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The AFU and Urban Legend Archive AFU People Vicki Robinson but im not in anyones sig faq
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The AFU and Urban Legend Archive AFU People Vicki Robinson but im not in anyones sig faq
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Last updated: 5/10/94
0. Introduction
Since my collection of .sigs and related posts has grown to 1.5 times the size of the AFU FAQ, I'm not going to post it anymore. In true Usenet fashion, that being said, I may post it periodically every couple of months. The entire list is always available on the AFU archive on cathouse.org in /pub/cathouse/urban.legends/afu/people/but.im.not.in.anyones.sig.list. This file is in the same place but with a .faq ending.
As soon as she reads this and sends me a better biography, this will be a better section. Here's what's known about Vicki:
. She's an odd physics professor at RIT
. She's a double alum from the University of Illinois (I won't post the
grad dates, let's just say she's safely half an "old hat")
*This just in: using her method of conception calculation and not using
a calculator, hey I did it in my head (the calculation, that is, it's
been awhile since I conceived in my head), no pencil and paper for me,
anyways back to the point: her birthday is: 10/8/52.
. She's divorced with 2 kids and is still taking bids on the lot (the
current bid is somewhere over two fifty)
. She has a clue
. In her own words, she's as "cute as the dickens"
2. How did this .sig virus start?
Vicki asked how one moves from the rank of newbie, to weenie, to old hat. Jon Papai followed up with a short test on what it takes to become an old hat. In Vicki's followup, she included her score and ended with the now classic:
Vicki "But I'm not in anyone's .sig." Robinson
I stole it, rearranged it, and put it in my .sig as:
--
Jason R. Heimbaugh - jrh@uiuc.edu
"But I'm not in anyone's .sig." --Vicki Robinson
Vicki noticed and sent me a piece of mail (edited here as it contained a smiley). So I decided to keep the .sig.
From: "Have a nice day. Or else." <VJRNTS@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
Subject: Re: wrist watches
>--
>Jason R. Heimbaugh - jrh@uiuc.edu
>"But I'm not in anyone's .sig." --Vicki Robinson
Well, now that statement is kinda like that old saw "This statement is false."
Michael Henlsey actually started the virus part when he included the quote in his .sig, prompting my ObUL response, which prompted Vicki's email response:
From: "Have a nice day. Or else." <VJRNTS@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
Subject: Re: Exploding dog stomachs
In article <2crpio$n4i@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, you write:
>In article <mhensleyCGx5Gv.Huz@netcom.com> mhensley@netcom.com (Michael Hensley) writes:
>>--
>>"But I'm not in anyone's .sig." -- Vicki Robinson
>>--
>>Michael D. Hensley | It isn't charity if you use someone else's money.
>>mhensley@netcom.com | The ends do NOT justify the means.
>ObUL: Vicki's quote will appear somewhere, at all times, in someone's .sig for
> the rest of Usenet's history. Remember kids, you saw it here first.
This might even be better than a hat! Are you handling the scheduling?
From here began the copying of the .sig and, even better, the mutations and
subtle references to Vicki herself. The rest, as they say, is not quite
history.
3. Who's currently a member of the Official Fan Club?
I tried to save a copy of every single .sig (and since this is AFU, middle names also count) I saw, but being a virgin kibozer, I missed one of Bob O'Bob's, I know I must have missed others. If you absolutely positively have to be a member and I missed you, send me a copy of your post and I'll add it sometime. As always, bribes help. Here's the list (number in parentheses is the number of variations of a .sig):
David Adams (4), Robert Allison (2), Thomas Allard (5), Jay Ashworth (2), Joseph Askew (2), Orion Auld, Adam Aulick, Otto Bagge (3), Aaron Bardhart (2), Len Berlind, Conrad Black, Tony Bowden, Dave Budd (2), Andrew Bulhak, Phil Burg, Danny Burstein, Warren Burstein (2) Steve Caskey (9), Christian Longshore Claiborn, Hagbard Celine, Jeffrey E. Chilton, Tom Cicoski (3), Alex Cook (2), Antony Cooper, Vince Cross (5), David DeLaney (5), Ray Depew (4), Stuart Derby (11), Don Dillon (2), dirtboy, Tim Dowd (4), Bill Duetschler (5), Chip Dunham, Mike Edwards (11), Fred Ennis, Peter Fenelon, David Fiedler, Jim Finnis (3),Chris Fishel, Scott Forbes, Ted Frank (5), Greg Franklin (3), Joel Furr (2), Nancy G., John Gateley, Joe George (2), Jodi Giannini, Phil Gustafson (7), Andrea Graham (2), Kim Greer (3), Sven Guckes, Brendan Hassett, Jason R. Heimbaugh (8), Gunnar Helliesen, Michael D. Hensley (8), Nolan Hinshaw, Philip Hurley (2), Jim Jewett, Dick Joltes (4), Kris Jones (2), Steve Jones (3), Cindy Kandolf, Heather Kendrick, M. Kernagh, Rick Kitchen (4), Mathias Koerber, Susie Kretschmer (3), Andy Lange, Todd Larason (2), Charles Lasner, Kevin Laws, Drew Lawson, Brian Leibowitz (3), Robert Leitman (3), David Lesher (5), Jean-Marc Libs, Thomas C. Madden (7), Horacio A. Maiorino, Kevin Martinez, Jack Mayo, Dan Mckinnon, Dale Miller, Simon Milton (2), Terry Monks (3), Wes Morgan, Chandra L. Morgan-Henley (3), Glenn Moulaison (2), Helge Moulding (6), Josh Munn (2), Dana Netz (33), Bob O'Brien (7), Charles Odell, Jon Papai (4), Diana Parker, Hanna Pasula, Paul Peterson, Mark Phaedrus (2), Ian Phillips, Dan Prener, Marc Reeve (2), Linda Richards (3), Ted Richards, Dave Ripton (2), Vicki Robinson (16), Jeff Robertson, Jean-Marc Rocher (2), Rogers, Christopher Ronnfeldt, Alan Rosenthal (19), Doug Rudoff, Lee Rudolph (2), Richard L. Rush (2), Ray Sachs (6), Eddie Saxe (2), Joseph Scott (2), Bill Seurer (3), Cosma Shalizi, Kivi Shapiro (6), Curt Shehow, Bill Sinkins, Peter Sullivan (4), Sven, John Switzer (2), Derek Tearne (6), Aric TanEyck (3), Dave Thomas (3), Peter Thompson (3), Paul Tomblin (18), Neil Townsend, Euan Troup, Peter van der Linden, John Van Essen, Bill VanHorne (2), Luke Vaughn, Andy Wardley, William, Kathy Williams (2), Dan Wright, Jacco Z
These are obviously people with too much free time on their hands...
ObTrivia: 14 of these people are also listed on the bottom of the AFU FAQ.
4. Some of my personal favorite .sigs
Some of my personal favorite Vicki .sigs:
--
Derek Tearne. -- derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz -- Fujitsu New Zealand --
______ This is a Usenet Condom<tm>. Roll the condom over the .signature
______} file before posting to protect yourself from .signature retro-virii
CAUTION: This doesn't stop Vicki Robinson getting into your .sig
Vicki Robinson |"If I quote myself in my .sig, Odd physics professor |can I be a member in good standing National Technical Institute for the Deaf |of the club? Or is that too VJRNTS@ritvax.isc.rit.edu |recursive?" Vicki Robinson
kathy williams
*Whose* name am I supposed to put in my .sig?
Phil
/There's no room on this bicycle for a Vicki Robinson quote!
__o __o __o __o __o __o __o __o __o Enneavelo: Quondam Whomper
_-\<,--\<,--\<,--\<,--\<,--\<,--\<,--\<,--\<,_ Phil Gustafson (_)/----/----/----/----/----/----/----/----/ (_) phil@rahul.net Widely regarded as a thoughtful poster of reliable information since 1984.
Jon "Not in Vicki Robinson's .sig." Papai
Vicki Robinson |"If I quote Jon Papai in my .sig, Odd physics professor |can he be a member in good standing National Technical Institute for the Deaf |of the club? Or is that too VJRNTS@ritvax.isc.rit.edu |recursive?" Vicki Robinson
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John Switzer | It'll be a cold day in hell before
| my sig mentions Vicki Robinson!
Internet: jrs@netcom.com |
CompuServe: 74076,1250 |
---Bill "does it count if I put Vicki Robinison's name here, or is club
membership restricted to .sig file users?" VanHorne
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Paul Tomblin - AFU's official "Snide Canadian"
Formerly pt@geovision.gvc.com - now available as ptomblin@gandalf.ca
Vicki Robinson was in my sig, but I took her out.
---Mark "who's Vicki Robinson?" Phaedrus
Nancy G. from Boston
So I'm from Delphi, flame if you must...
Is this where I have to mention Vickie Robinson?
Regards
Ray Depew
Integrated Circuits Business Division
Hewlett Packard Co, Fort Collins, Colorado
rrd@hpfiqa.fc.hp.com
I stubbornly refuse to put Vicki Robinson in my .sig.
--
Terry Monks Automata Design Inc (703) 742-9400
[whatever Vicki Robinson's sig says, respond to tel@adiva.com]
Phil "Never saw 'Studs' myself" Gustafson --
^ Goodness! Santa has lost his reindeer, but the enormous velocipede
x O __o __o __o __o __o __o __o __o __o. will get him to Vicki
/(_){-}+--_-\<,--\<,--\<,--\<,--\<,--\<,--\<,--\<,--\<,_ Robinson's house! \=====/ (_)/----/----/----/----/----/----/----/----/ (_) <phil@rahul.net>
===Dana Netz, Electrical Systems Engineer | "All I know is, everything ===GM/DOE Electrochemical Engine Program | you know is wrong" ===Los Alamos Nat'l Labs, New Mexico | - "Happy" Harry Cox ==="But I'm in everybody's sig"- Vicki Robinson
From: linden@positive.eng.sun.com (Peter van der Linden)
Subject: Gobbo the lucky imp
Keywords: stash the drugs here Vicki
Curt "saw Vicki Robinson in Penthouse once" Shehow
Joel "Has NEVER used 'Vicki Robinson' in his .sig" Furr
--
Paul Tomblin - snide Canadian.
Joel Furr can have my Vicki Robinson sig when he prys it from my cold, dead
fingers.
Steve Caskey | Disclaimer: If anyone cared what I thought (caskey_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz) | I'd be rich and famous. QED. "Ace barbed-wire hurdler until |------------------------------------------- his tragic accident." | I can't understand how my mother-in-law
Vicki Robinson |Steve Caskey's mum-in-law Odd physics professor |is a very nice person, we National Technical Institute for the Deaf |had such a *pleasant* VJRNTS@ritvax.isc.rit.edu |lunch the other day!
Heather "I'm not Vicki Robinson, but I wish I were" Kendrick
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Michael D. Hensley | I need a new Vicki Robinson quote. mhensley@netcom.com |
70700.763@compuserve.com |
5. My favorite mutation thread
My favorite Vicki .sig virus thread:
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Michael D. Hensley | It will be a cold day in heck before I follow-up mhensley@netcom.com | a Ted Frank troll^H^H^H^H^Hpost.
70700.763@compuserve.com | Vicki Robinson quoted removed -- my wife kept Prodigy: yeah, right. | asking who this Vicki person was.
--
Jason R. Heimbaugh - jrh@uiuc.edu
Vicki Robinson quote removed - Michael Hensley's wife kept asking me who
this Vicki person was...
Mike "will not eat snow for food" Edwards
...or beets. Rutabagas, however...
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Vicki Robinson quote removed - Michael Hensley's wife kept asking
Jason Heimbaugh who this Vicki person was...
===Dana Netz, Electrical Systems Engineer | "All I know is, everything ===GM/DOE Electrochemical Engine Program | you know is wrong" ===Los Alamos Nat'l Labs, New Mexico | - "Happy" Harry Cox ===I understand it is obligatory to mention Michael Hensley's wife in one's sig...........................
Vicki Robinson |Michael Hensley's wife and I are Odd physics professor |going out to lunch, and I'm going National Technical Institute for the Deaf |to talk to her sternly about VJRNTS@ritvax.isc.rit.edu |invading my .sigs.
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ted frank | I understand that it's obligatory to mention Majel Barrett
the u of c | in one's .signature because she was Michael D. Hensley's wife.
law school |
kibo#=0.5 | "Mmmm.... purple." -- Homer Simpson
I think anyway? | My wife doesn't know about Vicki Robinson yet
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Paul Tomblin - snide Canadian.
I hope some day my ex-wife asks me who Vicki Robinson is.
Sven :)
--
I kept asking myself who this Vicki Robinson is until my wife told me
that I have to have her in my sig to be enlightened. (Women!)
--
Linda Richards My ex-husband might ask who
Linda_Richards@mindlink.bc.ca this Vicki Robinson person
is. But he'd just want her
Nicely healed, thank you. phone number.
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===Dana Netz, Electrical Systems Engineer | "All I know is, everything
===AEC/DOE Electrochemical Engine Program | you know is wrong"
===Los Alamos Nat'l Labs, New Mexico | - "Happy" Harry Cox
==="But I'm not in anyone's .sig" -Majel Barrett
===Dana Netz, Electrical Systems Engineer | "All I know is, everything ===AEC/DOE Electrochemical Engine Program | you know is wrong" ===Los Alamos Nat'l Labs, New Mexico | - "Happy" Harry Cox ===One of these days, Vicki Robinson will ask about Paul Tomblin's ex-wife
-Otto "Why don't I have a girlfriend who could ask me who this Vicki
Robinson person is, so I could write in my .sig that I had to stop
mentioning Vicki in my .sig because my girlfriend kept asking me who
this Vicki person is...." Bagge
(Ottosb@oscar.bbb.no)
Steve Caskey | Disclaimer: If anyone cared what I thought (caskey_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz) | I'd be rich and famous. QED. "Ace barbed-wire hurdler until |------------------------------------------- his tragic accident." | I can't understand how my mother-in-law
Vicki Robinson |Steve Caskey's mum-in-law Odd physics professor |is a very nice person, we National Technical Institute for the Deaf |had such a *pleasant* VJRNTS@ritvax.isc.rit.edu |lunch the other day!
Steve Caskey | Disclaimer: If anyone cared what I thought (caskey_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz) | I'd be rich and famous. QED. "Ace barbed-wire hurdler until |___________________________________________ his tragic accident." | My mother-in-law says it's okay for me to
Ray "Alzheimer's loves company" Sachs
If Vicki Robinson signatures are outlawed
they won't discuss mothers in law.
6. Best followup post
From: sorgatz@avatar.tti.com (Erik Sorgatz)
Subject: HAve you ever got it screwed up!(was: Re: NSA CAN BREAK PGP ENCRYPTION
In article <1993Dec2.124258.28542@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>--
>ted frank | "Danger, Vicki Robinson, Danger!" -- Twiki the Robot in 'Lost
>the u of c | in Space,' a television show clearly superior to Star Trek.
>law school | Tell your site: "I want my a.t.f.t^3!"
>kibo#=0.5 | Standard disclaimers apply
First off, the phrase is:
"Danger! Will Robinson, DANGER!" this line is credited to the robot of
'Lost in Space' but the robot WASN'T named Twiki! In fact the robot
NEVER had a name. He was ONCE called 'Hero' in an early episode, the
Heath Co. then introduced a kit robot bearing the same name. Irwin
Allen Productions claimed "It's not our robot!".
There never was a Vicki Robinson...at least in Lost in Space.
And the "Twiki" character was from "Buck Rogers"!
...I notice you're attending a Law University...I somehow doubt I'd be
very interested in having an attorney that's as scrambled upstairs as
you seem to be!
7. How do I become a member?
Add the phrase to your .sig and post to alt.folklore.urban.
--
Jason R. Heimbaugh - jrh@uiuc.edu
"But I'm not in anyone's .sig." --Vicki Robinson
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