HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bigdave@texas.tdd.sj.nec.com (David Sweeney  x2987)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Southern Sayings.
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:24:20 GMT
Organization: NEC-AM TDD, San Jose, California

nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau) writes:
>meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach) writes:
>>In alt.tasteless.jokes <john.28@bnr.ca> john@bnr.ca (John Ledford) writes:
>>
>>>--                                                   
>>>I CANNOT RECIEVE Email. PLEASE DO NOT TRY.
>>>
>>> [DEAR GOD!]
>>>
>
>Sheesh, with sigs like that, maybe I should think about changing
>companies.  Hey, Jo, anything open at buffalo.edu?  Nothing out of
>there as bad as THAT thing!

Maybe not _that_ bad, but they're working on it!

from alt.music.rush...
>//////////////////  Rush - Marillion - Kim Mitchell  ////////////////////
>/ Shane P. Faulkner         |  Boys and Girls together                  /
>/ University At Buffalo     |  Mistake conceit for pride                /
>/ V127L2QZ@UBVMS.BITNET     |  Ambition for illusion                    /
>/ faulkner@acsu.buffalo.edu |  Dreams for self-delusion   - Neil Peart  /
>/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

An oldie but goodie.  I hadn't noticed the address until recently!

-- 
Dave Sweeney     bigdave@acsu.buffalo.edu
Mike Patton is STILL a neat guy
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Bofors 40mm AA in WW2
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 12:00:35 GMT

In sci.military, (favoured by violent people everywhere)
cbj005@cch.coventry.ac.uk (The Mistress) signs:

>-- 
>|  The /\/\istress of /\/\anipulation   |      cbj005@cch.cov.ac.uk     |
>|           Big Red Lobsters and Purple Hedgehogs unite!                |
>|         "Shoot first, fingerprint the corpse later..."  2xs           |
>|      Cannot recover from virus....rm: remove /freshers/all (y/n)      |

Last night, I watched a serious TV show narrated by Tony "Baldric"
Robertson, called "The Wonderful World of Dung".  Somehow, this signature
put me in mind of it....


-- 
Two out of two warlorders surveyed stated that Theakston's Old Peculier is the
best beer in the entire world.
From: brewer@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (marmoset)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: um, don't mind me, I'm new here
Date: 14 Oct 92 19:31:39 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

"I've been working with this for a half an hour now..." - Nigel Tufnel

I lurk here often and don't want to intrude, but I've been troubled by this 
.sig.  I just don't know what that thing is.  All I can come up with a floppy
eared elf wearing a santa hat.  But that's silly....  Feel free to email any
suggestions you might have.

Dolf
--
   _ _
  / U | Dolf Grunbauer    E.C.H.O. Development    Digital Equipment Enterprises
 /__'<  dolf@echo.philips.nl  dolf@toet.echo.tds.philips.nl
88  |_\ mcsun!echo.philips.nl!dolf                         Was Dat voor niets ?


Bowing to you superior warlording abilities,


























--

marmoset
"green bottles!"
"BROWN BOTTLES!"
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Military humor
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:32:43 GMT

In rec.humor, johnh@nnshh127.uucp (John Hawkins) writes:

>-- 
>John Hawkins       }) #define disclaimer(x) fprintf(stderr," x\n");
>Northern Telecom   }) Communication: Voice 615 734 4468   /* Able was I ere */
>200 Athens Way     {)                Fax   615 734 4771   /* I saw Elba     */
>Nashville TN 37728 {) Internet:  nvjhh01@NT.COM           /* Columbus ~1492 */

Only two problems here: It was Napolean, not Columbus, who was exiled to
Elba, and that 'disclaimer' macro will always print the string ' x\n' to
stderr, not the argument.

(I think that should be:
#define disclaimer(x) fprintf(stderr, " " ##x "\n");
)

Nothern Telecom, BNR, same difference.  At least it's not BUFFALO!

-- 
Paul Tomblin, as if you didn't know...
From: klm@gozer.mv.com (Kevin L. McBride)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: PDP-11/23 system + bits going free to good home
Date: 13 Oct 92 02:45:25 GMT
Organization: GhostBuster Central - Southern NH Usenet Access, Nashua, NH

In comp.sys.dec and comp.org.decus, daffy@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:

> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Davyd Norris		:	"Strange people physicists... In my opinion
> Physics Dept.		:	 those that aren't already dead are in some
> Monash University,	:        way very, very sick." - Douglas Adams,
> Vic, Australia.		:	 "The Long Dark Tea-time Of The Soul"     
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

He must have made the acquaintance of Johan (of Feynman diagram fame.)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: bigdave@tdd.sj.nec.com (David Sweeney  x2987)
Subject: New Contest, Kiddies!
Keywords: bah 
Organization: NEC-AM TDD, San Jose, California
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 00:31:46 GMT

Seeing as how the Frosh-Off '92 was such a big success, it got me thinking
about what else we can ridicule^H^H^H^H^Hlook for in the wonderful world
of Usenet.  Since most of the regulars here in alt.fan.warlord are idle
news-reading slackers, I thought it might be interesting to see who posts
what outside of a.f.w.  So...

---PIN THE TAIL ON THE WARLORDER---

Object of the game:

	Find a post by an a.f.w. poster outside of alt.fan.warlord.

Points will be awarded as follows:

	1 point		a regular post.  Must be within the charter of the 
			group that it is posted in--no joke posts or bait.

	2 points	a flame post.  If it's especially self-righteous,
			the point value may increase.

	0.5 points	a post to a group such as alt.slack or talk.
			bizarre.  We already know most of the regulars 
			here are weird, so these aren't worth as much.

	2 points	the post contains a .signature of a different form
			than the poster's usual in a.f.w.  Exceptions:
			obvious bait.  The panel of judges will decide as to
			the bait-ness of the .sig in question.

	5 points	the signature found could be posted in a.f.w for 
			comedic effect.  This will be the Holy Grail of the
			contest, but I really don't expect to see one.
			With any luck, C-Squared is still posting somewhere
			else! :-)

	Points will be awarded to the first sighting only.  Subsequent 
	followups containing the post or signature will NOT be accepted.
	The contest begins at 12:00 AM GMT on 10/10/92--the post submitted
	must be dated after then.  Please, try to edit the posts as best you
	can--if we want to read them, we'll look in the group in question.
	Just leave in the important (read: funny) lines and type where you
	found it.  The contest will end whenever I don't feel like scoring
	it anymore or a month, whichever comes first.

	
Have fun, and good hunting!

-- 
Dave Sweeney             bigdave@tdd.sj.nec.com
I'll have to stop posting to alt.music.rush now...
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Warning!  Danger Will Robinson!
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:48:42 GMT

I'm a little behind in my reading, but I was just reading my
September/October issue of ;login: (Usenix Newsletter), and I come across
this article that among other things, shows how to use /usr/lib/vfontinfo to
create BUAFs.  As a matter of fact, one of the examples looks remarkably
like that 'Amiga' BUAF that was around so much this fall.  I guess other
people aren't as far behind in thier reading as I am.

To quote this article, while talking about the 'banner' program:

"This is great for signs, but not so good for signature files and logo
displays when software starts up".

AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!

-- 
Paul Tomblin
The Meach turned me back into a frog.
From: meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Wanna-be
Keywords: geek (duh!)
Date: 11 Oct 92 23:00:43 GMT
Organization: UB

In alt.geek (Followup-To: nothing.  Isn't he just too clever for words?)
<Bvy4Kq.AF@andy.bgsu.edu> phlegm@camelot.bradley.edu writes:

>I'm not a geek yet, but I'd like to be, will you accept me?
>
>******************************************************************************
>           "Whether you spit or swallow, Phlegm is outta here."
>                            Kevin Bourrillion
>       phlegm@camelot.bradley.edu       kbourr@heartland.bradley.edu
>******************************************************************************
>
>     "Life would be so much simpler, if it wasn't so damned complicated"
>							-Tom Ligman

>Summary: I wanna be an airborne ranger, or a geek.

I'm not really sure why it is that he thinks he is not a geek. . .

Anyone else remember that old jingle chanted by those of us affiliated with the
US Army who at least had the good sense *not* to jump out of perfectly good
airplanes?:

"I wanna be an Airborne Ranger
 I got sh*t for brains. . ."

\rperkins

--jm
meach@why.ask.why   |"I had a good wife, but she left... yer right... she left!"
From: meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: HPL reader's guide
Date: 13 Oct 92 09:59:55 GMT
Organization: UB

In alt.horror.cthulhu <1bckeoINN55n@agate.berkeley.edu> 
jacob@plasma2.ssl.berkeley.edu (Jamey Jacob) writes:

>____________________________________________________________________
>"common human laws and interests     "I wouldn't exactly call it a
> and emotions have no validity        a happy dogma, but it makes me
> or signifigance in the vast          feel better about not 
> cosmos-at-large..."                  getting laid..."
>		-HP Lovecraft                 -R. Carter
>____________________________________________________________________
>
>                                       ______   ______   __     
>                                    | /\  ___\ /\  ___\ /\ \    
>  jacob@plasma1.ssl.berkeley.edu    | \ \___  \\ \___  \\ \ \___
>                                    |  \/\_____\\/\_____\\ \_____\
>                                    |   \/_____/ \/_____/ \/_____/


Well, Jamey. . . maybe if you start by getting rid of this .Sig. . .

"Stupid BUAFs and quotations and borders have no validity or significance
in the vast USENET-at-large..."  MJ Meach

--jm
meach@nickel.city.usa  | "Eh! dites-le, dites-le, de quatre et me'fie de le."
From: klm@gozer.mv.com (Kevin L. McBride)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Free Computer Technology Review Subscriptions
Date: 13 Oct 92 02:47:37 GMT
Organization: GhostBuster Central - Southern NH Usenet Access, Nashua, NH

In comp.sys.dec, storrs@eos.ncsu.edu (JERRY STORRS) writes:

[entire article (which is not much) included]

> What, now I can't use the newsreader without getting garbage mail there too !?!?

> Oh well, I guess nothing is sacred.  Except the Lord that is.  (I'll hear about
> that one!)
> -- 
> ===============================================================================
> Jerry L. Storrs, System/Network Manager || Jesus said, "..He who believes in me
> Dept of Chemical Engineering, NCSU      ||  will live, even though he dies, and
>    storrs@che.ncsu.edu (preferred)      ||  whoever lives and believes in me
>    storrs@eos.ncsu.edu                  ||  will never die..."  
>                                         ||                    John 11:..25-26..
> ===============================================================================
> Any statement made is the explicit belief of the writer and not the employer.


Gag me with a crucifix!
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Not really Re: Total erasure of hard drive data??
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 12:02:26 GMT

In alt.folklore.computers (where else?)
clc@gloin.unh.edu (Llamist Lliason) signs:

>-- 
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>| "I like the girls I go out with to have a head on their shoulders." | Wasted|
>| "I hate necks."        -- Steve Martin                              | Space |
>|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
>|  Christian Claiborn, proud owner of over 4,000 individual Amy Grant albums. |
>| Maintainer of Snake for kepler@unh.edu, brilliant BNF parser, fun dude.     |
>|        Christian@unh.edu/clc@kepler.unh.edu/C_CLAIBORN@unhh.unh.edu         |
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Who is Amy Grant, and did she ever sell more than 4 000 albums?  Does she
have a neck?  Who is Snake?  Isn't being a BNF parser and a fun dude
mutually exclusive?

So many unanswered questions...

-- 
"At least noone[sic] has
 ever wasted more than
 *two* lines quoting *me*"
  - A[n almost] Haiku by The Meach  (With editing by C Squared and Rich)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: bigdave@texas.tdd.sj.nec.com (David Sweeney  x2987)
Subject: Re: Ken is Japanese? Chun Li is Chinese?
Organization: NEC-AM TDD, San Jose, California
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:12:05 GMT

In alt.games.sf2 article <1992Oct2.182617.21137@midway.uchicago.edu>
 h309@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>-- 
>[]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=[]
>|| ~%~ Drunken Butterfly ~%~ + //|^|\\ + "Mistrust Authority, Promote  ||
>|| h309@midway.uchicago.edu  + <{-o-}> +  Decentralization" - The H.E. ||
>[]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=[]

New game, kiddies!  Let's play...

NAME THAT DIAGRAM!

		+ //|^|\\ +
		+ <{-o-}> +


	o	the MCP cone in Tron

	o	something from my eighth grade Health class textbook

	o	an extremely ugly self-portrait

	o	back end of a MiG-21

-- 
Dave Sweeney    bigdave@tdd.sj.nec.com
Frank Booth is a close personal friend
From: meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: .signature file
Date: 9 Oct 92 12:57:57 GMT
Organization: UB

In alt, article <1992Oct8.162517.29075@udel.edu> sun@pecan.cns.udel.edu 
(Richard Dah Sun) writes:

>To get your .signature file to show up when you post a
>message, all you have to do is have a .signature file in your
>home directory.  Remember, it has to be only 4 lines long.
>
>|----------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
>|  Username: sol                   |  Time is but something that prevents |
>|  Realname: Richard Dah Sun       |  everything from happening at the    |
>|  Internet: sol@bach.udel.edu     |  same time.....                      |
>|----------------------------------|---------------|----------------------|
>|  Major:  Chemical Engineering/Computer Science   |  The University of   |
>|  Minor:  Economics/Math                          |       Delaware       |
>|--------------------------------------------------|----------------------|
>-- 
>
>      ....If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have
>            found out that it has no meaning...
>                                                   - C.S. Lewis  

\rsholmes

\rperkins

In fact:
\Tx.

--jm
meach@bnr.acs.edu      |  "If the whole posting has no meaning. . ."
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: dark@microsoft.com (Dar Korra'ti)
Subject: Re: Error in GPFsupra.lzh archive!
Date: 14 Oct 92 04:25:39 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
Distribution: alt

In article <14999@chalmers.se> in comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,
thly@pe.chalmers.se (Thomas Lydhig) writes a five-line post
and then, well, read it for yourself...
>
>
>     ____  ____/    /     /    ____   /      |      |          |        _____/
>          /        /     /    /      /    /  |   /  |       /  |       /
>         /        ____  /    /      /    /   |  /   |      __  |    _____  /
>        /        /     /    /      /    /  ____/    |     /    |          /
>     __/      __/   __/  _________/  __/          __|  __/   __|  _______/
>
>        ************************************************************
>        *                        Thomas Lydhig                     *
>        *                                                          *
>        *                 Email: thly@pe.chalmers.se               *
>        *                _                        _                *
>        *Snailmail: Lantmataregatan 2,   S417 06 GoTEBORG,   SWEDEN*
>        ************************************************************
>
>                /      |   /    __  /     /     /    /    _______/
>               /       |  /    /    /    /     /    /    /
>              /          /    /    /    ____  /    /    /  __  /
>             /          /    /   _/    /     /    /    /      /
>          _______    __/  ______/   __/   __/  __/  _________/
>
>
>  "I work with any kind of computers, just to get money to spend on my Amiga"
>    /S Jobs, Apple Inc. (written on a PC!)
>
>  "Only dead fish float with the current"
>    /G Johnson, IBM
>

     inews, why hast thou forsaken us?

--
R'ykandar Korra'ti | LOW ORBIT PUBLICATIONS
dark@microsoft.com | Just what I needed to cure _my_ depression...
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: New Contest, Kiddies!
Keywords: bah
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 22:05:50 GMT

bigdave@tdd.sj.nec.com (David Sweeney  x2987) writes:

>	Find a post by an a.f.w. poster outside of alt.fan.warlord.

I'm done for!  I do _all_ of these things, far more regularly that I should.
(Anybody catch my response to that "survey" that was posted to over 120
groups?)

>	1 point		a regular post.  Must be within the charter of the 
>			group that it is posted in--no joke posts or bait.
Yup - check out alt.folklore.computers, sci.military, can.politics, etc,
etc, etc.

>	2 points	a flame post.  If it's especially self-righteous,
>			the point value may increase.
Oh - mostly news.admin or rec.humor, or anywhere where I see a test post
when I'm in a snotty mood.

>	0.5 points	a post to a group such as alt.slack or talk.
>			bizarre.  We already know most of the regulars 
>			here are weird, so these aren't worth as much.
I suppose that includes alt.religion.kibology?

>	2 points	the post contains a .signature of a different form
>			than the poster's usual in a.f.w.  Exceptions:
>			obvious bait.  The panel of judges will decide as to
>			the bait-ness of the .sig in question.
Yup, I use different sigs in different groups...

>	5 points	the signature found could be posted in a.f.w for 
>			comedic effect.  This will be the Holy Grail of the
>			contest, but I really don't expect to see one.
>			With any luck, C-Squared is still posting somewhere
>			else! :-)
No, I don't think so, at least not by the "George McQ" rules.

Hey - I just had a thought:  'nn -mxX -n/Sweeney .'
-- 
Two out of two warlorders surveyed stated that Theakston's Old Peculier is the
best beer in the entire world.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: news@geovision.gvc.com (News Administrator)
Subject: Re: Another one! (was Re: crap)
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 23:05:55 GMT

In newsgroups: alt.newbie,alt.stupidity,misc.test,alt.cascade (Hope he likes
fan mail) v106qjh9@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (THE HAT) signs:


>||  ||  ||			 THE HAT	 		||  ||  ||
>----------			   /V\				----------
>||  ||  ||			  /   \				||  ||  ||
>----------			 -------			----------
>||  ||  ||	"There goes a king"				||  ||  ||
>__________	"How do you know?"				----------
>||  ||  ||   	"Hasn't got s$%@ all over 'im"			||  ||  ||	
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>BITNET:V106QJH9@UBVMS
>INTERNET:DSCHEN@BUFFALO.EDU

Tab damage, MPFC quote, bad border/barphic (who knows), and STUPID nickname.

Jo, how about paying this guy a visit and smacking him in the head?

-- 
Paul Tomblin, News Administrator Extraordinaire.  (pt@geovision.gvc.com)
I just administer the news, I don't make or state policy.
From: cuz@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Cousin It)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: '93 World Series Predict!
Date: 16 Oct 92 01:49:27 GMT
Organization: Warlorders Ltd.

rec.sport.baseball.college 11rpotter@gallua.gallaudet.edu writes:

|******************************************************************************
|**   									    **
|**									    **
|** Roger Brent Potter, Jr.           Gallaudet University (Deaf Liberal Art)**
|** 800 Flordia Avenue, NE	     					    **
|** PO BOX 1989			     Texas Longhorns #1-Hook'em Horns!!!    **
|** Washington, DC  20002						    **
|**									    **
|******************************************************************************

	Hasn't anyone told him that there was an asterick crisis???
Oh, I'm sorry, hasn't anyone signed to him that there was an asterick
crisis?

 Cousin It                                    cuz@cs.brandeis.edu
    I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't  
         always agree with them    -President George Bush
From: bigdave@texas.tdd.sj.nec.com (David Sweeney  x2987)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Pathaliases and UUDOMAIN
Date: 12 Oct 92 23:35:22 GMT
Organization: NEC-AM TDD, San Jose, California

klm@gozer.mv.com (Kevin L. McBride) writes:
>In comp.mail.elm, boyd@shmop.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) writes:
>
>  * email:  boyd@cs.fsu.edu  Office:  (904) 644-7339  Pager:  (904) 657-6425 *
>  ****************************************************************************
>                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                                                                |
>Bingo!  Pay dirt!  ---------------------------------------------|
>
>Hey, bigdave, you payin' attention?

Yup!  Problem is, I don't know of any good adult bookstores in that area code.
If anyone were to clue me in on a good number for Mr. Boyd to call, I might
be persuaded to squander some company resources and give him a jingle...

-- 
Dave Sweeney     bigdave@tdd.sj.nec.com
Mike Patton is my hero.  No, Really. 
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: iisakkil@lk-hp-7.hut.fi (Mika Iisakkila)
Subject: Re: 486/50 WITH local bus ?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: 10 Oct 92 12:40:42 GMT

fredwi@cs.kun.nl (Fred Wijshoff (Niek van Diepen tot 1-10-92)) writes:

>===========================================================================  
>  _______________/                 | normal mail : Fred Wijshoff
> /     /                           |               Pegasusplaats 14
>      /                            |               6525 JH Nijmegen
>     /----|  _     __     _        |               The Netherlands
>    /         \    /\    /         | E-mail : fredwi@cs.kun.nl
>   /           \  /  \  /          |        : u055041@HNYKUN11.urc.kun.nl
>\ /             \/    \/           | Yell mail : +31-80-564537
> ~              ~~    ~~           | incl. Standard Disclaimer.
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>'It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered
>recently is four times bigger than the previous record.'
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------

'It was mentioned on AFW that the new signature discovered
recently is four times bigger than the previous record.'

Nah. Too obvious. Maybe I should have had fun with the road map of
Netherlands on the left.

--
Segmented Memory Helps Structure Software