HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: cah@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ceri Hopkins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The toothbrush & the burglar's behind
Date: 20 Nov 92 13:24:49 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

>>>>> On 19 Nov 92 09:50:28 GMT, zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) said:

Dave> This well known and currently popular UL has appeared on KEY103 the local FM 
Dave> station in Manchester UK at approximately 17:30GMT 1992-11-18.  The DJ 
Dave> claims to have received a letter from a listener saying that while 
Dave> holidaying in Florida their hotel room was burgled and everything valuable 
Dave> was taken except the camera, and when the film was developed some shots 
Dave> showed the old toothbrush_up_the_burglar's_rectum trick.  
Dave> If I can be bothered I'll contact the station and try to ascertain whether:
Dave> (a) the DJ knew of the UL and used it to spice up the show;
Dave> (b) the people who wrote in used the UL to spice up the show;
Dave> (c) it really happened (I can imagine a burglar hearing the UL and thinking 
Dave> it funny enough to include on his next burglary).

Also appeared in the "True Stories" [sic] section of "Private Eye" (UK
satirical magazine) No. 807 Friday 20 November, 1992. The "True
Stories" section contains items lifted from the press. The following
snippet appeared in "Bedfordshire on Sunday" on 18 October, 1992.

"It was what you might call a bad year," said Mrs Wendy Etti. "Our
dream trip Florida villa was burgled and all our holiday things stolen
except the camera. When the film was developed the prints showed the
burglars mooning at the camera with our toothbrushes, also unstolen,
stuck into their bottoms."

Ceri
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From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.
Date: 15 Nov 92 17:31:29 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

In article <1992Nov15.112736.9038@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mr. Furr) writes:
> In article <1992Nov14.140746.26778@ulysses.att.com> smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
> >But states don't have to do that; in fact, neither Maine nor Nebraska
> >do.  They give two electoral votes to whoever won the statewide race;
> >the rest are divided up by Congressional district.
> 
> These states may have passed laws that attempt to enforce that, but in
> fact, they're unenforceable.  Just as laws specifying that you *must* vote
> for the candidate who you pledged to vote are unenforceable.

Certainly such laws are unenforceable.  But if state law provides that
electors are chosen by the plurality vote in each district, you have a
very high probability of getting the desired effect.  In practice, very
few electors vote for someone they weren't pledged to vote for, though
it does happen.
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Soldiers breaking step across bridge
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:04:22 GMT

Jay.Ashworth@f8649.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jay Ashworth) writes:
: 
: Indeed.  Jon Bentley, in _More_Programming_Pearls_, (an excellent book for other reasons...) mentions that the only suspension bridge from that era still standing is the George Washington, in New York.
: 

How about the Golden Gate bridge - and others? I know that the GG was built
at about the same time. I am sure that others (Bay bridge?) were also.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: C521832@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
Subject: Is my father lying?
Organization: University of Missouri at Columbia, U.S.A.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:33:04 GMT
X-Posted-From: mizzou1.missouri.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

My dad told me this, and I'm curious about it. I also think that, if true,
it's likely to crop up at some point.
 
He's worked as a DJ at an AM radio station for more than 20 years. He says
AM transmitter antennas are dangerous, in that if you touch one while
standing on the ground, you will be electrocuted--the current will go
through you to the ground and fry you.
 
He says ladders on the sides of such towers (for engineers) begin a foot
or so off the ground. Engineers have to make a little hop onto them
to avoid touching the ground and the tower at the same time.
 
Periodically, he says, kids or engineers (equally likely!) get zapped.
 
SO: Is this true? And if so...well, just keep it in mind! It may come up..
 
Rev "tore down a homemade Shergold flyer recently to my girlfriend's horror"
John
From: klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Question about "T." in James T. Kirk !!!!!! (As seen on TV)
Date: 15 Nov 92 18:08:48 GMT
Organization: Duke University

In article <1992Nov13.183651.21834@cbnewse.cb.att.com> random@cbnewse.cb.att.com (David L. Pope) writes:
>Has anyone bothered to point out that "T" was NOT Kirk's middle
>initial in one of the first episodes? In "Where No Man Has Gone Before",
>the dude with the super-powers caused a grave and headstone to come
>into existence. The Headstone read "James R. Kirk"
>
>(Maybe that was supposed to be for James Roy Kirk [See the NOMAD episode])

  Maybe the guy had 2 middle names - not that unusual today, (don't know
  about 200 years from now, though).  So, what have we got?  A guy whose
  name is James Tiberius Roy Kirk.  And the middle initials are "T.R.", which
  is so close to "Terry" its scary.  So the middle initials come close, but
  not quite to giving a semi-phonetic pronunciation.  We have to add the "E"
  sound in also.  Were there any episodes where his middle initial was "E"?
  Then we would have "T.R.E." which obviously spells "Terry".  How did
  Roddenberry (sp?) know so many years ago that this discussion would tie
  right in with all the Terries on AFU?  Amazing.

  I predict there are some "lost episodes" in which Kirk's middle initial
  will be given as "E".

  Wait a minute ... maybe it was "... Roy Tiberius .." instead, in which
  case the sounding would have to be backwards to get the "Terry" sound.  A
  clear case of backwards masking, proving that JK is in league the devil.

k "The "E" is for "Esplanade"" g
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From: amymw@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Amy Wisotsky)
Subject: Re: Calvin/Hobbes diagnosed as clinical schizophrenic
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:10:05 GMT

proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes:

>In article <Bxq5Gs.C58@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley) writes:
>>
>>No, there is no doubt that Hobbes simply is real.  He is every bit as real 
>>as the transmogrifier and the time machine.  He does the things which are
>>ascribed to him.  The fact that Calvin also is known to have an active
>>imagination is a seperate, and healthy, issue.  I think that y'all have
>>forgotten what it was to be a child and the way that a child's mind works,
>>and I am very sad for you.
>>
>>Kevin

>Does anyone else out there think that "Puff the Magic Dragon" is a very
>sad song, especially the lines "Dragons live forever, but not so little
>boys"?

This probably isn't the place to mention this at all, but as long as
someone brought it up.....does anyone know the words to the Puff song?
That was my favorite song as a little kid, and I never new all the
words.  I've been looking for it on tape for years, but haven't been
able to find it.  Any help would be appreciated.

Please no flames about how this isn't a music group.

							-Amy-
							 :)
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	#include ".sig"
	#define AMY amymw@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu
		:)
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Microwave Death
Date: 16 Nov 92 14:41:40 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

well i heard that years ago they didn't think to put safety locks into 
microwaves, and some engineer was working on one and withdrew his hand 
when he felt it getting hot, caught the edge of the casing and all the flesh 
just slid off the bones, nicely cooked.
this was when they were new, so:
(a) joe public might believe they'd leave out safety interlocks, or that the 
interlock might fail.
(b) the engineer might not realise about the uniform heating and therefore 
might think he was ok until he felt the heat
nb i didn't believe it then, nor now.  just maybe somebody damaged 
themselves a bit, but the flesh slid off the bone?  get outta here!

        Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty

  Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England   (44|0)61-275-6033  
  D.Budd@mcc.ac.uk                                          fax 6040
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From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Subject: Bush's dirty campaign
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:39:29 GMT

I don't think this is an UL, but it's stupid enough, so it must be.  (Motto
of the nanosecond.)

According to a FOAF, during the race for President of the United States,
Bush had set up a deal with the CIA (or, FBI, whichever you prefer) to
add little audio pops/hisses to broadcasts of Clinton's speeches so they
would be distorted and no one would ever vote for Clinton.

Whatever.

-- 
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From: ccaamrg@ucl.ac.uk (Mike Gahan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Car Crime
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:49:54 GMT
Reply-To: ccaamrg@rs6-svr-2.cls-4.bcc.ac.uk (Mike Gahan)
Organization: UCL

AFOM has recently been issued with a company car. It is quite fancy, and
he took some pleasure in demonstrating the remote door locking/unlocking
feature, by which it is possible to lock the doors from some distance
away using a remote control instrument.

Swiveling the mighty searchlight of my intellect upon its smooth gimbals,
and bringing its harsh, actinic blaze to bear on this matter, the following
occured to me:

I assume that the remote instrument transmits some coded digital signal,
electromagnetic or ultrasonic, to the vehicle, which, recognising its
master, obligingly unlocks itself. The signal must be different for each
vehicle. To steal a car such as this, I though, would be quite easy.

The thief would merely conceal some piece of electronics, attuned to the
appropriate frequency, somewhere near the car, possibly disguised as an
itinerant traffic cone. The unsuspecting owner would use his instrument 
to open the car, whereupon its cry would be recorded by the devilish
equipment. The thief then comes and collects his machine, which will
replay the desired signal to order.


Imagine my childlike delight when I hear, from a bloke in a pub, that
such devices are already available in the crime ridden dens of London's
seedy East End.

Can anyone substansiate this rumour, so that I can gloatingly tell my
friend 'I told you so' ?

Mike Gahan
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes)
Subject: Re: Bush's dirty campaign
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Will pay money for food.
Distribution: usa
Date: 18 Nov 1992 22:26 EST  

In article <1992Nov19.013712.29689@midway.uchicago.edu>, 
  thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes...

>Yeah!  *Everyone* knows that television sound is completely different from
>that on the radio.

 The pictures certainly are.

 - snopes

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From: dechc00@tohi.DMI.USherb.Ca (CHRISTIAN DECHAMPLAIN)
Subject: Re: cheap chips (Was Re: CDs cheaper to make than cassettes?)
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- departement de Mathematiques et
	d'Informatique
	<1992Nov16.204954.8703@ee.ryerson.ca>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:16:16 GMT


MIPS = Meaningless Information from Pushy Salesperson
       -           -                -     -

Come on, you're comparing a CISC with a RISC.

I bet that the CISC die is bigger than the RISC die?

Well, if you still don't understand, too bad.


--
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(819) 563-8951       |
dechc00@dmi.usherb.ca|
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Bush's dirty campaign
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:37:12 GMT

In article <18NOV199220271226@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov> dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes) writes:
>In article <1992Nov18.213929.29246@u.washington.edu>, 
>  starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes...
>>According to a FOAF, during the race for President of the United States,
>>Bush had set up a deal with the CIA (or, FBI, whichever you prefer) to
>>add little audio pops/hisses to broadcasts of Clinton's speeches so they
>>would be distorted and no one would ever vote for Clinton.
>
>How many people listen to campaign speeches on the radio?  How many speeches
>are even _broadcast_ on the radio?

Yeah!  *Everyone* knows that television sound is completely different from
that on the radio.

Ted "well, snopes implied it, so it must be true" Frank
-- 
ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: Obscene Functions
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:37:06 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <bbub02Dc2b0g01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
>In article <BxvtxL.FGp@unx.sas.com>, sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce
>Tindall) writes:
>> Say, has anyone ever met anyone famous who has remarked that the
>> Paul Simon song from which that lyric is quoted, "American Tune", is
>> actually a German tune?
>
>Which German tune?  Sounds like Tschchcschaikofvskiy's (hey, if misspelling
>is inevitible, do it with style) "Seranade For Strings" to me.

"O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" from the St. Matthew Passion by J.S.Bach,
also known as the English-language hymn "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded."
It's not note-for-note identical, but if I were an 18th century German
attorney heavily into barratry, I might suggest to Bach that he sue.
-- 
Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Mgr., SAS Institute Inc., Cary, N.C. 27513
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: CDs cheaper...
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:42:37 GMT

In article <BxuDvv.LG7@egsner.cirr.com> datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
>I've read that LP's cost more to make than CD's, at least these days.
>
>>How much are new CDs these days? 
>
>As much as $17.99+tax for those silly enough to buy them in stores.  As
>low as $7 from Noteworthy.

What is "Noteworthy" ?

(Is it some kind of club?)

(Have I reached my four lines yet?)

(I don't know if this stupid newsreader does the 4 line check or not,
but I'm not taking any chances...)

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I've been told to back off on the diode jokes, but I still don't
like smileys ;-)

	- pynq@quads.uchicago.edu, who is still costing the net
	  hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, every time he posts -
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From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Subject: Re: Spelling flames (recursive)
Keywords: We've come to a pretty pass around here. That's near the Donner 
    Pass.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:29:48 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

David A. Johns) writes:
>Jeff Davis writes:
>

># D.M.Procida writes:
>#
># >the voracity of her story
>#      ^^^^^^^^
>#
># I've seen this spelling quite often recently. Was I out of the room
># when this became standard? If so, could someone include it in
># some kind of addendum to the FAQs. After all, we are known to hunger
># after the truth in this forum. Ratcheting it up a knotch or so
># would not be out of line.
># --
># Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> My bad.
>
>Knotch?
>
>ObUL: It is impossible to post a spelling flame without making a
>spelling errer.
>
I wasn't flaming a spelling error. I was asking if "voracity" had
become a standard in-joke. Knatch?

BTW..."voracity" is a standard in-joke. It is designated so
in the FAQs.  I have performed the standard rituals to atone
for my sins. Enow already.
-- 
Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> My bad.     
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From: dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes)
Subject: Re: Bush's dirty campaign
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Will pay money for food.
Distribution: usa
Date: 18 Nov 1992 20:27 EST  

In article <1992Nov18.213929.29246@u.washington.edu>, 
  starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes...

>According to a FOAF, during the race for President of the United States,
>Bush had set up a deal with the CIA (or, FBI, whichever you prefer) to
>add little audio pops/hisses to broadcasts of Clinton's speeches so they
>would be distorted and no one would ever vote for Clinton.

How many people listen to campaign speeches on the radio?  How many speeches
are even _broadcast_ on the radio?

 - snopes

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From: tz10956@meibm17.cen.uiuc.edu (Thomas Zych)
Subject: Re: Military wit (was Re: Jackpotting ATM's for)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:41:00 GMT

rhadden@isdres.er.usgs.gov writes:

> What is
>the old saying "It is better to be thought a fool and be silent, athan to
>open your mouth and be known as one."?

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth
and remove all doubt.

(At least that's the way I remember it...)

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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: LSD Laced Lick-on Tattoos
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:20:39 GMT

styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:
: bill nelson writes:
: > [blue star tattoo stuff deleted]
: >
: > I do not recall hearing it before the early to mid seventies.
: 
: Nah, it's at least from the sixties. I remember I got some home brewed leaflet
: during grade school. Don't think this UL started in Norway...

Well, during the early 60s, the students in my school used alcohol. No one
seemed to be interested in other drugs. So, no warnings.

Was lsd in popular usage at the time? It was my impression that there was
little usage until the late 60s and early 70s - far too soon for parents
to start panicking about their grade school children. At that time, it was
just the hippies and other dropouts who used the drug.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes (a different theory)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: aliens, voodoo
Organization: Will pay money for food.
Date: 16 Nov 1992 12:22 EST  

In article <1e4e4sINN9j6@moe.ksu.ksu.edu>, 
  diverson@phys.ksu.edu (David Iverson) writes...

>This story line seems strangely simillar to the Star Trek episode where the
>little girl is playing with her imaginary friend when an alien being passes
>through her brain and thus manifests as the little girls imaginary friend. 

Oh.  Do we know what Calvin's middle name is?

 - snopes

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:11:32 -0500 
From: Seth Malcolm Redmore <sr2s+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: LSD Laced Lick-on Tattoos

<---Stuff Deleted--->

Rick writes:

>
>I've never understood the panic, as the effects of LSD are far too apparent
>and long lasting ( up to 12 hours ) for a parent to not recognize that
>something is not quite right.

That's because you have never met my brother.

Seth "Yeah, his pupils are always like that." Redmore
From: Krzysztof@netxsys.guild.org (Krzysztof Adamski)
Subject: Rat eats baby
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Summary: 
Keywords: rat baby
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: 22 Nov 92 23:18:16 EST
Organization: NetX Systems Inc.

Something from a newswire:

bc-egypt-rat:745pes
        UPI-ID:722220541
    Rat kills infant in Egypt
   CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) - A two-month-old baby boy died when a rat ate
away parts of his face as he lay asleep in bed beside his mother in a
poor section of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, the daily Al
Gomhuriya newspaper reported Thursday.
   The mother told police she woke up in the morning to find her clothes
and hands covered with blood of her baby, whose cheeks and lips were
eaten away.
   She also said another one of the numerous rats plaguing their house
ate parts of her daughter's arm, but the girl was rushed to a hospital
and saved. The prosecutor charged the woman with negligence.


                                     ---------
                               upi 11-19-92 07:48 pes

Will this turn into a UL?

Krzysztof