FUN4U - Updated 13 Feb 98 by Bob Appleton email - 4u@interquest.de If this document is over 60 days old and for other files in the 4u series, please see the end of this file for information. If you do not have an understanding of retrieving items, files etc. by email, see the end of this file. As with 'email4u', the setup is the same: TO: SUBJ: BODY: If no TO: block is mentioned, send to any agora server like: agora@dna.affrc.go.jp agora@kamakura.mss.co.jp agora@www.eng.dmu.ac.uk getweb@usa.healthnet.org ---------- INDEX - newer/changed items are added at the top of each section =1= Random Links - these URLs return random sites for each category =2= Other Fun Stuff =3= Play games via e-mail =4= Fun Programs ======================================== =1= Random Links "Clear as mud", "Water over the dam", and "Now or never" are cliche's and you'll get 10 random ones each time you send a message. BODY: send http://www.westegg.com/cliche/random.cgi ----------------------------- These sites randomly select real-time searches of people. The links are provided in case you see something that catches your fancy. BODY: send http://voyeur.mckinley.com/cgi-bin/voyeur.cgi send http://search4.metacrawler.com/perl/metaspy ----------------------------- For some random mathematical quotations, try here: BODY: send http://math.furman.edu/cgi-bin/randquote.pl --------------------------- Random jokes - WARNING - some may be potentially offensive. BODY: send http://jokes.webdevelop.com/cgi/random_a.cgi -------------------------- Fool ex machina - Guess you have to be one to understand this place. BODY: send http://www.stardot.com/cgi-bin/fool ------------------------------ Webcorp's Wheel O' Congress! shows a random congressman's email address - only 25% of these elected reps have one. BODY: send http://www.webcorp.com/cgi-bin/wheel-o-congress ------------------------------ 100 Taglines are shown out of the 300,000 that are in the database. Updated daily. BODY: send http://www.brandonu.ca/~ennsnr/Tags/random100.html ------------------------------ Hit this link a few hundred times and you'll be an expert in defining the techno-words/jargon. (See also 'email4u' section =56=) BODY: send http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.cgi?**RANDOM** ----------------------------- Let's play roulette - these URLs, will return a completely random site. The last returns a random site in Korea. WARNING - you could receive web pages that are not exactly for the easily offended. BODY: send http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/cgi-bin/demos/rand_link.cgi send http://www.iserv.net/cgi-bin/randlin.pl?links.txt send http://www.exploit.com/cgi-bin/oldlink.cgi send http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/vivek/random.pl send http://www.uroulette.com:8000/cgi-bin/rand_reloc send http://www.yahoo.com/homeb/?http://random.yahoo.com/bin/ryl send http://www.mit.edu/cgi/autopilot send http://www.mit.edu:8001/cgi/random send http://www.netcreations.com/nc-cgi/random.pl send http://www.toocool.com/cgi-bin/awardedrandom send http://flower.comeng.chungnam.ac.kr/cgi-bin/random.cgi/ And here, 10 random sites are listed with their URLs. BODY: send http://webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/random ------------------------------ Need help naming your new baby? Keep trying with these random names. BODY: send http://www.jellinek.com/baby/girl.shtml send http://www.jellinek.com/baby/boy.shtml ------------------------------ These 2 sites return synthetic speeches in the style of Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich. BODY: send http://www.webcorp.com/clintov send http://www.webcorp.com/gingov ----------------------------- The Internet Movie Data Base is an extensive database of films. A random film with data is returned. BODY: send http://us.imdb.com/M/random-title ---------------------------- This wonderfully useless URL spits out randomly generated stupid names for bands each time the page is requested. BODY: send http://aurora.carleton.ca/~doneill/cgi-bin/band-gen.cgi ---------------------------- Sexy (weird) sayings for the mature audience. BODY: send http://www.planetary.net/cgi-bin/spew.pl?number=5&head\ line=sex&newtitle=Sexy+Sayings --------------------------- If you need some random madness or fortune, try here: BODY: send http://tqd.advanced.org/2895/cgi-bin/create.cgi?category=madness send http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/fortune.pl --------------------------- RANDOM QUOTES from Ayn Rand, Douglas Adams, Dave Barry, Jack Handey, Steven Wright, and famous people BODY: send http://www.hypermall.com/cgi-bin/rand-quotes.pl send http://www.cs.umu.se/~henrikl/quotes/quote.cgi?Douglas_Adams_Quote send http://www.cs.umu.se/~henrikl/quotes/quote.cgi?Dave_Barry_Quote send http://www.hooked.net/users/davew/bin/deepthoughts send http://www.hooked.net/users/davew/bin/stevenwright send http://www.cs.umu.se/~henrikl/quotes/quote.cgi?Famous_Quote send http://www.helicon.co.uk/cgi-bin/quote/ --------------------------- Enjoy a random word haiku poem or just haiku foolishness. BODY: send http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/haiku send http://toybox.tripod.com/haiku/ --------------------------- OK Trekky fans, get your Star Treks quotes here. BODY: send http://bluejay.creighton.edu/cgi-bin/tng send http://bluejay.creighton.edu/cgi-bin/oldtrek send http://www.ug.cs.dal.ca/cgi-bin/stfortune send http://weber.ucg.ie/cgi-bin/startrek.cgi --------------------------- Random No Means No quotes - WARNING - could contain rough language. BODY: send http://www.tridelec.com/dmk/random/nmn.html --------------------------- This link returns a random sentence - great conversation starters. BODY: send http://samwise.ceri.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/sentence --------------------------- Headlines one might see in the various tabloid papers: BODY: send http://www.tikipub.com/cgi-bin/tabloid.cgi --------------------------- The Mad Scientist Network presents random ?? - well, just try it. BODY: send http://medicine.wustl.edu/cgi/cgiwrap.cgi/~ysp/mad/knowledge -------------------------------- Planet Wallywood has a few random URLs; from the URL I'll let you deduce what's returned. (#3 and 4 could contain rough language). BODY: send http://www.halcyon.com/gwally/cgi-pvt/welcome.pl send http://www.halcyon.com/gwally/cgi-pvt/trivia.pl/ send http://www.halcyon.com/gwally/cgi-pvt/geekcheck.pl send http://www.halcyon.com/gwally/cgi-pvt/pickuplines.pl send http://www.halcyon.com/gwally/cgi-pvt/getout.pl -------------------------------- Remember the '80s - get some random lyrics from songs back then. BODY: send http://itg-pc1.acns.nwu.edu/cgi-bin/lyric ------------------------------- The Random Monty Python Skit Server - need more be said. BODY: send http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~stuart/monty.cgi ------------------------------- Need a topic for a speech, try the random Topic Generator. BODY: send http://www.compassnet.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~rdeneefe/topicgen.pl ------------------------------- A different lightbulb joke is returned every 20 seconds from here. BODY: send http://www.crc.ricoh.com/~marcush/lightbulb/random.cgi ------------------------------- This random site returns complete details on a major flight that is in transit. Gives you an idea of the info that you can get with this flight-tracking search tool. BODY: send http://sapphire.thetrip.com/random.hts ----------------------------- This URL takes you to a random puzzle page on the puzzle webring. All types of puzzles included. It seems to work 25% of the time. BODY: send http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=puzzle&random --------------------------- Random favorite sayings by people you may not even know. BODY: send http://www.rabble.com/cgi-bin/quote/quote.show.pl send http://www.mawent.com/cgi-bin/empower/quote.pl send http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/randquote.cgi -------------------------- How about solving some mazes. Everytime you send a message, a different maze will be generated. There are two URLs, a regular maze and one for the kids. Hint - start with the latter. The mazes come uuencoded and when decoded will leave a file name such as "!WWW!W3M" or "!TMP!WWW". Just change it to "maze.gif". Good Luck. BODY: send http://www.neta.com/cgi-bin/getmaze send http://www.neta.com/cgi-bin/kidsmaze ------------------------- Feel like getting insulted? OK - here's 4. The first 2 get you insulted by the old bard Shakespeare. The others have some rough language. Everytime the message is sent, new insults are generated. BODY: send http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/bard.pl send http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/cgi/bard.cgi send http://www.xe.net/cgi-bin/nph-abuse send http://www.xe.com/cgi-bin/nph-abuse2 Send off for this help file for other insulting annoyances. TO: insult-daemon@kite.ml.org BODY: help ========================================================== =2= Other Fun Stuff What's in a name? Find out what's in yours. Over 50,000 are listed. Substitute a name in place of xxx in the following: BODY: send http://www.kabalarians.com/male/xxx.htm send http://www.kabalarians.com/female/xxx.htm And if you'd like to find names that start with a letter of the alphabet, substitute a letter for the ? in the following: BODY: send http://www.kabalarians.com/female/f_?.htm send http://www.kabalarians.com/male/m_?.htm send http://www.engr.uvic.ca/~mcampbel/etym/?.html send http://www.longman.simplenet.com/?.html ------------------------------- Can't figure out how to win your favorite game? Well, stop at these sites for cheats, trainers, solutions and walkthroughs. BODY: send http://www.euronet.nl/~ghbouman/main.htm send http://kraven.simplenet.com/ send http://www.segasages.com/ send http://www.thecheatersguild.com/ send http://www.redbox.at/cheats/ send http://www.avault.com/cheat/ ------------------------- Look to the stars and get your daily horoscope here. Substitute your Zodiac sign (aries, taurus, gemini, virgo, libra, scorpio, capricorn, leo, saggitarius, aquarius, pisces, cancer) for XXX below. BODY: send http://www.techweb.com/horoscope/XXX.html ----------------------- What is the real name of ???? Visit Nom de Guerre - The Real People's Real Name Resource of Pseudonyms & Aliases and get the list. BODY: send http://www.walshnet.com/walshnet/punster/realname.htm ----------------------- Go to The Official Wombat Mating Grounds page and see if you are Wombat material by taking the official Wombateers test. BODY: send http://www.olemiss.edu/~jdsappin/wombteer.html ----------------------- Figlets are words written in ascii characters (ASCII art). The best way to understand this is to get the help file. Make sure that you type the subject exactly as shown. TO: Michel.Eftimakis@sophia.europe.vlsi.com SUBJ: Figlet: Help 1) If you'd like to create your own figlets, check out the home page of Ian Bagley, creator of the program. 2) Allen Mullen has ready-made ASCII characters and art. 3) Ian Chai has a mailing list devoted to figlets plus loads of fun stuff. 4) If you've really got the ascii art bug, then here's plenty of links for you. 5) Want an "Official Net Surfer's License"? - plenty to choose from here. NOTE: To view ascii art set your font to "Courier", "Courier New" or "Fixed Sys". BODY: send http://www.bagley.demon.co.uk/siggen.html send http://users.inetw.net/~mullen/ascii.htm send http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/figlet.html send http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/2695/links.htm send http://www.info.polymtl.ca/ada2/tranf/www/ascii/miscellan\ eous/netsurfers.html If you're completely bored get this spoof of "Get Rich Quick" schemes. It contains ascii art so set your font to "Courier", "Courier New" or "Fixed Sys". TO: ASCIIFUN@ansaback.com -------------------------- HEY KIDS!! Got a question? Ask the Tooth Fairy! Replies sent via a shooting star direct from Fairyland. TO: toothfairy@writeme.com Or Mom or Dad can visit their page for more information. BODY: send http://www.wwwebit.com/bayberry/tfairy/t_fairy.html-ssi ---------------------- Useless Information Home Pages - such as why chickens have contact lenses or when mud throwing was an Olympic event. Deb & Jen have 3 pages of useless facts - Kermit the Frog is left- handed, a lion's roar can be heard 5 miles away. Get these 6 pages memorize them all and you'll be useless I guess. BODY: send http://www.capital.net/users/ssilver/useless.html send http://www.capital.net/users/ssilver/useless2.html send http://www.capital.net/users/ssilver/useless3.html send http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~jenkg/useless.html send http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~jenkg/useless2.html send http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~jenkg/useless3.html --------------------------- "The Speedtrap Registry is a resource to help drivers know where they might encounter speed enforcement so they can adjust their speed to the conditions". And you can send suggestions on your own location or country to: andy@andy.net BODY: send http://www.speedtrap.com/speedtrap/us-traps.html send http://www.speedtrap.com/speedtrap/new-traps.html send http://www.speedtrap.com/speedtrap/foreign-traps.html --------------------------- Need a cartoon to brighten up your day, then Randy Glasbergen's site has plenty. And if you want a sample, substitute a day of the week (mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, sat, sun) for the XXX in the 2nd URL. BODY: send http://www.borg.com/~rjgtoons/toon.html send http://www.borg.com/~rjgtoons/images/XXX.gif --------------------------- This site is dedicated to the art of surveys, questionnaires, and quizzes on the Internet. There's a survey here for you. BODY: send http://www.cris.com/~webstr/home.shtml --------------------------- 1) TheHistoryNet will tell you important events on the day you send this. 2) Any-Day-in-History site will give the births, deaths, holidays, and other information for any day of the year. Substitute a month (01-12) for MM and day (01-31) for DD in the URL below. 3) And for this day in showbiz history, try the last link. BODY: send http://www.thehistorynet.com/today/today.htm send http://www.scopesys.com/cgi/today2.cgi?askmonth=MM\&askday=DD send http://www.mrshowbiz.com/dailydose -------------------------- Receive by e-mail a new cartoon each day from the series 'Mostly Business' by Ted Goff. The cartoons are in UUEncoded\GIF format and usually under 10Kb in size. TO: JoeTime@juno.com SUBJ: info UUE Comics List ------------------------ Which side of the road do they drive on...? NOTE - The \ after driv is a continuation line for breaking up long URLs. BODY: send http://www.solutions.net/rec-travel/general/driv\ ing/drive_which_side.html ----------------------- It's time to play Guess The Dictator/Sit-Com Character BODY: send http://www.smalltime.com/nowhere/dictator/dictator.cgi ------------------------------ Words that could be confusing & embarrassing in the UK & US. BODY: send http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dgl3djb/ukus_text.html ------------------------------ 'Cheesecutter', 'herbert', 'pikey' - Check out The Cockney Handbook for more colorful expressions from London's East End. BODY: send http://www.morrison.demon.co.uk/cockney/cockney.html ------------------------------ The Chankstore Freefont Archive is a great big gushing geiser of quality free fontage. These fonts are for both Mac and PC. BODY: send http://www.chank.com/freefonts.html ------------------------------ Microsoft Spin Dictionary - An irreverent guide to the modern language as defined by Microsoft. BODY: send http://www.wopr.com/spin/ -------------------------------- Ever wonder where expressions like "mind your P's and Q's" or "saving face" come from. This is a good place to start. BODY: send http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/sayings.htm ------------------------------- Supposedly the ultimate film site. Send 2 separate messages to either of the addresses for the full scoop. TO: movie@ibmpcug.co.uk -OR- mail-server@imdb.com BODY: help BODY: help faq -------------------------------- If you looking for a humor mailing list, this site has over 140 from which to choose. The 2nd URL is a mirror but text only. BODY: send http://www.angelfire.com/pa/humorlists/index.html send http://members.tripod.com/~nip_per/humor_em.htm -------------------------------- This is the ultimate site which will show you how to fix anything. BODY: send http://members.aol.com/joetime/FixIt.htm --------------------------------- The Make You Think Series is a bunch of tests that are just for fun. BODY: send http://members.global2000.net/~quaizar/myth.htm ------------------------------- How to get more computer information than any sane person would need: Free! (and give your mail carrier a hernia) so says Rob Slade maintainer of the Free Rag page. BODY: send http://www.freenet.victoria.bc.ca/techrev/magazine.html ------------------------------- These little tidbits change 3 times a week and are akin to something you might find in the National Enquirer. BODY: send http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.html ----------------------------- What does your phone number spell? Substitute a 7 digit phone number in place of XXX and see what words and phrases it spells, or enter 3 or more digits and see what words start with those digits. BODY: send http://www.phoneSpell.org/combo.cgi?n=XXX ------------------------------- Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett used terms in their detective stories that sometimes were hard to understand. Here's the glossary. BODY: send http://www.vex.net/~buff/slang.html ------------------------------ Monday through Friday, you'll find a different outrageous news story here with an option to receive them via email. BODY: send http://www.DailyOutrage.com/ ----------------------------- Take the G Wally four question personality test. BODY: send http://www.halcyon.com/gwally/articles/personality2.html ----------------------------- The Encyclopedia Brittanica maintains a birthday calendar. Substitute a single/double digit number for the M (month) and D (day) in the URL ie. Jan=1, Dec=12. Famous people born on that day is returned. BODY: send http://www.eb.com/cgi-bin/bio?month=M&day=D ------------------------------ The Oracle of Bacon gives the shortest path from any actor/actress to Kevin Bacon. You'll understand after you've sent for your first actor. Follow the examples below; %20 is used for spaces. send http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap?user=bc\ t7m&script=link_bacon&theName=Presley,%20Elvis send http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap?user=bc\ t7m&script=link_bacon&theName=De%20Niro,%20Robert send http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap?user=bc\ t7m&script=link_bacon&theName=Parker,%20Sarah%20Jessica BODY: ---------------------------- How many people are on the Internet? How many web sites are there? Check daily and watch the numbers grow. BODY: send http://www.netree.com/netbin/internetstats/ --------------------------- These 3 tests will find the probablility that you are a human/vampire, and your compatibility with and vulnerability to vampires. BODY: send http://www.cs.utk.edu/~ghenry/vamptest.html send http://www.cs.utk.edu/~ghenry/vhcompat.html send http://www.cs.utk.edu/~ghenry/vampvuln.html --------------------------- Here is the public domain version of the Myers-Briggs Personality Analysis program. It does what the name implies. (19) BODY: send http://members.aol.com/hheweb/myers.zip -------------------------- This service will take your pizza order and return to you an image of your order. Send 3 messages with the subjects as listed. TO: pizza@ecst.csuchico.edu SUBJ: pizza help SUBJ: pizza info SUBJ: pizza menu -------------------------- Sign-up for a pen-pal by email. This service is for all ages. TO: splotch@usa.net SUBJ: Piggly Pen Pals BODY: Please send info -------------------------- Are you a clueless newbie? Ed Cherlin gives 10 signs. TO: Are.You.A.Clueless.Newbie@newbie.net -------------------------- How about some e-mail contests/sweepstakes? Send 2 messages. TO: win@yoyo.com TO: news@yoyo.com Or maybe you'd like to get some FREE stuff by email? This site is updated fairly frequently so keep checking back. BODY: send http://www.free-n-cool.com/coolest/freememl.html ------------------------- Find out the origin of your first name and what it means. BODY: send http://www.miworld.net/~ctwright/frstname.htm ===================================================================== =3= Play games via e-mail TKO is a FREE Boxing game played by e-mail over the internet. BODY: send http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Field/3523/ ----------------------------- PBM List Index is a list of all known Play by Mail games. BODY: send http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbm_list/ ----------------------------- For those of you who like to play games via e-mail, get info from these 4 sources with 4 separate messages and a subject of help: TO: munch@soda.berkeley.edu TO: fm@eiss.erols.com -OR- TO: fm@gamerz.net TO: pbmserv@kelp.boston.ma.us TO: pbmserv@eiss.erols.com -OR- TO: pbmserv@gamerz.net SUBJ: help ----------------------------- Here's one devoted to Rugby and maintained by William Cairns TO: cairnswm@mwp.eskom.co.za SUBJ: RUGBY RULES ---------------------------- This one concerns the game Diplomacy. TO: judge@math.utoledo.edu BODY: help ===================================================================== =4= Fun Programs Super Fred is a new type of animated cartoon series for your computer desktop which will entertain you at work or play. Happy Fred and Xmas Fred are freeware. (Win3.1/95/NT) (280Kb each) TO: bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu BODY: open members.aol.com cd pronetwork get happfred.zip get xmasfred.zip quit Other Freds are shareware and are found on the Super Fred home page. BODY: send http://www.prog-net.com/fred ------------------------------ With The Love Calculator you can calculate the probability of a successful relationship between two people (Win95-NT/DOS) (10/19Kb) BODY: send http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/fortune/tlc95-10.zip send http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/astrolgy/tlcdos10.zip ------------------------------ How about watching an ant farm; play it in a loop. (66Kb) BODY: send http://www.dominionhospital.com/antfarm.mpg ------------------------------ FREECARD lets you create multimedia greeting cards with customized animation graphics, text, music and sound. (420Kb) TO: bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu BODY: open ftp.cdrom.com cd /pub/simtelnet/win3/mmedia get frc100.zip quit ------------------------------ The AHA! Software Free Stuff Page: Freeware Fun, Games and Activities BODY: send http://www.familygames.com/free/index.html ----------------------------- All I'll say about this one is - hit ESC to stop it. (60Kb) BODY: send http://www.syspac.com/~cdavis/gun.exe ----------------------------- Christmas Card v2.0 - add your own message and send to friends as either a Christmas or birthday card. (386Kb) TO: bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu BODY: open ftp.cdrom.com cd /pub/simtelnet/msdos/mmedia get ccard20.zip quit ----------------------------- A nice free program that brings you over 300 Aesop fables. (136Kb) TO: bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu BODY: open ftp.cdrom.com cd /pub/simtelnet/msdos/educate get fables.zip quit ===================================================================== If you'd like to know more about email and the huge amount of FREE material available, Send message to: agora@dna.affrc.go.jp with no subject and ONE of these lines in the body of the message: send http://members.aol.com/bombagirl/freeware/email4u.txt send ftp://ftp.crl.com/users/iv/iverham/email4u.txt PIX4U - Use above examples substituting pix4u in place of email4u GETIT4U - Use above examples substituting getit4u in place of email4u FUN4U - Use above examples substituting fun4u in place of email4u ===END OF FILE===