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From: st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Adam Levin)
Subject: Re: Ditching the Roomie
Reply-To: st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:56:22 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.011830.22300@rchland.ibm.com>, jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
>
>When the obnoxious roommate returned, he saw that the 
>couch, carpet, loft, tv, vcr, fridge, and computer that
>were all property of my friend were gone.  So was 
>everything else that my friend owned.  About five of 
>us had moved him in 45 minutes and left only the bed,
>desk and chair provided by the university.  
>
>I wish I could have seen the look on his face...
>

Even better, one day, having fallen prey to the old penny in the door
trick earlier, I decided to exact revenge. I moved my _roommate's_ 
stuff out into the lounge, and reproduced it exactly. he wandered 
in at about 2:00 AM, and freaked out. Me being the nice guy I am, I
helped him move it back. But man, the look on his face was classic.

"Why is all my sh*t in the hall?"

Ha ha..


Adam Levin    st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
"It takes just one good flush to get rid of a four-flusher"
	--Israel Bond, Secret Agent Oy-Oy-7, "Loxfinger"

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.culture.african.american
From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mr. Furr)
Subject: Re: OMAR's bio : Jive version
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, 16 Nov 92 16:13:42 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.163526.6672@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1e55pdINNbvp@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> serranrj@k9.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Robert J. Serrano) writes:
>>Gee, Mr. Something-up-your-butt, if you had ever actually bothered to read what
>>has been posted about Omar, you will notice, that he is not black
>>(African-American).  He is, by heritage, Pakistani, which is on the South Asian
>>Continent (you know, with India and Afghanistan).
>
>And if you bothered to read the post I'm complaining about, you'd see that
>it's full of anti-black racist stereotypes.  Complain to the RHIT bozos who
>can't tell the difference between all of those non-whites.
>
>I challenge *anyone* who doesn't believe me or doesn't find the post offensive
>to repost the "Jive" version to soc.culture.african.american.  Put your money
>where your mouth is.  I'm sure the African Americans will find all the lines
>about pink cadillacs and jive extraordinarily funny, don't you?


I agree with you completely, Ted, and since none of those socially
advanced Solons at Rose-Hulman are likely to put their money where their
mouths are, I posted their little racist diatribe to
soc.culture.african.american for them.  It disgusts me when the trendy
subject in campus humor centers around harassment of the hearing impaired
and race hatred.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Re: Athletic Horror Stories
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:31:40 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

In article <1992Nov19.044643.13582@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, DSCT@db1.cc.rochester.edu (DAVID SCOTT) writes:
|> In <1992Nov19.014341.24415@rchland.ibm.com> jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com writes:> 
|> > One story that was often told about one player was that
|> > he was caught hitting a potted marijuana plant down a
|> > dorm hallway with a hockey stick.  Of course, the coach
|> > and the cops covered it up so he could keep playing. 
|> 
|> Did the plant fly well? If it was well grown, I would think that you would 
|> have to hit it very hard in order to get it to fly any distance at all.
|> Other question
|> 	Do people run away from security on your campus. Around here a good
|> pair of feet and some knowlage of campus can save you a lot of trouble.



I left out an important part of the story.  The incident occurred
on the ground floor of the dorm during the traditional "icing"
party.  The Hockey players sealed all the doors on the wing with
caulk, put down some water, and opened the windows and exterior 
doors(which were up a flight of steps.  The ice froze and was 
suitable for sliding, but not ice skates. Really wild party ensues.
This is when the "potted plant" incident supposedly occurred.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: garrett@math.rice.edu (David Garrett)
Subject: Re: April Fool
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Rice University
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:48:50 GMT

In article <17NOV199210123564@mary.fordham.edu> nissim@mary.fordham.edu (Leonard J. Nissim) writes:

>When I was an undergraduate, there were fixed time limits that a class 
>had to wait for a tardy faculty member, based on rank.  They ranged from
>8 minutes for an Instructor or Lecturer to 20 minutes for a full Professor.

We have the same thing here at Rice, but it's not based on rank. It's 
10 minutes for everybody, be they lecturer or full professor. I know when 
I was an undergrad, there was more than one occasion where everyone was 
looking at their watches expectantly, and just when 9min45sec had elapsed, 
in walks the prof, to a subdued chorus of groaning.

Dave

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: wag5@quads.uchicago.edu (john peter wagner)
Subject: phreaked out practical joke
Reply-To: wag5@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:56:50 GMT

At the university of Chicago people tend to go insane after a given
number of months or years.  Thus, practical jokes can ascend to new
heights(or descend to new depths, whichever) when one takes into account
the new artform of 'clinical insanity.'

For example, I knew someone who pulled this rather odd joke on their
roommate;  He was showing the symptoms of advanced insanity and
basically freaking his roommate out. One day he told his roommate
that he wanted to be alone, and that he was going to lock himself into
the closet and sleep a good sleep which he hadn't had in a while.

So anyway, the guy locks himself into this closet, which locks from the inside,
with a sleeping bag and pillow(BTW, this was a very large dorm apartment).The
 roommate thinks it is just another insane thing but begins to worry about the
closet running out of air on its sleeping resident.  Two days pass. No sign
of the roommate.  The closet door remains locked. The roommate tells everyone
he thinks the nut's a corpsicle, and is about to call the cops when
el corpso walks in the front door, says 'hello,' and walks into his room.
I wish I had seen the look on the guy's face.

The trick: El corpso had taken the door knob apart and 'fixed' it somehow
so from the outside it would seem locked, but the inside could easily open
the door..I'm not exactly sure how he did this..then he just went off to
some other place, like the library, and laid low for a few days.  Try
this out, but beware: unless you have been developing signs of insanity
your roomie will smell a trick.


				John

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: george@seasnake.micro.umn.edu (Rogers George)
Subject: Re: possibly some non-malicious omar-related humor?
Summary: bork!
Organization: University of Minnesota CIS
Distribution: us
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:10:54 GMT

In article <1eb6c9INN3e6@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> zaidioa@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU writes:
>Can you guys please give the racism issue a rest??
>
>geez.. 

>Omar Zaidi

well said dude. I thought the walkman story was hilarious. It's a trick that
can be done well with a small radio/tv jammers and a stereo or something...
people can be convinced that they've developed an anti-electronics aura.

And as far as stupid filter tricks....

In article <1eb6c9INN3e6@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
zaidioa@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU borks:

>meybe-a I cun sey sumetheeng tu meke-a my feeoos cleer , seence-a nu
>oone-a hes heerd
>unytheeng frum me-a regerdeeng thees issooe-a, vheech frunkly I theenk hes
>beee beetee intu zee gruoond..
>Bork Bork Bork!

>#4... I dun't meend geefing peuple-a a loogh ooccesseeunelly, boot vhet I
>resent is
>beeeng coot doon beheend my beck.. Zeere-a is nu ixcoose-a fur thet und I
>veell nut
>tulerete-a it. I ves nut reeesed tu descend tu a lefel ooff neme-a celleeng.
>Bork Bork Bork!

>#5... I ves reeesed tu teke-a preede-a in myselff und I edmeet, et teemes
>I du floont
>it. IT's sumetheeng I'm tryeeng tu chunge-a und I hupe-a thet sume-a
>peuple-a veell et leest see-a it thet vey..
>Bork Bork Bork!


>inuoogh seeed.. beck tu feenels

A filter that's not nearly as racist (it's based on a fictional character,
folks... and in heavily swedish Meeneesoota here, if nobody happens to be
making fun of swedish in this way, we swedes and part-swedes are quite
content to do it ourselves.)

Sorry not to be equal-opportunity scandinavian, but mock Norwegian is a
leetle bit trickier.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it, Omar. lex source for the filter is posted to
alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork every so often, if anyone wants one.

ObREAL-LIFEhumor...

has anyone else who works in a computer lab noticed that students become
unable to use nouns when using computers, and just use pronouns and the
word 'thing'?

as in... (after the student sits in the lab for 15+ min.)...
"Our teacher, she told us how to start up the thing, y'know, but it's,
y'know, not working. It just doesn't come up, y'know? I did the thing like
she said to do it, but something's wrong.. I dunno. Can you just take a
look at it?" (and I walk back and hit the Mac's power switch...)

the word "y'know" must be a high speed data packet that I don't have the
right drivers installed to receive properly, or something.


-------------
Rogers George
rgeorge@staff.tc.umn.edu

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Re: Uncool Pranks
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:32:02 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

In article <jwc2001-171192181737@m248-33.bgsu.edu>, jwc2001@andy.bgsu.edu (J Cannon) writes:
|> Here in the 4-story quads at BG there are the standard staircases at the
|> ends of the wings.  The stairs sort of spiral up a bit so that there is a
|> space in the middle of the stairwell that extends from the top floor all
|> they way down.  Naturally, this space begs to have things dropped down
|> through it.  
|> 
|> A somewhat less than mature resident of our wing recently found it
|> necessary to take a good healthy crap down the stairwell.  The happy little
|> turds reached their first-floor destination with a resounding *splat*.  The
|> unit director fined the entire hall $100 for each incident (there were
|> two).
|> 
|> Luckily for the most of us, the culprit was identified, and the city police
|> paid him a visit, and made his life shitty.

We had guys doing this in the elevator.  25 bucks a pop.  or
should I say plop!

We also had a guy dump in the oven in the common area.

Some people do the stupidest stuff for amusement.

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Xref: sparky alt.folklore.college:3064 soc.culture.african.american:11269
From: barnhart@ddsw1.mcs.com (Mr. Aaron Barnhart)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: OMAR's bio : Jive version
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:23:21 GMT
Organization: Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.

jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mr. Furr) wrote:
:
:I agree with you completely, Ted, and since none of those socially
:advanced Solons at Rose-Hulman are likely to put their money where their
:mouths are, I posted their little racist diatribe to
:soc.culture.african.american for them.  It disgusts me when the trendy
:subject in campus humor centers around harassment of the hearing impaired
:and race hatred.

And what would you like *done* to these disgusting creeps?


Aaron "Nat" Barnhart
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Prank In the Works?
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 07:46:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.053115.10068@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st891425@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>Anyways, this elevator is roughly 16ft x 16ft x 12ft- larger than my single
>accomodations in the senior apartments, or Mods.  [Andy Weiskopf]

Why is this such a new development?  The elevators in the Ziv Quads are
the size of an average Ziv room.

Ted "and do the Mazers know that their Ziv is named after Isaac and Ethel
     One-Twenty-Nine?" Frank

> ST891425@pip.cc.brandeis.edu

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Xref: sparky alt.folklore.college:3138 soc.culture.african.american:11417
From: am001b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Shark)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Shacking
Date: 22 Nov 92 00:07:29 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <jwc2001-211192160040@m248-35.bgsu.edu> jwc2001@andy.bgsu.edu (J Cannon) writes:

>Is there anyone out there with an unofficial record for shacking?  My
>"roommate" this semester has spent *every* night in his girlfriend's room,

>Jim Cannon

Well, my roommate is quite close, if not right with you.  He has spent every
night that I can remember with his girlfriend.  The only problem with this
is that they've spent every night in OUR room instead of her room.  This has
lead to a few problems between us (:

Shark
-- 
"My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural
deficiency in moral fiber," he muttered to himself, "and that I am therefore
excused from saving Universes."		--Ford Prefect
Shark (aka Adam Mackenroth)		am001b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
From: sym@aber.ac.uk (Stuart McIntyre)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: omar's personal bio
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:36:17 GMT
Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth

In article <1e0d6dINN144@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU writes:
>
>      	Who wants to see a copy of Omar's incredibly arrogant bio?
>	He wrote it himself.  I'll underline the things that I think
>	are the silliest.  No, on second thought, I'll let it speak for
>	itself.
>
>	[details  deleted]
>
>people don't know it. I tend to get ridiculed a lot because I am different
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>from everyone else, but I think its made me a better person spiritually and
>

I think it DOES speak for itself.  Get a life and let him have his.






-- 
                  Stuart McIntyre    sym@uk.ac.aber

        B e   e x c e l l e n t   t o   e a c h   o t h e r
From: crdunlea@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Christopher R. Dunlea)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Another funny roommate story (Omar clone)
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:41:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Here's a story about a real live roomate I used to have. 

All these Omar stories remind me of this one guy I lived with. Troy was
a guy to know, all right. He was right out of "Revenge of the Nerds".
He was 5' 9" and 107 lbs (think about it). His face was covered with acute
acne, possibly because all he ever at was cheese pizza. His glasses     
were thick and his voice was a high nasal whine. His opening line 
was "Hey, guy..."

Still, he wasn't arrogant like Omar. He was a nice kid, just couldn't
deal with real life. He told me these stories himself.

Troy actually admitted to going to the Combat Zone in Boston
(that's the porno/hooker area of the city) with his buddies the previou
summer to get a hooker for the night. Imagine these 4 18 year olds
driving around a city they knew little about, looking to pick up a 
prostitute. Anyway, they found a pimp (maybe) and asked him about
getting a "date". He said sure, it's a hundred bucks, that sort of thing.
So while he was negotiating with these high school kids he suddenly
sticks his neck up, yells "OH MY GOD!! ITS THE COPS!! Hey, guys, give
me the money, and meet me at this hotel at..." So, yes, they gave
the pimp character the money. Like suckers, they show up at the hotel...
pimp's nowhere in sight. As you could guess.

Then there's the infamous "Taxman" story. Troy, sad to say, was an
alcoholic (another reason why he wasn't in school too long). He went 
to another floor's party, got truly drunk, (somethig like 9 beers in 
one hour on an empty stomach--with his weight!) and danced like a crazy  
man to the Beatles' Greatest Hits album. Eventually he went off to the
bathroom (coed in our dorm) and since he really couldn't stand still
he sat down. While sitting down he decided to throw up, and hey, why
not between his legs? Two things at once, right? So, he starts yakking 
while sitting on the toilet. The problem with this scheme is that in 
the middle of it, he PASSES OUT while yarfing. He fell off the
pot and almost pulled a Jimi Hendrix on us all. 

So where did "Taxman" come from? Well, some women from the floor went into
the bathroom and knew something wasn't right. They smelled retch etc.
and saw a guy on the floor in one of the stalls. A couple guys came in
and saw Troy, pants Around his ankles, lying in his spitup. They woke
him up, and the first words out of his mouth were "I'm the Taxman, yeah
I'm the taxman..."

He was known by that nickname to all the residents of Field House at
UMass until the day he was expelled. 

Sort of a sad story, but he DID tell me the story when I met him (and
corroborated by his friends on the floor who played tricks on him).

Oh, by the way, I won't tell you what Troy's color is. Or mine. I
hope I don't get flamed because this taxman story might get posted
to alt.taxlaw by a zealous defender of tax collectors' rights. <|^)
 
Chris
Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:19:15 -0500 
From: Joshua Eli Schachter <jsct+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Ditching the Roomie

Excerpts from netnews.alt.folklore.college: 19-Nov-92 Ditching the
Roomie by Jared Dahl@rchland.vnet. 
> One of the best pranks I ever saw at college was when 
> a friend of mine moved out on his roommate.  The
> funny part about it was that the roommate (who was 
> extremely obnoxious) didn't know anything about it.
>  
> My friend got sick of his roommate tormenting him and
> talked to the HR about getting a new room.  After the
> paperwork went through, the HR told him that he could
> move that night.  So my friend waited until his roommate
> left for a two hour test.  Then the fun began.
>  
> When the obnoxious roommate returned, he saw that the 
> couch, carpet, loft, tv, vcr, fridge, and computer that
> were all property of my friend were gone.  So was 
> everything else that my friend owned.  About five of 
> us had moved him in 45 minutes and left only the bed,
> desk and chair provided by the university.  
>  
> I wish I could have seen the look on his face...

I did the same thing but the dork was away for the weekend.

I had brought more than a carload of stuff... He had like two
suitcases of stuff.

It was very empty when I left.
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From: cheesmna@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: OMAR's bio : Jive version
Date: 16 Nov 1992 20:58:44 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Reply-To: cheesmna@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.rose-hulman.edu

In article <1992Nov16.161713.16418@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
>In article <1992Nov15.211443.18991@newstand.syr.edu> crdunlea@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Christopher R. Dunlea) writes:
>>Why, that's funny, Frank, but YOU were the one who posted it! 
>
>I suggest you have your system administrator teach you how to read
>attributions before you play with net news.  That way you don't say
>things that make you look this stupid.
>
>>How long have you read this group anyway? 
>
>Since it was created.  I'm also a contributor to the alt.folklore.urban FAQ.  
>Do you really want to get into a credentials match?
>-- 
>ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
>standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
>the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637

Okay, let's look at credentials...
I'm a Rose student.  I've been on campus for three years.  I've been near and
around Omar for three years.  I presently live next to his room.  I've seen
Omar in the computing center for nearly two years.  I've seen Omar sitting
glued to the television for a GREAT deal of time.  *pant pant pant*

You attend school in Chicago.  Have you recently commuted down here to take
an in person evaluation of Omar?  Until you do, I would say you keep your
unfounded statements regarding the non-existent racism at Rose to yourself.

BTW, what field of law are you studying?  Are you trying to get some practice
at debating a point?  I'd say you're doing a bad job of getting all the facts
before you say something.