HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Imponderables
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 21:31:55 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.152428.28723@unislc.uucp> dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright) writes:
>
>  -- How do they print the M&M on M&M chocolate candies?
>
>Mars Inc. won't tell but they hint it's similar to offset printing.

When was the last time you saw M&M on them?  They are M only currently.

What about the red dye #2 story?  The way I heard it was that the country was
on a red dye #2 scare, and that even though it wasn't #2 that Mars used, they
felt it best to drop red M&M's to avoid being complained about.  Years later,
they re-introduced a different red color.  (IMO, not as good as before.)

cjl
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From: ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan)
Subject: Body temp (Was: Re: Imponderables)
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organization
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 20:29:57 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.171419.4704@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
> ... (Note that although most of us have learned a particular value for body
> temperature, and it's probably higher than 96 F, the exact value depends on
> where you measure it; there probably are some ways to get that reading.)

The reading also depends on the temperature of the air you're in, the temper-
ature of the air you were in 5 minutes ago, what you're doing at the time,
what you had been doing recently, how much sleep you've been getting lately,
what (if anything) you're digesting at the moment, and several other things
you may or may not have been doing with or to yourself recently.  It also
depends on the phase of the moon.


Carrie		ceb@rechenau.unify.com	x6244		---------------------+
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From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: UL's in Literature List
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:26:44 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.071635.12975@fulcrum.oz.au> steve@fulcrum.oz.au (Steve Taylor) writes:
>In <Bszx6A.AsK@world.std.com> lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund) writes:
>
>>FILMS:
>>_Diamond's are Forever_
>>	Oblique visual reference to "Moon landings faked on movie lot"

This isn't an urban legend.  It's true.


>And "Capricorn One", which was about a faked Mars/Moon landing. I don't 
>remember it well, but I remember it was a Turkey.


Gee, I liked it.


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From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:59:21 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.044034.16740@PA.dec.com> snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
>
>In article <c28nbpbc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>,
>  csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~) writes...
>
>>> Yes, and never mind the cited articles written by career linguists who have
>>> spent years and years studying eskimo languages, that explain just how and
>>> why this claim is balderdash.  If the evidence doesn't fit your theory, just
>>> ignore it.  You can "prove" anything that way.
>
>>You should know...
>
> Ha ha.  Somebody would actually have to provide evidence before I could
> ignore it.  Perhaps you'd like to break tradition and cite a reference
> or do some research or something.

I think you just proved it for me...

The Wisp.
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From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Japanese snuff! sort-of...
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:22:37 GMT
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In article <25589@dog.ee.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov writes:

>It isn't just grade-Z movies, either.  Several times I was... 
>well, I'm reasonably shockproof, so let's just say a bit put off 
>by the ritualistic murder that occurred before the opening credits 
>of each "Miami Vice" episode.  Many of which featured a woman as
>the special guest corpse.

Well, it's only fair that about half of them would be, right?  :)


>--Joe "Does Jamie Lee Curtis read netnews?" Chew


Geoff "Joe Sensitive" Miller


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From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:54:57 MDT
Organization: United Order of Non-joiners

arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva) writes:
> styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:
>> Anthony Clifton writes:
>> >
>> >Essentially, it works this way:  when you have a liquid in contact with ahot
>> >surface (above a certain temperature) the layer of liquid closest to the 
>> >surface will vaporize.  This vapor-layer is a very poor conductor of heat
>> >so the liquid farther away from the surface doesn't heat up as much.
>> 
>> Sounds strange. Isn't this vapour what we  usually call steam? Steam may
>> be a "very poor conductor of heat" (dunno where you got that definition,
>> others use steam for heating - guess it depends on how hot you want it),
>> but isn't steam rather hot `to begin with'. 
> 
> I read an article in an issue of Scientific American a few years
> back about an innovative physics teacher (don't remember his name,
> sorry) who took this demonstration to more of an extreme.  He would
> dip his entire hand in some sort of hot melted metal substance.  Very
> quickly, of course, and after he had thoroughly soaked his hand
> in water first.
> 

     Ah, I used to do something similar as part of my job.  Back when
I made candy for a living, I would test the caramel by getting my arm
wet and grabbing a bit of the molten stuff out of the mixer.  Put it
in 60-degree Farenheit water to test the consistency at that
temperature.  You know, I never felt any pain doing it either.

Patrick "candy made the old fashioned way" Clark
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Subject: Re: Faces of death
From: hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 00:50:07 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand
Keywords: we don' need no steenkin' keywords

In article <1992Aug11.233948.24558@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <2409@israel.nysernet.org> warren@nysernet.org writes:
>>In <Bsq0pM.EtB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (doc) writes:
>>    Well, FoD shows several murders/executions, so "snuff films" most
>>    certainly do exist then.
>>Didn't someone once make a three-sided record?
>I think it was Mad Magazine.  But it had eight grooves on the same side.
>That's the only one I know of.

Wasn't there a thread once with an infinite groove at the end? How will
this be done on the CD-ROM distribution?

ObUL: POSH comes from "Port out, starboard home"

Hugh "turn me over... play me again...  No! The _record_, stupid!" Grierson

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From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: Co-ed Dorms!
Organization: Terry (hon.)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:28:54 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.172049.1899@news.columbia.edu>
egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:

>>Tom "Ask about our co-ed DINING HALLS!" Louie
>>tlouie@athena.mit.edu
>
>There are WOMEN there????????????  :-)

No, just Tech coeds.

Seth "I haven't been flamed in days" Breidbart
sethb@fid.morgan.com
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From: tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks)
Subject: Re: apples to teachers - idea why
Organization: Automata Design, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:19:46 GMT


Marc G. Frank (mgfrank@avernus.com) wrote:
: 
: Or perhaps the whole thing is just an urban legend.  Does anyone out
: there *actually know* (or even have a FOAF) of a student who gave an
: apple to a teacher or a teacher receiving an apple from a student?
: 
My wife - a teacher - has received as gifts many forms of apples,
mainly wooden, but I don't think she has ever received a real one.

Terry "One had a wooden razor blade in it, though" Monks
-- 
Terry Monks        Automata Design Inc    (703) 742-9400
From: dmr@rugrat.Corp.Sun.COM (Daniel M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Screaming Peaches and Terrified Eggs
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:56:55 GMT
Reply-To: dmr@rugrat.Corp.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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In article l98eeqINN7d2@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM, geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
> 
> 
> When I was a kid, my mom told me about an experiment performed at 
> Columbia University in which the agonized "scream" of a peach was 
> detected somehow with sensitive instruments as someody bit into it.
> Even as a kid, I thought the very idea was absurd to the point of being 
> hilarious, but my mother insisted that she'd either heard or read about 
> it somewhere.  Looking back on it, it's rather interesting that a
> specific location for the research (Columbia) was specified.
> 

AUTHOR:   Tompkins, Peter.
TITLE:    The secret life of plants [by] Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird.
IMPRINT:  [1st ed.]  New York, Harper & Row [1973]
          xiv,402 p. illus. 22cm.

LOCATION: Green Library Stacks QK50.T65 1973
          Biology QK50.T65 1973
 
OTHER:    Bird, Christopher, joint author.
TOPICS:   Plants.
NOTES:    Bibliography: p.[375]-392.
          Language: English   Year: 
          Item CSUG75213-B (Books)  AEU9935 (NOTIS)

This is real friggin' excellent stuff. Plants scream, watch TV, and
communicate with each other over their own little plant communications
network involving neutrinos and space aliens.



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From: guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery)
Subject: Re: urban folklore?
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 07:14:09 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.173357.2149@csi.on.ca> tina@csi.on.ca (Tina Klein) writes:
>I thought that urban folklore meant believing that goldfishes actually 
>lived through the toilet-flush experience ....
None of mine ever did, i always waited until they were dead before i put
them in the toilet. What kind of sickos do you think we are? :)

jam

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From: "colin mcgregor" <colin.mcgregor@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: faces of death
Date: 15 Aug 92 00:27:37 EST
Reply-To: "colin mcgregor" <colin.mcgregor@canrem.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Canada Remote Systems


alexa@county.lmt.mn.org (Dave Alexander) writes:

DA>Ng escaped, and was found in Canada after being picked up for shoplifting.

Ng was arrested after, yes shoplifting. He also shot one of the unarmed
store detectives who arrested him with an unlicenced, restricted weapon
(a handgun).

DA>However, because he would be eligible for the death penalty in California,
DA>Canada denied extradition. The last I heard, the U.S. was still trying to
DA>convince Canada to send him back.

Ng was extradited earlier this year, and will be faceing a trial in
the U.S. for that series of murders in California. After his arrest,
trial, and conviction Ng did time in a Canadian jail for the crimes
he did here. Under the Canada-U.S. extradition treaty, either nation
CAN deny an extradition if a person faces the death penalty in the 
other country (something of a one way street, as the only crime a 
Canadian can be executed for is treason). Anyway, while Ng was doing
his time there was question as to what should happen to him when his
sentence was over. Justice Minister Ms. Kim Campbell was I gather put
under a fair bit of presure from civil rights groups to either let 
him stay in Canada, or to get a promise from California that Ng would
not be executed. In the end, Ng was shipped to the U.S. when his
prison term in Canada was over, without a promise from California on 
the question of a death penalty.
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Subject: Re: Political ULs'e
From: thayes@desire.wright.edu
Date: 15 Aug 92 16:11:20 EST
 <1992Aug10.221447.24905@news.columbia.edu> <1992Aug14.171851.13559@bnlux1.bnl.gov> <1992Aug15.135353.23142@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Wright State University 



In article <1992Aug15.135353.23142@midway.uchicago.edu>, 
thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:

[deleted]
> I have a friend who used to be on Dan Quayle's staff -- in other words,
> Quayle is a FOAF of mine...  (or an EOAF?)

Nope -- your friend is a FWUTBODQS.  The veep would be your friend's past
employer, or YFPE.  Which, for symetry's sake, puts Quayle in YFP -- and if
rehired, Quayle will have found his lost E!

-----ted hayes
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From: tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks)
Subject: Re: Useful quips
Organization: Automata Design, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:31:08 GMT

 
I have two favourites. One is a 26 line poem that starts
  
  An Austrian army, awfully arrayed,
  Boldly by battery besieges Belgrade,
  Cossack commanders cannonading come,
  Deal Death's devastating destructive doom...
 
This is, of course, invaluable for remembering the order
of letters in the English alphabet.

The other one is a medieval Latin one used to remember
all the possible valid syllogisms and their modes, and starts
 
	Barbara Celarent Darii Ferioque...

where each vowel (not including 'que', which means 'and')
represents the mode as in:
   a = all somethings are something
   e = no somethings are something
   i = some somethings are something
   o = some somethings are not something
and the presence or absence of an 'n' means something else.
I believe it has about 8 lines, but is a very compact way
of remembering an awful lot of information.


Terry "Some Terries are not female" Monks
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From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: Semen, NOT sailors!
Keywords: A quart?!
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:20:06 GMT

In article <y1fy!c=@rpi.edu> kasprj@rpi.edu writes:
>In article <1992Aug19.015423.19963@udel.edu>, bower@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Tyson Bower) writes:
>|> I heard a similar story.  From what I heard, she was performing
>|> fellatio on many men (on a dare or a bet) out in the parking lot
>|> of the Spectrum, just before the Def Leppard concert last Friday.
>|> Apparently, she had finished off 37 men before she said she felt
>|> ill, and left in search of a restroom.  Later, they found her 
>|> dead.  They assumed she died of sperm poisoning.
>
> This sounds a bit ridiculous to me. It's like saying someone died from
>eating too many eggs. There is nothing poisonous in sperm, and while 
>swallowing a quart of semen may be pretty sickening, I'm fairly sure 
>it wouldn't be fatal. 


Beyond that, the story seems dubious just based on the amount of semen
that we're talking about here.  It would take a lot of strappin' big
guys to generate a whole freakin' quart of semen.  I don't care how
macho you are.  Someone got a book full of medical statistics?  I'm sure
some obsessed person must have recorded a number for the "average semen
volume" generated per orgasm.



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From: jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (doc)
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:31:55 GMT

snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:

>>If someone is murdered and it is captured on film, who cares what the 
>>motivations for the murder or the filming of it were?  

> The victim, the victim's family, and the police, for starters.

Totally irrelevant to this discussion.  Ive already conceded that *some* of
the scenes in FoD are recreations, but there is a clip at the end of one
of them in which a girl is murdered on film for the sole purpose of making
a training video for the other cultists.  Yes, the girl was kidnapped and
killed for the =sole= reason of murdering her for a video.  I believe that
fits the definition of a snuff film that has been used in this newsgroup.
The filmmakers said it was real, that the FBI had found the film in a
bedroom in the raided house.  You just dont want to believe anything, snopes.
I think you just like being contrary.  Well, as far as Im concerned the
burdern of proof has now shifted to you to prove that the film is a fake.

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From: pv@gagme.chi.il.us (Paul Vader)
Subject: Re: Useful quips
Summary: A mnemonic for pi
Originator: pv@gagme
Organization: Inline Software Creations
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 00:23:34 GMT

I learned this so long ago (probably about 10 years ago in Isaac Asimov's
Science Fiction Magazine), that I had a hard time reconstructing the
mnemonic. Amaze your friends and rattle out 14 digits of pi:
3.14159265358979. Count the letters of each word in the following sentence:


     How I want a drink? Alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters
     involving quantum mechanics.

Bonus points if someone can think of a practical reason to know pi to this
precision except as a geek mating call. Please don't start an "I know more
digits" war. I know more too (3). PV
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and ex-Zen poet         |  stand a little rain" --Spy, #560 (On Halcion)
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From: news_for@ae.ge.com (Paul R. Joslin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Co-ed Dorms!
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:30:36 GMT

+ I lived in a mixed dorm, too, and as far as I can remember even the slightest
+suggestion that we women might accidentally enter a men's bathroom or shower
+room was greeted with expressions of extreme nausea.  Something about men's
+total inability to hit the urinal/toilet or wait until they left the shower
+to even aim.
+
Carrie		ceb@rechenau.unify.com	x624 ---------------------


ObUL:  At some schools, "co-ed dorm" means that men and women LIVE IN
THE SAME BUILDING!


Paul "Ask about Purdue's co-ed dorms..." Joslin	
joslin@c0223.ae.ge.com
From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: apples to teachers - idea why
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:51:11 GMT
Reply-To: lawson@aldia.UUCP (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA

In article <1992Aug18.182510.19689@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> dheisler@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Dave Heisler) writes:
>
>     i think i got an answer.
>
>      let's see, the christian bible tells about eve
>       eating an apple from the tree of knowledge.
>
>       hence the general asciciation of apple and
>       gaining of knowledge. sort of symbolic
>       of thing.

Except that the biblical story does not tell of an apple, but or the
fruit.  The apple was the creation of artists, primarily medieval I
think.

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Subject: Re: snopes-busters and the ghosts of the lyric
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 04:21:08 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1992Aug11.234739.24849@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <9208081151.AA24944@news.cis.ohio-state.edu> FURRJK@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu (Joel Furr) writes:
>>we've embarked on, to say nothing of the recursive three-sided record thread.
>
>How can a record have three sides?

Easy top, bottom and edge.  All records therefore have three sides.
If you are really pedantic they have four as there is an inside edge 
surrounding the hole.
                                                         ..
Derek "Didn't they once make a record in the shape of a Mobius strip" Tearne

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From: crow@coos.dartmouth.edu (Preston F. Crow)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: apples to teachers - idea why
Date: 21 Aug 92 11:19:45 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In <1992Aug21.042645.17918@ozrout.uucp> stirling@ozrout.uucp (Stirling Westrup) writes:

>mgfrank@avernus.com (Marc G. Frank) writes
>>
>>Or perhaps the whole thing is just an urban legend.  Does anyone out
>>there *actually know* (or even have a FOAF) of a student who gave an
>>apple to a teacher or a teacher receiving an apple from a student?

>I gave apples to teachers several times while growing up.  (It was almost
>always my mother's idea though...)  From what I recall, the teachers were
>actually delighted with the gift (or were sufficiently good actors to fool
>a 7 year old.)

>The last time I did anything like that that I can remember was in 7th
>grade, which means I was 12.  By then I had come to the conclusion that
>giving the teacher an apple was sissy.  But it seems that Mr. Alcock was
>crazy about rasins, and giving him a box would put you on his good side for
>at least a month...

In my econ class two years ago, a bunch of us got together and brought
about a dozen apples to class and left them out for the professor.  It
was more of a joke than a serious gift, so I guess that isn't really
what you mean.

Then there was the time we set an ugly worm-infested apple on the
overhead projector and our prof took it into the classroom next door
and left it on the overhead for another prof (who wasn't as prompt for
her class)...

--PC

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