HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: joseph@valis.biocad.COM (Joseph Truitt)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Do Kibo and Dave and Spot and Zippy know each other?
Date: 14 Oct 92 01:30:32 GMT


------- Forwarded Message

Subject: EPIDEMIC OF EXPLODING THINGS HAS REACHED ALARMING PROPORTIONS
Date: 20 Jan 91 00:00:25 GMT

DAVE BARRY
	We have been very busy, here at the Institute of Exploding Things. 
We have received so many alarming explosion reports that our Electronic
Computerized Data Base overflowed the Heineken box where we keep it and
got scattered all over our office floor when our small auxiliary dog,
Zippy, started digging in it.
	Dogs will do that. They'll lie around and do absolutely nothing for
five hours, then suddenly they'll receive an urgent radio message from
the Dog Planet that says: ``START DIGGING RIGHT NOW!'' And they'll leap
up and just tear into whatever surface they happen to be standing on,
whether it's a nice oak floor or the Institute of Exploding Things Data
Base. This is an important instinct that dogs have, dating back to a
time millions of years ago, when, in order to survive, they had to act
stupid.

...

------- End of Forwarded Message

 ______________________________________________________________________
|
| joseph@biocad.com 415/903-3923
|
| "See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when
| the money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only knows what they
| do with it.  Bake it into pies, probably.  Anything to avoid creating
| jobs." --Dave Barry


Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology,alt.tv.tiny-toon
From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: Buster Bunny makes OBSCENE gesture!  Film at 4:30.
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 01:45:39 GMT

In article <Bw6Kpt.Cqp@world.std.com> kibo@world.std.com writes:
>[]
>	In today's "Tiny Toon Adventures" rerun, in the Sherlock Holmes
>parody, when the carriage pulled into McBanger's and Buster ordered
>'two, please', notice what gesture he used.

You mean to tell me that Kibo ACTUALLY watches TINY TOONS?? What? Do you
get your mom to tape them so you can catch them when you come home? Or
do you take your Watchman to work??

And this is the man I was going to vote for in November. Now I'm all
politically confused.

mdw

-- 
Matt Welsh    mdw@tc.cornell.edu        +1 607 253 2737
Systems Programmer, Cornell Theory Center
  "Yow! Up ahead! It's a DONUT HUT!!"
From: kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:47:14 GMT
Subject: Please Help
Organization: HP Western Response Center
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers

              Please answer these 9 questions and return.

1.) Do you think equal rights for men and women is generally a good idea?
Yes                  [ ]
Sometimes            [ ]
No                   [ ]
Haven't heard enough [ ]
Other                [ ]

2.) Are you pro choice?
Yes                  [ ]
Sometimes            [ ]
No                   [ ]
Haven't heard enough [ ]
Other                [ ]

3.) Are you in favor of adoption?
Yes                  [ ]
Sometimes            [ ]
No                   [ ]
Haven't heard enough [ ]
Other                [ ]

4.) Do you think men should be allowed to legally terminate their parental
rights and responsibilities before fetal viability?
Yes                  [ ]
Sometimes            [ ]
No                   [ ]
Haven't heard enough [ ]
Other                [ ]

5.) What sex are you?
Male               [ ]
Female             [ ]

6.) How old are you?
Under 18           [ ]
19 to 65           [ ]
Over 65            [ ]

7.) What religion are you?
Protestant         [ ]
Catholic           [ ]
Jewish             [ ]
Other              [ ]

8.) What political party are you affiliated with?
Democratic         [ ]
Republican         [ ]
Other              [ ]

9.) How many years of education have you completed?
Grade School       [ ]
High School        [ ]
College            [ ]
More               [ ]
From: djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers
Subject: Re: Please Help
Date: 9 Oct 92 00:00:26 GMT
Organization: =CSE Dept., U.C. San Diego

>>1.) Do you think equal rights for men and women is generally a good idea?
>
>I believe that both genders are necessary for proper connectivity in
>cables, so it's a good idea.

What about tri-state busses?  I think they're an affront to any
right-thinking engineer.

>>2.) Are you pro choice?
>
>>People should even be allowed to use JCL if they choose.

The problem is that too often the government intervenes and
decides for you that JCL must be used, via under-the-table
incentives to blue businesses.  This must stop!

>>3.) Are you in favor of adoption?
>
>No, I believe all children should have only the parent that fork()ed
>them.  Illegitimate child processes should be kill()ed.

Sorry, come out of the dark ages.  Illegitimate processes are
the fault of buggy parents, not through any design of their
own.  Therefore these processes should be allowed to live, 
but they should be swapped to infrequently accessed devices
to prevent societal thrashing (NIMBI-ism - not in my bus interface).
-- 
Darin Johnson
djohnson@ucsd.edu
  - Brought to you by the 'Elvis in 92' committee.
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers
From: alvin@netcom.com (Alvin H. White)
Subject: Re: Church Information System
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:02:28 GMT

cmp0137@sys.uea.ac.uk (N. Arnott) writes:

>Hi, I'm doing a project at the moment to computerise the running of a church, 
>and would be really grateful to hear from anybody who may have been involved
>in a similar project. 

That sounds like an interesting and timely subject. I also would be 
interested in hearing something about it.  A fellow use to sell
shareware and Public Domain computer programs at the Flea Market here
in San Jose, California.  I saw some programs for church accounting
systems, the bible and general information type stuff but it seemed 
that there was a lot of room for new developments.

So off on some of my favorite subjects, I was especially looking for
computerized polyglot scripture and music systems.  I found some 
astronomy programs but they did not have enough information for me
to be able to completely determine all the religious event calendars
for the planet.

G. I guess someone could propose a new news group alt.church or 
comp.church or church.comp, etc.  I guess the likes of that last
would be a good jump for the usenet but, who knows, sooner or later.


alvin

Postal:  Alvin H. White, Gen. Sect.
         G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N.
         1505 De Rose Way #66 
         San Jose, CA 95126-4133 USA 

   Tel:  +1 408-286-2794
         +1 408-286-4244
E-mail:  alvin@netcom.com

======================================================== 
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Bureau for Resource Allocations to Information Networks 
[an idea waiting to happen]

120 West 38 North

Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers
From: yusuf@cs.uwp.edu (Muhammad Yusuf)
Subject: Re: Please Help
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 04:12:50 GMT

Kingsley Morse (kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com) wrote:
:               Please answer these 9 questions and return.
: 
: 1.) Do you think equal rights for men and women is generally a good idea?
: Yes                  [X] 
: Sometimes            [ ]
: No                   [ ]
: Haven't heard enough [ ]
: Other                [ ]
: 
: 2.) Are you pro choice?
: Yes                  [ ]
: Sometimes            [ ]
: No                   [ ]
: Haven't heard enough [ ]
: Depends on
    individual case.   [X]
: Other                [ ]
: 
: 3.) Are you in favor of adoption?
: Yes                  [ ]
: Sometimes            [ ]
: No                   [ ]
: Haven't heard enough [ ]
  Depends on 
    individual case.   [X]
: Other                [ ]
: 
: 4.) Do you think men should be allowed to legally terminate their parental
: rights and responsibilities before fetal viability?
: Yes                  [ ]
: Sometimes            [ ]
: No                   [X]
: Haven't heard enough [ ]
: Other                [ ]
: 
: 5.) What sex are you?
: Male               [X]
: Female             [ ]
: 
: 6.) How old are you?
: Under 18           [ ]
: 19 to 65           [X]
: Over 65            [ ]
: 
: 7.) What religion are you?
: Protestant         [ ]
: Catholic           [ ]
: Jewish             [ ]
  Muslim             [X]     
: Other              [ ]
: 
: 8.) What political party are you affiliated with?
: Democratic         [ ]
: Republican         [ ]
  Depends...         [X]
: Other              [ ]
: 
: 9.) How many years of education have you completed?
: Grade School       [ ]
: High School        [ ]
: College            [X]
: More               [ ]
From: cmp0137@sys.uea.ac.uk (N. Arnott)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers
Subject: Church Information System
Date: 12 Oct 92 11:18:32 GMT
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.

Hi, I'm doing a project at the moment to computerise the running of a church, 
and would be really grateful to hear from anybody who may have been involved
in a similar project. 

	Thanks in advance,
		
			CMP0137@uk.ac.uea.sys
From: kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:41:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Please Help
Organization: HP Western Response Center
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers

Oops! My apologies for posting my previous "Please Help" survey to this
group. It was an honest mistake and won't happen again.

Kingsley
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers
From: cessu@cs.hut.fi (Kenneth S A Oksanen)
Subject: Re: CHRISTIANS ARE BEING DUPED!
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
	<aldavi01.717387985@starbase.spd.louisville.edu>
	<YekhzIG00VAt4lBMB0@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 10:16:55 GMT


Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>so basically, this is God's computer:
>infinite parallel processors, each of which is a fully capable
>integrated neural network computer, and which is a copy of the entire
>system of itself

Or a system that each time its clock ticks doubles its clock speed.
This would mean all problems could be solved in two original clock
ticks.

>and Satan is just a system hacker?

Well, he installed MS-DOS to God's computer so that it could no longer
solve problems that required over 640KBs...

-=-
; (c) 1992 by Kenneth Oksanen, <cessu@cs.hut.fi>, +358-0-4513377 or -555017
((lambda(a) (a a((lambda(a)(lambda()(set! a(+ a 1))a))1)))(lambda(a c)
((lambda(b) (newline)(write b)(a a((lambda(c)(lambda()(c c)))(lambda(a)
((lambda(c) (if(=(modulo c b)0)(a a)c))(c))))))(c)))) ; Have fun!
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers
From: "Marc VanHeyningen" <mvanheyn@papaya.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Please Help
X-Quoted: 22%
Reply-To: mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Indiana University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 14:38:36 -0500

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

I believe that both genders are necessary for proper connectivity in
cables, so it's a good idea.

>2.) Are you pro choice?

Yes, I believe that the issue of languages, shells and editors to use is
a personal, private matter between a user and his processor.  People
should even be allowed to use JCL if they choose.

>3.) Are you in favor of adoption?

No, I believe all children should have only the parent that fork()ed
them.  Illegitimate child processes should be kill()ed.

[ ... ]

Well, you post to alt.religion.computers, what do you expect?
-- 
Marc VanHeyningen    mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu    MIME & RIPEM accepted


The world is its own best model.
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers
From: oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone)
Subject: Re: 10,000 QUESTION PURITY TEST--PLEASE READ !!!!!
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
	<1992Oct6.015609.23010@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
	<BvpH9I.3wD@unix.amherst.edu>
	<1992Oct8.042009.24831@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 21:17:35 GMT


In article <1992Oct8.042009.24831@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> asmith@nyx.cs.du.edu (alvin smith) writes:

> these "purity tests" seem very stupid.


> I read one that was posted a few weeks ago and tried answering the
> questions for the hell of it.  well, as you'ld guess, my normal 
> hetrosexual lifestyle which has been free from drugs, alcohol, and
> wild sex orgies turned up to register a score of 80% pure on the
> "purity test".


> Well, I haven't done anything more than normal sexual intercourse
> with a little creative licking and sucking.  and I've never tried
> anything with drugs, beastiality, or homosexuality.  So if I'm 
> only 80% pure, then the rest of the world must be really deviant.

	So, are you saying that Anyone who does drugs, or is a
homosexual, or even is into beastiality is DEVIANT?  What, are you
from Oregon or something?  Geez.


> Sex is a wonderful and natural thing.  you don't have to test yourself
> repeatedly for your purity.

	Sex is wonderful and natural, I'm sure, if you're straight and
into the missionary position.

> get a life folks!

My aren't we touchy.

--
Tig Stone 
(oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers
From: asmith@nyx.cs.du.edu (alvin smith)
Subject: Re: 10,000 QUESTION PURITY TEST--PLEASE READ !!!!!
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 04:20:09 GMT

twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:

>In article <1992Oct6.015609.23010@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> peaan3@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au (PEARSON ARRAN) writes:

>>Can someone {1mPlease[0m post a purity test longer than 1000 questions or
>>tell us where to get it/them please?

>Does the 1000 question purity test address people who attempt to
>include ANSI escape sequences in their articles to prettify their
>text?

>-- 
>____ Tim Pierce                / "You are just naive and repressed because
>\  / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu /  penis envy is here and it's now and it's
> \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /  all around you." -- Neal C. Wickham


these "purity tests" seem very stupid.


I read one that was posted a few weeks ago and tried answering the
questions for the hell of it.  well, as you'ld guess, my normal 
hetrosexual lifestyle which has been free from drugs, alcohol, and
wild sex orgies turned up to register a score of 80% pure on the
"purity test".


Well, I haven't done anything more than normal sexual intercourse
with a little creative licking and sucking.  and I've never tried
anything with drugs, beastiality, or homosexuality.  So if I'm 
only 80% pure, then the rest of the world must be really deviant.


Sex is a wonderful and natural thing.  you don't have to test yourself
repeatedly for your purity.



get a life folks!
From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs
Subject: Re: hypertext in emacs
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:39:46 GMT
Organization: Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139
In-reply-to: fly@acsu.buffalo.edu's message of 8 Oct 92 00:06:04 GMT

In article <Bvs0A5.FI6@acsu.buffalo.edu> fly@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul D. Fly) writes:
>Hi all.  Question.  I was under the impression one could create hypertext-
>type documents in emacs.  But upon reading the manual, I can't find any-
>thing.  Have people written programs to do this, or is it too "advanced"
>to be in the manual, or am I simply lost?

   You want texinfo.  Get the texinfo-2.15.tar.Z file from /pub/gnu on
prep.ai.mit.edu by anonymous ftp.  
Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs
From: krishna@shamu.csd.sgi.com (Krishna Sethuraman)
Subject: what emacs stands for
Organization: Me? Organized?
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 14:35:28 GMT


Was there ever a collected list of what `emacs' stands for (I'm looking for the
humorous ones, specifically)?  I'm a junkie and am trying to turn my coworkers
into ones as well by showing them how much fun emacs can be.

Krishna Sethuraman
krishna@sgi.com
From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs
Subject: Re: what emacs stands for
Date: 9 Oct 92 04:53:36 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139
In-reply-to: krishna@shamu.csd.sgi.com's message of 8 Oct 92 14:35:28 GMT

>Was there ever a collected list of what `emacs' stands for (I'm looking
>for the humorous ones, specifically)? 

   Look in etc/emacs.names in the distribution. 

The two I know of which are missing from this file are

        Escape
        Meta
        Alt
        Control
        Shift


        Emacs
        Makes
        A
        Computer
        Slow
From: fly@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul D. Fly)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs
Subject: hypertext in emacs
Date: 8 Oct 92 00:06:04 GMT
Organization: UB

Hi all.  Question.  I was under the impression one could create hypertext-
type documents in emacs.  But upon reading the manual, I can't find any-
thing.  Have people written programs to do this, or is it too "advanced"
to be in the manual, or am I simply lost?

Thanks!
-- 
Paul Fly                      | "Thinking is more interesting than knowing,
fly@acsu.buffalo.edu          |  but less interesting than looking."
v092pxca@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu |    --Goethe
From: yandros@MIT.EDU (Chad Phillip Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs
Subject: Re: hypertext in emacs
Date: 10 Oct 1992 23:56:07 GMT
Organization: /mit/yandros/.organizations
NNTP-Posting-Host: hodge.mit.edu
In-reply-to: thomas@cogsci.ed.ac.uk's message of 8 Oct 92 09:43:49 GMT



  From: thomas@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Thomas Plass)
> Hmmm.  I assume you read a hard-copy version of the manual.  Try the
> on-line manual (C-h i) which is as close as Emacs gets to creating
> hypertext type documents.

Not quite, if you've ever seen hyperbole.  Here's a chunk of the
README:

    * Hyperbole Overview
    
    Hyperbole is an open, efficient information browsing and management
    system based around a hypertext model.  It is intended for everyday work
    on any UNIX platform supported by GNU Emacs (or Epoch from the
    University of Illinois).  Hyperbole allows hypertext buttons to be
    embedded within unstructured and structured files, mail messages and
    news articles.  It also provides point-and-click access to ftp archives,
    Wide-Area Information Servers (WAIS), and the World-Wide Web (WWW)
    hypertext system through encapsulations of software that support these
    protocols.
    
    Hyperbole consists of three parts:
    
       1.  an interactive information management interface which anyone can use;
    
       2.  a set of programming library classes for system developers who
           want to integrate Hyperbole with another user interface or as a
           back-end to a distinct system.  (All of Hyperbole is written in
           Lisp for ease of modification.  Although Hyperbole is a
           prototype, it has been engineered for real-world usage and is
           well structured.)
    
       3.  A set of hyper-button-action types that provides core hypertext
           and other behaviors.  Users can make simple changes to button
           types and those familiar with Emacs Lisp can quickly prototype
           and deliver new types.
    
    A Hyperbole user works with hypertext buttons; he may create, modify,
    move or delete buttons.  Each button performs a specific action, such as
    linking to a file or executing a UNIX shell command.
    

You can get it from wilma.cs.brown.edu:/pub/hyperbole.  I've only
dabbled with it, but it looks pretty cool.

-C
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Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs
From: S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Subject: Re: what emacs stands for
Organization: Fachschaft Informatik, Uni Karlsruhe
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:29:32 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.23

Eight Megabytes And Continuously Swapping
Emacs Makes Any Computer Slow
Emacs Masquerades As Comfortable Shell
Ever Made A Control-key Setup?
Escape-Meta-Alternate-Control-Shift
Emacs: My Alternative Computer Story
Emacs Made Almost Completely Screwed
       (by extensive use of M-x global-unset-key)
Emacs Macht Alle Computer Schoen 
       (deutsch)  (=Emacs makes all computers beautiful)
Each Mail A Continued Surprise
Every Mode Acknowledges Customized Strokes 
       (keystrokes, of course :-)
Eating Memory And Cycle-Sucking
Everyday Material Almost Compiled Successfully

now enough bashing for today :-)


MfG,
        Olaf
-- 
    o     Olaf Titz - comp.sc.student - univ of karlsruhe - germany
 _ /<_    s_titz@iravcl.ira.uka.de - uknf@dkauni2.bitnet - praetorius@irc
(_)>(_)   +49-721-60439 - did i forget something?
Woe to the land that's governed by a child! - Shakespeare
From: fly@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul D. Fly)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs
Subject: help loading libraries
Date: 11 Oct 92 21:38:48 GMT
Organization: UB

Hi people.  I ftp'ed hyperbole and it looks pretty cool.  The problem
is, as a rather unskilled emacs and Lisp person, I don't know how to
load libraries.  I've tried following the book and all, but its a bit
vague.  I put the hyperbole libraries in a directory of mine.  If I cd
into that directory, start an emacs process and try "load-library
hsite", which is what hyperbole says to do to load up all of
hyperbole, I get erros in which hsite.el or hsite.elc cannot be found.
If I try loading the library with an explicit full path name, it
works, except when hsite.el calls other libraries or files, they
cannot be found.  The ReadMe says to add the directory location into
my .emacs, but I don't know how, and the emacs manual doesn't help: I
don't know Lisp!  Can someone show me, given I have ftp'ed the
hyperbole libraries, and have them in a directory under my home
account, what would be the best way to load them up, and how?  And if
this is a really big question, then something is wrong, it shouldn't
be THAT hard!
 
Thanks!

-- 
Paul Fly                      | "Thinking is more interesting than knowing,
fly@acsu.buffalo.edu          |  but less interesting than looking."
v092pxca@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu |    --Goethe
From: fin@unet.umn.edu (Craig A. Finseth)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs
Subject: Re: lighter fluid
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:08:46 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Networking Services.

In article <JBW.92Oct13115148@bigbird.bu.edu>, jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes:
	...
|> Although vi is available on almost all Unix computers there are a number
|> of reasons why you might want to use GNU Emacs:
	...

I would like to commend you for a good summary.  You also correctly
refer to a specific implementation of Emacs (GNU Emacs).

Many people assume that Emacs === GNU Emacs.  Other implementations
have different tradeoffs, but all share the Emacs spirit.

(Sometimes it makes sense to have more than one version around.  For
example, a "mini" Emacs for bringing up GNU Emacs or editing mail
messages.  The choice is up to you.)

Craig
Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs
From: dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa)
Subject: Quick question...
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 01:30:28 GMT

Could someone save me some searching, and point out where the "auto
saving" string is located (function and filename) - I want to make it
beep as a cheap RSI take a break warning.  If someone has more
elaborate RSI warning code, I would apreciate hearing about it...

<dp>

DEF: RSI - Repetive Stress Injury - aka Hackers Hands, Occupational
Overuse Syndrome, and (somewhat incorrectly, as it is only one of the