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From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Subject: Re: nail in Coca-Cola
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 16:11:19 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

Richard Joltes writes:
>
>Fun with chemicals...now, if you want *real* fun, mix bleach and ammonia and
>sniff the fumes that come off it.  Many a housewife has nearly been killed by
>the resultant fumes (chlorine gas).  The bad thing was, once my mother tried
>to use bleach to clean dog urine from a concrete floor in our cellar...
>there are apparently ammonia or compounds thereof in urine, and she nearly
>gassed herself doing this...lucky the door was open.
>
>Kids, don't try this at home...
>
I don't think that a urine/household bleach combo will produce enough
chlorine gas to bother any but the most sensitive. I imagine there
are zillions of kids who have gone #1 into AJAX fresh toilets. 

-- 
Coach Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> Season: 1-5 Lifetime: 1-7
From: johns@uk.sun.com (John Slater - Sun UK - City SE)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Craigy babes
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:49:56 GMT
Reply-To: johns@uk.sun.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

In article AA05776@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu, PCT601%SIRIUS.UKC.AC.UK@ib.rl.ac.uk (Robryche) writes:
->Hi there
->I dont know if anybody's mentioned this, but  recently over here
->(I'll work outh the date if anybody's interested), there was an article
->about Craig Shergold in the English rag 'The SUN'. Basically it said
->that Craig was 13 and just starting school after his brain-removing
->operation (Making room for the cards perhaps?) It also claimed that the
->sun was responsible for the publicising his wish to be in TGBoR
->(although I remember hearing about it other places at the time).
->
->O.K. I know it's compulsory for U.F.A. So here's the date...
->Tuesday 15th September 1992
->I think it was around page 5. I did try and get hold of a copy to
->type in, but was out of luck. Anybody out there have that paper?
->

Yes, that sounds about the same time as my sighting of Craig on TV in
London.

I've been to the local library today at lunchtime to photocopy the
article, but unfortunately they don't take the Sun. It's not a very
salubrious newspaper.

John
From: keith@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Keith Edwards)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: famous people
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:29:43 GMT
Organization: Centre for Speech Technology Research, Edinburgh University


|> >>Anybody else out there ever met, or been somewhere near, somebody famous?

I went to school with the guys from the band Almighty. I don't
know if they're famous/infamous, but I've seen their records in
HMV (not even in the sale) so they must have some standing with
somebody - and they were not Top of the Pops once! 
They've all changed their names: I guess Matthew Julians,
Fraser McAvoy and Richard Warwick were too prosaic for long haired
black leather bound deities.

Also I met Ian JethroTull Anderson once - he mistook me for a waiter,
but I still buy their records.

-- 

keith edwards
From: diverson@phys.ksu.edu (David Iverson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Conscious Severed Heads (was: Is the electric chair . . .)
Date: 11 Oct 1992 03:42:23 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: bohr.phys.ksu.edu

In <68iT02c625=w01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:

>In article <1992Oct8.142723.2189@HQ.Ileaf.COM>, hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal 
>Wadleigh) writes:
>> A guillotine is NOT as humane as you might think.  The brain stays alive
>> until
>> it dies of oxygen deprivation, which can be as long as several minutes. 
>> There
>> is consciousness in the severed head for anywhere from 30 seconds until 2
>> minutes.  The French custom of picking up the severed aristocrat's head and
>> waving it in front of the crowd got great cheers at least partly because the
>> first few seconds of the procedure showed the people in front eyes that cast
>> around the crowd in focus and a twisted mouth that couldn't manage a scream
>> because it was no longer connected to lungs.

What do you mean this isn't humane?  This method ranks in the top five of
ways that I wish I could die (when the time comes of course).  Talk about a
mind-blowing experience.  If you go into shock, you go into shock, oh well. 
But if you are actually concious and your balance centers in your ears are
keeping track of the rolling it could be really, really weird.  I have no
idea what happens after we die.  But this seems like a great opportunity to
experience something that only a few priveledged people have experienced and
none have lived to tell about.  In other words, noone who's still living can
say what it's like.  Where's your sense of adventure?

-Diversion

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From: rubis@gagme.chi.il.us (Dave Svoboda)
Subject: Re: Headless cheerleaders and other bits & pieces
Originator: rubis@gagme
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 01:24:40 GMT

In article <Bvwvtx.Gt5@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca> jdnicoll@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
|
|(where  she lived, my grandfather being dead until  1977) 

And he got better?

	Dave "Hey, somebody had to say it!" Svoboda
From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Birth of Kibo
Keywords: Kibo was, Kibo is, Kibo shall ever be. All Praise Kibo.
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:37:37 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

manley@optilink.UUCP (Dave Manley) prophesies:

>kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) exclaims:
>>
>>NOW I am!
>>							-- K.
>
>Heathens of The Net witness the proclamation of Lord Kibo and be Happy.
>
>--
>Dave "preparing a sacrifice of fatted gerbil" Manley

Thanks for making me blow coffee all over my terminal, Dave...

GREAT line!

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Dick "gimme a napkin" Joltes				joltes@husc.harvard.edu
Hardware & Networking Manager, Computer Services 	joltes@husc.bitnet 
Harvard University Science Center

"Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
Subject: Re: Conscious Severed Heads (was: Is the electric chair . . .)
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Mabinogiacs Unanimous
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 22:57:39 GMT


tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
> There
> is consciousness in the severed head for anywhere from 30 seconds until 2
> minutes. 

So does anyone remember how long Bran the Blessed's head was supposed to have
lived?

--
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"Texas is like an old woman's pussy.  Everyone knows its down there but
nobody gives a fuck."  - Overheard on CB radio, compliments of 
	bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
"Boy, was I in for a dose of reality." Randall K. Abler
"... necrophilia doesn't really hurt anybody."  Rick Gordon
"Well, first of all, your stance is too wide"
From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: famous people
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:57:33 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

I've been mistaken for Richard Burbage before. I just politely
nod and sign his name. I'm sure he won't mind.
-- 
Coach Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> Season: 1-5 Lifetime: 1-7
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:25793 soc.women:17757
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.women
Subject: Oscillators (Was: Re: Women in groups)
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:43:42 GMT
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates

In article <1992Oct12.230913.19059@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris) writes:

>I tend to think of it as a simple case of 'injection locking' - a technical
>term for how two oscillators, running at the same frequency, will tend to
>oscillate at the same frequency given any means of coupling.  Rather than

I don't get it.  If the oscillators are (already) running at the same
frequency, why do you need coupling to make them run at the same
frequency?

    - D "We don't need no steenkin' 'injection locking' around here." D -

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From: allens@yang.earlham.edu (Allen Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Philadelphia Experiment
Date: 14 Oct 92 06:29:54 GMT
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

In article <1992Oct13.210801.25356@seanews.akita.com>, billmcc@seanews.akita.com (Bill McCormick) writes:
> In article <7176@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:
>>	FACT: Most sites expire articles pretty fast -- all the ones I've
>>seen have expiration in no more than a week, many in 2-3 days.
>>
>>	Most FAQs tend to be posted once per month (at least on the 
>>groups I'm on.
>>
>>	Thus, there's only a 25% chance maximum that the FAQ list is even
>>AVAILABLE for the newbie when he/she/it gets on.
> 
> FACT: FAQ's are posted with *explicit* expiration dates.  Explicit
> expiration dates override implicit news system expiration dates.
> 
> The current AFU FAQ has an expiration date of "1 December 1992".
> 
> Thus, anyone who finds the FAQ unavailable has a 96% chance of being
> a lazy whiner who can't take the time to look for one.
> 
	Good idea to include that phrase about 96%; we don't have it 
around here, for instance (VMS: search/wildcard *FAQ* (*=wildcard)) didn't 
turn up anything. Are you quite sure that the percentage is as low as 4%? 
Anyone else without it, with a full search?
	-Allen
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dchatham@utkvx3.utk.edu (Chatham, Doug)
Subject: Re: Bumper Sticker
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:17:00 GMT

In article <98650@bu.edu>, tesco@bumetb.bu.edu (Dances With Babes) writes...
>I've read on the net that there exists a bumper sticker that says:
> 
>Picard/Riker in '92 : Make it so!
> 
>Does anyone know where i can buy it in the Boston area??  Or mail order?
> 
>thanks....
> 
> 

	Don't we wish!  But with ages in the NEGATIVE 300's, neither
Picard nor Riker are old enough to run.  I don't think Patrick Stewart is
eligible either (non-native).

Sincerely, (Yeah, right!)
Doug Chatham

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: rudoff@mdd.comm.mot.com (Doug Rudoff)
Subject: John Dillinger's penis (was Re: Mink boners)
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 00:20:06 GMT

Speaking of penises, what's the story about John Dillinger's penis
being in a jar of formaldehyde on display at some museum.
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From: dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley)
Subject: Re: nail in Coca-Cola
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:55:39 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.151532.28877@newsgate.sps.mot.com> rapw20@email.sps.mot.com writes:
>In article <Bvq0oA.8En@well.sf.ca.us> rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao)  
>writes:
>> 
>> I have heard a UL in several places that someone left a nail in some
>> Coke overnight and it disintegrated, since the Coke is so acidic (or
>> whatever). Does anyone know the source of this UL? (Unless, of course,
>> it's true.)
>> -- 
>Well, I've heard it will remove rust. Also heard that it will remove the  
>paint from your car if you spill some on it (the car, that is).
>
>Mark

My usual response to such demonstrations and claims is:

"why would you waste perfectly good Coke like that?"

K


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: smcneil@metro (Shannon McNeil)
Subject: Cows
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 03:59:03 GMT

I hope this makes it this time.

Hi guys.

Something has been bothering me for quite some time, so please could
somebody out there tell me WHY cows lie down before it rains.
HOW DO THEY KNOW!??

Shannon "If only cows could talk-they'd make great meteorologists" McNeil
smcneil@angis.su.oz.au

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.women
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Oscillators (Was: Re: Women in groups)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:50:22 GMT

pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson) writes:
: In article <1992Oct12.230913.19059@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris) writes:
: 
: >I tend to think of it as a simple case of 'injection locking' - a technical
: >term for how two oscillators, running at the same frequency, will tend to
: >oscillate at the same frequency given any means of coupling.  Rather than
: 
: I don't get it.  If the oscillators are (already) running at the same
: frequency, why do you need coupling to make them run at the same
: frequency?

Because, just because they happen to be running at approximately the same
rate at one moment does not mean they will stay the same. All oscillators
drift. All it takes is a momentary drift and they are out of sync. Coupling
is required for them to remain locked on the same frequency.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:14:10 GMT

In article <BvxH5t.13@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cap36406@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Carlos A. Pero) writes:

>>>Ted "Was James T. Kirk's middle name 'Terry'?" Frank

>>Can't be.  His middle initial is 'R' as seen in the pilot episode 
>>'Encounter at Farpoint' where his name is carved in a tombstone.  
>>The R is for Roy.  James Roy Kirk.  In a later episode, Nomad gets 
>>him mixed up with Jackson Roykirk, his inventor.  (That's Nomad's 
>>inventor, not Kirk's.)

>For my information, could you tell me where in "Encounter at Farpoint" this
>tombstone scene is? I don't recall it. I work in a video store, so I will
>get it and check. It seems to me that his middle name is Tiberius. The
>most profound example I can think of is in ST6:TUC where Kirk is
>under trial and the Klingon says his full name, "James Tiberius Kirk."
>
>Anyone else agree?


This has got to be one of the most hysterical progressions of
misinterpretation that I've ever seen.  Okay, let's start with poster
no.1.  Ted was making a joke by inserting the bit about Kirk's name
being "Terry" between _his_ name.  Then, poster no.2 comes along, and
takes the sign-off out of context and says "hey!  his middle name wasn't
Terry!" (I can't tell whether his reference to "Encounter at Farpoint"
being the TOS pilot was deliberate or not; is he making a joke too?) And
no.3 comes along and says "hey!  There was no tombstone scene in EaF!"

How about if I just continue the thread?

Of course, you didn't see the tombstone scene in EaF, because it was in
"Where No One Has Gone Before".
          ^^^

Alert.  Alert.  Note to the dim: this is an intentional mistake to
further confuse the reader between the TOS show of the similar title in
which we _do_ see the tombstone scene.


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From: stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve X. Portigal)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: don't spook the horse?
Date: 13 Oct 1992 14:10:10 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

 What the hell is this from? I see it all over the place...some people
have it in the .sigs, I've seen it on Neil Young's last album and so on.
What does it mean? Where does it come from?

Steve, confused.

PS: please email me as well as posting...
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Subject: Re: Today's conspiracy theory
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:46:08 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

Trelford "I have Writer's Block and he's got mine" Pinkerton writes:
>From: schnizer@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Schnizer Ansgar)
>> So is there somebody missing in this newsgroup who wrote in the
>> past strange things about snuff videos in the making or is
>> somebody in this newgroup an undercover police agent? 
>
>Now it can be told.
>Detective Chief Inspector Peter van der Linden working undercover
>using the assumed name of Peter van der Linden last week coordinated
>a series of raids on Britain's largest distributor of snuff rumors.
>
Otherwise known as faking a pinch of snuff.

And then I wrote...


-- 
Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu>
Nobody knows, from sea to shining sea, why we are having all this trouble
with our republic.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Subject: Re: Please Help
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:00:50 GMT

kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse) writes:

>              Please answer these 9 questions and return.

>1.) Do you think equal rights for men and women is generally a good idea?
>Yes                  [ ]
>Sometimes            [ ]
>No                   [ ]
>Haven't heard enough [ ]
>Other                [ ]

[rest of lamely written questionnaire deleted]

And I thought this was going to be a call for business cards for a dying
boy, or pull-tabs, or something.  Silly me.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Pink lemonade?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 22:45:08 GMT

norlin@cougar.ecn.uoknor.edu (Norman Lin) writes:
: 
: So.  How did pink lemonade REALLY come to be?

Pink lemons.

Bill
From: schwab@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Paul Schwab)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:07:08 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

In article <Bvt4ow.L6K@ucunix.san.uc.edu> schwab@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Paul Schwab) writes:
>
>NASA isn't covering anything up. Everybody knows that even if gravity
>fails, the well future space traveler can always rely on his or her:
            ^^^
            oops, should have been "well-equipped"
>
>
>			HEAVY BOOTS!!!
>
Paul "Usually not a moron" Schwab

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From: tom@ulysses.att.com (Tom Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: cash crop
Keywords: economics ganja
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:38:59 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill

Consider the following, from another newsgroup:

> Recall the Newsweek cover from about four/five years ago:  "NC's biggest
> cash crop" showing the new American gothic of paramilitary pot growers.

I had recently heard this from another source; hard to believe, considering
the incredible amount of tobacco grown in NC.  However, I've also heard
this about other states: Indiana for one, and CALIFORNIA for another!

Other states (provinces, etc.)?

Also, how would one do the accounting to make such a claim?

Tom Smith.
tom@ulysses.att.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: chrisde@sco.COM (Ed McMahon Fan Club Life Member)
Subject: Re: Outlaw Fire NOW!!!!
Reply-To: chrisde@scobot.UUCP (Ed McMahon Fan Club Life Member)
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 00:36:27 GMT


In article <16060@borg.cs.unc.edu> saxe@degas.cs.unc.edu (Eddie Saxe) writes:

>ObQuaylandUL:  Despite his negative IQ, Dan Quayl never stated that he
>               wished he had brushed up on his Latin before he went to Latin
>               America.
*****************************************************************************

I did find these quotes by Dan "the Man" Quayle speaking about Latin America.



"We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination
of human rights.
                -- Vice President Dan Quayle

"El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices
to be heard here.  Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans...  I have heard a
single voice.  
                -- Vice President Dan Quayle

"The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.
                __ Vice President Dan Quayle on Latin America


Chris De Fay


-- 
Just as Nietzsche is portable, so too is lunch.         Christopher R. De Fay
                                                        chrisde@sco.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: heim@vms.macc.wisc.edu (JOHN HEIM	)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Organization:  University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
Date: 15 OCT 92 13:26:19    

In article <1992Oct14.002000.17032@leland.Stanford.EDU>, firestar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Lipton Ann Meredith) writes...

>Just out of curiosity, which TNG episode was Where No One Has Gone Before?

That would be the one in which Data's head gets sent back in time via 
a rift in space to battle Romulans and later returns as a half Romulan 
spy.

JGH
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From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Date: 8 Oct 92 03:07:05 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <6OCT199220000797@zeus.tamu.edu>, pww9211@zeus.tamu.edu (WINFREY, PHILIP WAYNE) writes:

>       Have you forgotten "Sins of the Father?" In "Captain's Holiday"
>       he layed out a Ferengi, although I really wouldn't call that
>       a combat situation.

Ya, like big deal.  Picard takes out a little girly-boy Ferrengi.  Jimmy
Kirk, one of the better non-Arnold actors, takes on Giant Lizard Gorns with
his bare hands.  He was even bitten by an actor in a Poison Gorilla Suit
once.  He fought Klingons in a Gorilla war too.  And he always gets the girl.

He'd Kick Picards *ss!  William Shatner said so, so it's cannon.  Kirk in
7 rounds, tops.

>       However, the Klingon fight in SOTF definitely
>       counts as combat, seeing as he was fighting for his life.  Of course,
>       he did get a little help from some raggedy old Klingon hag.

Yea, she had more hair on her chest than Picard.  Picard's a bureaucrat!

Terry "Now, if Spock and Data got into a dispute, what would happen" Wood
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