Yucks Volume 0 (1990 and before)

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Last update: Sun Jul 07 17:14:43 96
219 messages

1) Testing
Sent on 08/21/90 by Gene Spafford
2) look and feel
Sent on 08/22/90 by kent
3) Network interface from Hell
Sent on 08/23/90 by Keith Bostic
4) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): The Italian proposal for the Iraqi hostages]
Sent on 08/23/90 by Gene Spafford
5) More sex in the news
Sent on 08/23/90 by Gene Spafford
6) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): Remember, you heard it here first!]
Sent on 08/23/90 by Gene Spafford
7) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): It Had To Happen]
Sent on 08/24/90 by Gene Spafford
8) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): The King in outer space.]
Sent on 08/27/90 by Gene Spafford
9) [dls@mentor.cc.purdue.edu: FYA]
Sent on 08/27/90 by Gene Spafford
10) [lsc@Sun.COM: look what happened to Elvis, after all]
Sent on 08/28/90 by Gene Spafford
11) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): Duhhhh]
Sent on 08/29/90 by Gene Spafford
12) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): Canada's Young Are Flocking To Recruiting Offices in U.S.]
Sent on 08/29/90 by Gene Spafford
13) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): Getting Action on Wrong Numbers]
Sent on 08/30/90 by Gene Spafford
14) you won't get your pudding if you don't read your wierd...
Sent on 08/31/90 by Gene Spafford
15) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): Anti-Bigotry Watch]
Sent on 08/31/90 by Gene Spafford
16) [Rich Kulawiec: GSP Digset #272]
Sent on 09/02/90 by Gene Spafford
17) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): DOTD]
Sent on 09/02/90 by Gene Spafford
18) image
Sent on 09/04/90 by Gene Spafford
19) Lecture Announcement
Sent on 09/04/90 by Gene Spafford
20) [gatech!dscatl!lindsay (Lindsay Cleveland): cutie]
Sent on 09/04/90 by Gene Spafford
21) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): poor interface design]
Sent on 09/04/90 by Gene Spafford
22) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): Iraqis and Americans]
Sent on 09/05/90 by Gene Spafford
23) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): MAD CONFIDENCE DISEASE STRIKES WHIZZ-KIDS]
Sent on 09/05/90 by Gene Spafford
24) No Subject
Sent on 09/06/90 by Gene Spafford
25) [lsc@Sun.COM: Career Opportunities]
Sent on 09/06/90 by Gene Spafford
26) [osc!strick@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (henry strickland): Hacker Test]
Sent on 09/06/90 by Gene Spafford
27) [bingle: Thought this might be ok for yucks.]
Sent on 09/10/90 by Gene Spafford
28) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): need a job?]
Sent on 09/10/90 by Gene Spafford
29) [osc!strick@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (henry strickland): new machines!]
Sent on 09/12/90 by Gene Spafford
30) Ah, Danny boy
Sent on 09/13/90 by Gene Spafford
31) [brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor): USENET characterized]
Sent on 09/14/90 by Gene Spafford
32) [Rich Kulawiec: GSP Digest #276]
Sent on 09/15/90 by Gene Spafford
33) [Rich Kulawiec: GSP Digest #276]
Sent on 09/15/90 by Gene Spafford
34) [rdd@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett): News of the Weird... from the Chronicle, Sept. 14 ]
Sent on 09/16/90 by Gene Spafford
35) No Subject
Sent on 09/18/90 by Gene Spafford
36) [fubar@sequent.com: Proof that ties are bad for you!]
Sent on 09/19/90 by Gene Spafford
37) [lsc@Eng.Sun.COM: n years ago i couldn't even spell engineer]
Sent on 09/19/90 by Gene Spafford
38) No Subject
Sent on 09/21/90 by Gene Spafford
39) [Werner Uhrig: Dial M For Monster]
Sent on 09/21/90 by Gene Spafford
40) [Werner Uhrig: a message from the twilight zone ...(was: Waldo's answering machine)]
Sent on 09/21/90 by Gene Spafford
41) [mbraun@urbana.mcd.mot.com: The *LAST* Thrilling Soup Story (VERY LONG > 7pp., 66lines/page)]
Sent on 09/21/90 by Gene Spafford
42) Interesting phone numbers
Sent on 09/21/90 by Gene Spafford
43) This deserves government funding....
Sent on 09/22/90 by Gene Spafford
44) [reid@ctc.contel.com (Tom Reid x4505): Messenger of the God of Chaos]
Sent on 09/24/90 by Gene Spafford
45) [reggie@pdn.paradyne.com (George Leach): ]
Sent on 09/24/90 by Gene Spafford
46) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): Passing]
Sent on 09/24/90 by Gene Spafford
47) from Fortune's Rules for Memo Wars
Sent on 09/25/90 by Gene Spafford
48) [tracy@sirius.cc.utexas.edu (Tracy LaQuey): Re: Interesting phone numbers]
Sent on 09/26/90 by Gene Spafford
49) [lsc@Eng.Sun.COM: How you spell "satan"? N-A-T-...]
Sent on 09/26/90 by Gene Spafford
50) [Rich Kulawiec: GSP Digest #279]
Sent on 09/27/90 by Gene Spafford
51) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): JOTD]
Sent on 09/28/90 by Gene Spafford
52) [strick (: [ "st. dimas highschool football rules!" <BOSTRICKLAND@DAVIDSON.BITNET
Sent on 09/28/90 by Gene Spafford
53) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): DECsystem 5800]
Sent on 09/28/90 by Gene Spafford
54) [osc!strick@ea.ecn.purdue.edu ( really from strick@osc.com ): (RFC822>]
Sent on 09/28/90 by Gene Spafford
55) [osc!amdcad!uunet!AGCB1.LARC.NASA.GOV!KLUDGE@ea.ecn.purdue.edu: World Problems]
Sent on 10/01/90 by Gene Spafford
56) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): Just So You'll Know, If Asked]
Sent on 10/02/90 by Gene Spafford
57) [lsc@Eng.Sun.COM: from "The Realist"]
Sent on 10/02/90 by Gene Spafford
58) No Subject
Sent on 10/02/90 by Gene Spafford
59) No Subject
Sent on 10/03/90 by Gene Spafford
60) [<@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU:MARTIN@SCRANTON.BITNET: Ada Bulletin Board]
Sent on 10/04/90 by Gene Spafford
61) If you care....
Sent on 10/05/90 by Gene Spafford
62) No Subject
Sent on 10/07/90 by Gene Spafford
63) Found in rec.humor.funny
Sent on 10/07/90 by Gene Spafford
64) [Mark Anbinder: Mousing around... ]
Sent on 10/08/90 by Gene Spafford
65) [brian%cyberpunk@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor): Re: [Mark Anbinder: Mousing around... ]]
Sent on 10/09/90 by Gene Spafford
66) [rocsoft!rdb@cs.rochester.edu (Robert D. Baden): FYA]
Sent on 10/09/90 by Gene Spafford
67) Archives available
Sent on 10/09/90 by Gene Spafford
68) GM vs. Microsoft
Sent on 10/11/90 by Gene Spafford
69) Smiley Faces in the news
Sent on 10/11/90 by Gene Spafford
70) From another mailing list...
Sent on 10/11/90 by Gene Spafford
71) From my archives
Sent on 10/12/90 by Gene Spafford
72) making it in massachusetts
Sent on 10/12/90 by lsc
73) From the 'Oddities' section of the San Jose Mercury News
Sent on 10/14/90 by Pete
74) More news of the wierd
Sent on 10/15/90 by Gene Spafford
75) [RIch Epstein: Stealth Semantics]
Sent on 10/15/90 by Gene Spafford
76) For your amusement - from the usenet
Sent on 10/15/90 by Jeff Schwab
77) Computers, C and Drugs
Sent on 10/15/90 by Tom Reid x4505
78) From rec.humor.funny
Sent on 10/15/90 by Gene Spafford
79) From another list
Sent on 10/15/90 by Gene Spafford
80) Re: [RIch Epstein: Stealth Semantics]
Sent on 10/15/90 by Mark Horton
81) And we thought US TV execs were bad!
Sent on 10/16/90 by Gene Spafford
82) Re: faster-than-light automobiles
Sent on 10/17/90 by Tom
83) No Subject
Sent on 10/18/90 by Gene Spafford
84) Why I have 3 cats....
Sent on 10/18/90 by Gene Spafford
85) By way of Tom Reid @ Contel...
Sent on 10/18/90 by Gene Spafford
86) From another mailing list....
Sent on 10/18/90 by Gene Spafford
87) No Subject
Sent on 10/18/90 by Gene Spafford
88) No Subject
Sent on 10/18/90 by Gene Spafford
89) Technology Meets Dog; Dog Wins
Sent on 10/19/90 by Keith Bostic
90) Contest
Sent on 10/19/90 by Gene Spafford
91) [fubar@sequent.com: Space Alien Poop Found on Earth!]
Sent on 10/19/90 by Gene Spafford
92) Bank reserves credit card for 16th century religious leader
Sent on 10/22/90 by Keith Bostic
93) HBD
Sent on 10/22/90 by Keith Bostic
94) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): PG-13]
Sent on 10/22/90 by Gene Spafford
95) Where No Man Has Gone Before
Sent on 10/22/90 by Keith Bostic
96) Stealth
Sent on 10/23/90 by Brian Kantor
97) Raccoon saves student's life
Sent on 10/24/90 by Keith Bostic
98) [dls@mentor.cc.purdue.edu: Birthday time]
Sent on 10/24/90 by Gene Spafford
99) I really shouldn't do this to you but...
Sent on 10/24/90 by Pete
100) [Sam Kimery: Possible yucks submission]
Sent on 10/24/90 by Gene Spafford
101) No Subject
Sent on 10/24/90 by Gene Spafford
102) [wilkes@penguin.ulowell.edu (C.T. "Tom" Wilkes): Boston]
Sent on 10/25/90 by Gene Spafford
103) There goes the neighborhood...
Sent on 10/29/90 by Gene Spafford
104) Tolkien Ring
Sent on 10/29/90 by Keith Bostic
105) And there was light...
Sent on 10/29/90 by Brian Kantor
106) News of the Weird
Sent on 10/29/90 by Matthew Braun
107) IBM Bashing
Sent on 10/31/90 by Tom Reid x4505
108) [Werner Uhrig: [Chris Borton: English poem (fwd)]]
Sent on 11/01/90 by Gene Spafford
109) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): "Adult Education" redefined]
Sent on 11/01/90 by Gene Spafford
110) pointer: WSJ of Nov 1 article: Online with Penn & Teller
Sent on 11/02/90 by Werner Uhrig
111) [lda@floyd.att.com (Larry Auton): Algorithmicly Speaking...]
Sent on 11/02/90 by Gene Spafford
112) Engineers
Sent on 11/02/90 by lsc
113) What DC residents fantasize about
Sent on 11/03/90 by Rich Epstein
114) No Subject
Sent on 11/05/90 by Gene Spafford
115) No Subject
Sent on 11/05/90 by Gene Spafford
116) alt.betazoid.bounce.bounce.bounce
Sent on 11/07/90 by Keith Bostic
117) God must have loved idiots, S/He made so many of them...
Sent on 11/07/90 by Keith Bostic
118) Aircraft
Sent on 11/07/90 by Gene Spafford
119) [osc!owner-inane@ea.ecn.purdue.edu ( really From: owner-inane@osc.com): ]
Sent on 11/07/90 by Gene Spafford
120) The Devouring Fungus
Sent on 11/07/90 by Gene Spafford
121) inane: Re:/dev/drum???
Sent on 11/08/90 by really From: strick@osc.com
122) YEAR'S WORST COUNTRY SONG TITLES - PART II
Sent on 11/08/90 by Keith Bostic
123) [Rich EPstein: The Abnormal Psychology of Programming]
Sent on 11/08/90 by Gene Spafford
124) [cate3.osbu_north@xerox.com: Life 5.H]
Sent on 11/08/90 by Gene Spafford
125) No Subject
Sent on 11/10/90 by Gene Spafford
126) No Subject
Sent on 11/10/90 by Gene Spafford
127) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): Best response I've seen yet to stupid "Craig Shergold" postings]
Sent on 11/13/90 by Gene Spafford
128) [mills@bucknell.edu: FYA Programming languages]
Sent on 11/13/90 by Gene Spafford
129) Dark and Stormy....
Sent on 11/13/90 by Gene Spafford
130) No Subject
Sent on 11/13/90 by Gene Spafford
131) No Subject
Sent on 11/14/90 by Gene Spafford
132) FYA
Sent on 11/14/90 by Keith Bostic
133) [Chris "Johann" Borton: ]
Sent on 11/16/90 by Gene Spafford
134) No Subject
Sent on 11/16/90 by Gene Spafford
135) No Subject
Sent on 11/16/90 by Gene Spafford
136) Yes, but is it art?
Sent on 11/20/90 by Gene Spafford
137) A Hoosier Graduates
Sent on 11/21/90 by Gene Spafford
138) Subject to Change
Sent on 11/21/90 by Gene Spafford
139) From the archives....
Sent on 11/21/90 by Gene Spafford
140) In the news
Sent on 11/23/90 by Gene Spafford
141) inane: FromRFC1194
Sent on 11/24/90 by really From: strick@osc.com
142) [spaf (Gene Spafford): British Prime Minister quits over Domain Ordering.]
Sent on 11/25/90 by Gene Spafford
143) Holiday gifts
Sent on 11/27/90 by Gene Spafford
144) [lsc@Eng.Sun.COM: Re: In the news ]
Sent on 11/27/90 by Gene Spafford
145) Administrivia
Sent on 11/27/90 by Gene Spafford
146) No Subject
Sent on 11/28/90 by Gene Spafford
147) Warning! Bad Puns Aboard!
Sent on 11/28/90 by Gene Spafford
148) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): Careers for Girls]
Sent on 11/28/90 by Gene Spafford
149) another DESPERADO excerpt
Sent on 11/28/90 by lsc
150) Unclear on the concept
Sent on 11/28/90 by Gene Spafford
151) more slush
Sent on 11/28/90 by Gene Spafford
152) What an archive!
Sent on 11/28/90 by Gene Spafford
153) Were there a lot of sunspots in 1988?
Sent on 11/28/90 by Gene Spafford
154) "Disorderly Conduct - Verbatim Excerpts from Actual Court Cases
Sent on 11/28/90 by Keith Bostic
155) No Subject
Sent on 11/28/90 by Gene Spafford
156) No Subject
Sent on 11/29/90 by Gene Spafford
157) A Matter of Pride
Sent on 11/29/90 by Keith Bostic
158) So that explains it!
Sent on 11/30/90 by Keith Bostic
159) i before e except in weird
Sent on 11/30/90 by Gene Spafford
160) Mark your calendars!
Sent on 12/02/90 by Gene Spafford
161) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): Ask for Cards, and Ye Shall Receive and Receive and Receive]
Sent on 12/04/90 by Gene Spafford
162) it's not just a good idea, it's weird
Sent on 12/04/90 by Ken Shoemaker
163) Great moments in environmental activism
Sent on 12/04/90 by Keith Bostic
164) HOW LONG IS YOUR TIE?
Sent on 12/06/90 by Keith Bostic
165) hard science
Sent on 12/07/90 by Keith Bostic
166) Kids, Don't Try This At Home!
Sent on 12/07/90 by Keith Bostic
167) No Subject
Sent on 12/07/90 by Gene Spafford
168) [Rich Kulawiec: Re: Holiday gifts]
Sent on 12/07/90 by Gene Spafford
169) Advanced User's Guide
Sent on 12/08/90 by henery strickland
170) No Subject
Sent on 12/09/90 by Gene Spafford
171) No Subject
Sent on 12/09/90 by Gene Spafford
172) cutie
Sent on 12/10/90 by Lindsay Cleveland
173) Stupid thing from INFO-VMS
Sent on 12/10/90 by osc!amdcad!uunet!AGCB1.LARC.NASA.GOV!KLUDGE
174) ["Patrick Tufts": Conversion Rates: Connection Machine <-> IBM PC]
Sent on 12/10/90 by Gene Spafford
175) Trek envy conquered
Sent on 12/10/90 by Kathy Strong
176) [richard welty: classic humor from the net]
Sent on 12/11/90 by Gene Spafford
177) [dls@mentor.cc.purdue.edu: Just a little too weird]
Sent on 12/11/90 by Gene Spafford
178) [simsong@daily-bugle.media.mit.edu (Simson L. Garfinkel): adb & nobody with sun NFS...]
Sent on 12/11/90 by Gene Spafford
179) [someone: frightening personal ad]
Sent on 12/11/90 by Gene Spafford
180) No Subject
Sent on 12/11/90 by Gene Spafford
181) [Werner Uhrig: <juck-juck> guess why I started a Xmas wish-list ... ]
Sent on 12/12/90 by Gene Spafford
182) No Subject
Sent on 12/12/90 by Gene Spafford
183) No Subject
Sent on 12/12/90 by Gene Spafford
184) mao's holiday book review
Sent on 12/12/90 by Keith Bostic
185) Re: Automated software testing tools
Sent on 12/12/90 by Keith Bostic
186) Re: Hidden messages
Sent on 12/12/90 by Keith Bostic
187) [bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): Anybody have any idea what group this *does* belong in?]
Sent on 12/12/90 by Gene Spafford
188) Baghdad Betty?
Sent on 12/13/90 by Mitchell Wyle
189) No Subject
Sent on 12/13/90 by Gene Spafford
190) [lsc@Eng.Sun.COM: Re: Baghdad Betty? ]
Sent on 12/13/90 by Gene Spafford
191) Found in the corners on misc.misc....
Sent on 12/13/90 by Gene Spafford
192) Heard on David Letterman
Sent on 12/14/90 by Gene Spafford
193) Random the way you want it
Sent on 12/15/90 by Gene Spafford
194) No Subject
Sent on 12/15/90 by Gene Spafford
195) No Subject
Sent on 12/15/90 by Gene Spafford
196) [Peter da Silva: Re: Why do RISCs use (*not* need) fewer transistors?]
Sent on 12/16/90 by Gene Spafford
197) Forwarded from INFO-VAX
Sent on 12/17/90 by osc!amdcad!uunet!AGCB1.LARC.NASA.GOV!KLUDGE
198) I think this explains 8-tracks *AND* the ADM-3...
Sent on 12/17/90 by Keith Bostic
199) [u560090%beta@LANL.GOV (Stephen M. Johnson): Stupid sort]
Sent on 12/17/90 by Gene Spafford
200) [Laurie Sefton: The *big* midwest earthquake]
Sent on 12/17/90 by Gene Spafford
201) PERSONALS
Sent on 12/18/90 by Keith Bostic
202) 2 quickies
Sent on 12/18/90 by Gene Spafford
203) Honda Ad #2
Sent on 12/18/90 by Ken Shoemaker
204) [Rich Kulawiec: GSP Digest #295]
Sent on 12/18/90 by Gene Spafford
205) Joe Bob Briggs 900 number
Sent on 12/19/90 by Patrick Tufts
206) [jrs@ecn.purdue.edu: Let's see now, ... arm, arm, leg, arm, leg, ....]
Sent on 12/19/90 by Gene Spafford
207) No Subject
Sent on 12/19/90 by Patrick Tufts
208) Seeking Exciting New Job
Sent on 12/19/90 by Keith Bostic
209) No Subject
Sent on 12/19/90 by Gene Spafford
210) Problems with a defective bong...
Sent on 12/19/90 by Gene Spafford
211) How to resuscitate a lizard
Sent on 12/19/90 by Patrick Tufts
212) Glossary from rec.humor
Sent on 12/20/90 by Dave Grisham
213) No Subject
Sent on 12/20/90 by Gene Spafford
214) Administrivia
Sent on 12/20/90 by Gene Spafford
215) SPLIT PERSONALITIES ON ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARDS
Sent on 12/20/90 by Keith Bostic
216) Brother Jim
Sent on 12/20/90 by osc!amdcad!uunet!AGCB1.LARC.NASA.GOV!KLUDGE
217) Have yourself a weird weird little Christmas
Sent on 12/21/90 by Ken Shoemaker
218) No Subject
Sent on 12/21/90 by Gene Spafford
219) No Subject
Sent on 12/21/90 by Gene Spafford


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