HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Net Shenanigans
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:12:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


asc7556@u.cc.utah.edu (Andrew Corradini/SBDC) writes:
>Gee, jon, you sure are a barrel o' fun to have around here.  Between the
>freak-session about wasting food that could've been shipped to Somalia,
>and the raised hackles over someone wanting to harass the
>chromosomally-challenged, we're getting a load o' PC that I'm SURE is as
>enjoyable to ever'one else hereabouts as it is to yours truly.
> 
As someone has already posted, there is a difference between someone being
"funny" and someone having the humor level of an uneducated cretin.  There
are plenty of people to bother on the net without seeming intollerant.  For
starters:

	alt.music.rush -- post saying that someone told you othey buy all of
	their music.

	alt.music.enya (fan.enya?) -- post asking about the porno movies
	that enya did to finance her leaving clanad.

	comp.sys.ibm.pc -- post asking how to turn on your computer.

	etc etc etc

I don't know anyone "transgendered"  (I thought the term was "gender-
reassigned") and I don't expect to meet any such anytime soon.  But as 
wierd as it might seem, what people do with their lives is their business
and if you don't like it, ignore them.  Personally I don't understand why
anyone would live anywhere in middle america when they could live in CA
and don't get me going about those mormons....  Secret names?  Wierd shit,
but hey if its what they want to do...

It'd be a happier world if people were a little less vicious and little more
willing to accept other people for what they are.
-- 
The Wailer at the Gates of Dawn              | banshee@cats.UCSC.EDU       |
Just who ARE you calling a FROOFROO Head?    |                             |
DoD#0667  "Just a friend of the beast."      | banshee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU      |
2,3,5,7,13,17,19,31,61,89,107,127,521,607....| banshee@ucscb.BITNET        |
From: iisakkil@lk-hp-11.hut.fi (Mika Iisakkila)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Dogs dont even like 'em!
Date: 2 Jan 93 15:30:44 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates) writes:
>Here's a fun one for you electronics types:
[high-pitched squeal]
I once saw a circuit (maybe in Elektor magazine) which was
specifically designed to annoy people. It emitted the high-pitched
sound just as you described, but had the added bonus of only working
when it was dark. Imagine sleeping in a room with one of those, and
it's a real bitch to locate too...

--
Segmented Memory Helps Structure Software
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans,alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college
From: mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson)
Subject: Re: Travelling Lawn Ornament on A Current Affair
Keywords: travelling,lawn,ornament,shenanigan
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 14:15:37 GMT

I followed the exploits of the travelling religious icon this summer
while working at a Christian newspaper here in Canada. One of the
Catholic papers we got in the mail had a big story on it, and we
"briefed" it in our paper.

Quite funny, actually.

Michael
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF)
Subject: Re: Proposal for a Net shenanigan
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, 24 Dec 92 02:41:17 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.220205.8956@microunity.com> ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray) writes:
>In article <1992Dec23.140947.1791@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> jon@Turing.ORG (Jon Gefaell (KD4CQY)) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec23.014945.24321@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
>>>
>>>Yeahhhhhh BOY.  I'm IMPRESSED.  Sit over in alt.shenanigans strutting
>>>around, impressing all the chicks with your boasts about going over to
>>>talk.bizarre and discussing the death penalty or abortion, some real
>>>serious topic.  WHOA MAN.  What STUDS.
>>>
>>>Come on, kids, talk is cheap.  Let's see you DO IT.  
>>
>>It's been done, only you and apparently most of the people reading this group
>>don't know it....
>
>Not only are you too wimpy to actually post anything yourself, but
>you apparently can't spell 'talk' correctly.

Cretin.  Perhaps the crossposting to 'tal.bizarre' was deliberate?

Christ.  This newsgroup is rapidly turning into a shithead-of-the-day
group with everyone trying to pull "shenanigans" on each other and then
having to say "Wait! No! I meant to do that!"  As in my case, I thought
the deliberate misspelling and the tone of my message would have an
obvious intent, but apparently this newsgroup's charter got modified
"inane flaming about stupidity" when no one was looking.
From: at881@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (N. French)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: more phone phun
Date: 25 Dec 1992 18:35:06 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: at881@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (N. French)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, scg@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kelly Martin) says:
>
>i've also been known to answer with 'grand central station, can i help
>you?' or, once, 'west lafayette police department'.
>
My boss often answers with 'hi, this is satan, who in hell do
you want?'
From: jks2x@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Jason K. Schechner)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Snap Crackle Pop
Date: 30 Dec 92 05:50:14 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <69970002@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates) writes:
>The formula for pottasium iodide:
>
>NOTE this is for entertainment only..read this but do not attempt
>this at home or office.  You might blow your head clean off and I 
>will not be responsible.  
>
>1. obtain silv
>er nitrate (AgNO3)
>
>2. add water approx 100 F
>
>3. bubble acetylene through the solution
>
>4. collect precipitate
>
>5. precipitate is explosive- keep it wet!
>
>This is the stuff that was popular in jr and sr high school..
>It can be dangerous especially if some fool makes a quart at a time
>and leaves it lying around to dry out.  It'll blow your durn pee pee
>off! 
>
>While the paste is still wet, you can safely spread it around
>strategic locations like in front of your doorway for unsuspecting
>mail men, brush salesmen etc... the effect is a loud popping when
>they step on it... it eventually becomes highly unstable when 
>it dries out.
>
>For a detailed account, there was a post at alt.folklore.college
>and someone can probably send it to you etc.. 
>
>all disclaimers apply, especially here!


	I don't want to be a drag on this newsgroup, but I feel I have
to post this.  The preceeding proceedure (Holy alliteration Batman!) is
not as safe as it sounds.  The 'paste' _is_ in fact, quite explosive.
I made some last year and some of it blew up while it was still quite 
moist.  If you keep under the liquid you should be ok, unless you made
a lot of it.  Also, just the act of letting the stuff dry is enough
to make it exploide.  It is so unstable that the pressure of forming a
crystal will cause it to decompose.
	It also has this nasty tendency to leave purple stains around
after is explodes.
	BTW: This posting and the one I quoted are both shenanigans as
neither Postassium, nor Iodine appear in the recipie. :-) Therefore
it's awefully hard to be making KI3.  Unless, of course, we're doing
alchemy here....

-Jason
-- 
"I sneak in my own house... it's 4 in the morning... I've had too much to 
drink... said I was out with the boys... I sneak in my bedroom... slip 
into bed... I know if I wake her, I'll wake up.... DEAD!"
   							-Dave Mustaine
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: scg@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kelly Martin)
Subject: Re: Net Shenanigans
Reply-To: scg@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
Organization: Gender Anarchists United
	<1992Dec20.200602.1738@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 12:52:42 GMT

slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser") writes:

>dchiasson@mta.ca writes:
>>A good newsgroup to raid is alt.transgendered. They get pretty irate when you
>>post something in their group. Their responses are good for a laughor two.
>>The takeover is actually in progress as of now. Join in on the fun.

>This is an alt.shenanigans.shenanigan -- I went on over there and
>took a look, and no one has done anything like what was suggested.
>Yet.

actually, some of his associates at mta.ca have been pestering us in
alt.transgendered for some time, mostly in the form of pseudoreligious
rantings about how evil crossdressing is.  although one of them did
post a rather off-topic article the other day (something to do with
candy bars, as i recall).

i somehow wonder if the brave poster would consider doing the same in
soc.motss...

>I agree, though, I bet they'd get really pissed off if we *did* do it
>to them....

irritated is more like it.  part of the problem is that the group is
partially intended for support, and when random people come in and
behave obnoxiously it's difficult for the group to be safe enough to
be useful for that.  also, it lowers the S/N ratio, which is a problem
in any group.  the action of his associates has resulted in a general
recommendation to killfile *@*.mta.ca...

kelly
--
No responsible person attempts to absolve himself of the bad effects of his
actions by blaming the actions of others.  Irresponsible people, of course, do
it all the time.
	-- Chip Salzenberg (chip@tct.com), news.groups
From: flc@mips.com (Fred Cox)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Fruit in an Elevator
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:13:17 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: poseidon.mti.sgi.com

jon@Turing.ORG (Jon Gefaell (KD4CQY)) amusingly writes:
>Who said I couldn't appreciate a good shenanigan? Perhaps we have different
>standards. Beyond the cavalier attite which is endemic of our first world
>perspective, there wasn't anything remaining that was anything more than
>a 'you had to be there' kind of slapstick. Not the essence of a good prank,
>or shenanigan (whatever the diference is)

Even though I consider myself a liberal, I always have to laugh when I
see some overly PC person try to categorize North America as the first
world.

Get it right, guys!

From the Eurocentric perspective in the 15th century, there was the
known world, which consisted of Europe, Africa and Asia.

Then a guy called Columbus "discovered" the New World, AKA the
Americas.

Then in the '60s or perhaps earlier, what is perhaps more properly
known as the developing world became known as the 3rd world.  Note
that all of the third world consists of parts of the old world and
parts of the new one.

If you want to think of waves of industrial development, then Europe
would be the First World, the US/Canada is the Second World, and
everyone else is the Third World.

In none of the above nomenclatures is the US part of the First World.

Serious enough for y'all?  :-)

Fred Cox
flc@mti.sgi.com
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray)
Subject: Re: Proposal for a Net shenanigan
Followup-To: misc.test
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:02:05 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.140947.1791@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> jon@Turing.ORG (Jon Gefaell (KD4CQY)) writes:
>In article <1992Dec23.014945.24321@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
>>
>>Yeahhhhhh BOY.  I'm IMPRESSED.  Sit over in alt.shenanigans strutting
>>around, impressing all the chicks with your boasts about going over to
>>talk.bizarre and discussing the death penalty or abortion, some real
>>serious topic.  WHOA MAN.  What STUDS.
>>
>>Come on, kids, talk is cheap.  Let's see you DO IT.  
>
>It's been done, only you and apparently most of the people reading this group
>don't know it....

Not only are you too wimpy to actually post anything yourself, but
you apparently can't spell 'talk' correctly.




--
            Eric Murray                 ericm@microunity.com
In this game, the winner is also the loser, and the judge's decisions are final
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Saturday, 2 Jan 1993 13:55:54 EST
From: My Baloney has a first name..... <IO10712@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Oh yeah?

Okay.
I hate to beat a dead horse that probably died a long time ago (or may still
be alive for all i know, i haven't read this newsgroup lately, i'm just
posting here.) BUT i have proof that that guy who posted here a long time
ago knew what the hell he was talking about. Okay, my roomate and i have
been drinking a lot of Jolt and we have a strobe light. We both had to pee
(we've done a lot of peeing tonight, we've also drank a lot of Jolt) But
we went into the bathroom and closed the door. It was dark. Then we turned
on the strobe light. It was light. Then it was dark. Then it was light
again. Then dark, followed by some more light. All this happened very fast,
way too fast, in fact, to count. The light was strobing. Fastly. Right.
So then we peed. First him, then me. In BOTH cases, our pee WAS MOST
DEFINATELY separated into tiny droplets. About a foot  from the tip of the
peepee spigot (euphamism for penis) the drops were too far apart for an arc
of electricity to arc over. By the time it hit the toilet, the drops were
so far apart it wasn't funny. (or, at least, i wasn't laughing) Do this
experiment yourself at home. I dare you. The drops were very well defined,
very separate, and very unconnected. And we only did it a short while ago,
so i know what the fuck i'm talking about. I'm not just a raving idiot.
I'm an exited idiot, because i believed all the solid-piss-line thinkers, and
they were wrong. Take that! Ha! I'm going to go pee now. Bye.

                      /-----------------------\
                      |Yeah, i know, it's not |
                      |    much of a sig.     |
                      |io10712@maine.maine.edu|
                      \-----------------------/
From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: EDITORIAL: This newsgroup (net.shenanigans etc.)
Date: 28 Dec 92 07:43:28 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

I'm bothered by the serious tone that recent messages in this newsgroup
have had.  People are calling each other immature, criticizing their
ideas, and FLAMING THEIR SPELLING???  For heaven's sake, I thought
alt.shenanigans was above that sort of thing.
 
Yes, the recent "Net Shenanigan" thread was silly.  It probably shouldn't
count as a real shenanigan...  But it does, if only because it has done
exactly what it was proposed to do: take over an otherwise serious
newsgroup with a ridiculous discussion.
 
Unfortunately, the newsgroup in question was alt.shenanigans.

Let's try to put this behind us, please.  There will always be pranks,
cruel tricks, and obvious non-shenanigans posted here - but we need not
devote the newsgroup to their discussion.  Replies such as "How fucking
impressive" and "If you're such a genius, why can't you spell the word
'geese'" should probably be directed to e-mail...

Also, the "this message | this mistake | this user | that reply was a
shenanigan" threads are getting tiresome...
 
Let's have some real shenanigans.  By anyone's definition.  I realise that
alot of the alt.shenanigans readers are probably on Christmas vacation
(and probably stealing someone's lawn ornament right now), so hopefully
the traffic will increase again soon...

DISCLAIMER:
 
I realise that I can't spell the word "realise", there's no need to point
that out.
 
I also realise that I'm failing to practise (note the misspelling) what I
preach.  I will remedy this in the next day or two by posting some actual
shenanigans, I promise.

Speaking of practicing what I preach, I don't want this thread to take
over the newsgroup either.  Please reply by e-mail if you reply.  I will
summarize all replies in a later posting.

Yes, as a matter of fact, I *did* create the newsgroup.

Oh, and one more thing.  This posting is a shenanigan.  Ignore it.

-- 
~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`
From: tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:31:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Snap Crackle Pop
Organization: the HP Mtn.View Resp. Cntr.
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans

You're right Jason... I think I mixed up another recipe with 
something called P-I.. I am not a chemist.. I just got this recipe
from someone else..there were two I think...           

Anyway, I disclaim any knowledge of anything anywhere for any reason.


Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
Subject: Pay phone shenanigans
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:57:19 GMT


Another popular group of shenanigans involve pay phones.  Just calling one
is a shenanigan, since anyone who answers it is confused because pay
phones don't usually ring.  We had a list of about 75 pay phones, which we
would call until someone answered, and then ask them odd questions.
 
A more elaborate pay phone shenanigan involves TWO pay phones.  One to
call from, and one to call.  They can be next to each other or distant,
but they should be within sight.  There are the usual shenanigans, such as
claiming to be clairvoyant and telling the person what they're wearing.  
 
If there's a row of pay phones, one fun thing to do is ring them one at a
time.  As soon as one rings, hang up and dial another...  This confuses
people greatly, and usually doesn't even cost you a quarter.

Once, my friend I called a pay phone at a gas station from another pay
phone across the street.  Two teenagers walking by saw their chance to
play a joke on someone, and answered the phone.  
 I explained that I had a collect call from "Bob" in Toronto, Canada
(which is a long way from here.)  The teenager, playing along, said that
he would accept charges.  My friend took the phone and played the part of
Bob.  He chatted with him for a few minutes, and then said he'd call right
back.  We hung up and jumped into the car.
 
 The teens were laughing their heads off, proud of how they had fooled
"Bob" into thinking they knew him.  Just as they were walking into the
station, however, my friend and I drove slowly past, and yelled out the
window, "Did you really think we were calling from Toronto?"  The look on
their faces was priceless...

-- 
~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`
From: rachim_t1@verifone.com
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: more phone phun
Date: 23 Dec 92 12:29:50 -1000
Organization: VeriFone Inc., Honolulu HI

When your phone rings, instead of answering it, "Hello?", pick up the phone and
make like it's YOU who's calling.

sample:
your phone rings
pick it up and say "Hi, is Bob home?"

or "Hi, this is Dr. John's office, I'm calling to confirm your appointment for 
this Wednesday"

Also, setting good messages on your answering machine can be loads of fun.
I recently had my message be:  "Yeello (pause) Hello?  Hellloooo? (tap the
machine) I can barely hear you, could you speak up?! (pause) Hey, listen, why
don't I call you back on another line, ok? sheeez, damn phone..." 

You wouldn't believe how many people kept calling back COMPLETELY fooled.
My mother-in-law had a fit, though.

jest in fun
Rich
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Subject: Re: more phone phun
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 21:05:40 GMT

I leave out-of-season well-wishes on my answering machine. Right now, it
greets callers with "Happy Easter". Of course, in the middle of the year,
it'll say "Merry Christmas", and maybe sometime in March-April, I'll record
"Happy Halloween" or something like that on it. I try to keep the greeting
and the actual time of the year about six months apart, leaving people
guessing as to whether I haven't changed my answering machine message for
half a year, or whether I'm half a year early.

-- 
Keith_Lim@sfu.ca   Simon Fraser University, Burnaby B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada
** Hon Cog Sci  Min Psyc  Senate  URC  FARSIDE  LEAD  CCCS  COCP  PSU  **
These opinions are mine. Mine!! ALL MINE!! No one else's! NO ONE ELSE'S!!

"You think you're thinking, therefore you possibly are."
                      --Grant Naylor, "Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers"
From: tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:59:20 GMT
Subject: Snap Crackle Pop
Organization: the HP Mtn.View Resp. Cntr.
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans

The formula for pottasium iodide:

NOTE this is for entertainment only..read this but do not attempt
this at home or office.  You might blow your head clean off and I 
will not be responsible.  

1. obtain silv
er nitrate (AgNO3)

2. add water approx 100 F

3. bubble acetylene through the solution

4. collect precipitate

5. precipitate is explosive- keep it wet!

This is the stuff that was popular in jr and sr high school..
It can be dangerous especially if some fool makes a quart at a time
and leaves it lying around to dry out.  It'll blow your durn pee pee
off! 

While the paste is still wet, you can safely spread it around
strategic locations like in front of your doorway for unsuspecting
mail men, brush salesmen etc... the effect is a loud popping when
they step on it... it eventually becomes highly unstable when 
it dries out.

For a detailed account, there was a post at alt.folklore.college
and someone can probably send it to you etc.. 

all disclaimers apply, especially here!


Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans,alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans

Here's a fun one for you electronics types:

Remember walking around a department store and hearing a bloody high-
pitched whine...did it not bug the sh** out of you?  Ever have the 
pleasure of sitting in front of an old TV set with a bad Horiz. 
output screaming and driving you batsh** crazy?

Well, now you can duplicate these and other extremely annoying scenerios.

Just take a 555 timer chip, wire it up as a free running oscillator (can 
be found almost anywhere i.e. code practice oscillator in ARRL handbook)
and disguise it.  I put my circuit together without even using a perf board.
I took an empty teabag box and installed the circuit, battery and poked
small holes where the speaker was mounted inside.  I can hear landmines,
so I adjusted the frequency and amplitude down where those with problems
hearing the highest audio frequencies could still be tormented. The sound
emmitted is so high, it is extremely difficult to locate.. I placed this
in close proximity to some co-workers (5-10 ft) and watched the fun.

After a few minutes, everyone was extremely irrate..one person became 
angry at another coworker, accusing him of having a monitor which was
having a horizontal problem (mentioned above) and to turn the monitor off
or else!  he he he he

ho ho ho hee hee hee!

						     
More to come when I can think of some.  Like Pottasium Iodide..

all disclaimers apply; especially here.