HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: JMPIERCE%USMCP6.bitnet@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU (JIM PIERCE)
Subject: Re: Lowering StM's confusion re: even more SEA takes a ride.
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:37:19 GMT

>
>   "StM, I didn't know I could confuse a kzinti that easily !

If you monkeys couldn't confuse Kzin easily, you'd've never won the wars.

  "Nothing up this sleeve ! <riippp!> Sometimes I don't know my
own strength !" DJ.

>  "Mike, to lower StM's confusion rate. Lets toss him into the
>pool !" DJ.
>
>  "I'm not going to help you throw a kzinti into a pool !" Mike.
>
>  "Well, it was just a thought, " DJ. :-)

StM offers, "Here, I'll help you."  He grabs himself by the scruff of the neck.
"Now, which way's the pool?"

   "Well, its outside in the meadow where the green grass grows.
Right next to the lake and water slide. Its a wave pool," DJ.


* <JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET> Jim "NickD." Pierce; Bach. Sci. in Appl. Cmp Sci
* USM Academic Computing on the Gulf Park Campus. Disclaimer: Standard.
* "True Blue, but sorry no tattoo !" me
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From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Subject: Re: Anti-Freeze/Much too Cold!Sundog, who has been busy wrestling with concepts of creation
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:59:08 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.102806.8949@gdr.bath.ac.uk>, eesshlgb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (S H L G Bisson) writes:
>"Oh, I don't know that it's that bad here... it's certainly not frigid here
>today, and I haven't seen any fog, for, oh, 3 months or so. It's only here
>that you get to see what an ocean-influenced temperate climate is like. The
>maximum temperature variation is only about 30K, and we're further north than
>most Canadians!

Oh, I don't know.  The Eastern Shore of Maryland also has an ocean-influenced
temperate climate (remember:  We get some of the heat from the Gulf Stream
before it heads across the pond in your direction).

>"There's probably a bit of a difference between Durham and Hawaii though,
>perhaps a bit more rain than you're used to!

I'd find that hard to believe, since some parts of Hawaii have more days per
year in which it rains than just about any other place on Earth.
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From: HF.TXG@forsythe.stanford.edu (TJ)
Subject: Re: Yet another sleepless night
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:10:11 GMT

Ya know, when I started this whole thing I just wanted to say that I
was *really* uncomfortable with the whole law thang...

I realize that people have different opinions than me and I respect
that...but I really chafe at the whole law thang. I've never been
one to follow the rules comfortabley....*giggle* when I was growing
up if my mom didn't say anything I was a very good kid, however,
when my mom said 'you may *not* do this' I was instantly upset and
even though I probably wouldn't have even thought of doing it in the
first place, I instantly wanted to. I also became an expert at
'cutting-off-my-nose-to-spite-my-face', I'm getting better about
that though...pride goeth before the fall and all that.

At any rate, I just wanted to say I love you all, regardless of our
differences and arguments, and ... I'm buying the drinks if y'all
are interested.

*kisses and hugs [and smiles for those who aren't touchy people]*

TJ
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: A Night in the Hills of West Virginia
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:45:41 GMT

Cathy Ridings <U3E67@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> writes:

>Well folks, I have rambled long enough.  Hope I have not offened anyone.

"Not me." says The Golden Gryphon.

>But I pose a question for debate:   Are we hurting our children, our
>society with this violence?  Does anyone else feel that TV and movie violence
>leads to violence in real life?

"I think I will take an unpopular stand on this.  My stand will be, No we are 
not.  In the long run I think it will be much better.  Violence is a part of
existance.  Nature uses violence as a tool in the wars of natural selection.
People use violence in much the same way.  I will take the point of the 
innocent defender for a moment."

"Assume that you have not seen these violent pictures like T2 when growing up.
You become a small town whatever, and then go to THE BIG CITY for whatever
reason.  You will be totally unprepared if someone decides to do violence to
you.  I think too many people say things like, "There would be no wars if there
were no armies."  This is not true.  Armies are the result of warlike nature in
humans.  Wars are not started by armies.  They are started by people who then
form armies to fight."

"Look at Serbia right now.  These people haven't seen T2, but they are killing
each other over insult and injuries committed hundreds of years ago.  This
just doesn't make sense to me."

"I not into blaming the movie industy, or the music industry for violence. 
No sane balanced human kills after listening to a recording of rock music. 
The person in question had to be unbalanced to begin with, and if this didn't
give them the idea they would have figured it out for themselves."

"I will also reverse myself and look at people who place their kids in front of
the TV to watch cartoons without monitoring the content.  How many people here
grew up on The Road Runner and Wile E. Cyote (sp?).  If you take a look at
these, and even Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd,  these are truely
violent actions.  They also have no after effects.  How many times did Daffy
just put his beak back on forward, and say, "Dispicable!?""

"See what I mean.  The Smurfs, The Thundercats, He-man, She-Ra, and many more
are the fodder we feed our kids.  But no one seems to worry about these.  You
also have to look at the toys we give our kids.  Uzi Water machine guns, and
toy weapons.  I don't think we can single out just movies for violence.  We
must look deeper into our own culture."

With those final words The Golden Gryphon wonders just how coherent he has been
on this subject.  He looks down at the mountain of soap boxes that has magically
risen underneath him and looks questioningly at Mike.  Mike flashes him a 
"Don't ask me" look back, and Gryphon starts putting the boxes back in the
corner.

-- 
The Golden Gryphon 				gryphon@openage.COM
Solve a man's problem and he has 1 less.        No incumbents in 92.
Teach a man to think, and all his problems are less.
Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area
From: salford@orion.lrmsc.loral.com (Stephanie Alford 5850)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: [Group Hug]
Date: 30 Jul 92 06:35:12 GMT
Organization: Loral Rolm Mil-Spec Computers

In article <1992Jul29.232200.26174@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer) writes:
>In article <1992Jul27.202652.18368@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> rkoch@lonestar.utsa.edu (Ruth M. Koch) writes:
>>Quoting kitten:
>>>
>>>kitten hugs john...and nathan too...
>>
>>  <hug> for kitten , and a <hug> for John.
>>
>>  Nathan.
>
>
>     Grin. . . you forgot the bigger hug. . . the one to grab us all in, if 
>you're up to it. . . Kitten?  You wanna sandwich nathan for the huge group
>hug sure to follow?  Keep SOME space in your arms. . . so we can breathe?
>
>                                                 John
>"Only if you're up to it. . . but I could use it today."

SEA says:  "A group hug?  I'm in.  Here John, here's a little extra for
you!"

This account expires in 9 days...please use lunisea@netcom.com for correspondence.
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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: The Nightstalker makes an observation
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:29:16 GMT

kitten YELLS....."I AM INVOKING MY SAFE WORD....DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
ALREADY.  ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.  i am NOT into censorship...and i feel
everyone has a right to his/her own opinion....but would you guys
PLEASE take this to e-mail already......"

--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson

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From: lgold@callahans.Cadence.COM (Lynn Gold)
Subject: Re: A return
Organization: /mnt4/lgold/.organization
	<BruqJ9.LH3@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
	<BrxE09.HD5@cs.columbia.edu>,<Bry33q.7Lu@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
	<1992Jul26.095237.21095@cco.caltech.edu>,<1992Jul26.160356.9316@cs.tulane.edu>
	<1992Jul26.224945.5134@cco.caltech.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1992 07:54:16 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.224945.5134@cco.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:

>In article <1992Jul26.160356.9316@cs.tulane.edu>, pierce@spop.navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce) writes:
>>|> StM (rather predictably) says, "You know, that's one of the symptoms....
>>|> I know, I know, this gets rather tiresome.  But, Barbara, have
>>|> you ever asked a doctor about this?  I STILL (after having been
>>|> diagnosed [and treated] as a diabetic) don't know why my
>>|> temperature tends to average about 2 degrees Fahrenheit below average).
>>
>>    How much beef do you eat ? When I became a vegetarian my body tempersture
>>   dropped to 95 F. It has since gone back up to 97 F. { Over a period of
>>   10 years it went back up, not right away. It went down to 96 F after one
>>   month of no beef. And for those who have forgotten, its allergies
>>   I face. }

>I estimate at least half a pound of beef and pork per day.  If anything, my
>mean temperature goes up when I reduce meat intake in favor of complex
>carbohydrates.

I don't eat that much.  I have a hard time digesting beef, so I tend
to favor other meats -- chicken, pork, lamb, fish.

--Lynn
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From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Subject: Re: A return
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:04:52 GMT

In article <1992Jul20.221931.197@doc.bmd.trw.com> dirbze@doc.bmd.trw.com writes:
>>>"the BEST way to feel is WITH YOUR HANDS....!"
>> 
>> DM grins.
>> "Indeed...."
>
>Indeed!  Just watch what you touch... especially if it's _cold_!

"NO! Especially if your *hands* are cold!"

Shonias


--
************************************
Goodbyes are easy to remember,
You can see the hurt still there...
In my eyes.
************************************
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From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Subject: Re: Snow FantasyAnd now, back to the show:
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 16:53:01 GMT

In article <Bs03u1.ADC@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:

[Speaker says ... ]
>>>     As he moves to the bar, he continues: "Like I said, enjoy what
>>>you wish.  I just wanted to try and show everybody why cold weather
>>>is so enjoyable."  He settles in at the bar.  "Now I have to go
>>>back to muggy ol' Ohio.  Ah well.  At least my apartment has a
>>>very efficient air conditioner!"
>
>>StM looks confused.  "But.... But.... Isn't weather below 50 degrees Fahrenheit
>>enjoyable for itself, never mind things like skiing and sledding?"
>
[Kitten follows with ... ]
>"dear speaker....no offense...but you are loony..."  kitten grins and
>offers him a hug...to show she is teasing....
>
>"cold it okay up to a point...even snow (I HATE ICE...the only good
>ice is in small enough cubes to fit into a pepsi glass)  but if it is
>cold enough to freeze exposed skin it is too cold...i won't even tell
>you about the year my pipes froze on christmas day...it was well below
>0 and not only did i have no water...i had no heat (steam radiator)
>that was how i ended up moving in with t.c. in fact...i had promised
>to cook dinner for him since we were both alone that christmas....we
>just moved every thing from my place to his...we had only known each
>other a month...and we have been together ever since--well, i didn't
>officially move till january...the was when the pipes that had frozen
>broke and flooded my bedroom....

The Didi-Sprite looks up from washing off the paw that Ramda got
caught in the honey-pot (he may be no Winnie-the-Pooh, but he knows
what's sweet!), and smiles:  "There are some who say that there is
no such thing as coincidence, Kitkat!  Your frozen pipes might be
construed as fortunate happenstance."

>the only think i want to do when it gets cold is take my poor
>frostbitten fingers and keep them inside...cuddled up to somebody with
>massive body heat...."
>
"Ummmhmmm!  Most often that someone comes with the name tag:  TC!"
And the -Sprite pats Ramda on his fanny and sends him on his way
with a giggle.

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Stereotypes? Objectifying? thoughts..
Date: 31 Jul 92 17:12:47 GMT
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias) writes:
: That is something I have wonderd about before. Why is it that some people seem
: to relate better to the opposite sex? Not everyone does. I certainly do, in
: fact I have had a lot of trouble coming up with three bridesmaids for my
: wedding because on the whole, my best friends are men. I really haven't noticed
: any significant correlation with anything in particular, so I have no idea
: what it is that makes some people so much better at relating to the opposite 
: sex. Not really what Jody was talking about, but it brought the thought up.

"I notice the same thing, Shonias...but then, I have a fairly small circle of
RL friends...I had one male friend, and my brother, for my groomsmen.  My wife
had one female friend and her sister.  She could have scraped up another
female friend or two, but I could >not< have thought of anyone else as a
groomsmen.  (The only remote possibility would have been vetoed by my wife,
since his behaviour could >not< be relied on.)  Well, I guess there's her
brother, too, but I've never gotten along with him.

"All through high school my socialization group was mostly female.  The same
in my first year at college.  At University, I had fewer friend period, but
the ones I ended up with I met through my brother, and again were mostly
female.  Like my brother's ex-girlfriend...

"I just didn't get along well with most males.  And it might be because they
were too close to the male stereotype, something I've never felt bound to
adhere to, thank the gods."

--
---Alfvaen(a.k.a. Aaron V. Humphrey, Page of Newts)
Canadian Network For Space Research, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
"Don't you point that raygun at me--I might just explode..."  Thomas Dolby
Current Album--Yello:One Second
Current Read--M.J. Engh:Wheel of The Winds
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From: jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer)
Subject: Re: The Nightstalker clowns around
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 01:23:22 GMT

In article <memo.535597@cix.compulink.co.uk> aralph@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (The Nightstalker) writes:
>>The Nightstalker ducks out to the toilets with a big grin on his face, and
>>"A coke please Mike, I need the feeling. See people, I am flame proof.
>>Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!"
>
>"Nah, that's not a flame-thrower" says MonTemplar, as he pulls out a small
>object like a spray can, and presses the nozzle...
>
>*FWOOSH!*
>
>The Nightstalker suddenly notices that he is somewhat undressed and a nice
>shade of sharcoal-black.
>
>"THIS is a flame-thrower!"
>
>
>"Seeing as I'm a good sport... last one in the Hot Tub gets cold water
>poured on them! Race ya!" says MonTemplar, as he rips off his outfit in
>one quick motion to reveal his trunks and beach towel... *CHARGE!*
>> The Nightstalker.....
>Alan Ralph <-> Kimberley MonTemplar


      Could I?  Would I?  
 
      John, inconspicuously eating a banana. . . ooops.  Drops the peel.
Would he really do that JUST to help Nighstalker?
 
       As Montemplar seems doomed to slip and go flying into a strategically
place pile of whipped cream, John looks shocked and embarrassed at this 
little faux pas.  (prounounce fawx pass, for those of you who didn't know.)
-- 
"Love is cool; I mean, like, really cool.  Like, the coolest thing in
the universe, where, like, people open up inside and show the world how
they feel, and they ain't afraid someone's gonna laugh because they, like,
love themselves already!"  --Personality 42, a generic 60's philosopher 
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From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Subject: Re: The brumby is foaling better
Summary:  Give us a break!
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:55:30 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.170203.23008@openage.openage.com> gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon) writes:
>brumby@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:
>
>
>
>AIM
>
>>   The peanuts start to fly. The brumby ducks behind the hot tub.
>
>FIRE AT WILL
>
>>   "Hmmm, this placenta lot better than the last one. Okay, so I was 
>>laboring for that one. I can't conceive of any better ones though. But
>>egg me on, I'll see if I can carry this one to term."
>
>1d6 pun dammage!
>
>>   The brumby retreats from the hail of peanuts.
>
>The peanut farmers of america smile as The Golden Gryphon takes up an arial
>patrole over Brumby and beans him unmercifly with peanuts.
>
>"Such embryonic puns.  Come on Brumby can't you make more furtile puns? I mean
>you're a studd now.  You have run the great race and finshed.  I do wonder at
>amplibious horses though.  But I guess if I give the idea enough it will grow
>on me.  Make sure you start buying live bugs now.  You never know what a 
>pregnant frog will crave."
> 
This one is for you Gryphon!


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You asked for it ... you got it ...
and ain't no Toyota neither!

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
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From: mdm@sparc2.Prime.COM (Michael D. McAfee)
Subject: Vivants and a Swiftie
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 20:30:36 GMT



		"Yiiiiiii-eeeeee!"

		<SPLASH!>

		The dark elf clims out of the lake (having been thrown 
	in by Telsor) and says, "So that's what an anchovie feels like 
	before ending up on a pizza."  He then sits down, crosses his legs, 
	enters a sorcerous trance, finds every single drop of water in his 
	clothing and hair, and evaporates them.


		At this point he hears, "Three cheers for Master Ragnar
	Ufgarson, Lady Gunnora Hallakava, and milord Giovanni (me)."


		The elf cast an illusion of a herald's tabard (worn
	sideways) and shouts, "Vivant!  Vivant!  Vivant!  Hmmm, as a
	member of the Fools' Guild of Carolingia, maybe I could get you 
	an AOL (award of legs).  Whoops, apologies to everyone who
	doesn't understand SCA references."

		He goes back to the bar, and sees a list of Tom Swifties
	on the chalkboard.  But there's one missing.  So the elf adds:

		"I dropped my toothpaste," said Tom, crestfallen.

	He then ducks the occassional blast of peanuts.

	Michael, the Chaotic
	disclaimer:  any opinions expressed in this post are all Freudian
			slips, so blaming my employers is obviously a
			sign of regression
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From: SG.MML@isumvs.iastate.edu (M. Loughin)
Subject: Re: Yet another sleepless night
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:58:21 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.083319.3146@cco.caltech.edu>,
lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
>In article <1992Jul27.193832.24330@news.iastate.edu>, SG.MML@isumvs.iastate.edu (M. Loughin) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul26.161337.10915@cs.tulane.edu>,
>>pierce@spop.navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce) writes:
>>>In article <Bs039K.A9p@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>>>|> kitten looks down off the top of a mountain of soap boxes...hoping
>>>|> somebody will catch her if she jumps.
>>>
>>>        I will.
>>>DJ.
>>
>>I would, too, but she'd have to jump up!  My pile is about
>>97000 boxes higher than hers.  Anyone got a parachute?  The
>>breeze is starting to pick up  . . .
>

Marie hears a faint call from StM just as she leaps from the
top-most box.

>StM produces his box, labelled "ACME soapbox termites," opens it, and turns the
>contents loose on Marie's pile of soapboxes.  "Just hang on," he yells to
>Marie, "These termites are trained to act in concert, so the pile of soapboxes
>SHOULDN'T just fall over, but at your altitude, they might rock back and forth
>a bit."

It is now a race between the purple parachute and the greedy
termites.  The only thing Marie knows for certain is that there
will be a number of very plump termites waiting for her at the
bottom.  "I hope these bugs *only* eat soapboxes.   Otherwise
Mike might be a bit miffed,"  she mutters to herself.

"Thanks for the help, down there!!"  she yells.  Only 84578 boxes
to go . . .
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