HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: billmcc@seanews.akita.com (Bill McCormick)
Subject: Re: Philadelphia Experiment
Organization: SEANEWS - Seattle Public Access News & Mail
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:08:01 GMT

In article <7176@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:
>	FACT: Most sites expire articles pretty fast -- all the ones I've
>seen have expiration in no more than a week, many in 2-3 days.
>
>	Most FAQs tend to be posted once per month (at least on the 
>groups I'm on.
>
>	Thus, there's only a 25% chance maximum that the FAQ list is even
>AVAILABLE for the newbie when he/she/it gets on.

FACT: FAQ's are posted with *explicit* expiration dates.  Explicit
expiration dates override implicit news system expiration dates.

The current AFU FAQ has an expiration date of "1 December 1992".

Thus, anyone who finds the FAQ unavailable has a 96% chance of being
a lazy whiner who can't take the time to look for one.

>	Moreover, many of them don't know what an FAQ is.

If they read the "news.announce.newusers" as they are supposed to
(and reminded to by news posting software the first time they post),
they would know.

>	If they do, a lot of them couldn't FTP it from anywhere if
>their life depended on it.

FTP'ing isn't necessary.

>	In addition, FAQs tend to be very long indeed... and a lot of
>people may have patience to sit through a lot of short posts, but not
>to sit through 1,500 lines of one post.

Right.  I suppose this would be true if we were reading sheets of
paper by candlelight, but today's modern computer systems have
searching capability.

>	In conclusion, FAQs are basically just large postings that give
>the posters the FEELING that they are doing something useful, but more
>often they're not accomplishing much at all. (An FAQ is a great scapegoat
>maker, though. If you post an FAQ, you can then say smugly to some
>newbie, "THAT'S in the FAQ. What are you, a moron or something?"

And so the lazy learn.

Bill
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From: gregn@coombs.anu.edu.au (Gregory Newton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: McDonalds Urban Legends
Date: 16 Oct 92 12:22:03 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2

rob@msc.cornell.edu (Rob Vaughn) writes:

>One of my rare visits to a McDonalds this past weekend reminded me of
>some possible urban legend material from my high school days when Mickey
[McSnorting]
>Any ideas on the real reasons behind these changes?  Any other interesting
>McD's stories?  Conspiracy stories involving Grimace or the French Fry Guys
>are most welcome.

	I used to have a friend in high school who worked for McPukes.
I have only once eaten there once since ( and was damn thoughrough ).

	some of his stories of what he did involved:

		flies in burgers
		spit in just about anything
		patties dropped on the floor then used
		the list of chemicals in the ingredients of the gerkins

		and more ...

It sorta turned me of the old chew & spew.

- Greg N ('Cloud')
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: vpaf5@jane.uh.edu (Kal)
Subject: Re: nail in Coca-Cola
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:05:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct08.125630.20234@NeoSoft.com>, arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva) writes...
>In article <7OCT199216324783@jane.uh.edu> vpaf5@jane.uh.edu (Kal) writes:
>> >
>> _My_ navel jelly contains sulfuric, and not phosphoric, acid.
> 
> 
>My navel contains lint, not jelly.
> 
>Perhaps you're thinking of KY jelly?
> 
> 
>Stephanie "who put this pubic hair in my navel jelly?" da Silva

Kentucky jelly? In *my* navel? Too sweet to be mixed with acid, I think.

ObUL: "pumpkin" is a verb in Ken...oh god never mind. Just never mind. It's been
a long, long day.

Kal   vpaf5@jane.uh.edu              My opinions are almost, but not quite,
                                     entirely unlike those of my employer.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: zell@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph Zell)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was ABSOLUTELY better)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 02:20:06 GMT

tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:

>In article <1992Oct14.171625.14125@julian.uwo.ca>, jv@irus.rri.uwo.ca (Jeffrey Verhagen) writes:

>>  Actually, I believe the T stood for Taffeta; ie - James Taffeta Kirk.

>Kirks parents must have been morons.  What type of a parent would name
>their kid Tie-beer-eous.  Must have been drunks too.

Actually, the name's Romulan.
Anyway, better than 'Jean-Luc'. Sounds like a Hillbilly.

>Kirk would have been lucky to be named "Terry".

No comment.
joe

-- 
zell@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu  * "Never fear, Duncan. Good will overcome.
Joe Zell               * Trust in that.."
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: duffey@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas Duffey)
Subject: Re: What's lutfisk? + new UL (was Re: Liz Claiborne/Oprah Winfrey UL)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:01:16 GMT

schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:

>Lutefisk is raw herring (or is it cod?) fillets soaked in lye
>and served cold, often with lefse (a sort of undercooked tortilla
>slathered in butter, also cold). A holiday treat among Scandinavians
>and their descendants in Minnesota. Oh, sure, they complain about
>having to eat it, but they do it anyway.

	It's cod.  Italians call this disgusting dish "baccala."

Tom Duffey

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: kelley@vet.vet.purdue.edu (Stephen Kelley)
Subject: Re: Conscious Severed Heads (was: Is the electric chair . . .)
Organization: Carps Underground, Cookies of Doom Division
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 01:15:18 GMT

In article <1b87qvINN187@moe.ksu.ksu.edu> diverson@phys.ksu.edu (David Iverson) writes:
- 
- What do you mean this isn't humane?  This method ranks in the top five of
- ways that I wish I could die (when the time comes of course).  Talk about a


I distinctly remember reading an article about 15 years, purportedly
non-fiction, about the last two criminals beheaded in France.  Supposedly,
one of them, for his final request, asked to have it done with him
face-up, "So I can see it coming."  France refused.

Steve
	and no, they weren't G and D

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: stirling@ozrout.uucp (Stirling Westrup)
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Organization: Andre P. Ozrout
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:12:41 GMT

scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us writes
>>All I remember about the series other than this is that River Phoenix
>>was G.
>>
>>-Kristy "but what if they had 27 children?" Patterson
>start again with aa, bb, cc.  the 27th could be aaron.

That's no way to count!  If you're gonna re-use the letters, do it like:

aa, ab, ac, ..., az,
ba, bb, bc, ..., bz,
           .
           .
           .
za, zb, zc, ..., zz

That way you can count a reasonable number of kids.  (Okay, no one is
likely to have enough kids to matter, but did you know that the official
Doctor Who episode numbers use little gator's scheme?  The futility of
the scheme become apparant when you are told you're watching episode
'CCCCC'. )


Stirling "Course, AAron would still be next, but
          LLoyd would appear much later in this scheme"  Westrup

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: vpaf5@jane.uh.edu (Kal)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Party at Kitty and Stud's
Date: 7 Oct 92 14:03:00 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <16130@borg.cs.unc.edu>, saxe@cassatt.cs.unc.edu (Eddie Saxe) writes...
>In article <1992Oct5.211716.10382@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>>Isn't that the origin of the phrase POSH, standing for Puke On Shoes Here.
>>Refering to the habit of really rich people, like Winston, who did this 
>>regularly after meals as a sign of appreciation,  in much the same way that 
>> Arab peoples belch.
  ^
some

Kal  vpaf5@jane.uh.edu and my mother would kill me if I belched in public
                       without profusely begging everybody's pardon.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.tasteless
From: avdh@sunnyboy.dazixco.ingr.com (Alain van der Heide)
Subject: Re: The End Of The World
Keywords: baptist, apocalypse
Organization: Dazix - An Intergraph Company
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 22:46:15 GMT

In article <Bw4M2z.Hun@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, ipgrier@compass.uwaterloo.ca (Iain P. Grier) writes:
> Okay, I got this one off of alt.tasteless two months ago.  No, I
> don't have a copy of the article.  
> 
> It appears that Baptists and some other miscellaneous religion 
> (United Church?) believe that the end of the world is supposed to
> happen on October 28th, 1992.
> 
> Is the apocalypse story an UL or is the story that it's a Baptist
> story an UL?
> 
> It looks like we have less than 2 weeks to debunk this thing...

It's too late.  I just heard on the news that a whole bunch of "Christian"
"churches" in Korea had predicted EOW for last Sat.  Enough people believed
that the economy was fucked up, what with everybody heading to the mountains
for bouts of self-flagellation (GIF! GIF! GIF!).  Anyway, since we still
seem to be here, some of the churches have been apologizing to their members
for JC's lack of consideration for not blowing away all the sinners with the
Uzi of Wrath.

ObSmugSmirk:  Nice to see there are countries more screwed up than the US
when it comes to religious ferver.

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| avdh@dazixco.ingr.com                    |  This is the way the world ends  |
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segmentation fault
core dumped
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Arrest on the net
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Distribution: alt.folklore.urban
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:47:47 GMT

schnizer@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Schnizer Ansgar) writes:
: I read the story in the newpaper. Its rather recent, a few weeks
: ago or so. Somebody on the net (I don't know which net) pretended
: to be an average user but in fact was an undercover police officer!
: Somebody told him the story that he wants to kidnap a young
: child to make a snuff video. I don't know if this was a desperate
: alt.folklore.urban reader who got sick of reading all that mail
: of people who don't believe in snuff videos, but he might as well
: have been. 
:  Anyway the newspaper said that he got a 30 years prison term.

I don't remember the details, but I recall them being different from
what you posted. Does anyone have the article handy?

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: rogers@rosencrantz.osf.org (Andrew Rogers)
Subject: Re: William Safire and the Bee Gees
Organization: HICAM/OSD
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 18:37:59 GMT

In article <Bvtn63.2Lu@unx.sas.com> sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>Reminds me of the column William Safire (a conservative newspaper
>columnist, for the American-Culture-impaired) wrote some years back,
>containing the UL or conspiracy theory or whatever that the rock
>band "The Bee Gees" were an evil part of the drug culture because
>"Bee Gee" was an abbreviation of an alleged slang term for heroin,
>"Boy & Girl".  
>
>Anybody know where he might have gotten this, or did he think it up
>out of his own head?  Anybody with any familiarity with the Bee Gees'
>music would know that the only drug they've ever experimented with is
>Saccharine.

Anybody with any familiarity with the history of the group would also know
that they started calling themselves the Bee Gees ("Brothers Gibb", as if
I have to tell anyone that) since they were 7, 7, and 9 years old.

AWR
>
>Bruce "They must have been on *something* to make their voices
>do that" Tindall
>
>
>-- 


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: smcneil@metro (Shannon McNeil)
Subject: Re: Yeast
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 04:16:03 GMT

From article <dignan.718989818@husc10>, by dignan@husc10.harvard.edu (Thomas Dignan):
>  	Can one use yeast from a vaginal yeast infection to raise bread 
> or to ferment beer? It was recently suggested to me that there is a 
> distinct marketing possiblity behind products made this way.

I think you have the wrong group.  Shouldn't this be in alt.tasteless?

> 
> -- 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Thomas Dignan                          |   I am not a chutney ferret.
> Knight@Templar.haywain.cab             |   "This song rhymes and we 
> Master@Priory.sion.cab                 |      play it in time." - Flipper

Shannon
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Presidential Succession History
Date: 15 Oct 1992 01:53:51 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

catstyle@deja-vu.aiss.uiuc.edu (Jason R. Heimbaugh) writes:

  +>I assume that the Secret Service would have no qualms about shooting down an
  +>aircraft onto a busy street to save the President, but what if it were
  +>flying over Capital Hill, would they wipe out an entire Congress to save
  +>the President?

Sure.  Tell the Congress to get their own damn Secret Service.


Terry "AFU West - Terry, Mt. View, CA, October 21; check it out" Chan
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Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe Per Diem
From: rhamilt@husc10.harvard.edu (Rowan Hamilton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Dan Rather
Keywords: ketchup,Rather
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:07:42 GMT

I heard some story recently about Dan Rather getting caught dancing nude
on a table in a Denny's, with ketchup on his penis. Supposedly the media
covered it up to protect their ratings. Can anyone corroborate this 
story?
-- 
Rowan T. Hamilton                         "To dig this is to groove on
hamilton@huhepl.harvard.edu                   hella shit."
hamilton@fnald.fnal.gov                   - Some random skate-punk.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 10:02:28 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.211404.22568@photon.com>, wmc@photon.com (Bill Cornette) writes:
|> : >Oh, by the way, I heard there was a computer program developed in the 
|> : >Fifties that was supposed to automate translation of Russian into English.
|> : >It rendered "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" into the Russian
|> : >for "The meat is rotten, but the vodka is holding out."  Is this true?
|> 
|> : It's every bit as True (TM) as the automatic translation program which
|> : when given "Out of sight, out of mind" to translate into Russian and back
|> : again came out as "Invisible idiot" ...
|> 
|> And for a third example, a technical paper on hydraulic rams came out a
|> a "water goat".

I'll add that when a text editor was translated to German, the question
"Manual Check? (Y/N)" that was asked after a "Substitute Text" command
came out as "Handbuch Controllieren? (J/N)".

Same editor used shortcut commands and "ds" would mean "Document Save" in
the English version. Using the Norwegian version the "ds" sequence would
be interpreted as "Document Delete".

---
YuNoHoo
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
From: baylor@nebula.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Subject: Re: "Normal" body temperature
Reply-To: baylor@nebula.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 16:10:19 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.004405.21216@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>, derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>In article <28621@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com> mstemper@ems.cdc.com writes:
>>If you want to get comfortable with Celsius, just use the following
>>non-numeric conversions:
>>
>>   degrees C      Meaning			Fahrenheit
>>    -40           -40 Fahrenheit		- 40 (Told ya!)
>>    -30           Your car won't start	- 22
>>    -20           Very cold			-  4
>>    -10           Cold			+ 14
>>      0           Freezing			+ 32
>>     10           Cool			+ 50
>>     20           Room temperature		+ 68
>>     30           Hot				+ 86
>>     40           Very hot			+104
>
>Good list - Could someone put the Fahrenheit on the right for fully 
>metricated.

And if you're wondering, the usual conversion formula is
C = 5/9 * (F - 32)
Gee, this must be the one thing in the sciences that the
Americans know better than the rest of the world ;-)
From: mick@isi.edu (Mick O'Donnell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Q: Eating live monkey brains
Date: 16 Oct 92 12:44:00 GMT
Reply-To: mick@venera.isi.edu (Mick O'Donnell)
Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California


Hi,,

 I'm trying to track down factual (??) reports about this urban myth
about societies who eat munkey brains, straight from the owner's skull
(alla Temple of Doom). Anyone know if any kulture actually did this
stuff?  Which culture?

 Where the monkeys still alive at the time?

  What spices/herbs should one use?


Micko
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: McDonalds Urban Legends
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 06:48:48 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.191133.29947@msc.cornell.edu> rob@msc.cornell.edu (Rob Vaughn) writes:
>
>The first rumor claimed that McDonalds stopped using the hollow, straw-like
>coffee stirrers because addicts were using them to snort cocaine (in lieu
>of a fresh,rolled $100 bill, I guess.)  The replacement, which is a long
>paddle-like stick, isn't much better - the rumor claims it can be used like 
>a small spoon similar to the kind favored by some snorters.

I heard it was a similar implement formerly used at 7-11 for their slurpees.

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: Canadian pennies, etc.
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 20:40:06 GMT

> Someone allegedly was  arrested because he consistantly failed
> to pay parking meters and also the fines he received  for his parking
> violations; he got off because the meters charged nickels, dimes  and 
> quarters, and he never had those particular foreign coins on him when
> he  parked and  he didn't think it reasonable that the meters required
> non-Canadian coins...

I remember reading about that one myself.  It was something like 20 years
ago, and I think it was in a smallish city in Ontario -- maybe Kingston
or somewhere in that general area.

I read it in the local paper of whichever city I was living in at the time:
either the Kitchener-Waterloo Record or the Guelph Daily Mercury.  The
article went on to say that the same defense would not work in, uh,
whatever city I was reading it in, because that city's bylaw on parking
meters *specified* that "nickel", "dime", and "quarter" would mean 5, 10,
and 25 cent coins respectively.

Oh, and as to the Subject line -- the "penny" is a *British* currency unit.

A couple of years ago, I saw a Coca-Cola vending machine in Stockholm
that was labeled in one place as requiring a payment of 8 kronor, and in
another place as accepting nickels, dimes, and quarters.  Unfortunately
I didn't have any of those particular foreign coins on me at the time.
I did have some 1, 2, and/or 5 krona coins, and fortunately it took those,
as well :-).

(In case anyone wants to see if this is still true, it was in the terminal
for the Silja Lines ferry to Helsinki.  I think it was after the ticket
barrier, though, so you might have to actually be taking the ferry.)
-- 
Mark Brader				"'Taxpayer' includes any person
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto			whether or not liable to pay tax."
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com		-- Income Tax Act of Canada, s.248(1)

This article is in the public domain.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Oct. 28: The Rapture (pamphlet found in Chicago)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 04:37:33 GMT

... crap deleted ...

: Soon after the Antichrist becomes _the_leader_of_the_European_Community_
: [my emphasis] (the revived Roman Empire), Bibles will be confiscated and
: owning a Bible will be tantamount to treason.  The Bible, however, will be
: your most valuable possession during the Tribulation.

If you have enough of them, you can use them as a fuel supply.

: The first thing to do is move out of the city and into a rural or mountainous
: area, for the Antichrist's control will come last to the least populated
: areas.  Take a good radio or TV with you so that you can stay attuned to
: events and discern the time schedule of the Tribulation.  Store water and

Right. If the event occurred, what chance would there be of getting any
truth over radio or tv?

: food, because you will not be able to purchase anything without the mark.  
: Water in lakes and streams will be polluted by radioactive waste from 
: nuclear warfare and will eventually turn into blood.  Bring different types

Oooh! That would certainly piss off the strict vegetarians.

... crap deleted ...

: No indication of who published this paper, nor is there any address to
: send money to.  I couldn't resist turning this thing over to the net...

Thanks - it was certainly marginally entertaining.

To bad these people are incapable of rational thought. Just think what
they could contribute to society.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: firestar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Lipton Ann Meredith)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 00:20:00 GMT


Just out of curiosity, which TNG episode was Where No One Has Gone Before?

Firestar
-- 
I don't bite, you know.    | Find me and turn thy | It is better to have loved 
Unless it's called for.    | back on heaven.      | and lost than to have your
-- Audrey Hepburn, Charade | -- R. W. Emerson     | finger caught in a blender.
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From: miriam@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Miriam Jackson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Wait! I thought September was over! (Strong language)
Date: 15 Oct 1992 06:25:49 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: earth.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Oct14.023123.4897@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>What does POSH stand for?
>
>Ted "concentric adults only, please" Frank
>-- 
>ted frank | thf2@midway.uchicago.edu 

Pretty Obvious - Stupid Hoax

or was it:

Pis Off, September's Here


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