HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:58:10 GMT

In article <BzF2zH.L5D@taligent.com> cep@taligent.com (Christophe Pettus) writes:
>Personally, I only watched the first season of New Trek to see if
>Deanna Troi would pop out of her uniform.  About half way through, I
...
>As far as "inconsistent use of technology and basic laws of physics,"
>that's most of the charm!

You mean inconsistent laws of physics like why Deanna's neckline always
shifts to one side or the other, but she never pops out....?


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From: MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: Cheese popcorn
Date: 25 Dec 92 22:49:34 GMT
 <1992Dec21.181043.29600@nntp.nta.no> <Bznv9t.Bxo@monster.apd.saic.com>
 <1h7970INNe2c@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

I tried making my own cheese popcorn as was suggested in a post. I have
no idea how to cook but it seemed easy. I put popcorn and an envelope from
macaroni and cheese in the pot and waited. Everything started to smell
burned and then the *&%$%@# envelope of powdered cheese blew up like a
balloon and popped, sending an eruption of extremely hot cheese all over
my apartment. What the hell did I do Wrong!? I used Kraft Cheese and
Wise Unsalted Popcorn.
   Now I'm afraid to go back inside, so I've been hanging out at the
Schezhunan Place downstairs for every meal. I'm never again going to
take cooking lessons from anyone I can't physically blame.

                               -- Rick Yukon, the Tracker.
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From: bjacobs@chopin.udel.edu (William J Jacobs)
Subject: Re: asteroids beyond Jupiter
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:27:10 GMT

O.K., I've gone back through the tree and read all of the notes about Pluto
and Neptune and such.  Here's current thought on Pluto:

Pluto never was an asteroid, wrong chemical composition to have ever been 
much closer to the Sun than it is now.

It is unreasonable to trace back Pluto's orbit back to point where it may or
may not have intersected with Neptune.  Too many minor perturbations for any
certainty.  Anyway, over long timescales the planetary orbits are a chaotic
system, so that makes any long timescale traceback uncertain.

Before the discovery of Charon (Pluto's moon), the hypothesis that Pluto was
an escaped moon of Neptune's was popular (and there are certain facts that
suggest Neptune has had a rough history).

Nowadays, folks have noted that Pluto and Charon are
very similar in size, mass, density, and (probably) chemical composition. 
This suggests that the binary system was formed via collision or capture.
(You see, other moons are much smaller that the primary planets and somewhat
different in density and chem. comp. which suggest co-creation)  To make 
the collision or capture theory work there must be at least 1000 Plutos
out there.  There isn't really any evidence for lots of Plutos, and our lack of
understanding of Uranus and Neptune's formations makes such speculation a bit
premature to my mind.  This is all brand new theory, and I'm rather surprised
to find it in the Astronomy 101 text I'm looking at.  I guess faced with the
choice between a lame theory and no theory at all, you have to put down some-
thing.

Bill Jacobs 
Who is finally good for something around here
From: curt.tucker@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Curt Tucker) 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Computer theft
Date: 3 Jan 93 14:47:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Ed Hopper's BBS - Berkeley Lake, GA - 404-446-9462
Reply-To: curt.tucker@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Curt Tucker) 

strat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis) writes:
SD>bml@netcom.com (Brian Leibowitz) writes:

SD>>A programmer at a bank changed the interest calculations on accounts
SD>>to round down instead of rounding to the nearest penny.  All the fractions
SD>>of pennies were put in a dummy account and then withdrawn.  The bank did

SD>Why, this is a crucial sub-plot to Superman III!

I believe it was used in _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ by RAH decades
before Superman III, and was probably an old idea even then.

--Curt--                          curt.tucker@ehbbs.gwinnett.com
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Them's the FAQs, ma'am
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:38:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.151336.18784@husc3.harvard.edu> joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes) writes:
>Whilst scanning the latest edition of the FAQ I came across
>
>T.  Dick Joltes used to be an arms dealer.
>
>I wish to make it known that I have never dealt in the purchase, resale, or
>trading of human appendages of any sort, including arms, legs, or the ever-
>popular Naughty Bits.  

What about kidneys?

Ted "Snuffer Joltes -- The Movie" Frank
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From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:36:27 GMT

dtasman@NMSU.edu  writes:
> Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
> 
> My favorite is in the little town of Mesilla ... "Calle de Nuestra de la  
> Senorita de Guadalupe."  Huge sign ... twice as high as a normal street sign.   
> Is there anything longer in the United States (Mexican street names describing  
> entire battles, i.e. Avenida de Revolucion de 14 Junio de 1874 de Juarez y  
> Muertos con Borracherrenos y Mujers Gordo Solidaridad y excepted).  

There is a man in Council Bluffs, Iowa who is the only resident on his street.
He had the street name lengthened considerably to deter junk mailers.  He
kept the shorter version for business purposes, I believe.  It was in the news
about five years ago.

The longest place name, if memory serves, is someplace in Wales.  Check 
Guinness.

"Park" is the most common street name (I believe all variants were counted)
in the U.S.

Torsten "trying to figure out Blondo Street" Adair in Omaha


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From: datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper)
Subject: Re: It's a crying shame
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 04:07:23 GMT

David J Bell writes:

[stuff about someone's pregnancy deleted]

>Grandma takes Mom into the bathrooom for a last potty
>break; *SPLOOSH!!*; alarums and excursions!; Dad runs in, Mom is
>looking between her legs into the bowl; he reaches in and grabs
>daughter out of her first (cold!!) bath.

Excursions? I'm keeping my mouth shut on that one! :-D

But just to throw something in, if a baby has been in a warm (no, HOT)
tummy for nine months and suddenly splashes into cold water, wouldn't
her heart stop?

Would make for easy disposal of the afterbirth, though.

Tep
-- 
Did you really think I spoke for anyone else? Boy, you're gullible!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Subject: Re: Gravity
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:38:49 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

In article <1992Dec21.091436.21262@netcom.com>, obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien) writes:
> >>ObFACT: A pound of feathers weighs more than a pound of gold.
> >>
> >I thought this only applied to ounces?  (ie: there is no troy pound)
> 
> Sorry, Matt, Troy weight is *based* on the Troy pound, which has only
> twelve ounces.  I can't remember if the ounces are the same as the
> Avoird'whatever ounces we use around here - anybody know?

This is going to sound weird to people who live in countries with civilized
units of weight...

Most items in the U.S. are weighed according to the avoirdupois system.
Each ounce is 437.5 grains; there are 16 ounces, or 7000 grains, per pound.
Precious metals, on the other and, are weighed according to the troy system,
which has 480-grain ounces, and 12 ounces, or 5760 grains, per pound.  Thus,
an ounce of feathers weighs less than an ounce of gold, but a pound of
feathers weighs more than a pound of gold.

(Source:  Grolier's Academic American Encyclopedia, on-line version.)


		--Steve Bellovin
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: larryh@fawlty.lmc.com (Larry Huntley)
Subject: Re: Roach hotel
Organization: Logic Modeling Corporation  Beaverton, OR
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:13:35 GMT

In article <BzruwA.3nx@unx.sas.com> sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>
>This brings to mind a real UL about a hotel in Charleston, S.C.,
>
>         [bulk deleted]
>
>the hotel on her next trip to the city.  She was placated, until she
>noticed a little piece of paper still in the envelope.  Apparently
>a note from the manager to his secretary, it said, "Send this old
>bag the Roach Letter."
>
    Look, folks, it's the Railroad Bedbug Letter.  This has to be at least
    100 years old, if not more.

    - Larry "and here's a banana for your monkey" Huntley

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking
From: la1002@albnyvms.bitnet
Subject: Re: Cheese popcorn
Reply-To: la1002@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 07:15:25 GMT

you pop it, otherwise the cheese burns.  See? Otherwise, you
had the right idea.

Although I have to admit, I like good Szcheuan food.
Oops... misspelled that, oh well.

Clover
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: AFU Flan Cub
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 13:15:00 GMT

In article <ljhfnvINN54l@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>Speaking of flans, I had some really good ones while in Manitoba.  It
>was at the Flin Flon Fen Flan Fun Fling, an annual bake-off/party held

This is an urban legend only in the sense that it's a legend about the origin
of the name of a town, but....  According to a brochure published (I think)
by the Flin Flon tourist bureau, and reprinted in issue 37 of the "DX
Listening Digest" (a radio hobbyist magazine), the town of Flin Flon,
Manitoba, was named by prospector Tom Creighton in 1914.
He had been reading a dime novel, "The Sunless City," about a submarine
captain, Josiah Flintabbety Flonatin, who discovered gold under the 
surface of the earth.  When he and his partners discovered an ore body
(today a base-metal mine) they named it "Flin Flon" after the mythical
hero of the book.  There is a cartoonish statue of Josiah F. F. across
the street from the tourist bureau in Flin Flon today.
 
Most of the town is in Manitoba, but the accompanying map shows a small
corner of it slopping over into Saskatchewan.

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From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Keywords: Trig.
Date: 28 Dec 92 05:56:20 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Dec27.203155.9526@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>
>Since you mention {Native American} maidens, isn't there a Pythagorean
>algorithm that has something to do with the sum of the Sqauws of something?

Yes, and (drumroll, please, Anton) . . . it has three sides!

Whee. That was fun.

 -Paul "Monty" Ashley
   (Now, let's see how many people do that joke, shall we?)
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From: obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB)
Subject: Re: The Ultimate Circumcision
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Distribution: alt.folklore.urban
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:49:29 GMT

randle@nosc.mil (Mike Randle) writes:
>
>I Recall reading about a medical mishap back in the late 70s (I think).
>A doctor slipped up during a circumcision of a bouncing baby boy, and
>recommended to the parents that he should have a sex change operation
>and be rasied as a girl. Seems that the kid's fledgling manhood was
>beyond repair.  If I'm right, the doctor was in the military, and the
>hospital may have been Trippler (Hawaii).  Can anyone confirm this
>incident, or is this just another urban legend?  If it is true, whatever
>became of him/her?  What happened to the doctor?

I seem to recall, from about the same time period or a little later,
this being a part of a television show or movie plot, and not
necessarily based on fact.  There was definitely a segment of "L.A. Law"
dealing with a similar topic, but within the last 2 or3 years.


	Bob "not even a fleeting thought of having mine reversed" O'Bob
From: obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: AFU Flan Cub
Date: 29 Dec 92 06:21:33 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

In article <3136@israel.nysernet.org> warren@nysernet.org writes:
>In the interest of science and of not eating frozen jelly-donuts, I
>put some in a microwave last night.  They did not explode.
>-- 
>/|/-\/-\       In real life, the Vice President chastises Murphey Brown
> |__/__/_/     for her morals.  Bill Clinton plays the sax on "Arsenio
> |warren@      Hall."  Though "Batman Returns" is fiction, it's not too
>/ nysernet.org much stranger than truth - Caryn James, The New York Times


Now that they've been there all night, why don't you try turning it on?

	Bob "explodes fresh marshmallows, though" O'Bob
From: ilaine@panix.com (Liz Stokes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: African-American-top
Date: 31 Dec 92 14:06:18 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <mjenkins.725757417@cunews> mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:

	[search-and-replace story deleted]
>Anyone else heard this one before?

	I heard a similar story about a newspaper that always replaced 
'fireman' with 'firefighter' which worked fine until they ran a story about 
19th century locomotives.
	-Liz



-- 
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Ilaine de Cameron  | 	We're going to try an experiment now. Instead of using
                   | 	a loom, we're going to wind all the yarn into balls
ilaine@panix.com   |    and adopt an infinite number of kittens...
From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Date: 27 Dec 1992 01:37:45 GMT
Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
Distribution: world
Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
NNTP-Posting-Host: skybridge.scl.cwru.edu
Keywords: Trig.


SOHCAHTOA, the {Native American} maiden

Sine 	= Opposite over Hipponose
Cosine	= Adjacent over Hipponose
Tangent = {Guess........}
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From: phaedrus@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (James Hartman, Sysop)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 23:37:01 GMT
Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy, Houston, TX

styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:

> Parsing is context sensitive. Both ((life is a beach) blvd) and
> (life is a (beach blvd)) will do. Most often the latter is used.

In Lake Jackson, Texas, there are two streets named: This Way (and) That Way

I'm not kidding.
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From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: Re: Colors of Olympic Rings
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 08:45:25 GMT

In <1992Dec26.042230.10674@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:

    So far, I don't think anyone's come out with a nice puce-colored flag to
    mess things up.

What color is the flag of Kibonia?
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/ nysernet.org much stranger than truth - Caryn James, The New York Times
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From: cel@nsscmail.att.com (clayton EDward LEIHY iii)
Subject: Willie & the KJV (was: Re: Legal language)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: NCR Systems Support Center - New Jersey
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:59:58 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.222022.19244@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:

>	Of courese Shakespeare wrote/translated the KJB.  He left
>a clue in the Book of Psalms.  Psalm 46, the 46th word is shake
>and the 46th word from the end, not including Amen, is speare.

One additional data point which is quite relevant

(at least to the number forty-six):

At the time of the King James Translation,
William Shakespeare was forty-six years old,
which lends more credence to this particular "of course".

Ed Leihy, NCR (an AT$T Company)
S. Plainfield, NJ
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From: styri@balder.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: ...film at 11...
Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 23:43:38 GMT

billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
: : infidel@cislabs.pitt.edu (todd j. derr) writes:
: : 
: : > I haven't been this steamed since the last time a megacorp highjacked
: : > a common term, when IBM (in my mind, illegally) trademarked the
: : > acronym for "personal computer."
: : 
: : Did IBM actually DO this?
: 
: Nope. Todd is either trolling, or very confused. There is no way to
: trademark a commonly used term. For example, Bayer lost their "aspirin"
: trademank due to common usage.

However, no rule without the exception. The Olympic Games and the
logo with 5 rings are somehow protected in most countries. Not in
Norway where Lillehammer will host the winter games in 1994. The
organizers does not have the proper trademarks and copyrights. A
temporary law is considered by the parliament, but the whole thing
is a legal muddle at present.

---
YuNoHoo  "they'll probably trademark 1994"

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From: meltsner@crd.ge.com (Kenneth J. Meltsner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking
Subject: Don't tell them the recipe's from the Mrs. Field's cookbook
Date: 21 Dec 92 15:11:40 GMT
Reply-To: meltsner@crd.ge.com
Organization: GE Research and Development Center


[Please note cross-posting.]

Last weekend, I made the double chocolate cookies from the new Mrs.
Field's cookie cookbook and they turned out great.  Two people at a
party asked me for the source of the recipe and when I told them "Mrs.
Field's," both mentioned that a friend told them about a $250
recipe....  One *swore* the story really happened to her friend.  All
storytellers were told to read Brunvand's books.  I wonder whether
I'll be invited back next year.

There's an allusion to the $250 cookie story, by the way, in the
book's introduction, where it mentions that the recipes aren't the
same as those used in the bakeries, since those require professional
equipment and ingredients.  [The secret of the cookbook, by the way,
is the use of a 300 F/~20 minutes oven for most of the drop cookies,
rather than the 375 F/~10 minutes recommended in the canonical Toll
House recipe.]

Now, if I could just find a copy of the Waldorf's red velvet cake
recipe for less than $250....

===============================================================================
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From: Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: CD pricing conspiracy NOT!
Date: 21 Dec 92 15:27:27 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK


I don't know the name of the British Monopolies and Mergers Comission,
but I do know that *There's only one of them*! (I used to have it
in my .sig)

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From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Happy holiday
Date: 21 Dec 92 15:51:26 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com


Today is an official a.f.u holiday: Disraeli's birthday (21 Dec 1804).  

Bruce "or is it Beaconsfield's?" Tindall
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Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Mgr., SAS Institute Inc., Cary, N.C. 27513
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: rhadden@isdres.er.usgs.gov
Subject: RE: Trademark legends
Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:39:49 GMT

Bayer was the drug company that had the patent of aspirin before World War I.
When the war started, the British were not about to pay a fee to a German
firm, so they changed the law so the Burroughs Wellcome Co. could manufacture
aspirin on their own. The resulting product was called Empirin, a combination
of the terms "Empire" and "aspirin". BTW, "aspirin" at that time was a trade-
marked name as well. Now, only Empirin is.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: casmith@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (CatherineArnott Smith)
Subject: Re: The Ultimate Circumcision
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:51:52 GMT

It's not an urban legend; look for books by John Money, of the Johns Hopkins
University transsexual clinic.  It's actually the procedure of choice in
accidents such as this one. "Reassignment," it's called.