HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mattb@ctron.com (Matt Brown)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Need excuses
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:40:38 GMT
Reply-To: mattb@olympus.ctron.com (Matt Brown)
Organization: Cabletron Systems INc.

In article <7423@skye.ed.ac.uk> ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) writes:
>
>So what I need are some good messages that
>Rebecca will agree to pass on to Mr.  [name deleted] while I am sitting
>in front of a computer getting square eyes and a mashed cerebral cortex
>from doing the work which his phone calls are disrupting. 
>
>Suggestions please?
>
Mr. Johnson is channeling at the moment. He'll call you back when he
returns to his current personality.

Mr. Johnson is at the pool with Fergie.

Ken is visiting the kitty box.  He'll be back after he changes the litter.

Didn't you hear? Mr. Johnson is being held hostage in a Philadelphia 
suburb by radical Americans who claim to have tb.

Mr. Johnson is away making a business call at FO&D.

Matt
Do they show wise ass American travelers in British Airways commercials,
the way they show snotty, spiteful Brits in their commercials over here?
From: sho@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: cathedral
Date: 2 Sep 92 08:16:51 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Physics Department

"Look, Furio!  A human ovary, ripe for the picking!"

"No time now, Benito.  It's time to start the symphony of
kitchen appliances."

With the flick of a switch, mixmasters and cuisinarts across
the country whirl in breakbeat patterns, with toasters
(which launch 145 slices of imaginary toast per minute)
providing percussion.

When the experiment is over, the nation remains quiet,
straining to hear an answer which never comes.  As people
return to their daily routines, Furio, in his underground
laboratory, wonders if we are truly alone in the universe.

-Sho
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From: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: toast
Date: 29 Aug 92 17:41:46 GMT
Reply-To: rpwhite@cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Followup-To: talk.bizarre,alt.newbie,alt.cascade,misc.test
Organization: Monterey Bay Yacht Club, Monterey CA

Blair P. Houghton writes:

)>>>>>>>>>>Currants.
)>>>>>>>>>Currency.
)>>>>>>>>Crabalocker Fishwife.
)>>>>>>>Coxswain.
)>>>>>>Cousin, Cousine.
)>>>>>Circadian Rythym
)>>>>Camelopardis.
)>>>Cadaverine.
)>>Cahiers du Cinema.
)>Cacoethes Scribendi.
)Criminal Insanity.
Carasso.

rp -- It was bound to be used sooner or later.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: please continue
Originator: curtis@boa.cs.Berkeley.EDU
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:51:20 GMT

In article <Bu0HL1.3Go@news.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) writes:
>In article <1992Sep3.162600.13002@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> aaron@space.ualberta.ca writes:
>>The summer of 2216 was dark and dreary.  The earth hadn't revolved in days,
>>I could barely make out the government building thru the radioactive haze.
>>A few yards to the east, the unending sunshine had set several trees ablaze.
>A lone man walked across the bleak land, face blistered by the awful rays.
"Sod these lice," he said.  "Fluorescent Eiffel, decimating malaise.
 Sod them all, and listen!  Is there anyone here?  Get me out of this maze!"

c
From: crisper@deeptht.armory.com (Crisper Than Thou)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: 100 Words: three of them
Date: 23 Aug 92 20:24:13 GMT
Organization: The Armory (crisper@armory.com)


The doctors peer through the sliding peephole in the cell door. Inside the
 room, the patient is typing on a computer. They sigh with mixed despair
 and amusement.

"There is no hope for this one," says the first. The second nods.

"Yes," she agrees, "he will never leave his delusion."

The student leans forward, interested. "Delusion?"

"This man suffers from two irrational beliefs," the first explains. "First,
 that he shapes the world by writing. Second, that everything must be
 described in one hundred words exactly."

The student nods. "Insane."

The three move on. In the cell, the man continues typing.

------

SCENE ONE: Exterior. Daylight. The quad of a major university.

	Students mill about, between classes.

CUT TO:

SCENE TWO: Interior. Daylight. The philosophy building of this college.

	Track in on a single door. From behind this door are the sounds
	of a lecture in progress. The hall is empty.

SCENE THREE: Interior. Daylight. The classroom behind the door.

	A teacher is lecturing a small number of students, some of whom
	look bored. One, however, is paying close attention. On the board
	are the words LIFE AND CINEMA.

Teacher: ...WHEN, IN FACT, WE MIGHT ALL JUST BE LIVING A MOVIE SCRIPT....

------

"What's that?" Diane asked as her son, Joe, came through the kitchen
 door with a big red box.

"Dunno," Joe said, tossing the box onto the table. "Found it in the
 Wilsons' backyard."

They looked at the box. It had the label TIME LOOP CONSTRUCTOR on one
 side and a big black button on the other.

"You should have left it," Diane said disapprovingly. "You don't know
 where that thing's been."

Joe shrugged. "Looks harmless." He pressed the black button experimentally.

(engaged)

"What's that?" Diane asked as her son, Joe, came through the kitchen
 door with a big red box.

------

	--The Elder Dan
	"Monk while you can, Laughy Boy!"
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: jon@zeus.med.utah.edu (Jonathan Byrd)
Subject: insult as art
Organization: University of Utah
Date: 25 Aug 92 15:03:58

my neighbor fancies herself an artiste.  her latest effort involves a
dead dragonfly, a xerox copy of the dead dragonfly, and a poem.

last evening, she returned from an arts festival where she had
displayed her work.  michelle offhandedly asked her "so, did you sell
your mosquito?"  the look on the artiste's face was priceless.

oh, well.  suffering's good for 'em.

--
jonathan byrd
jon@apollo.med.utah.edu
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
Subject: Re: My Generation, by steve Franklin
Keywords: WHO     IS     THIS      GUY    ?????
Organization: University of Central Florida
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:38:15 GMT

jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods) writes:

>In <1992Aug28.183939.19246@cs.rose-hulman.edu> jdavidso@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu (Jeff Davidson) writes:
>>In article <BtpF9J.E6s@cs.dal.ca> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)  
>>writes:
>>*   Apparently - you, as a member of this generation contribute bullshit.
>>*How much do YOU do my friend? I can guess at very little. Then again, your
>>*idea of a positive contribution and mine are quite different, I assure you.
>>Emptying your sperm into the shower drain is positive?

>That's the most helpful thing stevie can do for humanity.  Anything to prevent
>his genes from propagating.

Unless his little swimmers get down into the sewers and couple with a
mutant gator in heat.  Ooh, I just got the chills.

m*rk
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio)
Subject: Re: English usage
Followup-To: talk.bizarre
Reply-To: cj@sgi.com
Organization: SGI TechPubs
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:27:18 GMT



In article <7391@skye.ed.ac.uk>, ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk writes:
|cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
|#  You don't know what's involved with using a handgun for self-defense.  They
|#  are only so-so for reliably incapacitating an attacker.  Multiple shots are
|#  not appropriate, but necessary -- especially against an attacker with a
|#  machete at close range.  Even when effective, it can take many seconds to
|#  make an attacker non-lethal. 

|Why does it take this guy so many words to say ``The best way of dealing
|with an intruder on your premises is to kill them.  To be sure of killing
|someone you have to shoot them more than once?''

Because he's KKKlayton KKKramer-- bigot, homophobe, frothing
lunatic.  You should have a nice heart-to-heart with Phil Ngai
sometime.  He makes Clayton look rational.

---
cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com      C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
"Any respect I once had for Phil [Ngai], Phil [Ronzone], and Clayton 
[Cramer] has gone right down the toilet.  Libertarianism to them is an 
excuse to flaunt their own bigotry." --Ray Shea in *.politics 
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Koschei the Deathless)
Subject: Re: THE CREATION OF ALT.FAN.LETTERMAN
Organization: The International House of Secretions
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 02:34:49 GMT

In article <pLm-c++@engin.umich.edu> ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering) writes:
*Y'know, that's a nice little newsgroup you guys have over there.  Created
*recently, was it?  Be kind of a shame if something was to happen to it,
*doncha think?  See, Mr. X here, he's normally a nice guy, but sometimes
*when people crosspost stuff to talk.bizarre he don't like, he gets mad.
*And when he gets mad, he sometimes breaks things.  Things like newsgroups,
*and newbies' legs, see?  I mean, he don't do it on purpose.  It's kinda
*like an accident.  You know, the sort of accident you might wanna AVOID, see?

No, no, no!  He doesn't waste his time with something as mundane as
newsfroups or legs.  Biomes or insolation, on the other hand....


Mark "XEarth" Lippert 
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: jjj@marvin.anu.edu.au (Joni Johnson)
Subject: Songs Hendrix never recorded
Organization: Infinity, Ltd.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 03:32:54 GMT


"My wind cries Mary"

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Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: jcoates@ncrsmg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Jim D Coates)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Night Chort(le)
Date: 2 Sep 92 12:42:44 GMT
Reply-To: jcoates@ncrsmg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Jim D Coates)
Distribution: world
Organization: NCR Systemedia Group Headquarters, Dayton (Miamisburg), Ohio


Did you realize that every time Gooley sends something out on the net, it's a
Markie Post?


ObLameFollowup: That'sa lotta Bull!




Jim

subliminal .sig follows







(If you feel a sudden urge to send me money, it's OK. Follow your feelings.)

Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
Subject: Hurricane aftermath
Organization: University of Central Florida
Distribution: talk
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:10:25 GMT

It was reported that AIDS-infected monkeys may
have escaped from a lab that was destroyed by
Hurricane Andrew.

I should be safe, as long as I wear a condom.

mark

A hunting I will go...
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: gypsy@alembic.acs.com (hippolyte)
Subject: Re: oh dear
Organization: the church of the latter-day polish amazons
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:02:01 GMT

In article <grendel.02yi@canetoad.UUCP> grendel@canetoad.UUCP (Rage y Romance) writes:
>
>You don't like a particular "content" of a newsgroup, you just give
>yourself a little treat and find that particularly crappy piece of 
>content and drop the Nikes on the bug.

the sound of bugs being crushed used to
be my favorite sound in the whole world.
i've always wondered whether a skull
being crushed would sound the same.  
psychocop described to me the fine mist
of blood that creates a momentary red 
aura around someone when you shoot them 
at close range with a .357 magnum but 
he has not yet crushed anybody's skull.

he said FRACTURING someone's skull just
makes a disappointing hollow thud.

hey, didn't carasso post his address the
other day?

m
-- 
"...at night they lurk outside the tall barrier staring with curious
 wild eyes into the flat field, feeling cheated." -- Beryl Markham
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
Subject: Re: STOP this Crap
Organization: University of Central Florida
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:09:08 GMT

nj@magnolia.Berkeley.EDU (Narciso Jaramillo) writes:

>In article <1992Aug31.074226.13836@wetware.com> mlegare@wetware.com (BoBteCh) writes:

>> i'm predjudiced
>> against stupidity

>I've been thinking about this lately.
>Isn't prejudice against ignorance and stupidity just as dangerous,
>  as high-horsing, as difficult to defend as any other kind of prejudice?
>Think about this.
>We can't even use the old copout line, "Why, some of my best friends are 
>  stupid."
>Or: "I don't mind stupid people, as long as they don't try to turn me stupid
>  too."

Can you imagine "Do The Right Thing", only about stupid people?
-----
"Hey Sal, how come you don't have any stupid people up on the wall?"

"This is a smart restaurant.  You want stupid people up on the wall, open
your own stupid restaurant."

Then they have a riot and burn down a phone booth or something.

mark

'Course, you'd have to have a stuttering guy come in repeatedly and
say "S-s-s-s-teve F-f-f-f-f-franklin..."
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Subject: Re: toast
Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:42:43 GMT

In article <5952@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> rpwhite@cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite) writes:
>>>>>>Currants.
>>>>>Currency.
>>>>Crabalocker Fishwife.
>>>Coxswain.
>>Cousin, Cousine.
>Circadian Rythym
Camelopardis.

				--Blair
				  "Would you believe
				   two boy scouts?"
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.feminism
Subject: Re: Feminists ignore Cosmetics?....Why don't you guys get a JOB?
Date: 27 Aug 92 11:59:40 GMT
Followup-To: talk.bizarre
Organization: Bugs-R-Us


In article <26AUG199214230230@tacos.caltech.edu> gag@tacos.caltech.edu
(GUIDO A.  GIAMBERARDINO) writes:

#  If you can't find a job then worry about why the economy is so bad--not
#  about whether or not makeup oppresses women. 

Of course every feminist knows that (A) the reason the economy is so bad
is that women wear make-up and (B) women having to wear make-up is more
important than how bad the economy is. 

-- Ken "the smiley is here -->  (-:" Johnson

-- 
//// Advice to dieters:         ////  Ken Johnson, A I Applications Institute
////   Never eat more than      ////       80 South Bridge, EDINBURGH EH1 1HN
////   you can carry.           ////                 E-mail ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk
////              -- Miss Piggy ////     phone 031-650 2756  fax 031-650 6513
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: adw3345@ultb.isc.rit.edu (A.D. Williams)
Subject: YODA
Originator: adw3345@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:32:22 GMT


IN REC.PETS.CATS :

In article <1343@stake.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> emolinar@stake.DaytonOH.NCR.COM  
(Elizabeth Molinaro) writes:
> 
>         He he.  I just read about "carpet duck".  Excellent!
> 
>         OK, have any of you out of there played with your kitty's
>         face?
> 
>         We take the face in our hands, and then push the ears
>         flat against the head: kind of striaght down.  This is
>         "Yoda"
> 
>         Then, you take the ears and pinch them (gently, of course,
>         really just pushing) UP and TOGETHER.  This is "Bunny face"
> 
>         And, then we have the "Rat": take face in hands and pull
>         all of the skin and ears back.  U-ugly!
> 
>         "Lion" is the opposite.  Pull skin and ears forward to bunch
>         up around chin!
> 
>         Sounds cruel, but we're really being very gentle and the
>         cats think we've just forgotten how to pet them right!
>         We laugh and laugh...my husband couldn't believe it when
>         I first showed him all of the animals (and Yoda, of course)
>         inside our kittens!)
> 
>         Elizabeth
> 

 The really neat thing about this is that I can do the same thing
with the foreskin of my penis.


                                                            Derrick

Or what's left of it.

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From: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: hyping up rp's job title.
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:51:28 GMT
Reply-To: rpwhite@cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Followup-To: talk.bizarre,soc.veterans,sci.mil,misc.test
Organization: Monterey Bay Yacht Club, Monterey CA

drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:

>how about:

>SickoWarMongerPigDogLackyOfTheMilitaryIndustrialComplexLordGodDominatorOfTheDigitallyExpressedInFormationallyEnhancedSituationallyExacerbatedDataAcquisitionAndMangulationExpertOfRevisionistIdeologicalDeviationalismAndMorallyQuestionableAssociationOfNonRelateableThingsUnderstoodOnlybyTheDivinelyAnnotedOneTrueBelieverOfTheThreeFistedTalesOfTheOneTrueReligionAsToldByTheSameBlindPeopleWhoLeadTheDeafToSmellSmallFartsGeneratedBySexCrazedWeaslesPostingToUseNetForLackOfTheSeriouslyMeaningFulLifeThatOnlyReallyHeMa



n>




>ManlyMaleMachoMasculineMenWithBigHugeThrobbingAndTumultuousNetworkingExperienceThatOneWavesAboutLikeTheMostExcellentEnhancedElegantEnlongationOfPowerFulPietySystemSpecialist. 

I like it.
Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:28485 soc.culture.british:12061
From: morna@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Morna J Findlay)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: THE COMPLETE BRITISH TO AMERICAN DICTIONARY
Date: 2 Sep 92 12:24:59 GMT
Reply-To: morna@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Morna J Findlay)
Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U

In article <d5jn_lr.rdc@netcom.com> rdc@netcom.com (Rachel Dafni Christy) writes:
>
>abstractour	-> abstractor
>acceptour	-> acceptor
>actour		-> actor

etc

This is almost completely wrong.
M
--
Morna Findlay 					JANET:morna@uk.ac.ed.dcs 
	Thanksgiving For a National Victory (Robert Burns)
Ye hypocrites! are these your pranks? To murder men and give God thanks?
Desist, for shame! Proceed no further: God won't accept your thanks for murther.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: lstewart@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (L. Stewart -- IS Office 1058)
Subject: did you never wonder
Keywords: lunk, parboiled, dim, sweater
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 20:13:58 GMT

Did you never wonder what must be the shame threshold tolerance
level that some parents must develop when they have to stand at the
steps of the bus pushing their drooling spawn toward a seat and
quietly praying that none of the alumni attach the name of the
freshbutton lunk in the paisley sweater with the distorted 
caricature of some Saturday morning super hero toy-store flap
doodle with their own tarnished monicker and then the missus
weeps like a cue from ghod opens the valve on the back of her
peroxide poisoned head and she seems to give off a faint light 
and then you imagine that maybe G. Gordon Liddy might have been
a brighter guy for choosing a strong gene pool to splash in but
nothing can console a lady whose ill begat belly fruit is off to
college and the parboiled stooge sits in the bus waving a pale,
damp paw at its parents with only a dim idea that it won't see
them for a while and then the dribbling gecko child washes up
on the shores of this froup and justifies the shame that mommy
and daddy feel?
Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:28737 alt.fan.letterman:210
From: jbeer@lonestar.utsa.edu (Jason R. Beerhalter)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Letterman Qoutes
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:09:58 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

Dumb guy enters a video store and says,"You guys got Terminator 2?" (Back when
it had just entered the theatres, mind you...)

Jason R. Beerhalter
jbeer@lonestar.utsa.edu
jbeer%UTSAVM1.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods)
Subject: Re: Gras
Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 11:44:04 GMT

In <1992Aug24.205800.8478@vax.oxford.ac.uk> reese@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>I wonder how long grass lives.

About three inches.

Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: benth@microsoft.com (Ben)
Subject: Scary.
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:59:14 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

>From: mgooley@agni (Mark. Gooley)
>Organization: U S WEST Advanced Technologies
>I have a job now.

Gooley works for the Phone Company. 
Is it time to start talking about The President's Analyst again?

BENth


Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,rec.humor,rec.arts.startrek.current
From: act@csc.canberra.edu.au (Cyclops)
Subject: Re: STAR TREK PRANKS
Organization: University of Canberra, Camaroon
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 03:26:07 GMT

davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) writes:

>Actually 36767 is the highest number you can order of anything Ferengi.
>Seems that the Ferengi allow patent protection for numbers in order
>to protect Ferengi inovation and intellectual property rights. To date patents
>have expired on all the numbers up to and including 36767. Why, you ask
>didn't some smart Ferengi simply patent all numbers at the same time?
>Silly you. The Ferengi allow any corporation or individual to hold patent
>on up to 12 numbers at a time. Further, in order to patent any particular
>number you must have the right to use all the preceeding numbers. Because
>the typical Ferengi patent holder charges an arm and a leg (and arm and an ear?)
>for licensing, patented numbers are seldom used. In addition you can't
>avoid patented numbers simply by using higher numbers, in order to use
>the number 50000 for instance you must have rights to all previous numbers.
>The only way around some of the patent mess is to use large units, for
>instance rather than ordering a 1000000 tons of rock you might order
>1 megaton. Just don't try to convert units (that would require use of
>the number 1000000).

This is real serious stuff.  Maybe its time for a newgroup:

rec.farts.startwreck.advocacy.

act@csc.canberra.edu.au       Eye t'ought Eye taw a putty tat.
Look Once...         .-)      
   Look TwEyece..    .-) .-)       
      Half See...    .-)
From: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: I know this is bad, but I can't help myself.
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:19:57 GMT
Organization: Elkhorn Yacht Club, Moss Landing CA

In talk.bizarre they first came for the cave newts and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a cave newt. Then they came for the newbies, and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a newbies.  Then they came for the
trilobites and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trilobite.
Then they came for Steve Franklin, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't
an asshole. Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left
to speak up but Kibo, but he had his own newsfroups and didn't give a shit.
From: tibbits@sisal.llnl.gov (Patrick Tibbits)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Blondes Always Get Asked Directions in New York
Date: 29 Aug 92 04:23:58 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

That's really quite good, I enjoyed it very much.

Why does it bring back that time in the Hotel Metropolitan,
after tea and chamber music, using the condom with a pinhole
and a few drops of tabasco sauce. It taught us both the meaning
of angst.


Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,rec.humor,rec.arts.startrek.current
From: jd@dickens.com (Joe Dudar)
Subject: Re: STAR TREK PRANKS
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:07:54 GMT
Organization: Dickens Data Systems, Inc.

In article <RFowler.344@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> RFowler@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert A. Fowler) writes:
>
>>Huh, why 36,767 exactly? I've seen this number pop up in other newsgroup,
>>so if any kind soul can tell me I'll be gald...
>
>It is programmer humor, (2^15-1 = 36767  (the largest signed integer on a 
>16 bit computer).        ~~~~~~|~~~~~~~
                                |
Programmer bilious humor--------+      GAAAAAAH!  A -traditionalized- typo!
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