HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gamble@owlnet.rice.edu (Ben Gamble)
Subject: Re: Houston Defending Choice Coalition needs you
Organization: Tennessee Ernie Port Authority
Distribution: tx
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:32:57 GMT

In article <mumble> jbrandt@NeoSoft.com (J Brandt) writes:
|It's hard to say who causes OR to make the news.  They would probably
|be content to harrass clinic customers and shut down the clinics without
|making any news if no one stood in the way.

Hee hee.  Then why did they arrive in Houston along with the advance
camera crews the week before the convention?  Also, Rescue America at
least (I'm not sure about OR and the Lambs) has claimed that they will
remain in Houston to continue the fight, and I guess we'll have to
wait until Saturday to find out, but I betcha the promised
continuation of the War On Abortion will somehow fail to materialize.

If the rescue loonies do stick around, though, it'll only be until
they've stolen enough wallets and purses to ransom their leaders out
of the clink.  Operation Rescue, et al., are a _traveling_ carnival
(thank the Powers) whose raison d'etre is to grab as much spotlight as
possible in order to convince influential politicians that there is a
huge and growing pro-life grassroots movement.

-- 
Ben Gamble                              B0 f- t+ w- g+ k- s- m- e r-v p
gamble@owlnet.rice.edu 
       Oh ye who go about saying unto each other:  "Hello sailor":
       Dost thou know the magnitude of thy sin before the gods?
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From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se)
Newsgroups: houston.general,tx.politics,rice.politics
Subject: Re: Anti-choice vs. Pro-abortion (was Re: Houston Defending Choice Coalition needs you)
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:22:31 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.

In article <BtM5zn.9K8@rice.edu> adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton) writes:

>Clearly, there's only one right choice.  And I know it's the right one, since
>God told me last night.  Called me right up on the phone and said,

>"Mandatory abortions for everyone.  Whether he or she needs it or not, pre- or
>post- natal, doesn't matter.  Everyone."

>I think I'll start a new organization.  NOHPPG (Negative One Hundred Percent
>Population Growth).  Hell, I'll call it a religion and apply for tax-exempt
>status.

Do I even need to say it?
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    "This must be Thursday.  I never could get the hang of Thursdays"
                                                       - D Adams
  - Patrick Taylor
    Ericsson Network Systems
    exuptr@exu.ericsson.se                       "Don't let the .se fool you"
    alternately, exuptr@ZGNews.Lonestar.Org
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From: bell@cs.tamu.edu (Will Bell)
Newsgroups: houston.general,tx.general
Subject: Re: Where is the IKEA?
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:06:35 GMT
Distribution: tx
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

In article <1992Aug25.162748.2393@slcs.slb.com> atkinson@slcs.slb.com (Amy Atkinson) writes:
>Please post your response to this request for the rest of us IKEA
>fans!

The IKEA is located on I-10, just west of I-610, at the Silber exit.  
Apparently, it was formerly a STOR.  IKEA seems to have bought the operation
lock, stock, and barrel;  they were selling old STOR stuff relabeled with
IKEA names and tags.

Thanks to everyone who provided this information to me.

WBB
--
Will Bell -- bell@cs.tamu.edu -- Live from the heart of Scenic Central Texas
"That guy's nose is huge!"
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From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor)
Newsgroups: houston.general,tx.politics,rice.politics
Subject: Re: Anti-choice vs. Pro-abortion (was Re: Houston Defending Choice Coalition needs you)
Date: 25 Aug 92 22:33:02 GMT
Distribution: tx
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug21.153119.21631@menudo.uh.edu> moore@uhibpd.phys.uh.edu (Lorra L. Moore) writes:
>>I lived outside this country for a long time, have visited many desperately 
>>poor countries, and seen more wretched poverty than you can possibly compre-
>>hend.  Whatever problems even the desperately poor have, they are alive, 

>seen it... how incredibly upper middle class white of you.  Ever lived
>it?

So, exactly what is your background, Lorra?  Offering very little personal 
experience of your own, aren't you.  Tell us how it is in the trenches.
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   "This must be Thursday.  I never could get the hang of Thursdays"
                                                          - D Adams
  - Patrick Taylor
    Ericsson Network Systems
    exuptr@exu.ericsson.se             "Don't let the .se fool you"
    alternately, exuptr@ZGNews.Lonestar.Org
Newsgroups: houston.general
From: paul@xcluud.sccsi.com (Paul Hutmacher)
Subject: Re: Lunch bunch
Organization: Greater Montrose UFO Appreciation Society & Data Haven
Distribution: houston
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:33:09 GMT

In article <SBYRNES.92Aug25193753@rio-grande.rice.edu> sbyrnes@rice.edu (Steven Byrnes) writes:
>
>Ok.  So...  Anyone have any strong objections to having a lunch bunch
>get-together this Saturday, the 29th?


Sounds like fun.  I'll be there.


-- 
"There is nothing to history.  No progress,          | Paul Hutmacher 
 no justice. There is nothing but random horror."    | Houston, Texas
"Jupiter" in _The Difference Engine_ Gibson/Sterling | paul@xcluud.sccsi.com
Newsgroups: houston.general,tx.politics,rice.politics
From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Newsgroups: houston.general,tx.politics,rice.politics
Subject: Re: Anti-choice vs. Pro-abortion (was Re: Houston Defending Choice Coalition needs you)
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:16:34 GMT
Followup-To: /dev/null
Organization: Milo's Meadow

Clearly, there's only one right choice.  And I know it's the right one, since
God told me last night.  Called me right up on the phone and said,

"Mandatory abortions for everyone.  Whether he or she needs it or not, pre- or
post- natal, doesn't matter.  Everyone."

I think I'll start a new organization.  NOHPPG (Negative One Hundred Percent
Population Growth).  Hell, I'll call it a religion and apply for tax-exempt
status.
-- 
"Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the
 stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud.  There is _always_
 something." -- Robert Penn Warren | Vote Cthulhu in '92! | adam@rice.edu
If Rice shared my opinions I wouldn't have this disclaimer | 64,928
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From: gamble@owlnet.rice.edu (Ben Gamble)
Newsgroups: houston.general,tx.general,tx.politics
Subject: Re: Houston Defending Choice Coalition needs you
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:58:55 GMT
Distribution: tx
Organization: Tennessee Ernie Port Authority

In article <mumble> ak45ldp@Texaco.com (Larry D. Pyeatt) writes:
||> They never cover the physical abuse the OR people have suffered at the hands 
||> of police.
|
|Huh?  I was not aware that any OR people suffered any abuse.  However, some 
|have been known to resist arrest, and they did abuse some of the clinic 
|defenders.

I'm with you, this is the first I've heard of it.  Documentation,
Patrick?

||> But let's be realistic.  The papers and cameras are always there to cover 
||> anything that is controversial.  John is right that if there were violence 
||> going on as a rule, the news would pick it up.
|
|Would they?  I think that this issue is so controversial that the media is
|afraid to show anything that might be construed as taking sides.  They leave
|out a lot of information.  However, about 40 arrests were made during the
|Republican convention.  Surely you don't think that they were arrested for
|peaceful demonstration.

Actually, most if not all of the arrests during the convention were
indeed for nothing more than violating the ("100ft") restraining order
(and yes, my sources include eyewitnesses).  But that doesn't mean
assaults aren't occurring, just that making assault charges stick is
hard, whereas picking up injunction violators is easy.  Did OR or
Lambs get nailed for assault at Fannin?

|I really don't think that the media is on either side.

I thought this too, until one of the site coordinators pointed out to
me as we were watching Carlos Aguilar's coverage that Channel 13 has a
subtle and well-camouflaged, but definite, pro-life bias.

-- 
Ben Gamble                              B0 f- t+ w- g+ k- s- m- e r-v p
gamble@owlnet.rice.edu 
       Oh ye who go about saying unto each other:  "Hello sailor":
       Dost thou know the magnitude of thy sin before the gods?
From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Newsgroups: houston.general
Subject: A Partridge in a Pear Tree
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:39:16 GMT
Organization: Taronga Park BBS

Well, actually, they're blue jays.

But it is a pear tree.  And it is absolutely laden with pears.
More pears than I know what to do with.  More pears than I can
possibly pick up off the ground, or pluck out of nestling branches.

So if you have a hankering for pears, please feel free to come over
and take as many as you like.  No strings attached.  Honest.
Preferably before I'm up to my ass in pears.

Thankyouverymuch.
-- 
Stephanie da Silva                                    arielle@taronga.com
  "Isn't it romantic?  When roosters fall in love... they lose
                                     all reason...." -- Peepers the Mouse
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From: sbyrnes@rice.edu (Steven Byrnes)
Subject: Re: Lunch bunch
Reply-To: sbyrnes@rice.edu (Steven Byrnes)
Organization: Yeah, right, sure!
	<CORYWEST.92Aug19230947@rio-grande.rice.edu>
Distribution: houston
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:37:53 GMT

On Thu, 20 Aug 1992 05:09:47 GMT, Cory West said:

	I'll bring the raw vegetables :-).

Ok.  So...  Anyone have any strong objections to having a lunch bunch
get-together this Saturday, the 29th?  (Or was this small thread lost in
the abortion debate thread?)  If not, let's count on it being held at the
same bat time (namely the Two Pesos at I-59 and Kirby around noon on
Saturday, the 29th).

Of course, that is assuming that Andrew doesn't come our way...  (And if it
does, perhaps we could move the meeting location to somewhere else.... like
San Antonio...)

I'll be there, come hell or high... er, nevermind...  :-/

Steven
Newsgroups: houston.general,tx.general,tx.politics
From: gamble@owlnet.rice.edu (Ben Gamble)
Subject: Re: Houston Defending Choice Coalition needs you
Organization: Tennessee Ernie Port Authority
Distribution: tx
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:46:06 GMT

In article <mumble> exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor) writes:
|Sorry, I am a little out of touch with the news.  What was the nature of the 
|violence?

That's okay, you wouldn't have seen the violence on the news anyway.
It turns out that the only way to get the straight story is to go to
the victims/eyewitnesses, who describe attackers:

- headbutting defenders
- stomping feet (this resulted in at least one broken toe last week)
- charging lines at points of joined hands in attempt to break through
- using usual assortment of kicks, elbows, etc., in the press of the
  crowd
- strapping a woman with cerebral palsy into a wheelchair and using
  her as a battering ram (these people are SICK, folks) (actually the
  woman was shown on channel 13, being nobly carried by an able-bodied
  ally, but the wheelchair tactic was not)

These are just the ones I remember stories of, as I was not on the
lines myself.  I can get more detailed accounts if you're interested.

-- 
Ben Gamble                              B0 f- t+ w- g+ k- s- m- e r-v p
gamble@owlnet.rice.edu 
       Oh ye who go about saying unto each other:  "Hello sailor":
       Dost thou know the magnitude of thy sin before the gods?
From: add@is.rice.edu (Arthur Darren Dunham)
Newsgroups: houston.general
Subject: Re: Lunch bunch
Date: 26 Aug 1992 04:19:51 GMT
Distribution: houston
Organization: Rice University

In article <SBYRNES.92Aug25193753@rio-grande.rice.edu> sbyrnes@rice.edu (Steven Byrnes) writes:
>Ok.  So...  Anyone have any strong objections to having a lunch bunch
>get-together this Saturday, the 29th?  (Or was this small thread lost in
>the abortion debate thread?)  If not, let's count on it being held at the
>same bat time (namely the Two Pesos at I-59 and Kirby around noon on
>Saturday, the 29th).

Well, Andrew seems to be cooperating, so if someone can wake me :) then
I guess I'll drag myself down.....(yawn) Noon comes so early on
Saturdays!


-- 
Darren Dunham                 		          add@is.rice.edu
MicroConsultant                       		  Rice University
(What is that? A small consultant?)	              Houston, TX
Any resemblance between real opinions and my post is coincidental
Newsgroups: houston.general
From: glratt@is.rice.edu (Glenn Forbes Larratt)
Subject: Re: Lunch bunch
Organization: CRC OCIS, William Marsh Rice University, Houston, Texas
Distribution: houston
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:02:55 GMT

In article <BtKpD3.9z0@rice.edu> add@is.rice.edu (Arthur Darren Dunham) writes:

...

>Well, Andrew seems to be cooperating, so if someone can wake me :) then
>I guess I'll drag myself down.....(yawn) Noon comes so early on
>Saturdays!
>

	Somebody wake me up too.



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From: system@korova.uucp (razorback)
Newsgroups: houston.general,tx.politics,rice.politics
Subject: Re: Anti-choice vs. Pro-abortion (was Re: Houston Defending Choice C
Date: 22 Aug 92 04:34:54 GMT
Organization: VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783

homer@korova.uucp (Homer The Brave) writes:

> I, for one, am really sick of reading abortion debates on 
> houston.general.
> 
> Anyone else?

im sick of abortion debates period.

i would actually rather discuss the invasion of philosphy and morality on 
law. not abortion in particular, but lots of things that probably fall 
underthat category.
squid

--
              VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783
        "where you can find the Zeta Greys SAFEWAYING themselves
                into the WONDERBREAD *heart* of America!"
Newsgroups: houston.general
From: paco@cs.rice.edu (Paul Havlak)
Subject: Re: Where is the IKEA?
Reply-To: Paul Havlak <paco@cs.rice.edu>
Organization: Center for Research on Parallel Computations
	<1992Aug25.162748.2393@slcs.slb.com>
	<1992Aug27.140635.10736@tamsun.tamu.edu>
Distribution: tx
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:35:37 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.140635.10736@tamsun.tamu.edu> bell@cs.tamu.edu (Will Bell) writes:
>The IKEA is located on I-10, just west of I-610, at the Silber exit.  
>Apparently, it was formerly a STOR.  IKEA seems to have bought the operation
>lock, stock, and barrel;  they were selling old STOR stuff relabeled with
>IKEA names and tags.

    The story's even better than that.  Seems STOR was founded by a
bunch of old IKEA employees and/or consultants, who ripped off much of
the concept.  So much that they lost a big suit to IKEA -- I'm not
sure if the grounds were infringment on trade secrets or look-and-feel.
    As part of the settlement, IKEA acquired at least the Houston
STOR, perhaps all of them.
    I heard this from a full-time member of the news media, so it must
be true. :-)

--paco
--
Paul Havlak			Dept. of Computer Science
Graduate Student		Rice University, Houston TX 77251-1892
PFC/ParaScope projects		(713) 527-8101 x2738 	paco@cs.rice.edu
From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Newsgroups: houston.general
Subject: Re: Lunch Bunch
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:17:42 GMT
Distribution: houston
Organization: Milo's Meadow

Can I get a ride from someone?  630-8831's my ph #.

Adam
-- 
"Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the
 stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud.  There is _always_
 something." -- Robert Penn Warren | Vote Cthulhu in '92! | adam@rice.edu
If Rice shared my opinions I wouldn't have this disclaimer | 64,928
From: homer@korova.uucp (Homer The Brave)
Newsgroups: houston.general
Subject: Re: Houston OS/2 Users Group?????
Date: 30 Aug 92 09:46:56 GMT
Organization: VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783

bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button) writes:

> Is there an existing OS/2 Users Group here in Houston? If not, is
> there any interest in starting one?
> 
> bab
> --
> |-----------------------|----------------------------------------------------
> | Brian Button          | email : button@wg2.waii.com                        
> | Design Engineer       |         bab@buster.stafford.tx.us                  
> | Western Geophysical   | voice : (713)964-6221                              
> | 3600 Briarpark        |                                                    
> | Houston, Texas  77042 |                                                    
> |----------------------------------------------------------------------------


I don't know about any users groups, but a (713)-area BBS called the 
Intermix Chamber has the Fidonet os2 echos.. They might know over there..

Intermix Chamber  (713)589-0308
Running Maximus under os2, w/HST Dual.

Hope it helps...

--
              VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783
        "where you can find the Zeta Greys SAFEWAYING themselves
                into the WONDERBREAD *heart* of America!"
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From: AHEMP01@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU (Amy Hemphill)
Newsgroups: houston.general,tx.politics,rice.politics
Subject: Re: Anti-choice vs. Pro-abortion (was Re: Houston Defending Choice Coalition needs you)
Date: 26 Aug 92 22:19:51 GMT
Organization: Rice University

In article <exuptr.171.714781858@exu.ericsson.se>
exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor) writes:
>
>OMYGOD, now there's a thought.  Maybe teenagers shouldn't have so much sex.
>Boy that would be a tragedy, wouldn't it?
>
Then maybe, just maybe, the same people who tout the pro-life view shouldn't
squawk everytime the words 'sex education' are mentioned.  One of the reasons
that teen pregnancy is at such epidemic proportions is that people are
screaming about the idea of teaching them about responsibility and options.
No one can any longer live in a fantasy world in which teenagers just accept
abstinence as the only form of birth control.  They must be taught about
birth control, disease, and responsibility.
 
>                                           but I think if we even TRIED to
>do anything about the problem we could reduce teen pregnancy by 90%.
>
Again, I think this is a fantasy.  Teenagers are naturally curious about sex,
and, as has happened for years past and will continue to happen, they are
going to experiment.  BUT if they are taught about birth and disease control,
we can begin to alleviate the problem.
 
Please, however, do not think that this means that I think once we begin
education, we can get rid of abortion.  In educating teens, we must teach them
options.  Tell a teenager they have only one choice, and you are headed for
disaster.
 
>
>  - Patrick Taylor
>    Ericsson Network Systems
>    exuptr@exu.ericsson.se             "Don't let the .se fool you"
>    alternately, exuptr@ZGNews.Lonestar.Org
 
Amy Hemphill
From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Newsgroups: houston.general,rice.politics
Subject: Re: Anti-choice vs. Pro-abortion (was Re: Houston Defending Choice C
Date: 31 Aug 92 02:55:57 GMT
Organization: Milo's Meadow

In article <ieZ9PB22w165w@korova.uucp> system@korova.uucp (razorback) writes:
>
>i liked it. it hit home with my sick sense of wit!
>
>(made me laugh, too.)
>squid

Thank you, my darling little squidlet.

What is the bang path to get to korova from here?

Adam
-- 
"Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the
 stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud.  There is _always_
 something." -- Robert Penn Warren | Vote Cthulhu in '92! | adam@rice.edu
If Rice shared my opinions I wouldn't have this disclaimer | 64,928
From: system@korova.uucp (razorback)
Newsgroups: houston.singles
Subject: looking
Date: 29 Aug 92 01:10:59 GMT
Organization: VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783


looking for a fellow ink-squirter, must have ten tentacles and a beak to 
DIE for!! :>

hobbies: 
        taking off dime-sized hunks of skin, giving "hugs" and flaming 
        houston.weather...

replies:
        nuchat!fennec!system@korova.uucp


squid

--
              VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783
        "where you can find the Zeta Greys SAFEWAYING themselves
                into the WONDERBREAD *heart* of America!"
From: jjehl@lonestar.utsa.edu (Jeff D. Jehl)
Newsgroups: houston.singles
Subject: Re: question of females
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:31:19 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <Vy7cqB3w165w@korova.uucp> valkyrie@korova.uucp (The Valkyrie) writes:
>Sure there are!  You're talking to one right now.  I am a female and I do
>live in houston
>
>
>--
>              VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783
>        "where you can find the Zeta Greys SAFEWAYING themselves
>                into the WONDERBREAD *heart* of America!"

Prove it...for all we know, you could be some sex-crazed faggot that is tired
of jacking off...never mind...I believe you...:) <scary thought>...

I didn't think that people participated in this n-group...I'm involved in it,
and I'm not even in Houston...<San Antonio>...excuse the jargon above...I'm in
a weird sort of mood since my gf left me for a week at South Padre...


                            S     S
                             p   p     'Now you see me...'
                              e e
                         S p e c t e r
                              t t
                             e   e
                            r     r

'There's an empty chair at the table...there's an empty look in your eyes...'
---Def Leppard _Adrenalize_
From: gil@limbic.ssdl.com (Gil Kloepfer Jr.)
Newsgroups: houston.singles
Subject: Re: geeez! No singles in Big H?
Date: 4 Sep 92 01:50:19 GMT
Distribution: houston
Organization: Southwest Systems Development Labs, Houston, TX

In article <1992Aug27.232334.11125@hounix.org> gtagle@hounix.org
(Gerry Tagle) writes:
>Not a very busy group....... Aren't there any single ladies in Houston?

I'm sure there are, but they don't seem to be watching the net very
closely....

>ALL the postings today have been from guy's.  Com'on girls,  let's get
>this group hoppin'.  Let's talk some trash... talk about goin' out to
>party..... Margaritas at Ninfas...... sun at the pool.... crusin' guys
>and dolls.  Hey! This group is for singles..... let's DO singles stuff.

"Singles stuff" is not limited to the above mentioned activities.  Some
of us take a little less "adventurous" approach.

Heck, I'd be real happy if there were a nice woman out there in her late
20s or so who'd like to just talk about anything, grab a Coke and some
food at Marco's, see a movie, or cruise toward central Texas and climb
Enchanted Rock!  Seems there's not many of us reserved, quiet types, who
tell bad jokes all the time out here anymore....

Sigh, but no matter what your bag, it does seem like the same old thing,
doesn't it?  I don't think I've ever seen a great deal of traffic in
this newsgroup.  I doubt that you'll start to see it anytime soon... :(
-- 
! Gil Kloepfer, Jr.
! gil@limbic.ssdl.com / ...!ames!limbic!gil
From: valkyrie@korova.uucp (The Valkyrie)
Newsgroups: houston.singles
Subject: question of females
Date: 31 Aug 92 07:31:18 GMT
Organization: VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783

Sure there are!  You're talking to one right now.  I am a female and I do 
live in houston


--
              VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783
        "where you can find the Zeta Greys SAFEWAYING themselves
                into the WONDERBREAD *heart* of America!"