Yucks Volume 0 (1990 and before)
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- 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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