HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN)
Subject: Re: coriollis effect and Foucalt pendulums (and the UN)
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:12:12 GMT

In article <gmJRXB4w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
>pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN) writes:
>
>> >just fyi, the UN building in NYC has a Foucalt (sp?) pendulum swinging
>> >from the roof rafters, and, yes, it does do all those funny things that
>> >the various laws of physics say it should.
>> >
>> >question: does anyone know of any others on display?
>> >
>> >dannyb@panix.com
>> >
>>   There's one here in the Royal Ontario Museum.  Heck, I'd say every science
>> museum has one.  We even have one set up in the attic of our physics building
>> at this university, and it was used to measure (accurately) the speed of
>> rotation of the earth.
>> 
>Brilliant! And was it slowing down?
>
  No -- we faked it with electromagnets
>
>
>-- 
>  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
>
>"I hate quotations." - Ralph Waldo Emerson


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From: delancey@darkwing.uoregon.edu (Scott C DeLancey)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.discordia,alt.slack,alt.california
Subject: Re: Choking Chickens on CBS (was Re: Mike Cooper)
Date: 23 Jan 1993 04:42:11 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon Network Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: darkwing.uoregon.edu

>>I heard that some years ago, 60 minutes was doing a story about
>>some small time southern crook.  They're interviewing him and at
>>one point he says  "That's more fun than chokin' chickens."  All
>>the 60 minutes guys are northerners unfamiliar with the meaning
>>of the phrase, and they broadcast it, and are buried in mail from
>>indignant offended viewers.
>
>This started as an UL thread, and now it's come full circle.  Aren't there
>laws against this sort of thing???
>
>Captain "Bandwidth Master(tm)" Sarcastic
>--
Laws against choking chickens?  Isn't it OK if it's not in public?

Scott
From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The horse's butt -- err -- mouth
Date: 23 Jan 93 03:31:53 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1993Jan20.151930.1@vaxr.llnl.gov>, mccauley@vaxr.llnl.gov writes:
>
>First, I want to make 100% sure my tape is still playable.  Like KQED's 
>cameras, the tape is a broadcast antique.  There are probably bats living 
>in the box with the tape.  The tape is in a format which isn't widely used 
>any longer.  You certainly can't play it on your home VCR.  Broadcast 
>people call it high band quad.
>

I have two questions:

1) Why were you taping the Newlywed Game to begin with? Already have
all of Match Game '77?

2) Given that taping the Newlywed Game was a necessity, why high
band quad?

 -Paul "Monty" Ashley
   (Sure, I tape MST3K and USA Up All Night, but geez . . .)
-- 
" 'Socks the cat'? What is this?"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: leecr@microsoft.com (Lee Crocker)
Subject: Re: Babe Ruth Candy
Date: 22 Jan 93 00:54:10 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

>No Lee, you're wrong.    
>It *is* a fact that Curtis Candy *claims* to have named their candy after
>         Ruth Cleveland.
>
>It is not a fact that the candy *is* named after Ruth Cleveland and 
>         not Babe Ruth.
>
>The distinction is one which permits us to exercise independent judgement,
>and it is seen everyday in law courts across the world.   The fact of
>someone claiming a particular motive is not sufficient to establish
>the motive as fact.

But your claim of their motive has even less standing, because you
weren't there.  Post a court transcript or stop bugging us with your
speculations.
-- 
Lee Daniel Crocker    | Free minds; free bodies; free trade.
leecr@microsoft.com   | Libertarian Party  1-800-682-1776
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Re: AFU Holiday
Reply-To: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:46:33 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.161333.9401@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> ashall@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Andrew S Hall) writes:
>A local gift store just ran an advertisement reminding readers of
>holidays coming up so that they would go buy gifts/cards/etc.
>In this this was:
>
>Jan 27   Birthday of Thomas Crapper, inventor of the flush toilet


But do they suggest an appropriate form of celebration?


Drew "flush with pride" Lawson
-- 
Drew Lawson                      If you're not part of the solution,
lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
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From: tb13@ellis.uchicago.edu (leon joel gross)
Subject: Re: Bambi meets Godzilla.
Keywords: bambi cute roadkill
Reply-To: tb13@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:01:41 GMT

We have 'movies' on our vax system, which if you run them then will put
up animated ASCII version of a couple of things.  They aren't based
on scanned in images, but are just the product of some unknown 
hackers-artist..

One of them is Bambi vs. Godzilla.

I've seen it on our system, but I can't locate the 'In the Butt, bob'
movie which someone here said we had.  Maybe it's on our old disk
drive that we can't read anymore.

Leon gross
I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV>
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Bambi meets Godzilla.
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:04:52 GMT
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 29861@midway.uchicago.edu, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
>- Deer in idyllic field.  Idyllic pastoral music.

Just for the sake of completeness: the music is the first part of the
William Tell Overture (not the Lone Ranger part, the other part).

Brian "Waiting for _Bambi vs. The Smog Monster_" Scearce
---
Brian Scearce                                           bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
              The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
                  "You can't fit the truth on a t-shirt, man."
                                 "That'd fit."
From: gksmith@mcl.cc.utexas.edu (Glenn Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: RE: Robberies by Policemen
Date: 26 Jan 1993 18:25:44 GMT
Organization: University of Texas Computation Center
NNTP-Posting-Host: corwin.cc.utexas.edu

I don't know about the Police, but here in Texas, we've had problems
with people pretending to be poor college students and "borrowing"
money from strangers who support the University of Texas athletic
program.  I believe one guy netted $5000+ from people before he was
caught.

A year or so ago, a couple of cops near the Mexico border got busted
when they tried to rip-off the feds in a drug sting.  They were armed
with over 10000 rounds of ammon, 10+ lbs of explosives, and carried
automatic weapons and sawed off shotguns, all from the police
armory.  They even had flak jackets and had tried to borrow the armored
vehicle for the rip-off.

Just recently, a group of people were pretending to be investigators from
the Attorney General's office and were seizing monies found at businesses
claiming there were drug related or for some other reasons.  They had
fake badges and fake papers.



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From: N.W. Choe <nwc1@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: Cuttin' the Rug
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A78A122442017491@sl-mac-17.rh.uchicago.edu>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 25 Jan 93 03:54:44 GMT
Organization: Beaver Consulting Co.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d13
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:05:54 GMT

In article <TTj=8f=@engin.umich.edu> Laurence Doering,
ldoering@engin.umich.edu writes:
>Dancing.  Specifically, swing dancing.  This phrase originated,
surprisingly
>enough, in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.  I don't remember offhand when it
was
>made or who directed it, but it's the one where Elmer Fudd buys
Bugs at
>the grocery store and takes him home, intending to make a rabbit
stew,
>but is foiled when Bugs convinces Elmer he has a deadly disease
called
>"rabbititus."  Anyway, in one scene, Bugs grabs Elmer and starts
dancing
>with him, saying "C'mon, Jackson, cut yourself a slice of rug."

In "Bugs Bunny- Fifty Years and Only One Grey Hare" by Joe Adamson,
there's a Filmography- written for another book "Looney Tunes and
Merrie Melodies". (blah blah...)

Anyhow, the cartoon alluded to is "Hare Tonic", Nov. 10, 1945. Dir.
Charles M. Jones, Story by Ted Pierce; [other info]. Available on
MGM/UA video "Starring Bugs Bunny!".
N.W. Choe    Beaver Consulting Co.- Chicago
5454 S. Shore Dr. #318
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Bambi meets Godzilla.
Keywords: bambi cute roadkill
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:10:49 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.220201.16899@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>The well known film 'Bambi meets Godzilla' just came up in conversation.
>
>You know, the one were Bambi just prances around pronking and saying hi to
>all the cute animals and then getting squashed underfoot by Godzilla.
>
>We were just wondering if it ever really existed.  Who were the producers
>etc. and how much did it gross (out?). 
>
>We feel sure that CJL will be able to supply this information and perhaps 
>tell us if Bambi tasted like chicken.  If not someone else must know.  

Bambi vs. Godzilla is a famous VT-100 file.  Should I post it directly to
the net, since most of us are reading this on a VT-100 family terminal
(in 7-bit mode to avoid net stripping).

cj "Also have Mr. Bill and Sluggo the field-service repairman" l
From: DPM%MRGPRE%Health_Net@mcimail.com (DPM)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: AFUUL Scale
Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:11:50 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

I was going through my archives and discovered my uncompleted scale for
measuring the UL-ness of various entries.  I quickly finished it up, and
I now submit it to the denizens of AFU.  Please feel free to amend, improve,
correct, or criticize it; maybe by working as a committee we'll end up with 
something truly worthwhile.

 - snopes

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                   AFU-UL (pronounced "aw-ful") Scale 
                      [measured in shergolds (sg)]
                   ------------------------------------

  6 sg:  Classic ULs that are recent and convincing enough to still
         be repeated as having "just happened to a friend of mine":

         Examples: "Sit, lady", child on the radiator grill, drunk takes
         police car home.

  5 sg:  Classic ULs that *everybody* has heard since childhood and generally
         recognizes to be just stories.  

         Examples:  Hook on the car door, boyfriend's death, the vanishing 
         hitchhiker, or just about anything that appears in Brunvand's "The
         Vanishing Hitchhiker".
 
  4 sg:  Urban legends that linger on since they aren't too far-fetched and
         no one can (or will) disprove them.

         Examples: Mick Jagger Mars bar incident

  3 sg:  Common ULs that are often believed, but are just a little
         too bizarre for widespread belief among the faithful.

         Examples:  Toothbrush burglars

  2 sg:  Urban legends believed by laymen, but scoffed at by those with a little
         general knowledge

         Examples: "Greened" CDs, super-mileage gasoline pill

  1 sg:  Urban legends that even silly people generally recognize as silly.
      
         Examples: Green M&Ms as aphrodisiacs, various talk/game show
         incidents, snuff films, Disneyland kidnappings

  0 sg:  ULs that will persist until the end of time, despite being thoroughly
         and repeatedly debunked.

         Examples:  Craig Shergold, various etymologies

 -1 sg:  Persistent matters of science that end up being debated endlessly every
         time they re-appear.

         Examples:  Hot water freezing faster than cold, the Coriolis effect. 

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| personality in America.  As capitalism, it is a work of genius; as culture, |
| it is mostly a horror."   --   Richard Schickel, "The Disney Version"       |
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Subject: Re: Trademarkability of personal names (Was: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 17:48:06 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:

> Harrods (the nasty big department store in London UK) decided to stop
> the small shop in the almost equally small town of Otorohanga in the slightly
> larger country of New Zealand from using the name Harrods.  In protest the 
> residents of this town renanamed the town to Harrodsville.  The streets and 
> all the shops were also renamed so that they included the name Harrods 
> (Harrods street etc.). This only lasted for a week though.
> 
Don't forget that the guy in the shop used EXACTLY the same lettering, and
gave out EXACTLY the same shopping bags as Harrods of London.

I have some sympathy with Harrods of London. They are caught between being
the big bully, and the slippery slope argument. That is "you let that store
in Otorohanga do it, so why can't we (the ever so slightly larger store in
the slightly less remote place), do it." The courst have great sympathy for
this.

ObUl: It is easy to prove by induction that Harrods were in collusion with
the phone book publishers to prevent ALL stores from being named Harrods.


-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU

"I hate quotations." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
From: froggy@zikzak.apana.org.au (Robyn McNamara)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: coriollis effect and Foucalt pendulums (and the UN)
Date: 22 Jan 1993 00:14:38 +1100
Organization: Zikzak public access UNIX, Melbourne Australia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: zikzak.apana.org.au

khoover@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (kent.d.hoover) writes this about Foucault Pendula:

>Curious that no one reports any such sighting SOUTH of the equator, isn't it.

It may be a trick of my ageing memory, but I remember seeing one at Monash
University (Melbourne, Australia) when I studied there.  It was in the
guts of the Maths building.

Now, this was six years ago and I never did spend much time in the Maths 
part of the building - would any current Monash people care to go look,
or should I wander over to Clayton myself?


>Kent "they do funny things backwards down there" Hoover

Robyn "swaying gently from side to side, occasionally turning around" McNamara
-- 
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        froggy@zikzak.apana.org.au     froggy@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
"...blankets and bedclothes, the child of the mountain..." - Simon & Garfunkel
From: VBCSC03L@VAX.CSUN.EDU (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Divorce Rates
Date: 21 Jan 1993 22:49:50 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes . . .

>oooh boy. i just had my sociology of women (had to take the class, general 
>education requirement, *ptooey*) prof. tell me that the statistics on
>dicorce were 50% within the first 6 years of the wedding. 

  The "failure" rate for marriages has probably been something close to 50%
  for a long time, but prior to the adoption of no-fault divorce laws by
  most states during the 1970s, those failures seldom translated into
  divorces.

 - snopes

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|   "If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune.  And if   |
|    someone pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity."           |
|                                                                             |
| Benjamin Disraeli, asked to distinguish between a misfortune amd a calamity |
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|   David P. Mikkelson   Calif. State Univ., Northridge   Northridge, CA  USA |
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: parking meter nun smash
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:32:05 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.155722.20943@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>In article <1993Jan23.072626.1271@netcom.com> rchao@netcom.com (Robert Chao) writes:
>>Is there anything to do to a parking meter to cough up some time, apart
>>from inserting slugs or opening the meter? (I doubt it.)
>
>Paul Newman cut the heads off several parking meters in _Cool Hand Luke_
>and in return the judge gave him quite a bit of time.

Isn't this just a line from the Maya Angelou poem?

"Trees.  Streams.  Fields.
Parking meter nun smash.
Hope.  Good morning."

Ted "Ogden Nash/ Made a lot of cash" Frank
-- 
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standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
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From: hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za (Steve Hayes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Peace Symbol
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:58:37 GMT
Organization: University of South Africa
NNTP-Posting-Host: pchayest.unisa.ac.za





============================================================
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Univ. of South Africa, P.O. Box 392, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa
Internet: hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za
          steve.hayes@p5.f22.n7101.z5.fidonet.org
          stephen.hayes@f20.n7101.z5.fidonet.org
From: ilaine@panix.com (Liz Stokes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Ultimate Circumcision
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:15:48 GMT
Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC

In article <930125221902.12b4@VAX.CSUN.EDU> VBCSC03L@VAX.CSUN.EDU (snopes) writes:
>>I Recall reading about a medical mishap back in the late 70s (I think).
>>A doctor slipped up during a circumcision of a bouncing baby boy, and
>>recommended to the parents that he should have a sex change operation
>>and be rasied as a girl. Seems that the kid's fledgling manhood was
>>beyond repair.
>
>  Alright, somebody enlighten me:  Why is it "better" to be a woman with no
>  breasts, ovaries, or vagina (and still with such undesirable male
>  characteristics as facial hair, a deep voice, and testicles), than to be
>  a man with a damaged penis?  Wouldn't it be more sensible just to resort
>  to some sort of prosthetic and/or reconstructive surgery than to undergo
>  a complete sex change?

	As I understand it, 'gender reassignment' involves removing the
testicles and inverting the penis to make a pseudo vagina. Hormone therapy
makes breasts grow (strictly decorative mind you) and body fat redistribute
into more feminine lines. I don't see how they can do this to an infant, but
if the testicles are removed he won't ever grow body hair or a deep voice.
I agree that a prosthetic would be the better choice, but perhaps the baby's
testicles were already damaged beyond repair, so he'd never see puberty.
					-Liz
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                   | 	a loom, we're going to wind all the yarn into balls
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Aids in pizza
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:30:00 GMT

In article <H.eg.Yo0vY38ekO2@harvee.billerica.ma.us> scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us writes:
>In <93019.074149MBADBH@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>, David B. Horvath, CDP writes:
>>
>>SideNote: Ever notice how some acronyms have parts of themselves used
>>          after the name?
>>
>>   HIV - HIV virus   - Human Imm.. Virus virus
>>   ICBM - ICBM missle - Inter-Contential Balistic Missle missle
>>   HARM - HARM missle - High Speed Anti-Radiation Missle missle (anti-radar)
>
>my favorite is IRA account-individual retirement account account

Doesn't beat "personal PIN identification number."

Ted "three quarks for Master Mark" Frank
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standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: coriollis effect and Foucalt pendulums (and the UN)
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 17:26:15 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN) writes:

> >just fyi, the UN building in NYC has a Foucalt (sp?) pendulum swinging
> >from the roof rafters, and, yes, it does do all those funny things that
> >the various laws of physics say it should.
> >
> >question: does anyone know of any others on display?
> >
> >dannyb@panix.com
> >
>   There's one here in the Royal Ontario Museum.  Heck, I'd say every science
> museum has one.  We even have one set up in the attic of our physics building
> at this university, and it was used to measure (accurately) the speed of
> rotation of the earth.
> 
Brilliant! And was it slowing down?



-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU

"I hate quotations." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: etlanar@yogi.ericsson.se (Chops)
Subject: Re: Coca Cola dissolves meat?
Organization: Ericsson Cellular Division
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:59:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.023344.14580@ulysses.att.com> smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
>In article <1993Jan24.203158.11723@bmw.mayo.edu>, tcg@mayo.edu (Thomas Gerber) writes:
>>    Maybe it's another old hat, but, hey, I'm relatively new to the U.S.:
>> there was a "story" I repeatedly heard in the 60's that was meant to illustrate
>> the allegedly harmful effects of Coca Cola on the mucous membranes of your
>> stomach. It went like:
>> "If you put a piece of meat in a bowl of Coke overnight, the meat will dissolve
>> completely." Of course I never got around to trying it out ...
>
>The usual version of that story is that it will dissolve a tooth left
>in it overnight.


It'll dissolve a tooth, but not quite overnight. When I as at school we were
shown this as an experiment, and to persuade us not to drink sugary drinks.
When someone's tooth fell out, instead of leaving it for the tooth fairy, they
donated it in the interest of science. It was dropped in a glass of coke, and
left. A couple of days later it disappeared. (mind you, we reckoned someone
had eaten it. If it had soaked up all that coke, it probably tasted pretty
good).


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