HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kristaz@bcarh792.bnr.ca (Krista Zeidler)
Subject: Re: Phone Calls at 2/3 the Speed of Light
Keywords: phone, telephone, speed
Reply-To: kristaz@bcarh792.bnr.ca (Krista Zeidler)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:51:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.044909.6050@infonode.ingr.com>, krajnatg@infonode.ingr.com (Tom G. Krajna) writes:
|> While watching the traditional wintertime pigskin fest today, I noticed
|> an AT&T commercial that showed three red sports cars and listed their
|> speeds in miles-per-hour.  Next came a red phone (cute, eh?) and listed
|> its speed: 440,000,000 mph (if I remember correctly).
|> 
|> Doing the ol' 186,282 * 3600, though, I get more like 670,615,200.  So
|> what gives?  Is AT&T using slow lines?  Is my math bad?  More importantly,
|> will Sprint or MCI run ads touting a 50% speed increase over AT&T?
|> 


How about the fact that electrical signals in copper wire run at less than
the speed of light.  Unless AT&T has completely converted all of their
lines to fiber (and even that is slightly slower than the speed of light
in vacuum), they are right not to claim a speed equivalent to that of light
in vacuum.

Krista
From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Date: 8 Jan 93 05:17:14 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <8360@news.duke.edu> klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj) writes:
>In article <C0DJJJ.A46@NeoSoft.com> arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva) writes:
>>There's a few of those around here.
>>
>>When I drive to Galveston with out of town guests, I like to point out
>>the Fuqua exit sign and ask them how they think it might be pronounced.
>>
>  Amazing - it might be a clone of our own Fuqua-Varina, or vice-versa.  F-Q
>has long been the butt of local jokes for some reason.  I've been through
>the beautiful, high-rent downtown district and it seemed pretty normal to
>me.  Or maybe THAT explains it.

ObSpellingFlame: Kim, it's Fuquay-Varina, not Fuqua-Varina.  And which
high-rent downtown district did you see?  The one with the shopping center
with the "BARBECUE SHACK" and the McDonald's with the giant inflatable
Ronald McDonald on the roof that's been there for six years?

          (__)                                           
          (oo)                                                     Joel Furr
   /-------\/                                     jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
  / |     ||                                            Blacksburg, Virginia
 *  ||----||                                                             USA
    ^^    ^^
From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar
Date: 9 Jan 93 19:11:26 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1993Jan8.224439.4536@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>No. Corn was originally named by Indians for Willie Mays.

The present Japanese emperor named his reign in honor of Willie Mays,
too.  Apparently he's a really big baseball fan.  (He got the syllables
reversed, but don't they write backwards over there anyway?)

Bruce "Showa 'nuff" Tindall

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From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Spellchecking (was Re: African-American-top
Date: 5 Jan 93 11:51:16 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

UK newspaper, The Guardian, had some fun with politicians names and a 
spellchecker sometime last year.

  No Trespassing: 4/17ths of a haiku.     D.Budd@mcc.ac.uk   fax 6040
  Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England    (44|0)61-275-6033  
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From: dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright)
Subject: Re: doggie doodoo
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:44:27 GMT

dbsjwb@Edm.Arco.COM wrote:
: Mandlebrot (his name) would occasionally be found "snacking" on some of
: his Texas sun-dried turds out in the back yard. MMMmmmmmm! The vet told
: my wife that (get this) putting Adolph's meat tenderizer in the dog food
: would solve the problem. 

A vet told me dogs do this as a result of having had their noses rubbed in
it in punishment during housebreaking.  Mr. Vet said young dogs often do
not understand the punishment, and conclude that their masters want them to
acquire a taste for shit.  Mandlebrot is a loyal dog, who will learn to do
anything for Master.

With their obsessive neurotic loyalty, dogs often make people feel guilty.

  -- Dan Wright
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From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: Architect Suicides
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 03:12:41 GMT

According to the people who guide visitors around Fallingwater, the
famous Frank Lloyd Wright house near Pittsburgh, some academic-type
engineers wrote a report before the house was constructed proving that
the design would not work, and that the house would fall down; Wright
called bullshit on them and sealed up their report in the cornerstone
of the house (which is , of course, still standing).
 
Some mathematicians also published a proof that the Eiffel Tower would
not be able to stand.
 
Bruce "I read it in the Sacramento Aerodynamically Impossible Bee" Tindall

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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Rush!Rush!Rush!
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:00:30 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.145915.29641@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> wvhorn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William VanHorne) writes:
>In article <28254@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>>92636828s@csghsg5a.bitnet writes:
>>  +> Any Rush fans around?????
Mahogany Rush?

>
>>Terry "Does anybody know the name of some BAD groups?" Chan
>
>The Archies.
>
>From the alt.fan.the_archies FAQ:
>
>> "Sugar,Sugar" was the #1 song for all of 1969.
>> The Archies was not a group.  One guy did all instruments and voices.

Ron Dante.  He was also the Detergents.  They did that parody of the
Leader of the Pack: The Leader of the Laundromat.

cj "who is that guy?" l
From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Computer theft
Date: 8 Jan 93 20:41:19 GMT
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor

In article <wingo-080193101424@wingosmac.apple.com> wingo@apple.com (Tony Wingo) writes:
>In article <1993Jan3.050838.29514@netcom.com>, bml@netcom.com (Brian
>Leibowitz) wrote:
>> A programmer at a bank changed the interest calculations on accounts
>> to round down instead of rounding to the nearest penny.  

>I first ran into this story around 1969-1970, and it was old then.  

I heard about it around the same time, and was stricken by the data that
the average computer criminal who was caught had pilfered over $400,000,
back when then was a whole potload of money.  I always figured that the
really, really, good crooks made quite a bit more, but managed to avoid
being mingled into the statistics.

Phil "Never worked at a financial institution.  Sheesh." Gustafson
>
>Supposedly the programmer assigned the dummy account an unlikely name
>begining with Z (something like Zzyz), and he was caught when the bank did
>some sort of promotion that involved giving a prize to the two people with
>names at the beginning and end of the account list.
>
>-tony
>
>>>usual disclaimer<<


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From: khartman@fnala.fnal.gov
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Net's Funniest Kitchen Disasters
Date: 6 Jan 93 15:31:20 -0600
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: fnala.fnal.gov

In article <1993Jan5.220544.14127@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, jp@ipac.caltech.edu 
>(John Pipkins SSE SMCC) writes:
> In article <1993Jan5.160739.2198@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, dsegard@nyx.cs.du.edu
>(Daniel Segard) writes:
> |> 
> |>        I've heard that it is possible to coat sodium in gelitin so that it
> |> won't react with water -- for a while at least.  The trick I had heard was
> |> that you toss these into a person's gas tank and then eventually the small
> |> amount of water in the gas will disolve the geletin and react with the
> |> sodium -- causing the gas tank, the car and the occupants to blow up. 
> |> Works better with a gas tank that isn't filled to the brim I gather, need
> |> some amount of air to react with the gas.  Not a very sure fire <a hmm>
> |> method of killing someone, since you can't be certain of when the geletin
> |> is going to disolve, whether the person will be in the car at the time,
> |> etc.  I think the source for this is "The Poor Man's James Bond" or the
> |> "Anarchist's Cookbook" or something like that.
> |>  
> |> 
> 
> How would you get it in the geletin (which is mostly wa-wa) without
> "interesting" things happening?


	Yes, I think this trick was from _The Poor Man's James Bond_.
The suggested method was to place the Sodium metal into a geletin capsule,
like the type used for medication.  The capsule is dry, there is no moisture
present. A bb is added to the capsule to weigh it down so it will sink to
the bottom of the gas tank.  The geletin dissolves in the condensed moisture
(water) in the gas tank...BOOM!

	Don't know if it would work, and don't care to find out.


Ken
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:32933 rec.arts.startrek.misc:13403 talk.bizarre:44005
From: lpeters@postmaster@hq.af.mil (Leslie D Peters)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:21:25 GMT
Reply-To: lpeters@marge.hq.af.mil
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: 7th Communications Group

In article <1993Jan06.145724.25805@i88.isc.com>, jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:
|> In article <C0EyDp.A6I@ccu.umanitoba.ca> vnelson@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gerald Vernon Nelson) writes:
|> >
|> >
|> >>Why's this O'brien guy named Miles.  ST:TNG is consistent about
|> >>using only SI units, while ST:TOS was all the time using regular
|> >>units like feet and miles.  Shouldn't he be called "Meters
|> >>O'Brien".
|> >BZZZT.  TOS used meters and kilometers.
|> 
|> So, in keeping with TNG's Klingon/Federation alliance, should
|> O'Brian name his first child "Kellicam"?
|> 
|> -- 
|> Jonathan E. Quist                              Lachman Technology, Incorporated
|> jeq@i88.isc.com  '71 CL450-K4 "Gleep", DoD #094        Naperville, IL
|>  __       There's nothing quite like the pitter-patter of little feet,
|>  \/                   followed by the words "Daddy!  Yay!"

Too late: His and Keiko's first child (born in the episode "Disaster")
is named Molly.
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| it's backed up on tape somewhere. |    lpeters@marge.hq.af.mil        |
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From: nobody
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: none
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:33:49 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.163926.8776@nntp.nta.no>, styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
wrote:
> 
> papai@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
> > Babak sehari writes:
> > > automatically posted to all unix wide bbs'
> >
> > Sounds like he left his terminal unattended.
> 
> afcondon@maths.tcd.ie (Andrew Condon) writes:
> > Well, if so the perp. was thorough cos flaming the guy yields this
> > auto-reply (quoted without permission of course):
> >
> > [reply deleted]
> 
> Lucky you, all I got was a reply from his sysadmin. But, I didn't really
> suggest any useful innovations. Guess I'll use the USENET flame form
> the next time. Anyway, there's some relevant posts down at news.admin.policy
> if you like to know what happens next.
> 
> ---
> YuNoHoo  "no, I didn't mail him the 684 muffin recipes from rec.food.cooking"

An interesting way to deal with people like this who post to all of usenet
and then set up an auto answer system is to forge a letter to him from
himself.  Does wonders.
From: brianw@spider.co.uk (Brian Wyld)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Jesus' name (was Re: Late breaking potential UL!)
Date: 12 Jan 93 14:31:28 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.

In article <1993Jan12.141127.23131@spider.co.uk> brianw@spider.co.uk (Brian Wyld) writes:
>In article <1993Jan8.180935.16231@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>>OB fact: The correct way to spell the possessive of a name in English which
>>ends in an "s" is to append an apostrophe-s, UNLESS the namee is allegedly a
>>god, in which case you just append an apostrophe.  Names I know of in this
>>category are Jesus and Zeus.  I personally would still pronounce the word
>>"Jesus'" as "jesuses".
>
>Surely some mistake? I hate to be pedantic (ok, so I lie - I _love_ to be
>pedantic), but the correct spelling of a possesive is to add apostrophe-s,
>unless the name ALREADY ends in s.

Ok, so I`m following up myself. So sue me. (for all you American`s, I didn`t
mean that seriously....).

Actually, to be really really pedantic, for your general Proper Name, you
can use EITHER 's or '. But for "Well-known" names, you must only use '. So
assuming you count Jesus as well-known, Jesus` sandels is correct, Jesus`s
sandels isn`t. But if you always use the rule "if it ends in s, just use `",
then you`ll be ok.

EXCEPT, if its a compound name. For instance, "the Prince-of-Wales`s sons"
would be the correct possessive, not "the Prince-of-Wales` sons".

I do hope that`s clear now.

Brian "Actually of course, Jesus had neither a middle nor a last name..."
Wyld

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From: cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok)
Subject: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:51:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.043649.15214@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>In article <C0IMup.3vL@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>,cscdc@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Dan Carpenter) writes:
>>Well, Jerome Holtzman won this *one*.  The Babe Ruth candy bar *is*
>>named after Babe Ruth.
>>
>>Sorry to burst your bubble.
>
>	Well, Dan.  Perhaps you're not aware that Pres.
>Roosevelt's daughter was a famous Babe Ruth before GHR ever
>played ball.  I think documentation is necessary on your part to
>back up your claim.

i believe it would also be incumbent upon Dan to provide us
with an explanation for why, if the bar is named after Babe Ruth,
the name of the bar is Bab*y* Ruth and not Babe Ruth. suggests the
alternative explanation to me. and if the name was for some
strange reason changed, why? was Ruth ever referred to as "Baby"?
i wouldn't want to do it to his face...
then again, Dan's use of the phrase "Bab*e* Ruth candy bar" suggests
a possile explanation as to why he feels as he does.

--
charles
From: timo.pietil{@compart.fi (Timo Pietil{) 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: RE: ETYMOLOGICAL MATTERS
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:45:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ComPart BBS, Helsinki-Finland, +358 0 506 3329 (14 lines V.32bis)
Reply-To: timo.pietil{@compart.fi (Timo Pietil{) 

> :
> : Now, Latin, _there's_ a sexist language! Explanations as to
> : "poet" and "farmer" look feminine but are really masculine a
> : welcomed.
> :
> Not that it helps, but I believe poeta is Greek, don't know ab
> agricola, but I think it's another case of gender being set by
> (46 min left), (H)elp, More? a suffix, isn't ager a field?
>
> My Greek teacher spent a lot of time reminder us that gender a
> sex are not related. I don't know what to make of that, it's
> always been important to me.
>
All your indoeuropean languages are SO sexist! You all should start
learning Finnish, which  has no grammatical "gender" assigned for words
all. Our language also has only one word meening both "he" and "she".


Timo Pietila, E-mail to tpietila@tays.fi
          
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From: wolfi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Schwanke)
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:55:10 GMT


"Stephen M. Lacy" <sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:


>
>One last thing that has always puzzled me:
>
>My CD player, and many on the market today, are toted as having "one bit
>digital to analog converters"  Now, anyone who knows diddly about how
>these things work, knows that if you really hooked up a "one bit" DAC to
>the data on a CD, you'd get complete static. So, whats the deal with
>this?  What does it really mean.

Of course, the sound data stored on a CD are always 16 bit, no matter
what technology the DAC uses. "1 bit" DAC is really an unprecise word
for serial DACs as opposed to the traditonal type that processes the bits
parallel. A better word sometimes found is "bitstream"  DACs.

"1 bit" DACs still use 16 bit words (or 18 or 20 or 22 ... for more precise
interpolation in connection with oversampling. Don't confuse that the music
data is stored in 16 bit words at 44,1 kHz, no matter what type of oversampling
or higher bit count is used for interpolation.) So you can have, say,
"1 bit 18 bit" at the same time (my machine does).

>BTW, some brands call this "MASH" (I believe Technics, Panasonic, and
>their subsidiaries)

No, MASH is an error correction algorithm trademark of Panasonic, who
(I think) also introduced 1 bit DACs. But I don't think there's a connection
between the two.


>
>Steve

Greetings

Wolfgang

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From: larryh@fawlty.lmc.com (Larry Huntley)
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Organization: Logic Modeling Corporation  Beaverton, OR
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:48:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.035821.22678@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> andrewb@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Andrew Bevin) writes:
>
>Actually the single Light My Fire has the guitar and keyboard solo's combined,
>where as the LP has the solos separated.
>
    Not exactly.  In the full-length version, there is a distinct organ
    solo, followed by a distinct guitar solo.  Then the two instruments
    play ensemble in a sort of ersatz counterpoint, achieve mutual orgasm,
    and finally return to the opening motif and the song.

    The single did away with both solos and just used the last part of the
    ensemble section (the simultaneous orgasm part where the guitar starts
    going "Doot-doot-doot-dooo" and the organ starts building up to the big
    finish with double-stops in A minor.)

    - Larry "played both parts, never simultaneously" Huntley
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From: dsegard@nyx.cs.du.edu (Daniel Segard)
Subject: Re: Why care what percentage?  (was: Gay Likelihood)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 22:28:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.191939.3924@ulysses.att.com> smb@research.att.com (S
even Bellovin) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.162805.6473@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, dsegard@nyx.cs.du
edu (Daniel Segard) writes:
>>       So you are saying that there have been public service broadcasts
>> warning against coronary bypass operations and blood transfusions?  I
>> guess I have missed those as well.....
>
>On the other hand, since I'm on the medical aid squad here, I have to
>participate in ``blood-borne pathogen'' training, and my first aid bag
>now contains goggles and an impermeable gown, as well as the gloves that
>were always there.  And yes, these are mandated by OSHA.
>
>Or are you suggesting that volunteering to help others is somehow ``fool
ng
>around''?


 
      Actually I think if everyone were to constantly wear goggles and an
impermiable gown that the level of AIDS infection would be reduced
considerably.  <grin>
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: gators 'r us
Subject: Re: The Unmasking of the Faux Cindy
	<CINDY.93Jan9170421@solan10.solan.unit.no> <28305@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
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>cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf) writes:
>  +Steinar, of course, is my husband, and Stein is a troll (not of the
>  +stuffed variety).
then what variety is he?
if he isn't "stuffed", then he isn't a nonbio or taxidermed.  is he
biological, fictional. or what?
-- 
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
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From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Re: AFU person of the year?
Reply-To: lawson@aldia.UUCP (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:10:46 GMT

In article <joshm.726432911@crash.cts.com> joshm@crash.cts.com (Josh Mercer) writes:

>complaints.  More stupid things have happened.

Definitely another AFU motto.

-- 
Drew Lawson                      If you're not part of the solution,
lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
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Subject: Re: SNAFU list
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 02:02:22 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1993Jan8.020728.4677@Princeton.EDU> datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.170941@vinnie.cuc.ab.ca>, someone writes:
>
>>I seem to remember someone on here looking for a list like this a while
>>ago.  It's the most comprehensive I've yet found:
>>
>>COMMFU          complete monumental military f*ck up
>>FUBAR           f*ck*d up beyond all recognition
>                f*ck*d up beyond all repair
>>FUBB            f*ck*d up beyond belief
>>FUMTU           f*ck*d up more than usual
>>G.F.U.          general f*ck up
 
>Sheesh! Someone forgot FURRFU! (I'm I close, anyone?)

FURRFU           F*ck*d Up Really Rotationally F*ck*d Up

Derek "Ufrruf sounds better when shouted loudly than Furrfu" Tearne


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