jasondostal/fidonet-bbs-voice huggingface dataset:
system: You are News, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Zyxel Modems message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "RE: JESUS DIED A VIRGIN?".

They wrote:
>Dave Hatunen writes:
>>There is no historical evidence that Jesus ever existed. But many
>>assume that as a good Jewish boy he would have to have been married
>>and had children.
>>
>>But since there is no direct historical evidence, any writings on the
>>subject, Pauline or otherwise, would have to be speculative, and
>>possibly self-serving.
>>
>        No historical evidence that Jesus ever existed?!?!  I can't let that
>one go by unchallenged.  There is ample evidence that Jesus did exist, was
>crucified, and rose from the dead three days later.
>writing of Josephus.

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assistant: From: vx@teleport.com (V-X)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Jesus died a virgin?
Organization: Fragile Liquid
In article <mperic.100.793639832@UPEI.CA> mperic@UPEI.CA (MARKO PERIC)
rites:
Um, no there isn't.  The only references to this are in the gospel accounts,
and for all my faith in Christ, I can still find it in me to bear with
unbelievers who can't quite accept these as proof of the resurrection.
Take a look at the
You might want to yourself, if you think he corroborates the resurrection.
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user: You are replying to All about "RE: SPELLING UL. REALLY! (WAS: RE: MOST 23:17:4102/24/95".

They wrote:
>You probably close the stall door when you use a public restroom, even
>if nobody else is there. Wouldn't your character do the same?

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assistant: From: Stephan Zielinski <szielins@us.oracle.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,misc.writing
Subject: Re: Spelling UL. Really! (Was: Re: Most commonly misspelled   words
on Usenet?)
Organization: Oracle World HQ, Redwood Shores
Reply-To: szielins%dvlpyr@us.oracle.com
lisa@gordian.com (Lisa Leone) wrote:
Hang on.  I'll try it.
  Eric's legs pumped, his mighty thews propelling him through the
  crowds.  Dodging around a fat man with a sweaty forehead, he
  broadsided an old woman-- she went one way, her walker went the other.
  "Pardon me," he called over his shoulder.
  Into the lobby.  A small child giggled out from behind a potted palm--
  Eric closed his eyes, but could not help but hear the crunch of bones
  and the shocked intake of breath.  "'Scuse me," he called over his
  shoulder.
  Around the corner.  Eric accelerated, his hair flying behind him as
  he sprinted.  The janitor stepped from the broom closet. Eric's elbow
  caught him in the larynx.  As he slumped onto the tile he made a sound
  like a squirrel in a blender. "Terribly sorry," he called over his
  shoulder.
  The door stood before him.  Eric's frantic need somehow made the three
  letters glow, like a lake to the desert nomad, like a waterfall to the
  drought stricken.  Adreneline slowed time-- for all the speed of his
  passage the brass handle of the door approached with glacial slowness.
  Eric hurled the door open and sprang...
  He didn't even notice that he'd left the stall door open.
HA!  Well, I guess that showed YOU!
--
Stephan "Thank God this question didn't come up on rec.music.makers;
woulda been an ugly .wav file" Zielinski
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assistant: From: gilmer@twain.oit.umass.edu (Heather Gilmer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Man Gives Birth
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
George Lin (lingc@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu) wrote:
: Rob Sawatsky (rob@mda.ca) wrote:
        [identical twin fetus found in man]
: : UL or plain weirdness.  Biological explanation anyone?
: The "fetus" you are referring to is not really a fetus.  It is most
: likely a type of tumor specifically called a teratoma, literally
: translated as "monstrous growth."  It's true that these tumors sometimes
: look like deformed fetus', sometimes found with teeth, hair and malformed
: limbs.  It's rare for a man to have a teratoma but more common in
: females.  A cause of teratomas in females are drugs during pregnancy.  In
: these cases, the birth usually ends in a natural abortion, but there has
: been many times the fetus never fully develops and ends up a tumorous
: growth in the woman's uterus or ovary.  These can go undetected for years
: as they are essentially benign tumors.
So wait, do teratomas have anything to do with fetuses, or do they just
look like them, mandrake-style?
Your penultimate sentence seems to say that teratomas start out as
fetuses, which fits in with the "teeth, hair and malformed limbs".
But if they're fetuses, then why would a man have one?
My guess on the guy with the fetus in him (if it happened) is that it's a
variation on siamese twins.
I've heard this story too, except the fetus was in the guy's *head*.
(His brain, kids, not his mind.)
Anyone wanna talk about the "twins born months apart" concept?
Hg
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user: You are replying to All about "RE: THE LOST GENERATION".

They wrote:
>In article <3ie0vb$s8o@panix.com>, Lee Rudolph <lrudolph@panix.com> wrote:
>>v140pxgt@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Daniel B Case) writes:
>>
>>>kricker@orion.it.luc.edu (Kathleen E. Ricker) writes...
>>>>A lot of brilliant
>>>>talents ended up as canon fodder, and never returned.
>>
>>>Like Joyce Kilmer, author of "Trees."
>>
>>But she *did* return, as a rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike.
>

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assistant: From: rkadel@fas.harvard.edu (Rachel Kadel)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Lost Generation
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
'Scuse please -- Sgt. Joyce Kilmer, the author of "Trees" and my
great-grandfather, who died in World War I and has a New Jersey Turnpike
rest-stop for a namesake, takes a masculine pronoun.
Thanks.
                                                Rachel
--
Why are you quantizing my cookies?
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rkadel@fas.harvard.edu
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They wrote:
>
>And you gen-x tykes can please stop posting to AFU.

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From: srkleine@ellis.uchicago.edu (steven r kleinedler)
Subject: Re: lyrics about masturbation?
Reply-To: srkleine@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: The University of Chicago
In article <D4Ht3q.128@crash.cts.com>,
Harry M. F. Teasley <het3@crash.cts.com> wrote:
Um, dude, it was one of *you guys* that cross posted to us. So there.
Police your own ranks.
--
 -- Steve Kleinedler    srkleine@midway.uchicago.edu
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user: You are replying to All about "RE: JESUS DIED A VIRGIN?".

They wrote:
>In article <golivera.33kq@dplanet.xbbs.com> golivera@dplanet.xbbs.com (Gerry
>>>Does this mean Jesus died a virgin?
>>Please read The Last Temptation of Christ By Nikos Kazantsakis for the only
>>attempt made to answer this question.
>What?

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assistant: From: vx@teleport.com (V-X)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Jesus died a virgin?
Organization: Fragile Liquid
In article <vx.2955.00AC759D@teleport.com> vx@teleport.com (V-X) writes:
Olivera) writes:
Lest I get mail accusing me of not saying enough in response to this post,
let
me elaborate:
1.  _Last Temptation_ is *not* an exploration of whether or not Christ was
married.  It contains the titular "tempatation" scene, in which Christ,
dying,
envisions himself refusing to die and marrying and living a normal life.
That's all.
2.  Even if it were, it would hardly be the "only" attempt to answer the
question.
3.  _Last Temptation_ is fiction that bears only a passing resemblance to the
story of Christ presented in the Gospel accounts, so even if the book did
address this subject, it wouldn't be any more appropriate a reference for
those curious about Jesus' marital status than, say, William Condon's book
_Winter Kills_ is for those interested in "Who *really* was behind the
Kennedy
assassination?"
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From: pflewis@netcom.com (PFLewis(MGOVG))
Subject: Re: The Six Million Dollar Man
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
: The bionic dog was introduced on the third season of Bionic Woman.  Named
Max.
: He made appearances throughout the season.  Never heard of him again after
the
: show was over. Never showed up in any of the Bionic movies.
In about 1981 there was a tv show called something like Sam the Police
Dog that was on for like two episodes.  This was a truly suckass show.
The dog was like the producer's pet dog or something.  He would like wag
his tail when he was busting the bad guys.  I wonder if they "put him to
sleep" after that.
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assistant: From: gilmer@twain.oit.umass.edu (Heather Gilmer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: In The News
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
snopes (hbeng010@huey.csun.edu) wrote:
[dog barks when phone rings; dog tethered to part of electrical/phone system]
The version of this I heard was that the woman called to say her phone
wasn't ringing, and the reason she knew it wasn't just because she wasn't
getting calls was because the dog would bark when the phone was about to
ring.  (I guess the deal was that lately the calls had only been getting
as far as the dog, and not to the house.)
Hg
p.s. how come people get flamed for talking about odd place names or even
"totally irrelevant" stuff like Boston T folklore, but Snopes gets to post a
list of funny headlines?
p.p.s. not that they weren't amusing; I was just wondering if there were
explicit criteria to get one's "I can do anything I want in this group"
card.  And why is "off-topic" a waste of bandwidth, but in-jokes aren't?
I've been reading this group on and off for 4 or 5 years, and it seems
the signal-to-injoke ratio has about quartered, and the very same people
who are in on (and post) most of the in-jokes and witty banter have gotten
much more nasty to those outside the circle.
p.p.s. anyone wanna flame me for this should start another header--
otherwise it would be off-topic, wouldn't it?  Better yet, send me mail--
unless the whole world really *needs* to know what you think of me.
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user: You are replying to All about "RE: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN NUDE POSTURE23:24:4702/24/95".

They wrote:
>    On Langdon Street in Madison, the crowded thoroughfare that holds most
> the UW's fraternities and sororities, rumors of contraband copies of the
> posture photos flowed freely during the 1950s and '60s, said one alumnus
> asked not to be identified.
>
>    "It was something of an urban legend when I was in school in the '60s,"
> said.  "All these fraternity guys bragged that they had copies.  But nobody
> ever saw them."

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assistant: From: Thomas O'Donnell <todonnel@panix.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: University of Wisconsin nude posture photos
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Courtesy of snopes:
f
ho
he
The variant I heard of the Langdon Street crowd's pranks had an
unspecified fraternity inviting sorority girls to dinner. Said
sisters are seated and the first course is a sealed envelope, which
they are to open. The rest is pretty obvious.
Tom "Madison, Wisconsin, in the late 60's: may you have an
interesting life" O'Donnell
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They wrote:
>When did the US practice eugenics?  (I mean, after the slaves were set
>free.)
>Canada never had a slave economy (but there were slaves in the Empire
>until, I believe, 1832).

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assistant: From: Larry C. Lyons <solomon@vt.edu>
Newsgroups:
lt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.canada,rec.sport.hockey,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: CANADA IS ...
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
In article <3iki3c$n95@Csli.Stanford.EDU> Philip Kremer,
kremer@Csli.Stanford.EDU writes:
Until the mid 1950's the state of Virginia practiced a eugenics program
that was the basis for the German racial identity programs.
<Much blather snipped>
Wrong. Canadian colonies (upper and lower Canada and the maritimes)
banned slavery in the late 1700's.
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They wrote:
>In a previous article, ehenry@Newbridge.COM (Ethan Henry) said:
>>In article <D488n6.Gv9@compass.telemax.com>,
>>Paul Tomblin <ptomblin@compass.telemax.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>You know, next time you visit Ottawa, you should get your lovely hostess
>>>take you to something a little more classy than Taco Bell.
>>
>>Ha! You can't be the Real Paul Tomblin(tm)! There is no Taco Bell in
>>Ottawa!
>
>How would I know?  When *my* net friends come to visit, we always went some
>place nicer.  Like Sitars.  Or the Royal Oak.
>>>Might I suggest the Cafe Henri Burger in Hull?
>>
>>But what if you don't want to have to bring your passport?
>
>You know, some of my cow orkers had lived in Ottawa all their lives, and
>had NEVER been across the bridge to have a look around.  Imagine living in
>Ottawa and never getting out in Gatineau Park, never getting thrown out of a
>bar in Hull at 3am, never visiting the Musei de la Civilization...

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assistant: Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.canada
From: ehenry@Newbridge.COM (Ethan Henry)
Subject: Re: The mouse in the hamburger
Organization: Crosskeys Systems Corporation
In article <D4DMJo.74G@compass.telemax.com>,
Paul Tomblin <ptomblin@compass.telemax.com> wrote:
o
I don't think I have any net friends. I do have other friends though -
maybe they're gross friends?
Seriously, you'd think with half a million people, several other popular
tex-mex restraunts and two universities, there'd be a taco bell
SOMEWHERE in this town. But no.
hey
Oh, sure (well, I've never got THROWN out, I usually just left when the bar
closed), but to eat there? I dunno why, but it never occured to me. Maybe
it's because my french is right up there with Ed Broadbent's.
Ethan "je veux un 'amburger" 'enry.
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rink?
ehenry@newbridge.com                                     I don't have a
rink.
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They wrote:
>
>     If by 'this' you mean the second line quoted above, I wrote it.  Which
>     part did you find unclear?  (Perhaps you're confused because there are
>     *two* NBA teams in Florida.  I was referring to the Orlando Magic only;
>     I thought that point would be made clear by the 'Newsgroups' header.)
>
>  - snopes
>

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Subject: Re: They own it all!
Organization: Stanford University
The part I found unclear was the part about the KKK.  Please explain.
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They wrote:
>Mark G. wrote,
>: i saw a news article recently that showed a cat/rabbit mix. It was
>: weird-looking but it is possible. ;-)

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assistant: From: sfitzpat@husc7.harvard.edu (Sean Fitzpatrick)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Answer to "Cats and Rabbits Mate?"
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
e
hsm@unislc.slc.unisys.com (Helge Moulding) writes:
Folks on the Isle of Man (in the Irish Sea between Ireland and England)
claim that their Manx cats (which are tailless and appeared on the island
300 years ago) are the result of a cat/rabbit parenting situation.
But they also know that they're bullshitting everyone. Manx cats are
horribly inbred: they have no tails, they have huge hind legs, they have
a loping gait, but they also have intestinal problems and don't live very
long. Not every Manx cat is tailless (the Manx word for this is kind is a
"rumpy"); indeed, most are born tiny-tailled "stumpies."
I figure you saw a Manx cat in that news article.
Sean "Rumpy" Fitzpatrick
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user: You are replying to All about "RE: US PRESIDENTS & FRATERNITIES".

They wrote:
> >In article <D4F7Kr.Lpn@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ted
> Frank) writes:>>Does anyone know someone famous from Ohio or know someone
> does? All I can >>think of is Paul Tomblin.)
>
> >Yeah I can, the greatest and most intelligent vice-president of the
> >century, Dan Quayle, is from and was a senator from Ohio.
>
> >Just more informative information for you.
>
> No, actually Dan Quayle is (a Deke) from Indiana and that's where he was a
> senator.

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From: netz@vega.lanl.gov (Mess with Texas)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Us presidents & fraternities
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
In article <arw3.14.000270E8@pop.cwru.edu>, arw3@pop.cwru.edu wrote:
who
twentieth
.... nope.....
.... he couldn't spell Indiana, so he moved to Ohio...
.... Dana "easier that way" Netz
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===Earth & Environmental Sciences Division |  you know is wrong"
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assistant: From: hbeng010@huey.csun.edu (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.snail-mail
Subject: Re: Empire Building Zip Code
Organization: San Fernando Valley Folklore Society
  The Empire State Building?  Hell, my living room has its own ZIP code.
  The Postally-Challenged Service is even threatening to make me pay for
  a new substation.  Another daily newspaper starts in Los Angeles and I'm
  history.
  - snopes
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|  "Woe to you, hypocrites of any denominational affiliation!  Visually
|
|  impaired fools!  How can a sighted person lead one optically challenged?
|
|  Will he not patronize him?"
|
|                                                          Matthew 23:25-26
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They wrote:
> --
> NOW ON THE WEB!!!  We made a beautiful HomePage.  It was colorful,
> and an intriguing multimedia experience!  Then upper management got their
> on it!  http://www.navo.navy.mil/navo/warfighting/warfighting.html - see it
> day, then mail root@us1.navo.navy.mil and tell them just what you think of

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Semis and other colons (was: Plea for help found in toy
irplane)
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
In article <3ifhlr$dvm@spitfire.navo.navy.mil>, booda@lynx.navo.navy.mil
(Martin H. Booda) wrote:
informative,
hands
to-
it!!
... btw, I tried logging onto your new HomePage and was denied access...
Dana "how does that fit in with your post-War conspiracy theory?" Netz
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===Earth & Environmental Sciences Division |  you know is wrong"
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