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From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: ulegends in the media
Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:26:43 GMT
Organization: Bunweasel shooting party
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> The UL didn't come up until another guest made a joke about Rivera
> being dead. It then came out that Rivera gets many odd looks on the
> street from people who think they are looking at a ghost. 

This phenomenon (resurrection) is apparently more common than people
think.   Other people who have experienced this include:
               Jack Christ (Bethlehem, PA)
               Cindy Kandolf (Trondheim)


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From: jcook@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Joanne Cook)
Subject: Re: Bambi meets Godzilla.
Keywords: bambi cute roadkill
Organization: NSTN Network Operations Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada
                                                                          
   
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:45:44 GMT

I can _personally_ attest that it exists; when I was at U of T in the early
seventies it was a favourite short (it's only about two minutes long) that
turned up at film nights, orientation weekends, and so on. I saw it a
number of times, in a variety of altered states.
 I don't know
off hand who made it, and how much they made from it, but good sources
might be the Encyclopedia of Film, or the International Film Guide, edited
by a chap named Cowie. One or the other should be in most reference
libraries, or possibly your local large 24 hour video store ... 

Joanne Cook
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Clinton's no Jefferson! (was: AMUSING SIGNS)
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <1k4ou7INNavb@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:01:02 GMT

cspot@cats.ucsc.edu (Christopher Edward Hilker) writes:
>PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>>Hell, look at his age.  The guy would be what: 240,250 years old?
>>Even Reagan wasn't that old when elected.
>
>There is no way he would me more than a 1,000 years old today, let alone
>240,000. I think you need to check your math.

Dammit, I knew that trip to Europe would screw up my writing.
I keep using commas for periods and vice-versa when writing
numbers.

Jon "I keep writing 7 with a little slash across it also." Papai

ObUL: Some Govt. employee recently lost his job because
of writing 7's with slashes.
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Subject: Re: Cuttin' the Rug
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 01:48:50 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1993Jan22.180303.5676@netcom.com> bml@netcom.com (Brian Leibowitz) writes:
>
>An interesting thing he mentioned is how the smugglers deal with the mine
>fields on the Iran/Turkey border. (Iran does not permit rugs to be exported.)
>The smugglers trade sheep for rugs so they drive the flock of sheep through
>the minefield to clear the way (they loose a few, but it does a good job of
>making a safe path through the minefield.)

When I heard this first it was referring to the smuggling of 
Condoms/contraceptive pills from Northern Ireland to Southern Ireland.  
Apparently it was only illegal to _import_ contraceptives into southern
Ireland.  Once they were in the country it was OK to possess them.  They 
found a field where the border ran through the middle.  Then they tied 
packets of contraceptives to sheep and chased them to the other side.  As it 
was the sheep who did the actual importing no person was actually breaking 
the law.

ObUL: The sheep were often arrested but always had their sentence reduced
due to diminished responsibility/insanitary.

Derek "Amazing how these legends mutate" Tearne


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Subject: Re: Divorce Rates (was Re: Tip Waitresses, Not Cows)
From: kubo@boucher.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo)
Date: 26 Jan 93 06:24:11 EST
Organization: Dept. of Math, Harvard Univ.

I wrote:
>
>If you change the definition of "divorce rate" then of course you'll
>get a different answer.  The Economist letter proposed asking 
>not what fraction of marriages end in divorce, but what fraction [...] 

Sorry, that should say, "end in divorce *each year*".  Can't cancel
articles from my machine. 


Tal  kubo@math.harvard.edu
From: walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Break dancing (was Re: Cuttin' the Rug)
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:18:49 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

From article <26JAN199309093375@csa3.lbl.gov>, by jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera):

> Speaking of etymologies, where did "break dancing" come from?
> (You remember:  the extremely acrobatic cross between disco
> and sadomasochism that was a fad among the young and supple
> in the early 80s.)  I've heard two hypotheses.

I remember doing it in '81.  Our idea of the ultimate break mat
was an unfolded refridgerator box.  Attire was shorts, a short
T-shirt and bicycling gloves.  I guess they evolved from
there.  The movie Breakin' came out in '84, and not only
featured Spyder, but a very young Ice-T!  Ice, ice, baby...

> Any of you disco hounds know the truth?  Perspiring behinds
> want to know.

Speaking of which, I was told to tighten my drawstring once
because them pants was a gettin too low.  Why?  'Cause
crack kills!
-- 
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From: Terry.Smith@f870.n800.z3.fidonet.org (Terry Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Documented mass cannibalism?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 02:51:48

 > (the Moa - a large bird with a chicken like flavour) this is hardly
surprisin
 > The only other mammal available was the polynesion rat brought to New
Zealand
   
     Some jokers are lucky, I was there for years and never got to taste
one. 
Terry minimus
PS Pakeha is not recommended as the lead and organochloride levels found
exceed all WHO limits. It's only use is to take the bitterness from
improperly prepared puha.



 * Origin: Elizabeth Park BBS (3:800/870.0)
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: AFU WEST V - THE MOVIE
Date: 22 Jan 1993 01:35:52 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
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In article <28504@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) wrote:
>   - Terry Carroll, who might give you free legal advice (Well,
>       for the first consultation maybe).

And in article 56CM02Vh33rv01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com, tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) responded:
> [Let] me say for the record, I don't give legal advice, not being
> licensed for the practice of law.

Hold on here, Terry -- I've *heard* you give advice (I remember you
having some rather pointed advice at my bachelor party), so if it isn't
legal advice, you must be giving ILLEGAL advice.

Brian "Arrest this man" Scearce
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              The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
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From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: Jesus freaks and the return of the grand patriarch.
Keywords: jesus, 
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:27:44 GMT

In article <C1JI4s.7xI@news.udel.edu> bjacobs@chopin.udel.edu (William J Jacobs) writes:
>Bill Jacobs
>Not Jesus

Unfortunately I cannot say as much.  I was in the local feed & seed store
buying some hay for my goats the other day, being stared at as usual by
my rural compatriots, when the 3-year-old son of one of said r.c.'s said
in a typically loud little-kid-saying-something-embarrassing voice, "Daddy,
is that Jesus?"  

Unfortunately I could not figure out a good excuse for hanging around
while Daddy explained to the kid that just because the nice man has long
hair and a beard doesn't mean he's Jesus, it probably means he's a commie
homeless Democrat computer programmer or something.  So I don't know how 
my pride-in-America neighbor extricated himself from this situation.

I guess it beats coming out of a store and hearing a kid yell "Hey
mommy, look at that funny looking man!", which happened last year.

Anyway, please send postcards smeared with tastes-like-chicken vindaloo
to me c/o St. Ann Landers Hospital, Brixton, Craigshire, UQ.

Bruce "contributing to the religious confusion of a minor" Tindall

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From: kkoller@nyx.cs.du.edu (Capt. Sarcastic)
Subject: Re: Okay, if you're so smart ...
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 07:15:34 GMT

hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za (Steve Hayes) writes:


>What's a pooter?

>What's a lutefisk?

lutefisk is the blandest substance on earth.  It's the norweigan version
of the pita, sort of.  it's about 100x more bland.  Mike Cooper invented
it when he wasn't stuffing farm animals into barrels.


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From: woodcock@crchh427.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Gregg Woodcock)
Subject: Clinton's no Jefferson! (was: AMUSING SIGNS)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:08:06 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Reply-To: Gregg Woodcock <woodcock@bnr.ca>
Organization: Bell-Northern Research; Richardson, Texas, USA

In article <23JAN199323435624@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>, leb@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (BASEL, LESLIE) writes:
|> , vince@cadence.com (Vince Gibboni) writes...
|> 
|> > 
|> >  
|> >    "If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, I'd appoint him secretary of 
|> >    Education." - Bill Clinton                 (I'm not making this up).
|>                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> 
|> Why would we think you were making this up?  Jefferson was a brilliant man
|> and had some good ideas about education including (REALLY BAD paraphrase 
|> begins) if we institute vocational, technical education we will raise a 
|> nation of slaves (I think he was warning that if you only know how to do
|> a job, with no understanding of history and literature, you can be controlled
|> too easiliy).

You both left out the interviewer's (correct) response to this absurd
comparison of Clinton to Jefferson (was in Tom Brokaw?); he said, "If
Thomas Jefferson were alive today, you wouldn't be president."

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gregg "what can I say, when you're right, you're right" Woodcock
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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Date: 28 Jan 1993 05:32:34 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

de@moscom.com (David Esan) writes:

  +>Fruufu!

thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

  +Someone wanna cross-post this to alt.flame.spelling?

I think it belongs in alt.flame.fcryyvat myself.
  +
  +Ted "sheesh" Frank

Terry "ditto" Chan
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
Subject: Re: peace symbol
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:51:26 GMT

In article <182610d4f@ofa123.fidonet.org> Larry.Mc.Donald@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
>haefner@infonode.ingr.com (Mark W. Haefner) writes:
>
>> Recently several articles have been on the ankh and I thought I would
>> ask if anyone has information on where the "peace symbol" is derived
>> from. I have heard that its origins are occultic and was used by some
>> ancient pagan societies. Is this true? If so, who? Anyone care to
>> offer some reliable info?
>
>I read an article in the "Peace Conversion Times" about two years
>ago on the origin of the peace symbol. It was concieved (and
>copyrighted) in the late '50s by a commercial artist for use in a
>nuclear disarment rally.  The symbol is supposed to be based on
>the semafore signals for N and D, Nuclear Disarmament.  It was
>also supposed to look somewhat like a person with his arms
>extended downward, kind of depressed, since that is what the

My friends and I produce a local cable access show, and I've been trying
to design a uniform for the 'bad guy' character.  I've been trying to come
up with an altered version of this symbol-any ideas on a 'pro-nuke' symbol?

I looked at a list of semaphore signals, but couldn't figure out anything that
looked symetrical.

Simon

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From: walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: FCC document...
Date: 22 Jan 93 19:13:45 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

From article <1993Jan22.024244.143665@zeus.calpoly.edu>, by asamonte@volta.elee.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...):
> I'm looking for a copy of that FCC modem scare document that
> circulates the electronic community every couple of years.
> You know...the one that says 'The FCC is gonna put a tax on modem
> use...send this letter to your congressman...stop the FCC nazi's now!'

Yeah, and then there is the UL about how the FCC is going
to ban all religious broadcasting.  While this would be
impossible for them to do, the UL has been around for at
least twenty years, and the FCC still gets over 100,000
pieces of mail annually on this subject.  Such people
obviously don't read a.f.u....

Cheers -- Mark "They'll ban soap operas next" Walsh
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From: Jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us (Jay Denebeim)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Man pays for college with pinball
Date: 22 Jan 93 03:35:29 GMT
Organization: HomeBrew Software
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <C0yp26.wpH@austin.ibm.com> jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker) writes:
> Yet I've been in a number of "amusement arcades" in which certain 
> machines paid off in tickets, which were then redeemable for various
> toys, prizes, and nonbio animals. How come this isn't gambling?

I guess because it has to be something of value.  I can't think of anything
more worthless than those prizes.

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From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Star Drek
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:00:28 MDT
Organization: Omega:  The Final Solution

In article <1993Jan22.034635.29817@news.columbia.edu>,
lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles "afraid to violate copyrights
Lasner) writes:
> StarDrek!  Our 5 year mission: to sell bubble-gum cards, tee-shirts, and
> anything else we can; to brazenly go where everyone has gone before.
> 
> cj "Bleached blonde in red convertible on Planet Schwartz" l

     That's ". . . t-shirts, toy phasers, plastic communicators and
anything else we can think of.  To seek out new life in old plots and
complications.  To boldly go where everyone has gone before!"

     Of course, "Land of the Giants" was much more realistic.

Patrick "about to get hauled off" Clark
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: The revivification of Cindy
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:42:40 GMT

In article <28466@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>RE  Something I said:

You were recalling electronics in soap operas, such as: As the Diode Turns

>
>lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>
>  +I think it's more like "Diodes of Our Lives"
>  +
>  +cj "All My Diodes" l

Maybe it was Santa Rectifier? Or The Young and the Rectifierless? or Rectifying
or maybe General Rectifier? One Semiconductor to Live?

>
>Say, isn't "Diode" the name of a song made famous by Harry Bellafonte?
>
>Terry "Guess there's some fame in electronics" Chan

Come Mr. tallyman, tally me rectifiers, LED light come and I wanna go home.

cj "Mr Thyristor's Neighborhood" l

Why must I be a semiconductor in love? by Diode and the Belmonts.
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From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: Nylon
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 18:55:26 GMT

In article <930121211329.32cf@VAX.CSUN.EDU>, VBCSC03L@VAX.CSUN.EDU (snopes) writes:
|> 
|>    FAQ still says:
|> 
|>    > F. "Nylon" means or stands for something.
|> 
|>    I repeat a passage from:
|> 
|>   _The Origins and Development of the English Language_
|>    by Thomas Pyles / John Algeo
|> 
|>   "Nylon" may not be quite etymologyless.  According to _Context_, a Du Pont
|>   company publication (vol. 7, no. 2, 1978), when the material was first
|>   developed, it was called "polyhexamethyleneadipamide."  Realizing the stuff
|>   needed a catchier name than that, the company thought of "duprooh", an 
|>   acronym for "Du Pont pulls rabbit out of hat," but instead settled on 
|>   "no-run" until it was pointed out that stockings made of the material were
|>   not really run-proof.  So the spelling of the word was reversed to "nuron,"
|>   which was modified to "nilon" to make it sound less like a nerve tonic.
|>   Then, to prevent a pronunciation like "nillon," the company changed the *i*
|>   to *y*, producing "nylon."  Thus beneath that apparently quite arbitrary
|>   word lurks the English expression "no-run."

Well, we're pedantic in this group. I'll agree that the word Nylon does have
a meaning. It's listed i a number of different dictionaries.  That the word
"stands for something" - well, what do you mean by that. It's not an acronym.

Reading the `etymology', the story fails to link "nuron" and "nilon" by other
means than using the word `modify'. Sounds a bit like `rearranging the diodes'
to me... Then, a possible link to "nillon" (nil-on ???) is kind of ruled out.

Dunno if this should count as a proper etymology (it's a story, sure thing).
But an explanation of the meaning (other than the word naming a product) is
more than I can find in the above story.

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From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.discordia,alt.slack
Subject: Re: Jesus' name (was Re: Late breaking potential UL!)
Date: 28 Jan 1993 07:48:20 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
NNTP-Posting-Host: carina.unm.edu

In article <haley.728164107@husc.harvard.edu> haley@husc11.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) writes:
>Next time: The hamster of sorrow...

Dunno about the rest of y'all, but this I'm looking forward to :)
r.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: JHB sighting
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:46:35 GMT

In article <28469@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>
>In fact, there's discussion in news.groups right now to split
>rec.arts.stardrek.misc to cover this very topic.

StarDrek!  Our 5 year mission: to sell bubble-gum cards, tee-shirts, and
anything else we can; to brazenly go where everyone has gone before.

cj "Bleached blonde in red convertible on Planet Schwartz" l
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: AYDS
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:05:42 GMT

In article <C18yLI.2rz@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> moscoso@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Innocuous Punch) writes:
>walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh) writes:
>>And this reminds me:  Does anybody remember the
>>advertisements for a diet candy called "AYDS"
>>about ten years ago?  It went something like
>>"Why go hungry when you can have AYDS!"
>
>Yes, in fact, there was, I recall, a period of crossover, where AIDS hit
>the pop presses, and the said product was still on prime-time ad spots.
>  ..anyone remember what "AYDS" stood for?

My recollection was that it was called "AIDS," changed its name to "AYDS"
when the disease hit, and predictably withdrew from the market shortly
thereafter.
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From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Twinkies Defense was (Re: Terrifying Twinkies (was Re: The Big Pot o
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:27:31 GMT

lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund) writes:

>	Connecting this with folklore,   it is my impression that the
>"insanity defense" is not nearly as frequent as is commonly believed and
>further is seldom successful.

Connecting this with a different thread, the first successful use
of the 'temporary insanity' defense was by a man who later became
a Union civil war general.  (Not Hooker.)

References. Yeah Right, I'm gonna look through 2 dozen ACW books
to find that factoid.

Jon "Connections" Papai
From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Fax that pizza
Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:34:27 GMT
Organization: Sun
NNTP-Posting-Host: positive

> There was also a story of a pizza command on a machine somewhere. They had
> a fax machine attached to the computer, and the program sent a fax for the
> order to local pizza place

That was at Sun Microsystems.  We have this running in our demo center
in Palo Alto.   It's called "pizzatool".   

The software was written by Don Hopkins, and relies on his PieMenus package
which itself needs NeWS, and a faxmodem.

No question, we got the best nerds at Sun.  

     Peter "certainly the best-fed ones" vdL.