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From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Re: Taking Your Sports Seriously
Reply-To: lawson@aldia.UUCP (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:39:40 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.175926.2602@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mchance@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Chance) writes:
>cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:
>
>>El Salvador and Honduras once fought a war over a disputed soccer
>>game.  (Actually, the game was an excuse for the countries to fight
>>over disputed stretches of forest.)  Just out of curiousity, have any
>>other wars been fought over sports matches?  Or is soccer the only
>>sport to have inspired so much loyalty in its fans?
>
>My wife has a T-shirt that has a couple of figures from the Bayueax
>Tapestry on it, with the words "Hastings 1066" above and "Normans: 1,
>Saxons: 0" below.  I tell folks that it was the first European Cup
>finals; they've just refined the rules a little since then. 8-)

Don't forget the other shirt that goes with it:
  "Not Enough Saxon Violence"


-- 
Drew Lawson                      If you're not part of the solution,
lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
From: dternes@duke.cdc.com (David Ternes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Wild Chicken Flocks
Keywords: chicken, freeway, flock, human flesh
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:43:34 GMT
Reply-To: dternes@mips.COM (David Ternes)
Organization: Advanced Product Development

In article <ZDmTqB1w165w@dogbox.acme.gen.nz> dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (dogbowl) writes:
>
>Just think about the sort of cartoons Larson could do on this topic.
>
>OBUL: Foxes live in suburban areas in the U.K.
>
I had one living under my garage three years ago.  The vixen even raised
some kits there.  I live in the idyllic Roseville suburbia Mpls-St. Paul,
MN.  The red fox has moved across the pond now but I occasionally catch
a glimpse of her.  The coolest are the moonlit winter nights when she trots
across the frozen pond.

David "I only responded because I wanted to type vixen" Ternes

E. David Ternes                                       dternes@udev.cdc.com
          Goal: To live either in obscurity or in competance.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Wild Chicken Flocks
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 01:17:05 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1992Sep11.152904.2451@gtephx.UUCP> williamsk@gtephx.UUCP (Kevin W. Williams) writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.200111.1738@acuson.com>, lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson) writes:
>> In article <26174@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>> 
>> >  +"free ranging chickens"tm, no durgs or hormones just eat the stuff on the
>> >  +side of the road.
>> >
>> >No drugs or hormones but how about crap like lead and other automotive
>> >by-products?
>> >
>> >Terry "Hmmm, tastes like a heavy chicken" Chan
>> 
>> 
>> Terry, Terry, Terry. . .  There hasn't been lead as a gasoline additive
>> since when, 1988?  Most chickens don't live so long, except perhaps as
>> pets.
>
>Drew, Drew, Drew, you lead a sheltered life. In the real world (i.e. east of
>California and west of New York), leaded regular gasoline is readily available.
>I tanked up with leaded regular until 1991, when my 16 year old card was finally
>scrapped.

Yes, Yes, Yes - we have leaded petrol (gasoline substitute) here. 
The unleaded regular here is somewhere between 89 and 91 Octane I have to 
keep using the leaded crap even though my car was designed for 91 - 93 Octane 
unleaded regular...

There are also _many_ places in the world where unleaded fuel is a thing 
of the very distant future ( Ex-soviet union, Africa, India...)


-- 
Derek Tearne. -- derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz --  Fujitsu/ICL New Zealand -- 
Some of the more aware dinosaurs were worried about the environmental
consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.  
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
From: cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: So, what IS the shelf life of Twinkies?
Date: 7 Sep 92 16:30:08 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame) writes:
> 		-- Stewart "if the darn things are so able to resist
> 			decay, how do you think you *digest* them?" Tame

I didn't think that you ever digested them.  I thought that they just
accumulated down there with the chewing gum you swallowed when you
were a kid.

--Scott "I heard that the cream filling was made of recycled
peanut-shaped packing material" Cromar
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From: hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh)
Subject: Re: Chicken a la cannon
Summary: Seagulls? What about geese?
Reply-To: hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh)
Organization: Interleaf, Inc.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 13:42:30 GMT

Firing a chicken at a canopy exceeds seagull strike capacity, but covers the
range of geese and other larger birds who might get splattered.

Why is this so tough for people to accept?  Given the low cost of chickens, I
would expect this to be the cheapest way to test the survivability of a
canopy in a bird strike.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Subject: Re: The final solution - Seagulls
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:33:44 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.235636.735@endicor.com> tsarna@endicor.com (Ty Sarna) writes:
>In <9209141855.AA08353@GROUCHO.CS.NYU.EDU> deragon@GROUCHO.CS.NYU.EDU (John Paul Deragon) writes:
>> 	He would then throw the bits up to the hovering seagulls and
>> would be promptly snatched up.   The problem is that seagulls 
>> cant burp.  So the gases that build up in the birds have no where to
>> go.  If you have them eat enough.... KAPOW!  Implosion!   I have never
>                                               ^^^^^^^^^^
>Now, this is the first time I've heard of alkaseltzer making birds
>*implode*. These must be the new Wint-O-Green Neutron Star Flavored
>Black Hole Alka Seltzer tablets (TM).

You can tell that the story is false.  The sound of an implosion is
"WOPAK!" or "MOOB!"

>ObFOAF: I can count the tuba player for Sgt.  Pepper's Lonely Hearts
>Club Band and the sax player for The Pink Panther as FOAFS, as well as
>Mr. Wizard as a FOAFOMF (FOAF of my father).  The Attorney General for
>the State of Maine also helped me pick out a tie once. 

ObF: I just got a letter from Edith Jones.  Also, both Ron Brown *and*
     Bill Clinton wrote me the same day to ask me for money.
-- 
           .........................................................
          ted frank | thf2@midway.uchicago.edu | standard disclaimers
         the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
         here i sit looking for a warming smile in a house of cold wit
From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Marching Band ULs needed
Date: 14 Sep 92 09:31:05 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Michael Parks Swaim (swaim@owlnet.rice.edu) wrote:

:   The Rice marching band has been banned from the Astrodome since the early
: '70's for a halftime show that upset the owners.
:   Also when the Texas A&M mascot died a few years ago, the MOB did a bit
: making fun of him, and they needed a police escort from the stadium to
: protect them from the angry Aggies.

my roommate at baylor in '81 had a boyfriend in the corps at texas
a&m. she told me a m.o.b. story he'd told her that she swore was true.
apparently, the aggie band was directed by some sort of whistle code.
according to her boyfriend, at a rice-a&m game, the m.o.b. started
randomly blowing whistles during the aggies' halftime routine, sending
the aggie band into utter confusion.
i have no clue about whether this really happened or not, but it fits
the stereotypes of both bands well.
then there was the old story (i think true) about an aggie band member
who chased an opposing team's cheerleaders off the field with his
decorative saber...

--
sine nomine
debbie martinson
"they were probably dying of something anyway" -- orthal brand, former
tx pesticide board member, about reports that chlordane kills people
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:23208 soc.culture.jewish:15640
From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: What time is it at the North Pole?
Date: 10 Sep 92 00:07:53 GMT

In article <cbuckley.716042360@unix1.tcd.ie>, cbuckley@unix1.tcd.ie (Colm Buckley) writes:
> Of course, there is no "real" time at the North and South poles - although
> I seem to remember an article or essay or something which said that, within
> a certain radius (500km?) of the poles, GMT is used as "watch time".

A long time ago, I used to ask my Hebrew school teacher questions like
those.  Things like ``above the Arctic Circle, how do you know when
sunset is, and hence when the holidays start?  What about astronauts
traveling at near-light speeds, and experiencing time dilation?  Their
calendar will get out of sync.  Colonists on Mars will undoubtedly use
the Martian day, which will cause the same effect.  Should they use the
Martian year as well?''  Etc. -- though she didn't even understand some
of the concepts I was talking about, since there's nothing in the
Talmud about relativity or Lorentz contractions.

Sigh -- for some reason, she thought I was harassing her.
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From: c8922369@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Leon James Garde)
Subject: The Brady Bunch
Organization: Uni of Newcastle, Australia
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 06:25:02 GMT

Now, none of the actors who played any of the kids in the Brady Bunch 
has died, ok.
However there are lots of stories about the deaths of all the young actors.

BTW:  David Knight is in Australia at the momemt flogging software, and
looked pretty much alive . The coincedence is that The Brady Bunch 
opened as a stage show today, whilst David was around to comment on
what it was like being a Brady.

I just thought it would be interesting to hear some of the stories 
of the deaths of these infamous actors/actresses.

leon

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From: GC.TLR@forsythe.stanford.edu (No Comment)
Subject: Re: Third to be bombed...
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 04:11:32 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.155557.29707@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>in Message-ID: <1992Sep4.184825.18056@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
>bmb1021@ultb.isc.rit.edu (B.M. Buck ) writes:
>
>>In at least two cities I've lived in (Charlotte, NC and Binghamton, NY),
>>there is the claim that that city is "third" on the list of sites to be
>>bombed by the Soviets (now that the Soviets are gone, I suspect that
>>this legend had died, too), because of some strategic importance of the
>>city.  The stated first two places (when pressed) end up being the
>>missile sites, and Washington, DC.  After that, comes the current city.
>>
>>Is this legend wide-spread?  If you've heard it for your locale, what is
>>the supposed reason for being third?
>>
>>  Later,
>>    BP (bmb1021@ultb.isc.rit.edu)
>
>        Add Columbus Oh. (I'm not making this up) to the list.
>
>        Why do you suppose it's always third, never second or
>fourth.
>
>J.P. "tertiary metropolitan destruction" Papai
>Papai@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu

I remember this being the case about where I grew up, but this
was a geographic region in northern Montana locally known as the
"Golden Triangle"(supposed to produce X % of the US's wheat crop).

Well, we did have the Minuteman missiles, X % of the US's wheat crop,
Malmstrom AFB, a few radar installations, a major east-west railroad,
And enough of a grasp of reality to know that one or two missiles
would screw up the whole state badly enough that no one outside the
state would feel like trying to clean things up -- we knew weren't
important to anyone BESIDES the Ruskies.....(paranoia is sooo logical).

The predominance of the 3rd position is interesting-- one wonders if
an argument could not be made for virtually anywhere in the US having
enough "strategic features" that it would not qualify in someone's
mind as being on the list....

One also wonders if some long forgotten "Cold Warrior" ingeniously
invented this method of bringing the threat of thermo-nuclear destruction
home to the masses.

"We must be vigilant....we, the citizens of Two-Dot, Montana have
discovered ourselves to be the 3rd ranking target of the Mighty
Red Menace."

Sincerely,

Terrance
the Wonder Weasel


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: smaxwell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Sara Maxwell)
Subject: Re: A bird in the hand v. 10 birds in the FAQ
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:41:15 GMT

>>Jonathan Papai writes:
>>>ObFACT : In 1906, a Pygmy was sold to the Bronx Zoo to sweeten a
>>>deal for a chimpanzee.  They believed the Congolese man, named
>>>Ota Benga, to be closer on the evolutionary scale to monkeys than
>>>to humans.  Clergymen raised a fuss, and he was removed from
>>>display after ten days and placed in an orphanage for black kids
>>
Actually, a biography of this fellow was just published--see review in
last Sunday's NYTimes.  I think "sold" is a bit harsh.  Ota Benga
travelled back to Europe with some white tourist and worked at World's
Fairs and such in those cultural dioramas.  he went back to Africa with
the white guy, then came to the states, where the white guy lost all his
money.  Apparently Ota Benga was interested in travelling and seeing teh
world--it was his idea to go.  When his friend lost all his money he did
end up in the zoo for a while, but i doubt he considered himself "sold,'
although others may have.  I suspect he thought of it as a job. I don't
question the racist attitudes held about him at the time, just the
perspective of the modern accounts sometimes given of him.

Sara
From: grimjack@milton.u.washington.edu (Leslie Basel)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Sinking libraries
Date: 12 Sep 92 07:39:36 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Sep8.182428.588@HQ.Ileaf.COM> hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh) writes:
>Perhaps this "sinking library" story is a perversion of the true story about
>Mexico City (and others) where the soil is actually an old soft peat bog.  The
>older buildings that once had steps leading up to the doors now have steps
>leading down.  The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City has a special foundation that
>makes it more like a boat than a normal building, and does not creep downwards.
>
The way I heard it is that they pumped so much oil out of the ground near 
Mexico City that it began to sink and they have actually _stopped_ pumping!
This would tie in with the peat bog part.  (but then another story has it
that it was water that they pumped too much of - what's a guy to think?)

Rodger "maybe it was/is both" Coghlan
From: lsmith@unssun.nevada.edu (Larry Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Third to be bombed...
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:03:03 GMT
Reply-To: lsmith@unssun.UUCP (Larry Smith)
Organization: University of Nevada-Reno


 Missle targeting doesn't work on a 1st 2nd 3rd basis, each missle
has its own target, with some places being targeted by more than one
missle.

	Now, having said that, Reno Nv area is HIGH on the multi missle
target list, since it is surrounded by the following...

 1. The Fallon Naval Air Station 

 2. The Hawthorne Army Ammunition plant and storage bunkers

 3. The Herlong Army Depot (rumored to be a storage site for nukes)

 4. Tonopah Air Force station ( home of secret test range for stealth
    aircraft and the Aurora project)

 5. The Nevada nuclear testing range

 6. Nellis AFB

 7. Mather AFB

 8. McClellen AFB

 9. Reno-Cannon ANG base


 Just the facts ma'm.....
                         LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday
 Facts? I don't need no stinkin' facts!
                                     Rush Limbaugh
From: govender@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za (Govender)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Sex on the Train
Date: 11 Sep 92 09:34:11 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand

In <1992Sep8.140542.3731@darwin.ntu.edu.au> comp_oper@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes:

>In article <1992Sep3.145710.8629@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>> You know, it's odd that you should mention that. This story apparently 
>> appeared in the Independent a few weeks ago. I did not see it, but I was told
>> about it by a friend. It also appeared as a quiz question on the News Quiz on
>> the Radio, which confirms that the paper published it as a true story. The only
>> things I can add are that the couple were both employed by Sainsbury's, one of
>> Britain's largest supermarket chains, that they actually had full intercourse
>> and that the carriage was packed with commuters.
>> 
>> Now for the odd bit. This story was told as a joke by the comedian Victoria
>> Wood in her show "Victoria Wood as seen on TV", which must have been first
>> broadcast about two years ago. Since then I have heard the same show twice on
>> the Radio, most recently about a fortnight ago, just after the newspaper story.
>> Is this life imitating humour, or is this a gullible newspaper editor being
>> taken in by a practical joke? Has this been reported anywhere outside these
>> supposedly staid islands?

>Yes.  Australian papers picked up the story either last week or the week
>before.

the south african newspapers also reported it.apparently the couple only
performed "oral sex" and the rest of the passengers only complained when
the couple took up more space than necessary (or some other form of
inconvenience).very odd priorities.....the couple were apparently fined.

morgan govender
govender@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za
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From: bakc@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR KR COMAN)
Subject: Re: there's a WHAT in my head?
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:05:51 GMT

In article <87972@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
>In article <1992Sep4.145758.16679@exu.ericsson.se> exuhag@exu.ericsson.se writes:
>>
>>and got to the bottom of it:  the patient has a worm living in his brain,
>>slowly munching away.  He claimed to have eaten raw bear meat on a hunting
>>trip some time earlier, which is being blamed for this catastrophe.
>>
>Well, when I lived in Africa and Asia, I knew of worms that crawled out
>of children's noses when they had high fevers.  Apparently the worms
>were hanging out in the body somewhere -- the intestinal tract? -- and
>decided things were just too darn hot for comfort so they made for the
>
>Also, I know that amoebic dysentary, left unchecked, eventually can 
>climb into the brain (as well as the lungs), as can certain types
>of malaria.  It makes sense that worms, like other parasites, could
>migrate up there, too.  
>
No question about it.  Here're a couple of African beaut's:  In Zaire there 
is a specie of parasite that you acquire by coming into contact with 
river water (not bilharzia).  These spend part of their life cycle in the 
host's body, and if left untreated get quite out of control.  They cause (
inter alia) blindness....one of the diagnoses is to shine a light into the 
eyeball of the patient thu the iris, you can see all the little critters 
swimming around in there.   Another one is a type of liver fluke that you 
pick up from infected animals.  Again these tend to multiply and get out of 
hand.  We had a sheep farmer in the district whose health had been poor for 
a while.  One day he had a coughing fit and one of these slimey things came 
up.  Then there's a famous type of worm that you pick up by going bare-
foot.  These burrow thu the skin and sort of hatch out into little worms.  
Male and female they then move around just under the skin in search of true 
love and fulfillment.  Their antics cause intense skin irritation and 
ultimately huge ulcers.  These latter also have cousins in the Far East. I 
remember reading of an Indian soldier in WW2 in Burma who had got one of 
these in him.  At the hospital its little head (or whatever) had popped out 
thu his skin.  This extremity was then carefully wrapped around a stick, and 
day by day another couple of inches would emerge to be teased out and "
sticked" -- the idea was not to pull it out in one full go 'cos then it 
would die and cause immediate infection.    Quite an idea for a pet, I'm 
sure animal rights activists would've given their blessing! 

Cheers,
Keith
From: wells@athena.cs.uga.edu (Scott Wells)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Evita's body
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:59:01 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

Was said

>In article <1992Sep8.211737.23119@colorado.edu> fielden@spot.Colorado.EDU 
>(j.a. fielden) writes:
>
>> I remember reading somewhere that Peron was very fixated about Eva.
>>Something to the effect that her embalmed body would be at the dinner 
>>table with him and his second wife. Any truth to this?
>
>
>No.  Peron died before Eva.

But, nay, nay..
Peron died in the 1970's. Even so, there was/is a second Mrs. Peron.
Since Eva Duarte de Peron was the first Mrs. Peron, then he still
outlived her.

Scott Wells
<wells@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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From: williamsk@gtephx.UUCP (Kevin W. Williams)
Subject: Re: Wild Chicken Flocks
Organization: gte
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:29:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.200111.1738@acuson.com>, lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson) writes:
> In article <26174@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
> 
> >  +"free ranging chickens"tm, no durgs or hormones just eat the stuff on the
> >  +side of the road.
> >
> >No drugs or hormones but how about crap like lead and other automotive
> >by-products?
> >
> >Terry "Hmmm, tastes like a heavy chicken" Chan
> 
> 
> Terry, Terry, Terry. . .  There hasn't been lead as a gasoline additive
> since when, 1988?  Most chickens don't live so long, except perhaps as
> pets.

Drew, Drew, Drew, you lead a sheltered life. In the real world (i.e. east of
California and west of New York), leaded regular gasoline is readily available.
I tanked up with leaded regular until 1991, when my 16 year old card was finally
scrapped.


Kevin Wayne Williams
     UUCP : ...!ames!ncar!noao!asuvax!gtephx!williamsk

               Remember : Brute force has an elegance all its own.
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From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Re: Viruses: was(Re: aids started by cia?)
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:48:46 GMT

In article <BuAoIn.5GM@world.std.com>, kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:
> In article <TS2JJJ6@taronga.com> arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva) writes:
> >
> >ObUL:  The K in Vitamin K stands for Kibo.
> 
> Actually, it stands for "Kaboom".  However, the *circled* K which is
> found on many food products, signifies that the items were taste-tested
> by Kibo at the factory.

Does this mean you're the owner of all those convenience stores?
-- 
Stephanie da Silva                                    arielle@taronga.com
"I am *not* Tuskernini -- and this is an excellent disguise!" -- Tuskernini
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