I have heard strange tales of tossing Alka Seltzer to seagulls down here 
>at the Galvaston Beaches.....
>
>


	round 'n round 'n round she goes...


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: AFU Flan Cub
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:45:20 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.213606.22305@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>BTW-why is this in AFU?  What is flan?

Flan is sort of like lutefisk, only with more sugar.  If Cynthia Kandolf
was still alive, rest her soul, she could tell you all about it.

>ObfoodUL: The pound cake is so called because it takes
>a pound of butter.  Avoird(mumble) or imperial pound?

I heard that a pound of butter weighs more than a pound of feathers.

>ObfoodUL2: George Bush doesn't like brocolli ,(Italian
>for small cabbage), because it makes his urine smell.

That isn't broccoli.  That's Brussels Sprouts.

>Jon "Jumbo shrimp?" Papai

Ted "to have the pois" Frank
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standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: When is snopes where you need 'im
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:58:04 GMT

In <28030@dog.ee.lbl.gov> twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>Whaddaya say?  10.5 Shergolds?  Where is snopes where you need 'im?

I've been wondering about that, too.
-- 
/|/-\/-\       In real life, the Vice President chastises Murphey Brown
 |__/__/_/     for her morals.  Bill Clinton plays the sax on "Arsenio
 |warren@      Hall."  Though "Batman Returns" is fiction, it's not too
/ nysernet.org much stranger than truth - Caryn James, The New York Times
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: "in bed" - the origin of.
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:19:25 GMT

In article <1992Dec20.174551.1959@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>In article <1992Dec19.338.25426@execnet> "tom betz" <tom.betz@execnet.com> writes:
>>In Queens, NY, "between the sheets" has >long< been appended to 
>>fortune-cookie fortunes.
>
>Shouldn't that be "between da sheets" in Queents?

Yeah, I 'spose so, if youse come from da Bronx or even Brooklyn.

cj "What better place to find a queen than Queens!" l
From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: afu motto du jour
Date: 31 Dec 92 09:35:20 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <13749@optilink.COM>, manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley) writes:
> >In article <1hq206INNq1f@spim.mti.sgi.com> mpolen@suntory.mti.sgi.com 
(Mike 
> Polen) writes:
> >
> >>I am not saying this happened, but there is not reason to believe it
> >>couldn't happen.

"Sounds like bullshit to me."

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: t88swa@tdb.uu.se (Sven Wallman)
Subject: Re: Colors of Olympic Rings
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:11:35 GMT

 (MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET) wrote:
: The colors used in the Olympic Rings were chosen because they represent
: all of the colors of every flag in the world. So says my old boss.
: 
:                                   -- Rick Yukon, the Hypothermiac.

They were supposed to represent the colors of the flags of the members in the
Olympic committee when the Olympic flag was designed, I think.
--
Sven Wallman, S:t Larsg. 5, 753 11 Uppsala, Sweden, +46 1812 9237
"I think, therefore I'm right."-Hugo Rune

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From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.misc,misc.legal,rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Re: John Riggins, Sandra Day O'Connor, A Jug of Wine, and Thou
Date: 30 Dec 92 01:02:25 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <1992Dec24.032742.3090@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu 
(JKF) writes:
> In article <1992Dec23.192127.3467@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> 
> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
> >ObHolidayUL: Hall of fame running back John Riggins got drunk while
> >playing Santa at a White House xmas party and told a disgusted
> >Justice Sandra Day O'Conner "Chill out Sandy."
> 
> Nope, I believe he said "Loosen up, Sandy baby".  Then he passed out under
> the table.

They made up.  He sent her roses, and I believe that she reciprocated.

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: General Hooker and whores (FAQ)
Date: 29 Dec 92 23:45:37 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

>FAQ writes:
>>Tb.US Civil War Gen. Hooker is the source for a common term for streetwalkers.

Probably F, unless you have a citation.  The Oxford English Dictionary
has a quotation from 1845 using the term.  Not-yet-general Hooker would
have been about 30 years old at the time.  Was he *such* a rake that his
name would have been a byword for "whore" in Norfolk (where the quotation
is from) even though he was born in Massachusetts and lived in California?
*Could* have happened, but...
--
   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
           internet:  laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
From: dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Date: 2 Jan 93 21:14:55 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC

a **VERY REAL** problem with cds:  In thge old days of vinyl analog
recordings, when **they** wanted to send secret messages to their agents,
**they** would place them backwards on the record.  So, for example, the
secret news that "John was dead" was, in fact, brought out to the public.

But now, with CDs, **they** can use this medium securely.  I've tried to
play my CDs backwards, but nothing happens.  I've held them upside down,
reversed teh (ac) plug, even pressed the buttons in reverse order.  But
nothing seesm to work.

Hmm, maybe I should really be posting this to "alt.conspiracy" <g>

any suggestions on how to play a cd in reverse?

<dannyb@panix.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.religion.kibology
From: bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson)
Subject: Re: Skyscraper FALLS DOWN.
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:36:03 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.195825.1949@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>kasprj@operators.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes:
>: |>      BUT, can one of them actually fall down? The thought of a mountain
>: |> of steel, glass, office equipment and attourneys splatting all over
>: |> Battery Park is terrifying, but somehow also strangely compelling.
>:  
>:  Two World Trade Center was secured by means of underground cables anchored
>: to the bedrock outcropping somewhere in the close vicinity of the Woolworth
>: Building. There were originally six of these cables, but rumor says that one
>: of them was cut through during student protests in the early 70's.
>
>So, what would this accomplish - besides keeping the building from sliding
>across the street or onto a different block. It would have no effect on
>keeping the building from tipping.  For documentation, check out a good
>book on "Statics" sometime.  

You think sliding down the street is a laughing matter?  Imagine all the mail
that would never get there!  Or even worse, all the mail would be delivered
to whatever poor unsuspecting business got sucked into the hole.

Ben "No skidmarks, that building wasn't even trying to stop!" Jackson

--
"If your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall."-Lewis
Ben Jackson, ben@ben.com, bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
From: manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The El (Was: Re: Conductivity of water <plus a story from Uncle Dave>)
Date: 23 Dec 92 23:07:39 GMT
Organization: DSC/Optilink Access Products

In article <BznAyH.2BA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> madden@deja-vu.aiss.uiuc.edu (Paul Q Madden) writes:
>manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley) writes:
>
>>WEl I haven't been there since '79 and the brain tends to wipe out
>>unpleasant memories!  I was undecided as to whether it was "L" or
>>"El" - did it stand for "Electric" or "Elevated" or  "Loupe"
>>as in "The Loupe".  For those of you that don't know, "The Loupe"
>>is the downtown area of Chicago.
>
>I grep'ed for a smiley and didn't find one, so i can only assume
>this is serious. Sheesh! It's "El" like the second poster said,
>and it's "Loop", not "Loupe"; there are numerous road signs that
>say so.

Are you sure it's not the Loupe?  I distinctly remember being told
this by a taxi driver while taking me to O'Hare Airport.  For those of
you who don't know the O' is an abbreviation for Old.  Before they
built the airport there was a small lake where people liked to go
fishing.  Unfortunately there was also a crazed hare (rabbit) who
liked to attack fishing boats (His cousin was the one who attacked
Jimmy Carter (I'm not making this up!)).  The locals would warn
propsective fisherman: "Watch out for the Old Hare", some would refer
to his odd fur color: "Watch out for the crazy Old Red Hare".  Finally
some one hit the old red hare on the head with a paddle and killed
him.  In honor of his death they gave the initials ORD to O'Hare
airport.  They stand for Old Red (Hare) Dead (unfortunately ORHD was
already taken). 

dave "we took a short cut past Midway Airport on my ride from the
Loupe to O'Hare, if you don't know I'll tell you why they call it
Midway" manley@optilink.com

Plan ahead: February Third is National Honorary Terry Day.
            To become an honorary Terry see the man page for
            passwd, especially the -f option.
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: The Ultimate Circumcision
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:16:53 GMT

In article <1993Jan2.225311.28856@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

>Ted "always use a mohel" Frank

Like John Belushi in the back of the moving Lincoln Continental.  (Parody
of the commercial about the diamond cutter in the back of another fancy
moving vehicle.)

cj "I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines" l
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Skyscraper FALLS DOWN.
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:21:07 GMT

In article <1992Dec26.213308.17373@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>
>Jon "Pittsburgh has more bridges than New York" Papai

Sincd we have more dentists in NYC than in Pittsburgh, I doubt it.

cjl

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