HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.women
Subject: Re: Oscillators (Was: Re: Women in groups)
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:12:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: magnus.1992Oct15.211258.20320
 <rhamilt.719178631@husc10>
Organization: The Ohio State University

rhamilt@husc10.harvard.edu (Rowan Hamilton) writes in

>billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>
>>pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson) writes:
>>: In article <1992Oct12.230913.19059@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris) writes:
>>:
>>: >I tend to think of it as a simple case of 'injection locking' - a technical
>>: >term for how two oscillators, running at the same frequency, will tend to
>>: >oscillate at the same frequency given any means of coupling.  Rather than
>>:
>>: I don't get it.  If the oscillators are (already) running at the same
>>: frequency, why do you need coupling to make them run at the same
>>: frequency?
>>Because, just because they happen to be running at approximately the same
>>rate at one moment does not mean they will stay the same. All oscillators
>>drift. All it takes is a momentary drift and they are out of sync. Coupling
>>is required for them to remain locked on the same frequency.
>>Bill
>
>	"Phase", guys, "phase".......

Do you mean they're "Locked in Phase".
Sounds like a much better show than "Lost in Space".

J.P. "Ten Quatloos on Worf" Papai
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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: Newbie Experiment
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 04:45:29 GMT

In <7176@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:

>    "THAT'S in the FAQ. What are you, a moron or something?"

My nominee for the new AFU motto.

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From: nking@unix1.tcd.ie (Nev's family recipe)
Subject: Re: Cows
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 09:29:41 GMT

In <1992Oct13.115634.20510@nntp.nta.no> styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:
>In article <1992Oct13.035903.24589@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, Shannon McNeil writes:
>|> somebody out there tell me WHY cows lie down before it rains.
>That's in their genes. And that leads me to another issue of interest to
>this group. Ever seen one of those cow barriers made of metal pipes in the
>road? Well, the new thing is just to paint pipe-loke stripes on the surface.
>Sure saves money.
>The funny thing is, even cows with no experience of the `real thing' will
>stop at the fake barrier. How do they learn? (And, will these barriers
>catch on on countries where the original barrier wasn't used? And if they
>do - how does the global communication system used by cows work?

Not only that, but the fasteners used in all farm gates and fences must
now be round headed rivets instead of hexagonal bolts.  This is because
of a genetic trait inbred to cows from fear of bolt guns used in
abbatoirs.  Wierd or what??...

Nev
From: vibrad@os2dce06.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Date: 6 Oct 92 12:15:14 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin

Picard would just signal his surrender to Kirk and Kirk would just pull out
a phaser and blast him.

Brad

Comparing the Captains:
Hypothetical Picard - Alien race blow an 'extra' away - 'I cannot allow you to
do this ... Signal our surrender'

Real Kirk - Meeting an Alien for the first time - 'We come in Peace, ' -whips
out phaser - 'but we are prepared to defend ourselves.'
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: 7-Up
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 06:37:38 GMT

In article <26812@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:

>
>  +Ted "at least the steak sauce got it right the first time" Frank
>
>Are you sure?  I thought they were counting in hex.

I always thought it was a reference to a FORMAT statement in FORTRAN.
From: rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Date: 9 Oct 1992 14:42:43 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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In article spg@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Stephen P. Guthrie) writes:
>I met a girl from Indonesia called Beta. She was the second child. Her older
>sibling was called Alpha. Her younger siblings were Gamma, Delta, Epsilon
>(or whatever are the first 5 letters in the Greek alphabet, I think these
>are correct). Rather unimaginative.
 
 
You'd think that they would have arranged the children to spell
something cutesy in Greek. At least to match their fraternity.
 
 
ObBraveNewUL - I heard that Epsilon is a janitor in Djakarta.
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Dept. Radiology MetroHealth Hosp.      | 	- Bibo ergo sum
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From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: 666 Cable TV
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 21:58:25 GMT

csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu  writes:
> In article <NDFMr*qj6@deepthot.cary.nc.us>, jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us (Jay
> Denebeim) wrote:
> > 
> > In article <1992Oct2.131227.15928@spectrum.xerox.com>, Erik Radmall writes:
> > 
> > > In article <5348@balrog.ctron.com>, smith@ctron.com (Larry Smith) writes:
> > > |> In article <1992Sep25.135427.5512@sei.cmu.edu>, kh@sei.cmu.edu (Kurt Haverstock) writes:
> > > |> >It occurs to me that we might as soon debate on the number of faeries
> > > |> >that can dance on the head of a pin.
> > > |> 
> > > |> I think it's "ten".
> > > 
> > > You are obviously not accounting for the dance style. The tango requires more
> > > space, hence fewer faeries. The waltz, on the other hand, allows up to 13o
> > > of the critters.
> > 
> > Hold on a minute, I thought you had to have an even number of faeries to
> > waltz.
> > 
> 
> 
> Sigh, couple of problems here folks.
> 1) A faerie is much to large to stand (let alone dance) on the head of a
> pin.
> 
> 2) The original theological question deals with angles and the number of
> which may dance on the head of a pin.

	obtuse angles or acute angles?
> 
> 3) With the above in mind, we have several questions.
>    a) Do angles dance?  Occording to some christian sects, dancing is a
> sin, and 	so angles, with the possible exception of the Fallen One, would
> not dance and the question is moot.
>    b) If angles do dance, then does an angle have a corperal body? 
>    c) If yes, then just how large is an angle?
> 			d) If no, then can it be reasoned that an angle is infinitely small?
> 
> 
> Mathematicly, if the last is true, just how infinitely small is the angle? 
> Is the angle so infinitely small that an infinite number of angles can
> dance on the head of a pin?  Or must an infinite number of angles take up
> an infinite amount of space?
> 
> Blackplague 

	Actually, the old theological question was "How many ANGELS (note 
spelling) could dance on the head of a pin.
	First of all, the answer is forty-two.
	Second of all, why would an angel dance on the head of a pin?
	Third, do angels even exist?

This reminds me of the old joke, which I first read in a "Garfield" strip:
	Q:  How many thin people can you fit in a shower?
	A:  I don't know.  They keep slipping down the drain.

	Torsten "Dancing the Horizontal Mambo" Adair

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From: arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Re: Cows
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:20:43 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.035903.24589@ucc.su.OZ.AU> smcneil@metro (Shannon McNeil) writes:
> Something has been bothering me for quite some time, so please could
> somebody out there tell me WHY cows lie down before it rains.
> HOW DO THEY KNOW!??

It's because cow-tippers only work in inclement weather.
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Subject: Re: gary larson committed
From: young@kenyon.edu
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:17:34 -0500
Distribution: na
Organization: Kenyon College
Summary: Jonathan Winters college days

In article <1992Oct5.153011.20931@PA.dec.com>, snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
> In article <BvH5x4.ExB@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, 
>   phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes...
> 
>>I have it on good authority that Gary Larson is at least as sane as
>>Jonathan Winters.
Legend on my campus has it that Jonathan Winters actually did attend college
here (this part is definitely true) until he was expelled for painting himself
green and running naked down middle path.  This was at Kenyon college, back
when it was an all-men college, so I have absolutely no idea why he might have
done it, and less as to when anyone gave a damn...

                                                  ---Loquacious Girl
> 
> But Gary Larson is funny.
> 
>  - snopes
> 
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From: de@moscom.com (David Esan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:54:07 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford NY

In article <7035@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:
>Picard, a RED SHIRT, is just lucky he wasn't an ACTING ENSIGN in Kirk's day.

At least Picard can act.


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From: jberger@novell.com (John Berger)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Far Side UL (Re: gary larson committed)
Keywords: hook larson far side
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:58:31 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.

The Far Side comic today was about the man with the hook, telling his 
children about the teenagers who drove off with it!

Combining two UL's in one - maybe he met the man at the asylum???!
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From: kasprj@jec321.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: Presidential Succession History (was: Presidential UL's)
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:58:28 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.051945.12035@PA.dec.com>, mikkelson%rwtms2.decnet@consrt.rockwell.com (snopes) writes:
|> 
|> In article <adams.718656959@spssig>, 
|>   adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes...
|> 
|> >Wasn't the assassination of Lincoln part of a larger conspiracy to kill a
|> >number of Northern government figures, including Scty. Seward?
|> 
|> This does bring up an interesting question, though.  In case of
|> nuclear attack or something that wipes out a large number of high
|> officials, what is the line of succession? 
 
 I'm more interested in the Net's order of succession. If snopes, van der
Linden, and all the Terrys are wiped out, who takes their place in a.f.u?
Who's Kibo's successor? What about BIFF? 
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From: bigstar@hardy.u.washington.edu (J Paschel)
Subject: Dog in microwave ?
Keywords: microwave
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 07:12:04 GMT


Is this life imitating the academy ?

	WAUSAU, Wis. (UPI) -- The Marathon County district attorney is
expected to decide Monday whether to charge a Wausau man with killing a
dog by putting it in a microwave oven.
	The dog's 15-year-old owner told Wausau police the man put the dog
in the oven Sept. 28 and turned the oven on for 10 seconds.
	The girl took the dog, a terrier mix named Squirt, to Wausau
Animal Hospital the same day because it was vomiting and panting rapidly.
A veternarian treated the dog with steroids, antibiotics and intravenous
fluids but it died four days later.
	The girl also told police the man had put the dog in the oven
several times before.
	``This is very disturbing,'' said Wausau Police Inspector Paul
Luoma. ``We're going to make sure we follow this one right to the end.''

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From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Liz Claiborne/Oprah Winfrey UL
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:04:55 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:
 
>	ObUL: The Navy built an "Invisible Ship" in Philadelphia; when
>they turned it on the entire ship didn't just become invisible, it 
>disappeared from the area as well, appearing simultaneously or nearly
>so in at least eight places around the globe, ranging from South America
>to Russia. When it finally returned, one-third of the crew was dead, another
>third completely insane, and the last third was tough to test because
>THEY KEPT FADING IN AND OUT!
>	Sources: lots of people I know who were in the military.

Ah yes, the infamous "Philadelphia Experiment."  I think we've discussed this
one before (few years back).  Check out the movie (starring Michael Pare' and
???) of the same name.

The ship, according to the UL, wasn't "built" to be invisible.  The Navy had
a ship in drydock in Philly, and the situation was perfect to test their new
"invisibility field."  Results were as you described.

Everyone's heard it, in one form or another.

Hooey.

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"Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."
From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Trelford Pinkerton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Astonishing Lincoln
Date: 12 Oct 92 03:12:58 GMT
Organization: Wet Beer Conspiracy
NNTP-Posting-Host: positive

All these political stories of the late great comedian W.C.Churchills
reminds me of a tale of "Honest Abe" himself.

It seems that in 1837 Abraham Lincoln had his first opportunity to meet
Daniel Webster, the distinguished senator from Massachusetts.  On a tour
of the West, Webster visited Springfield which (largely due to Lincoln's
efforts) had just been deemed the capital of Illinois.

As an influential local party leader, Lincoln was one of the hosts at the
barbeque in Porter's Grove, where Senator Webster delighted the crowd with
some of the honeyed eloquence that he always seemed to have on tap.

Very likely he and Lincoln had some extrordinarily interesting things to
say to one another in private conversation after, but there is no record
of what, if anything, they said!

--

Trelford Pinkerton     casey@the.bat    415 555-1212

Donner Party, your table for 24 -- uh, 23 -- uh 22, is ready.
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From: beb@pt.com (Bruce Buck)
Subject: Re: Garbled anecdotes (was: late talkers)
Organization: Performance Technologies, Incorporated
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:39:13 GMT

In article <1570@eram.esi.COM.AU> dave@eram.esi.COM.AU (Dave Horsfall) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.074004.5498@meiko.com>
>    davol@twinheadmeiko.co.uk (David Wilson) writes:
>
>| A lady MP (Member of Parliament) indignantly confronts Winston Churchill
>| in the lobby of the Houses of Parliament with the words: 
>
>Lady Astor, I believe it was.  The two were often verbally sparring.  My
>favourite (possibly garbled) is: "Sir!  If you were my husband, I would
>poison you!" to which he replied: "Madam!  If you were my wife, I would
>poison myself first!"

The way I heard it was,
   "And if you were my wife I'd beat the shit out of you"
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Walt Disney suspended???
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:23:45 GMT
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates

In article <1992Oct14.184913.1193@pmafire.inel.gov> geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen) writes:
>In sci.cryonics, habs@panix.com (Harry Shapiro) writes:
>| In <1992Oct12.182759.17384@shearson.com> pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes:

>| >Although its a common rumor spawned by the fact that he mentioned that
>| >he might like to be suspended, it does not appear that he actually
>| >went through with it.

>Sorry to disappoint everyone, but Walt Disney was cremated, and is
>buried at Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles (or the Los Angeles area;
>don't know if it's actually in L.A.).

Aha!  When I first read this, I couldn't imagine why old Walt would have
been suspended, given that I thought he was dead.

Now it turns out that rather than being suspended, he got fired.

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From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Re: aluminum siding
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:44:04 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

In article <1992Oct13.180857.14171@osf.org>, rogers@rosencrantz.osf.org (Andrew Rogers) writes:
|> In article <1687FBD9F.DSTEPHEN@cmsa.gmr.com> DSTEPHEN@cmsa.gmr.com writes:
|> ><stories about enterprising citizens ripping aluminum siding off houses
|> >and selling it to scrap metal dealers omitted>
|> >
|> >I don't know about other cities, but this certainly happens in Detroit...
|> 
|> There was an article in the Boston Globe just a few days ago about copper
|> gutters and drainpipes being stolen from Beacon Hill townhouses.  I also
|> remember a rash of slate roof thefts in Vermont a few years back.

Are they stealing the fake shutters, too?


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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Collected Musical Factoids
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:15:27 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.203250.10556@PA.dec.com> snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:

>Not really.  Their only association with Ringo was that they all played at
>the concerts for Bangladesh.

Wrong, the song's used in The Magic Christian starring Ringo and Peter Sellers.
George Harrison clearly played with Badfinger at some point whether on 
Come and Get It or later on, Paul McCartney wrote Come and Get It, just no
Lennon connection at all.  (Admittedly the Ringo connection is a stretch,
but that's still more than the "only" one you mentioned.)

cjl
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From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: "Normal" body temperature
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 12:07:17 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.033512.21199@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, Veltyen writes:
>
>	22.0 C +/- 1.0 C is classic control temps
>	22.0 C +/- 0.1 C for clean room conditions
>	( these are from memory and approximate.)

Sure, I remember my dad told me about a friend who came back to Norway from
Kansas University and tried to repeat one of the `room temp' experiments.
Just didn't work properly until he realized that the above does not apply
here...

---
YuNoHoo
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From: fburdette@worldbank.org (Franklin P. Burdette)
Subject: "Good Luck" is Test--Please Ignore
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:05:40 GMT

Please Ignore That Post. Sorry.
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From: gl1@cec1.wustl.edu (Greg Lyon)
Subject: Re: Susie B $ (was Re: Canadian pennies)
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 06:57:33 GMT

>>>Ever wonder what happened to all those Susan B. Anthony dollars and 2 dollar
>>>bills?  They got shipped overseas to be used by people serving in the

   Well, if so, why are there 600 MILLION of them in Treasury vaults ?

Greg

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From: vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (vance kochenderfer)
Subject: Re: Oranjelo and the severed dog's head
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, 8 Oct 92 22:46:43 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.165526.1707@seanews.akita.com> billmcc@seanews.akita.com (Bill McCormick) writes:
>I've actually sent a dog's head in to be examined.  I was bitten by a

Can it be sent through the mail with no further packaging?

Vance "You lick the stamp" Kochenderfer
vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu
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