HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lordSnooty@cup.portal.com (Andrew - Palfreyman)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: das orgeltod
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 19:54:31 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <74296@cup.portal.com> <1k0c1t$3n7@agate.berkeley.edu>

: 'Malappopiapism' indeed.  I've said it once and I'll say it again -
: the word is "malapriapism."  We can't have you Limeys coming over
: and mutilating the President's English.  Pretentious gits.

<sigh>
malapropism + inappropriate + priapism.
totally missed the point, YurtBoy old son.
<sigh>

: When I discovered that, in fact, he looked like a fiftyish
: Bilbo Baggins visiting the Spanish coast on a packaged football
: holiday, the sort of mildly perverted tourist who wears a
: Hawaiian shirt and pinches the stewardess' ass, a man
: reminiscent of nothing so much as Bob Hoskins in "Mona Lisa,"
: well... I wasn't, in fact, shocked.  But I think I may have
: snickered a little. 

"may have" ??
that's rich. that's almost richh.
the sight of an ageing hyena rolling around in the sandpit
was nigh on insufferable at the time, let me tell you.

: Uh huh.  Yeah.  Yeah, I can see your type being into spanking.
: Quintessentially English pastime.  When the rest of the world
: has moved on to electric butt plugs, fuzzy-logic vibrators,
: and genetically-engineered bull's pizzles, the English will
: still be spanking twenty-peso whores in stuccoed motel rooms
: on the Costa del Sol.

(hmmm - good idea, actually). <cough>
 
god; the racism, the venom! that's the trouble with you bloody yanks.

: So much for Empire.

there is no empire.
there is, however, a commonwealth.
it is commonbroke, but at least it's shared, you know.
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| lord snooty @the giant |  inceptus clamor frustratur hiantes             |
| poisoned electric head |              andrew_-_palfreyman@cup.portal.com |
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Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
Subject: DCC vs. CD (was Re: CD vs. LP again (was Re: Preamp and Amp))
Originator: ben@ipoint
Reply-To: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
Followup-To: rec.audio
Organization: Ancient Illuminated Sears of Bavaria
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:02:52 GMT

I sed:
>>I'm just pissed that Philips is actually DARING to advertise that
>>DCC's have the same quality sound as CD.  I do NOT see how they can
>>get away with that.

Rick Kelly sed:
>Well, CD's are made from a digital master tape.  

So are DCC's.  It's just that, before going onto a DCC, the data goes
through a lossy compression algorithm based on an adaptive filter that
sounds like shit.

Followup-To: rec.audio

--
Ben Cox
thoth@uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson)
Subject: The Man with the One-Mind Eye
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:41:30 GMT


The Man with the One-Mind Eye (MWO-ME) sees through the distinctions
in life, distinctions which seem very normal to us, like subject
and object, male and female, dark and light, etc. He uses his
One-Mind Eye to pierce thru these illusions and see things as they
really are, part of the All-One Mind. The only distinction he still
sees is butter and margarine. Once he further trains the One-Mind
Eye he will see thru this, but for now the difference is painfully
clear to him.
From: lordSnooty@cup.portal.com (Andrew - Palfreyman)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Short Shameful Confession
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 17:57:58 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Tony Brannigan:
: I've just put a banana covered in ketchup into a sanitary towel
: disposal bin.

I think this has splendid potential, if you just went the extra yard.
Why not get a real penis from a butcher? - pig would be OK. This might
be especially fun and a jolly wizard weeze at a Feminist Convention.

Tiddly pom
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| lord snooty @the giant | retaliatory breasts at football games           |
| poisoned electric head |              andrew_-_palfreyman@cup.portal.com |
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From: mgooley@nyx.cs.du.edu (Markian Gooley)
Subject: Re: bob
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: Mon, 25 Jan 93 20:16:26 GMT

In article <vb09la0@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
>---
>I'm not going to dorsey.bob.  The tickets would cost more
>than my coworker's London trip.  Literally.

I'm going.

I always feel left out at these affairs, but I'm going anyway.

I always leave feeling as if everyone had a good time except me --
and I had a tolerable time but not one that was worth the cost of
airfare.

I will bring homebrew (maybe my killer treacle-and-carob stout, which
I could give some t.b-ish name).  I will get drunk and see the whole
affair through beer goggles.

Mark.
From: lordSnooty@cup.portal.com (Andrew - Palfreyman)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: B-Ark TV comment of the day
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 19:54:36 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <1jvi61$sn9@agate.berkeley.edu>

"Most of our present-day ball games are descended from those of the Maya."

Keeriste. And on PBS, to boot.
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| lord snooty @the giant |  had me stumped                                 |
| poisoned electric head |              andrew_-_palfreyman@cup.portal.com |
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From: jvogel@math.rutgers.edu (jeff vogel)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: My Answers to the Virtual Reality Addiction Questionnaire
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:59:52 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

hudel@waterloo.hp.com (Chris Hudel) writes:
>Hello!

HI!!!!!

>Do you spend a lot of time involved in "virtual" activies such as USENET,
>IRC, MUDs, or some other computer enviornment that involves groups of
>people interacting with one another (whether role-playing or not)?

>Of course I've no intention of using personal real identities in the paper
>so please be as detailed as possible.  I personally guarantee confidentiality
>of your information.

Thank you for giving me the opporotunity to come clean.

> -------------
>Questionaire:

>      Name: Jeff Vogel
>       Age: 22
>       Sex: Male
>Occupation: Grad student

>In what "virtual" activies do you regularly participate?

I masturbate obsessively, while watching pornographic filmed materials of
all kinds, from hard-core porn, to episodes of Three's Company where Janet
wears shoret shorts.

>How long -- and how often --  do you engage in these activies?

On a good day, after a few cups of coffee, upwards of three hours.
After reading alt.romance.chat, or between classes, five minutes.

>Do you feel you spend too much time in these activies?

Only when I get sore.

>Has your involvement affected your lifestyle (work/school/etc..) in any way?

I'm a lot less fun in conversation.

>What is so appealing about about what you do?

I'VE GOT MY PURITY SCORE DOWN TO %92!!!!!

>What do you know about "netsex" or "computersex"?

netsex: alt.romance.chat
conputersex: Ok, but throw the disk drive away afterwards. It's gotten all
gummy.

>Do you know anyone that has been addicted to thse virtual activies?

Me.

>What became of him/her?

I'm going to spend the next several years in in-depth contemplation of
discrete mathematics. Pretty gross, huh?

>Are you addicted to these virtual activies?

Wouldn't you like to know?

>What are you doing about your addiction?

Three words. Lubrication, lubrication, lubrication.

>Would you agree to being quoted (under a pseudonym)?

Yes. Please make my pseudonym "Limpy."

>Would you be willing to talk further and in more detail about any of
>the above points?  Or about anything that deals with virtual activities
>and their addictiveness?  (If you don't believe they're addictive at all,
>please let me know that too!)
> -----------

I would be more than willing top do anything youy think would be helpful,
including group discussions and talk shows. I just doubt anyone would want
to shake hands with me.

And believe me, I'm glad to be of service.

					- Jeff "Limpy" Vogel
					Rutgers math
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: jcarroll@gath.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
Subject: Things that registered in my consciousness for too long this weekend
Originator: jcarroll@gath
Organization: Bored of Control
Date: 25 Jan 93 00:04:30 CST


1. _How_to_Get_Pregnant_with_the_New_Technology_, in the stacks at the
   Fairfax Library

2. Swiss Radio International's stunning twenty-minute expose on the role
   of Switzerland in the origin of "Smoke on the Water", backed throughout
   by cuts from the same

3. A current affairs report from Radio China International (formerly Radio
   Beijing) on the hardships and indignities endured by current affairs
   reporters of Radio China International when they are not on furlough
   going to school in the States, complete with an amazingly bad rendition
   of "Edelweiss" by one of said reporters, accompanying himself on the
   guitar. This all had a subtle relevance (which I missed) to the celebration
   of Chinese New Year.

4. Followed shortly thereafter (on another channel) by an even worse
   rendition of the Amy Grant hit "El Shaddai" by a soprano who evidently
   took up a career on shortwave after her dismissal from the Kokomo Opera

5. Tedious and lame flamage in t.b by imperialist racist homophobes

jkc (time to buy a tv set?)
From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: short shameful confessional
Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:56:30 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
NNTP-Posting-Host: grissom.larc.nasa.gov

In article <1993Jan21.183831.64591@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jjh4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JANE HORVATH) writes:
>
>for the longest time, i thought that a brothel was a church.

No, it's a "synagogue or other place of worship."
--scott
From: gj@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Hugh Neek)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Short, Shameful Confession
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:22:41 GMT
Organization: The Meteorological Church of the Counterfactual Hypothesis
X-Mailer: mail-news 2.0.3

(  I read alt.flame with Re: in my killfile.

I read misc.test with /test/j and /ignore/j in my killfile.
___
But only once every Preston Guild.
From: jvogel@math.rutgers.edu (jeff vogel)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Comment on my nerd heritage.
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:29:48 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Tron was on TV last night, and I watched some of it.

It seems a lot dorkier now than it did when I was ten.

					- Jeff Vogel
					RUtgers math
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail)
Subject:  Ten Word  W.A.N.K.E.R.
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:37:14 GMT



Just when talk.bizarre was far too boring Kent returned.
From: zgilbert@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Zvi Gilbert)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Smoking
Date: 22 Jan 1993 23:16:50 -0500
Organization: crystallized time
NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.ucs.umass.edu


They are passing tough new antismoking legislation in Ontario.

I used to be a smoker myself, until I took up antismoking.  Now
I draw in the antismoke through the antifilter, breathing in the
antinicotine.  There's nothing like the cool taste of antismoke.

What happens when a smoker meets an antismoker is left as an 
excersize for the... aw fuck it.

--Zvi
zgilbert@titan.ucc.umass.edu
From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: ward
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:59:58 GMT
Followup-To: talk.bizarre
Organization: William's Wonderful Wonky Widget Warehouse


In article <25Jan19931206.120659.3532@ca.dynix.com> dawn@ca.dynix.com
(dawn) writes:

#  damn newbies gots no respect for an F*cup

I'm in love.



-- 
Son, all the pretty, intelligent, healthy     #    I have discovered of this
young women are taken. It's a basic rule of   #    basic rule of the universe
the universe, and if you don't like it, go    #    a most remarkable proof,
somewhere else.        -- my dad  1906-1992   #    which this .signature is too
From: jvogel@math.rutgers.edu (jeff vogel)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: I'm starting to worry about myself.
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:50:24 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Yesterday, while being bored out of my mind in my Graph Theory class,
I suddenly had an image of ejaculating a spray of brightly glowing
pastel directed edges.

I then had a mental image of watching them flop around on the bedsheet,
pathetically searching for a vertex to point into.

I sometimes worry about my mental stability.

					- Jeff Vogel
					Rutgers math
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: marcia@rap.ucar.edu (Marcia Politovich)
Subject: Re: funny names for private parts
Organization: NCAR, Research Application Program
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:03:54 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.012204.30026@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jcg2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JASON GIRARD) writes:
>Hi,
>    An ex of mine out Penn State wrote to say that she's taking a sex ed class
>    and has an assignment to think of names for male and female private parts.
>    She asked me to help her think of some, so I'm asking you guys for some
>    interesting names!  Anyone??
>
>    Jason
     ^^^^^

  OK, is this a male or female part?

>-- 
>                      Anarchy-it's the only way to live!!!
>                               jcg2@lehigh.edu


Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: boutell@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell)
Subject: Re: (not eno) || (not cale)
Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Labs
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:58:02 GMT

In article <930122.151158.8o0.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
>billbill@wetware.com (Bill Bill) writes:
>> I am the Marmite of Mentation.
>I undergo disintegration.
I'm often consumed with libations,
Muffling the sound of a dying ration.

-T

Thank God I'm not an eno fan (or a country boy)

-- 
Tom Boutell, boutell@cshl.org

Clausthaler is the best non - alcoholic beer in the known universe.
From: tomf@gte.com (Tom Fawcett)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: degeneration
Date: 27 Jan 93 01:29:26 GMT
Reply-To: tomf@gte.com
Organization: GTE Laboratories, Inc.
In-reply-to: cliftonr@netcom.com's message of 26 Jan 93 19:57:18 GMT


> I remember _certain people_ claiming that the quality had been going down
> for the last couple years.  Would any of them care to account for this new
> alarming revelation?
>   -- Clifton

It's not new.  Talk.bizarre is an Escher staircase of degeneration: even in
its periodicity it continually declines.  It's worse than it's ever been.  
I think it was D.H. Lawrence, one of TB's earliest contributors, who best
expressed what we all feel:

	"Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling
	invertebrates, the miserable sodding rotters, the flaming sods, the
	snivelling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up
	talk.bizarre today.  They've got white of egg in their veins, and
	their spunk is so watery it's a marvel they can breed. They can
	nothing but frog-spawn--the gibberers!  God, how I hate them!"
	-- Letter to Edward Garnett, 3 July 1912

An extreme view, but typical of Lawrence's apoplectic ravings (he was a
notorious methane huffer who died of asphyxiation in 1930, having achieved
little more in the last five years of his life than the ability to detect
miniscule air leaks in gas lines).  Even in 1912, a full sixty years before
the invention of the root password, he had seen more decay in this group than
he could stand.  Requiescat in pace.

-Tom
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From: cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton)
Subject: Re: Nontransparent prose complaint
Followup-To: alt.religion.kibology
Organization: Inst. for Epistemological Pathology
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:55:24 GMT

David Barr (barr@pop.psu.edu) wrote:
: In article <mcirvin.727658108@husc.harvard.edu> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin) writes:
: >neuro@cspace.comspec.com (Neuromancer) writes:
: >
: >>You don't get more pedantic than this...
: >
: >>In article <1993Jan17.224035.384@mtechca.maintech.com> foster@mtechca.maintech.com writes:
: >>>
: >>>"come" is a verb
: >>>"cum" is a noun
: >
: >Is this in the OED?

: Actually, "cum" is a preposition, at least according to webster.

"To" is a preposition.  "Come" is a verb.

  -- Clifton (with apologies to St. Lenny)
 
--
cliftonr@netcom.com     Home: +1 808 521 9073  Work: +1 808 625 3234
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- Dissecting personal psychopathology at the edge of the 20th century -
From: grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (The Termite of Temptation)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: girl pursued by lesbians needs your help
Date: 21 Jan 1993 07:58:54 GMT
Organization: The Church of Pat
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <20JAN199319405450@pavo.concordia.ca> c_mcdon@pavo.concordia.ca (MCDONNELL, CATHERINE) writes:
*In article <1993Jan20.154018.102191@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, jjh4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JANE HORVATH) writes...
*> 
*>can anyone tell me how to make lesbians stop hitting on me?
*
*What's the exact opposite of a pink triangle?

Purple horseshoe?  Or is it a yellow moon?  I always forget....


Mark "Symbolic logic and Lucky Charms" Lippert 
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: dh202591@alfred.carleton.ca ( dh student 202591)
Subject: corpses in your neighbourhood
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:56:33 GMT

OH...these are the corpses in your neighbourhood
in your neighbourhood
in your neighbourhood
YES...these are the corpses in your neighbourhood
they're the corpses that you meet
when your walking down the street 
they're the corpses that you meet each day

OH...I wrote shows for "Twiligh Zone"
but once when I picked up the phone
it bit my ear and blood did spill
I guess I should have paid the bill

OH...I was a doctor they say
and I was always forced to play
with blood and nerves and arteries
when I got home I cut down trees


...I cant remember the third verse! Does anyone know it?

Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: funny names for private parts
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:21:13 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <1993Jan26.175102.12882@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> awells@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Andrew V. Wells) writes:
>
>Hey, I've got some good examples en espan~ol. In central america,
>a papusa is a tortilla filled with rice, beans, cheese or meat.
>But in Puerto Rico, a papusa is slang for a female sex organ!

Which further explains Puerto Rican table manners.

-- 

Rick Kelly    rmkhome!rmk@merk.com    merk!rmkhome!rmk    rmk@frog.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: ssamaras@scott.skidmore.edu (susan samarasinghe)
Subject: surreal travel experiences
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:43:10 GMT


 on a plane to pittsbugh i was seated next to a man who looked like
david byrne, pee wee herman and gomez addams had a baby. he was
missing some teeth and he smelled like bryll cream. he asked me if i
was going to palm springs. he was wearing ( i am not kidding) a black
pinstriped zoot suit, complete with pocket watch.
  one part of me was, understandably, frightened. he stole the
armrest...which i hate. and he wheezed when he spoke. another part of
me was desperately aroused. am i normal?
From: twosheds@.cray.com (Jay Vollmer)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: I think...
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:30:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Originator: twosheds@ferris

I think that all 'right-thinking' people in this country are sick and tired
of being told that 'ordinary decent' people are fed-up in this country with
being sick and tired!


	I'm certainly not - and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.

-- 
___________________________
J.C. Vollmer (Clot Boulot)| Apart from the pulling and hauling
  Je suis revolutionnaire |                   stands what I am.
twosheds@ferris.cray.com  |                                   --Walt Whitman
From: jws5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JUSTIN WINSLOW SOLONYNKA)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Ten Word George Bush
Date: 22 Jan 93 00:45:57 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Golfing, crematoriums, Quayle, Kennebunkport... it's a sort of vision thing.

sol  |  see the cat?  see the cradle?
-- 
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana)
Subject: Short Shameful Ten Word Confession
Organization: NCAR/UCAR
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:19:42 GMT

In all respects, my hair looks exactly like Chelsea Clinton's.

-- 
/\    "I'm only a human girl person.  I ain't always perfect."--Rambling Rose
  \_][ <--NCAR Ilana Stern dod#009 r.b. cliff swallow ilana@ncar.ucar.edu    
      \______________________________________________________________________
From: gj@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Hilda Tablet)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: short shameful confession
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:52:56 GMT
Organization: The Baltic and Scandinavian Exploding Statue Corporation Limited
X-Mailer: mail-news 2.0.3

(                    ...the white plastery stuff they pump your bowels full of
 ) before an abdominal X-ray...

My first reaction was to wonder which division of X-Industries made X-rays.
___
X-Burger Seafood Products Division?
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: bmk@box.ssd.loral.com (Bruce Krawetz)
Subject: 10 word story
Organization: Space Systems/Loral, Palo Alto, CA  USA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:12:55 GMT

He laughed.  And that's why I had to kill him.

-------- bmk@box.ssl.loral.com --------
We must learn from our mistakes, so that we may make bigger and better ones.
From: tbrann@black.ox.ac.uk (Tony Brannigan)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Deflated Tit Update #3
Date: 22 Jan 93 23:21:50 GMT
Organization: Oxford University, UK
Originator: tbrann@black

I read somewhere recently that tit reduction is the third most common
non-essential operation performed in America.

Wonder what they do with all the titbits left over?
-- 
"And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, | tbrann@ox.ac.uk
  we who never let each other sleep above it."  | u90afb@ecs.ox.ac.uk
   Marina Tsvetayeva 1915                       |
From: mrx@sgi.com (cloaking the constant k)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: cj's piercing
Date: 22 Jan 93 22:34:41 GMT
Organization: the theory that jack built

fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton) writes:

>A friend of mine wanted to get an "unusual" piercing.  "Why don't you
>get your nose pierced?"  I asked.  "Oh, that's too *normal*."  She
>replied.

clearly an adventurous sort.

the pineal gland is excellently suited
for piercing.  we at the lab would be
more than happy to affix a small super-
conducting coil to hers, free of charge.

note: the voices she may hear in her sleep
and the peculiar urges she might experience
are purely transient effects that will
diminish with time, particularly if she
gives in to them quickly and obediently.


		mr x

		community outreach programming
--
mrx@annexia.esd.sgi.com
rmr@sgi.com
From: gj@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Round John Virgin)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: a little nightmare
Date: 22 Jan 93 00:08:30 GMT
Organization: O'Brien's Hair Cutting Rooms, Stryd Dinbych, Llanrwst
X-Mailer: mail-news 2.0.3

(   ... I have had my entire esprit sucked out by jury duty...

It doesn't bear thinking about.  You are in the dock, and there 
is the jury...  and any one of those twelve good whatsits and 
true could well be t.b irregular in disguise.  
___
Worse still, some of them might not be t.b readers.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.flame