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From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Pentagon pizzas
Date: 29 Jan 93 02:41:03 GMT
Organization: The Autodesk Menagerie - Housecat Division

In article <1993Jan19.223133.1211@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown) writes:
>>
>I heard this story, but I heard it was the White House (no # of pizzas) and
>that to thwart things they know randomly make big pizza orders so people
>have no idea if the pizza order is a prelude to something big.


I listen to KCBS radio every morning. I believe the show is called
"The Osgood File" (it seems like something he would do). It was
either yesterday or the day before that they called up the Domino's
franchise that serves the White House (not the Pentagon).

The manager described how this works. He normally gets about 10 orders
a night from White House staff. When a crisis is about to hit, the
number of orders goes up to about 100+. This is because everyone is
working late. He also has noted that the toppings vary depending on
the seriousness of the matter at hand. He surmises that anxiety makes
them a little more hungry.

The staff at the White House is wise to this. One time, the CIA ordered
that no one make any orders at all the the Domino's Pizza place. So,
the manager knew something mighty big was up because instead of the
10 or so orders he was accustomed to, he got no orders.

When asked if he would divulge this kind of information, he said that
he would not be very likely to report this to anyone on a regular
basis because even though he was not a cleared employee of the government,
as he valued national security.

Also, he added that no federal/tax dollars went to these pizzas (so
he says). Every single purchase made from his store is in cash. He
added that Dan Quayle was an excellent tipper. (The newscaster
surmised that Quayle tipped well, but still could not spell
"pepperoni".)

ER

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From: unknown@Apple.COM (Matt Ackeret)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: doggie doodoo
Date: 25 Jan 93 07:51:36 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA

In article <1993Jan19.121027.15751@nntp.nta.no> styri@nta.no writes:
>Not just eskimo dogs. Most dogs will will dine on dung. It's not strange
>at all. Some animals happen to do things that may disgust the urban person.

serious question --
if animals (at least some) can eat feces (bleck) and not get sick, why
did the recent 'food poisoning' that was in the news recently kill at least
one person?  It was beef that had feces in it!
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From: sos@indy.cray.com (Steven Siegfried)
Subject: Re: Chinese food
Organization: Cray Research, Inc., Mendota Hts, MN
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:04:38 CST

psraah@uta.fi (Rami Ahonen) writes:
> 
> I heard a story last saturday that sounded awfully lot like a UL.
> Let's see what you people have to say....
> 
>       A girl goes to Chinese restaurant in Helsinki (That's in Finland
>       in case you didn't know!) and orders chicken. She eats and
>       leaves the place, but later feels like she's got a bone stucked
>       in her throat. So she goes to see a doctor who removes the
>       bone and after having studied it says that the bone is not
>       from a chicken. Later girl goes to the restaurant with some
>       officials to check the place. They found a freezer full
>       of rats. Now the restaurant is closed.
>       People who told me the story couldn't remember the name
>       of the place but they said that this happened just few
>       months ago.
> 
> I know there are stories about people eating all kinds of stuff, but
> what I'm interested in founding out is that has anybody (hopefully not
> everybody) heard about the bone and the doctor.

Which brings to mind something I experienced a few years back (yep, no
FAOF story this, but first person testmony).  I was in Munich Germany
for a week-long series of meetings.  One night, one of the folks in our
group suggested Chinese food instead of hanging around the beer hall
(again ;-).

A few hours after dinner, I clearly wasn't feeling right.  Checked the
next day with all my dinner partners, and sure enough, many reported
that "after eating in a German-Chinese restaurant, three hours later
they were hungry for power".

-Steve "I thought it was the prawns" Siegfried 

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From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:45:48 GMT

robcruic@intacc.uucp (Robert Cruickshank) writes:
>amalgamtion of St James United Church, and Bond United Church, and, god strike
>me down if I am making this up, it really is called "St James-Bond United
>Church."  *this is not an UL!*

No - and if you send a picture of it to National Lampoon, they tell you
thanks, but they've already seen it.  (At least they did back when I lived
in TO)

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From: VBCSC03L@VAX.CSUN.EDU (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: John Denver
Date: 26 Jan 1993 00:38:59 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

 carolo@cse.ucsc.edu (Carol Osterbrock) . . .

>> Can any other readers out there verify that John Denver was a U.S. Army 
>> sniper?

> Gee, back in, ummm, mumble, when I was a teenybopper and John Denver
> first became a star, I remember reading in 16 Magazine about him, and
> he *was* in the army.  It would have been in the early-mid sixties,
> I think, coz he got started in show biz around 1968 or 9 or so, so
> he *could* have gone to Vietnam. 

  Sorry, no shergolds will be awarded this one.  John Henry Deutschendorf
  left his family home in New Mexico when he was 20 (in 1964), moved to
  Los Angeles, joined the Chad Mitchell Trio, and changed his name to John
  Denver.  He was with the Chad Mitchell Trio from 1965-68 before launching
  his own career as a singer/songwriter in the late 60's.  It's possible he
  did a short stint in the army from 1962-64, but I couldn't find anything
  to confirm it, and it's even less likely that he would have spent that
  time in Vietnam.

 - snopes

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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Okay, if you're so smart ...
Date: 22 Jan 1993 16:50:45 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
  +
  +Ted "what's German for diode?" Frank

Das Deiod?

Terry "I'm a little rusty" Chan
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From: sigma@degas.ipl.rpi.edu (Kevin Martin)
Subject: Re: starting a car takes more gas that idling
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:00:51 GMT

chrisp@cs.uwa.oz.au (Chris Pudney) writes:
>In <1993Jan21.210843.269@gems.vcu.edu> hleaves@gems.vcu.edu writes:
>>People have always told me that it takes more gas to start a car than to leave
>>it running. That, suppposedly, is why you shouldn't turn off your engine for a
>>brief stop.I can believe that this is true for a very brief idling period, but
>>not for any longer times. What would be considered the crossover point, where
>>it is better to stop your engine than leave it running? (considering gas
>>consumption only, not including engine wear from starting)
>The Royal Automobile Club's fuel economy guide suggests that it's 30 seconds. 

Back in the mid to late 70's, when the Shell Answer Man was still around,
at least in the US, and had inserts in Reader's Digest, they indicated that
the crossover point was 60 seconds.  Their example was waiting at a train
crossing - most sane intersections won't wait this long.

Of course, if the car won't restart, lots of people hate you.

-- 
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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Jesus' Birthday
Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:50:25 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:

  +Joke:  [NOTE:  BAD sign]
  +> Well, he was born on Easter, so we'd have to look it up and find out 
  +> whether it fell in March or April that year.
 
  [Exposition and obligatory jik-dik reference deleted.] 
  +
  +(Did you ever notice how humor loses something when you explain it?)

Well, if it comes to this, we might have to go for something 
like alt.folklore.urban.d or alt.folklore.urban.funny.  
Anyone want to write a CFV?

Terry "Not a Brad" Chan
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: AFU EAST
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 00:42:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.204509.12321@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel Furr) writes:
>
>>I propose AFU EAST should be held sometime in March, preferably around the
>>15th, in Pittsburgh.  Anyone interested?
>
>Problem is, Pittsburgh is in the Midwest.  I always suspected
>this, but it was confirmed when Penn State, which is to the East
>of P'burgh, joined the Big Ten.  The Big Ten is a strictly
>midwest institution.  This of course gave the Big Ten 11 schools,
>but they decided to not change the name.  I think P'burgh would
>be second only to Chicago as preferred location of AFU Midwest I.

Damn straight.

>ObFact: The Big Ten, with schools from Columbus in the East to
>Iowa City in the West, was originally known as the 'Western
>Conference'.  Michigan's fight song still has lyrics about
>'champions of the West.'

ObFact: University of Chicago was a Big Ten school before our
president shut down the football team.  Now all we have are
Nobel Prize winners.

Ted "went five consecutive years without attending a school where
     the football team won a game, until this year" Frank
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From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Subject: Re: Okay, if you're so smart ...
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
	<1993Jan20.223029.13796@acuson.com>
	<1993Jan21.155657.27834@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:53:02

>>That depends on how you mean related.  Structurally, English is
>                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>certainly germanic.  A great deal of the vocabulary, however, is
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>romance.  It filtered in after the Norman conquest.
>
>That is why I the verb at the end of this sentence put.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!  Okay, here i go again.  (Head, wall, BANG)

English is a Germanic language.  Not only is its structure Germanic,
but it is descended from the same protolanguage (i love this
linguistic mishmash) as the other languages of the Germanic family.
It is true that English borrowed a large chunk of Romance vocabulary
after the Norman conquest, but this is not enough to say that English
is a Romance language or is "closely related" to the Romance
languages.  (It is, of course, related to them.)

Germanic languages do not all put the verb at the end of the sentence.
The Scandinavian languages put the verb in the second position
(technically known as the "real" or "correct" position), just like
English does.  So does Frisian.  I think Dutch does, too.  We're
running out of Germanic languages here 8-).  Incidentally, German
doesn't put the whole verb at the end of the sentence.  That part of
the verb which shows tense goes in the second position.  The rest goes
to the end.  However, the tense-marked verb can be a largely
meaningless auxilliary, which means you don't know what the heck's
going on until the sentence is finished...by which time, if you
weren't taking notes, you have forgotten the subject.

While i'm at it: i spoke too hastily in declaring Amaraic dead.  To be
fair, its influence has been greatly diminished since the time the
Christian scriptures were written.  Frisian is not dead, though its
influence too has waned from what it once was.  And i misspelled
Chomsky's name, which may say something about how much respect i have
for the man, i suppose.  (Actually, i probably misspelled Amaraic,
too, but i'm in a bit of a rush...)

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway
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Subject: Bambi meets Godzilla.
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 22:02:01 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand
Keywords: bambi cute roadkill

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.  


Derek "Would this qualify as a snuff film" Tearne


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Subject: Re: Jesus' Birthday
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 05:06:34 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1993Jan21.213744.25965@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>nolan@twg.com (Pius X) writes:
>: 
>: |>>No - Easter was set as the date of his resurrection. It has nothing to do
>: |>>with the supposed birth date. 
>: |>
>: |> Uh, somebody didn't recognize the joke.
>: 
>: No, you gored Bill's Blessed Bovine. An inquisitor will be knocking on your
>: door shortly.
>
>Who? Terry? Derek? Ya wanna watch? It'll cost you two-fifty.

Remember, never taunt the Happy Fun Bull<tm>.

Derek "Noooobody expects the New Zealand inquisition" Tearne


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From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
Subject: Re: Mushrooms and the Cat---a live one!
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Thickening Plots, Pty.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:21:06 GMT


In article <1993Jan25.160220.23985@acuson.com>, lawson@acuson.com (Drew 
Lawson) cites:
|>[deleted -- eat dinner, cat sick, stomachs pumped, cat had kittens]
|>
|>
|>This is almost exactly the same as one of the scenes in _Her Alibi_.
|>
|>_Her_ (forget the name) makes dinner and leaves.  Everybody sits down,
|>plate of scraps given to cat.  After dinner, cat is rigid in the
|>laundry room.  The entire group swills epicac (may also go to the
|>hospital, I forget).
|>
|>As everybody is leaving, the neighbor comes over and apologizes for
|>killing the cat.  Since there was company, he just put it inside the
|>back door at the time.

And then there's the Fawlty Towers episode involving a rat, rat poison, veal,
a cat, and a health inspector.

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From: andrew@utopia.resntl.bhp.com.au (Andrew Lewis)
Subject: Re: Cuttin' the Rug
Organization: BHP Research - Newcastle Laboratories
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:30:46 GMT

In article <PRENER.93Jan24022323@prener.watson.ibm.com>, prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener) writes:
|> 
|> But even in AFU, shouldn't some sense of proportion remain?  Producing a
|> pattern without an error does not make an artisan perfect.  Deliberately
|> introducing an error might, however, keep him humble.

It also makes the product identifiable as a unique, hand-made item rather than
a cheap, mass-produced machine-made copy. (At least that was the idea I think
with Japanese potters who would deliberately bump their work to make it
imperfect.)

Andrew
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker)
Subject: Re: Coke Machines
Originator: jlpicard@woofer.austin.ibm.com
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:33:40 GMT
Reply-To: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Object Technology Products


Dunno about coke machines (most canteen operations I've seen pay
one or more people to make the rounds of the machines, check them,
fix them, refill them, etc), but I understand that power companies
around the country are starting to install remotely readable power
meters at distant/hard-to-get-to places. Apparently these things
connect to the phone line and automatically modem in every so often
with the latest power readings. In some cases, this is lots more
cost-effective than paying someone to climb your fence to read 
your meter.

Craig
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From: pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman)
Subject: Spike Lee caters to white folks
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:15:59 GMT

Of course you know, the Rodney King footage was put at the beginning of 
_Malcolm X_ to make the white viewers feel more comfortable.

-Neal Whitman
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From: lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund)
Subject: Twinkies Defense was (Re: Terrifying Twinkies (was Re: The Big Pot o
Summary: Original Twinkies defense case 
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:35:54 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.200906.11402@bmw.mayo.edu> tcg@mayo.edu writes:
>In article 727735941@mcl,  c-chan@mcl.ucsb.edu (Christina Callihan) writes:
>
>Twinkies seem to have some very interesting properties and effects.
>I couldn't find it anywhere in Brundvand's books and I don't remember seeing it
>in the FAQ;
>Is anything true about the story concerning somebody pleading "temporarily diminished
>responsibility" due to "twinkies intoxication" in a murder case?
>
	The so called "Twinkies Defense" of junk food intoxication was used 
by lawyers for the murderer of San Francisco mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk.
The accused didn't get off completely but did get a pretty mild sentence 
for a double murder.  The light sentence may have been due to anti-gay
prejudice.

	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.

Larry "Now if he'ld have shot the _designer_ of the Twinkie..." Headlund 


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From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: software kills
Date: 24 Jan 93 14:33:53 GMT
Reply-To: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
Organization: University of Durham

Something similar to this happened at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in (surprise)
Exeter, Devon..  A friend of mine received a letter from the Hospital telling her that
there was a problem with the settings of the X-Ray machine and that she should come back
to the Hospital for a check to see if there was any long term damage.

This was the same hospital where there was a scare of one of the Obstetricians being HIV+,
needless to say, lots of women were VERY worried.

Moral to the story:  Don't go to hospital or see doctors.

Scott "The Power of Positive Thinking" McIntyre

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From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: gators 'r us
Subject: Re: Doggie Doo-Doo
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
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In <930119200826.1094@VAX.CSUN.EDU>, snopes writes:
>renault@CAM.ORG (Pierre Renault) spews:
>
> > Horses eat road apples because it helps them digest.
>
> > Rabbits do the same.
>
>  Maybe so, but *I've* never seen a rabbit eat road apples.
a veterinarian told me that gerbils eat their own feces because there are
certain nutrients they can't utilise the first time through.  he said that
cleaning their cages too often could lead to malnutrition.

i've heard the dreaded "somewhere" that rabbits have a similar problem.]


look- a post about gerbils that doesn't mention any of those other gerbil uls!
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