Interesting Texts



Funny Texts


A List of Funny Oxymorons
You Know You are a Redneck When...
The Virgin's Near Miss
125 Things Never to Say During Sex
Materials Saftey Data Sheet Women - A Chemical Analysis
The 9 Types of Girlfriemds
The 9 Types of Boyfriends
A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys
The Programmer's Quick Guide to the Languages
A Form Letter to Send to a Spamer
Descriptions, Dates and Casts of 190 Three Stooges Films
Women, Girls, Ladies, Chicks: a Tribute to Them
Bell Labs Prove Existence of Dark Suckers
Once upon a time, JAPCO and LUSCO decided to have a boat race
Ice Ice Baby (Vanilla Ice, Earthquake, M. Smooth)
An Eagles song
Hillbillies Medical Terminology for the Layman
You know you've been on the computer too long when...
What would happen if Operating Systems drove your car
Complete Lyrics to U2's Achtung Baby Album
Curt Kobain's Suicide Note
A Story About Apollo Mission Astronaut Neil Armstrong
Welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline
A Funny Story About how the Vatican Really Works
What If Dr. Seuss Did Technical Writing?
The Jack Schitt Story
A very funny Dictionary of Computer Terms
The Canonical Collection of Light Bulb Jokes
Real, honest, and true, documented quotes by Dan Quayle
The Pros and Cons of Death
The Unofficial Smiley Dictionary
Is there a Santa Claus?
118 Ways Barney Should Die
237 Odd Band Names
David Koresh Humor
101 Things to do with a 300 Baud Modem
The Final Exam from HELL!
ASCII Art (Part 1)
ASCII Art (Part 2)
The Hacker Test - Version 1.0
alt.folklore.computers list of Frequently Asked Questions
Monty Python's Holy Grail
The Major Networks Pime Time Lineups from 1948-1966
The Major Networks Pime Time Lineups from 1967-1983
Frequently Asked Questions about Seinfeld
Brew Great American Style Beer at Home
The Best of the Worst Country-Western Song Titles (real)
The Fraternity - English Dictionary
A FAQ about the Simpsons; Homer and Bart, Not OJ and Nicole

Dangerous Texts


A Text on Hypnosis
rec.drugs Frequently Asked Questions
Creation of my favorite, thermite!
Herbs: Use and Abuse
Focus on the controversial issues of gun and drug prohibition
_Industrial Society and It's Future_ By: The Unabomber
A Work on How to Mess with People's Minds, In the spirit of George Hayduke

Propaganda Texts:


Bill Clinton's Campaign Promises with space for writing the date the promise was fulfilled.
Intel Pentium Processor: Latest News
Bill Clinton: What He Says vs. What He Means
Communications Decency Act
Clinton's Infallible Method for Winning Elections

Temple University Related Texts:


John Locke's Second Treatise of Goverment
Hackers Guide to Temple University Networks
Library Skills Workbook, for Science and Technology Students

Technical Texts:


A List of Commands for the TIN Newsreader
Learn VI
A Text on How to Direct Boot into Win95/WinNT/DOS
A List of National Hotlines
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.9
A Text on Potatos
Audio Tips
Battle of the Compressors 1993
Tonkin's First Computer Dictionary
Direct Boot Into Win3.1/WinNT/Win95
The Sun Hardware FAQ
Space Medicine
World Wide Web FAQ
Here are Some Tips and Codes for Games on Game Systems
Batch Files for Efficiency - Getting Real Work Done
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Math CoProcessors
Level codes for Registered Version of Apogee's Doom
DOD Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria
AMI BIOS Beep Codes
Flavors and Fragrances
APC UPS Pinouts
Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright v. 1.1.0
The Universal Hologram
The Graphics Interchange Format Specification
Introduction to the Internet Protocols
A Berlitz Course in High Speed Data Communications, or How to Speak Modem
A text on how to set up NT RAS with a PPP connection
Poisonous Plants of Pennsylvania
FILE_ID.DIZ Information
Here are Some Fax Numbers and Fax-Back Numbers, for Fax Modem Testing
The Mathematics of Three-Dimensional Manipulations and Transformations

Historical Texts:


An Introduction to the Historical Computer Society
The Papyrus of Ani (The Egyptian Book of the Dead) 2401 BC
Bram Stroker's Dracula
Bill Clinton's First Inaugural Address
What Happened to the 56 Men who Signed the Declaration of Independence
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Speech

Serious Texts:


An Introduction to Atheism
George Carlin on Atheism
What you Should Know if You are Accused of a Crime
Civil Disobdience by Henry David Thoreau


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Click HERE to go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Library's collection of the complete works of Mr. William Shakespeare. WARNING: all of these works are in hypertext, not just plain ASCII text.


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