HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Re: The lady with 7 locks
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:28:55 GMT

In article <BtvBII.1yo@hatch.socal.com>, richg@hatch.socal.com (Rich Greenberg) writes:
> 
> IMHO, its a UL because:
>  2) After the first few times,  whats left to be stolen?

It's very common to get hit twice in a very short time by the same
burgler.  They'll hit you the first time and steal, say, your television
and then come back 2 months later to steal the TV you just bought to
replace the one that was stolen.  This may not apply for multiple times,
of course....
-- 
Stephanie da Silva                                    arielle@taronga.com
  "Isn't it romantic?  When roosters fall in love... they lose
                                     all reason...." -- Peepers the Mouse
From: dolf@echo.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Counterfeiting (Was: You are humble and loveable)
Date: 31 Aug 92 08:49:14 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, E.C.H.O. development department

hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:
>In article <1992Aug27.121823.23066@echo.philips.nl> dolf@echo.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer) writes:
>>
>>ObUL: some german counterfeiters where so sure of their false banknotes that
>>      in stead of printing "Deutches Bundesbank" (sp ? German Bank), they
>>      printed "Deutches Bundesbahn" (sp ? German Railroad). No one noticed
>>      the difference.

>If no one noticed, why do you have this information?

Oke, let me add some more details: no one noticed until after the crooks
were caught. The 'good' guys were only looking for very small details on
the bank notes, so overseeing the big differences (the bad guys though they
were save as the notes they made could not be qualified as real due to this
obvious mistake, so they couldn't be punished for counterfeiting).
This overlooking-of-the-obvious may also happen for example
when you are looking at a map looking for something which you think is a
very small city, but in fact is a large state/country, takes a lot of time
to find it.

The reason why I marked this as an 'UL' is that I forgot whether
it really happened or that it was from a german movie. I just heard this
story from my brother, I personally never read it or saw the movie.
-- 
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  / U | Dolf Grunbauer    E.C.H.O. Development    Digital Equipment Enterprises
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88  |_\ mcsun!echo.philips.nl!dolf                         Was Dat voor niets ?
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From: bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson)
Subject: Re: The Flat Earth Society???
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Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 17:00:55 GMT

In article <mcirvin.714770619@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:
>sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>
>[on the Flat Earth Society]
>
>>Oh, it's not so incredible.  It's probably something like the "Man
>>Will Never Fly Society," which meets each year at the site of, and 
>>on the anniversary of, the Wright Brothers' first flight.  Of course
>>the members don't *really* believe that man will never fly, although
>>they put on a good deadpan show for the news media.  It's really 
>>just an excuse for a bunch of guys to get together and have a drunken
>>party. 
>
>The Flat Earth Society's president appeared on "Real People" back
>in the seventies, a show which apparently got hoaxed at least
>several times.  Whether or not the Society was what it said it
>was, it did have a president, and whether or not he really believed
>the world was flat, he was quite willing to say it was on TV.
>I remember that he endorsed TWA as the Flat Earth airline because,
>as he said, "they use flat earth maps."
>-- 
>Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 

The society has been around at least from the 60's when I heard of
it first. The current president of the society was on a radio talk
show a few months ago. I still can't tell if they are pulling our
collective leg or they are really serious.

He described the earth as an infinite plane with the sun over the
inhabital part. If one were to go to anarctica and keep going south
you would go on forever leaving the sun behind into darkness--same
with the north pole, but no one has done it. All who have tried
have lost course and went around in a circle. You can hang a 
geostationary satellite anywhere over the earth since satellites
float on the top of the atmosphere. There is a habitated world
on the other side of the disk but we can't get there and they
can't get here. And all kinds of other wonderful fantasies.

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From: yenamand@giga.cs.umn.edu (Murthy yenamandra)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Death by sneezing
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:40:58 GMT
Organization: :noitazinagrO

artn@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Ellyn Sandor) writes:
>mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:
>>There's something abot color that seems more arbitrary.  Perhaps it's
>	I seem to remember reading that different languages use different
>words for different chunks of the spectrum, and that this influences your
>thinking about it.
>	The specific example was some language (Scottish?  Gaelic? 
>Something around the north-of-England area) which had a single word to
>refer to what we call "Blue" and "Green", although their word for "Yellow"
>sort of slopped over into "Green".  The practical upshot of which is
>that they had two words for our three.  Something we call green, they
>might call "bluish-yellow" or "yellowish-blue".

    This kind of thing is true in my mother tongue (Telugu: from south
India) as well. We have a single word for yellow/green. If you want to
refer specifically to yellow or green, you have to form a compound word
for it - such as leaf-green or turmeric-green. I, ofcourse, flunked my
colorblindness test long ago (partially red/green blind).

Murthy


--
Murthy Yenamandra	|    "I close my eyes and all the world drops dead;
Dept of Comp Science 	|     I lift my lids and all is born again.
Univ of Minnesota	|     (I think I made you up inside my head.)"
yenamand@cs.umn.edu	|
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From: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Chef Boy-Ar-Dee commercial
Date: 26 Aug 92 14:50:33 GMT
Reply-To: craigb@ot.austin.ibm.com
Followup-To: rec.arts.tv
Organization: IBM Object Technology Products
Originator: jlpicard@woofer.austin.ibm.com


[Xposted to alt.folklore.urban and rec.arts.tv; followup to rec.arts.tv]

dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright) writes:

> Some I would like to have on tape:  Alka-seltzer "I can't believe I ate the
> whole thing" and "Try it, you'll like it".   Burger King (or was it
> Wendy's?)  "Where's the beef?"  Federal Express debut speech compression
> commercial.

This got me thinking about various&sundry "banned" commercials, ie, 
commercials which got pulled because someone got PO'ed.

Does anyone remember the Federal Express commercial with the US Postal
worker going "Only 2,384 days until retirement" (which engendered massive
protest from, surprise, the Postal Worker's Union)?

Or the Hardee's (?) commercial that ran shortly before the beginning of
the school year where they showed pictures and names of stereotypical
high school cafeteria worker ladies displaying typical school lunches?
The soundtrack was the song "See You In September". Drew alot of protest
from whatever union cafeteria worker ladies belong to.

Craig
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From: IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (macphil)
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Organization: IUPUI
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 19:37:29 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.132537.14534@geovision.gvc.com>
pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin) writes:
 
>OBUL: The founder of Adidas and the founder of Puma are brothers, and
>haven't talked since the war, because one accuses the other of collaborating
>with the Nazis (or being one).
 
well, that and the fact that AD and AD II are both dead.
From: datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Misapplied physics in advertising
Date: 27 Aug 92 06:16:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Dallas, Tx.

>> Also, some brands have a penchant for mispelling the words in the product
>> name, such as honee for honey, etc.

>They do that when it doesn't contain the misspelled item, or not enough
>of it.

A local supermarket (Albertsons *) often hawks a seafood product called
"Krab", which is scrunched-together fish that's supposed to taste like
crab.  They coat it with fake mayo and call it "Krab salad", and so on.

Dave Barry did a column on "cheez", satirizing the process-pasteurized-
cheese-food-byproducts that are known as "American Cheese" and "Cheez Whiz".



*  Their slogan is "It's your store".  I've been contemplating on how best
   to exploit this 8^)

>> Also, who is "responsible" for the making up of names of recent drugs,
>> such as Augmentin?  Are there any guidelines for any of these things?

Correctal.  I distinctly remember an unremarkable acetaminophen product
named "Datril" (check out my name).

There's Gyne-Lotrimin, but try as I might, I can't find Andro-Lotrimin.

I ate a whole box of Metamucil (will we get Paramucil?) once, but still
had the urge to use irregular verbs.
From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Spaghetti trees
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:06:57 GMT
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk wrote:
: In article <87098@netnews.upenn.edu>, crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
: > All this talk about parents giving us bum information (screaming peaches)
: > and Chef Boy-Ar-Dee has brought back memories of my mom and dad telling us
: > about spaghetti trees.
: > 
: > Apparently, back when TV was first becoming popular, some wise-acre ran
: > a "documentary" on where spaghetti comes from.  It showed all these happy
: > Italian farmers, using their pitchforks to harvest spaghetti from the
: > spaghetti trees.  My folks saw this; my mom believed it.  I have no idea
: > what my dad thought; he's not saying.  
: > 
: > Anybody else ever see this gem?  Or know anything about it?  Wonder if
: > it's still around anywhere ...
: > 
: It was an April Fool's Day joke by "Nationwide", what used to be the BBC's
: daily television current affairs programme. It must have appeared in the mid
: 70's, because when I first saw it, probably on a "Blue Peter" April 1st
: special, it was already several years old. Of course other TV networks may have
: made their own versions of it.

I saw the BBC version in Toronto (probably on the CBC) no later than 1965
(I remember seeing it in the house I moved out of in Jan 1966), so it
was probably made in the early sixties.
--
Ted Richards            ted@isgtec.com             [...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ted]
ISG Technologies Inc.   3030 Orlando Dr. Mississauga  Ont.  Canada   L4V 1S8
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From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy)
Subject: Re: Clio Awards
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:43:45 GMT

In article <Btoo7E.8Dt@well.sf.ca.us> casey@well.sf.ca.us (Kathleen Creighton) writes:
>
>No, nothing scandalous.  The guy who owned "Clio Awards" went out of
>business.  (And he did "own" it--a friend of mine tried to buy it from him,
>but no sale.)

  Huh?  I'm fairly sure that I read in the paper about the disastrous
event that the first poster was talking about.  Something like the
sponsors withdrew; the MC and organizers didn't show up; the audience
was left sitting around; and then suddenly a couple people went up to
claim trophies, and then there was a mad rush of people from the
audience trying to grab statuettes.  Something along these lines.  If
this wasn't the Clios, then which awards show was it?


--Raymond Flournoy        
======================================================================
flournoy@cs.stanford.edu         "For reasons I cannot explain
Computer Science Dept.            There's some part of me wants to see 
Stanford University, CA           Graceland"               -- P. Simon


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From: stirling@ozrout.uucp (Stirling Westrup)
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Organization: Andre P. Ozrout
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 11:46:31 GMT

STella@thelema.uucp (STella) writes
>
>Gee, and I was impressed when I managed to memorize the difference
>between flatitude and lorangitude.
>
>Anybody got one for the seven deadly sins?
>
Nevermind the seven deadly sins, you can look them up in any old book.
Trying to remember the seven cardinal virtues is the hard one.  Heck, it
took me a week of pouring through the stacks of our local library to find
out what they were.  (No, I don't remember what they were.  I wrote them
down, and have no idea where I put that particular notebook...)

Stirling "doesn't one of them involve immolating heretics?" Westrup

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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: apples to teachers - idea why
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 08:51:10 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.114311.2109@hellgate.utah.edu> galt%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu writes:
>Ted Frank writes:
>>Anthony Datri writes:
>>>Cacey Kade write:
>>>>"What? Over? Did you say it's over? Nothing's over, till we decide it is! 
>>>> Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!" --John Belushi
>>>Bill Murray.
>>Winston Churchill.
>Norman Bates.
No, Norman's mom.

cjl (Well maybe Winston overheard Disraeli whisper it to Gladstone)
From: dternes@duke.cdc.com (David Ternes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Cellular Frequencies
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:00:22 GMT
Reply-To: dternes@mips.COM (David Ternes)
Distribution: na
Organization: Advanced Product Development

In article <BtJuDA.7wF@unx.sas.com> sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>In article <rdippold.714754071@cancun>, rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>>Occasionally it [law against monitoring cellular phone conversations]
>>gets used as a political tool, as in the case in Minnesota (?) where a
>>candidate for governor is in trouble for possessing a recording of
>
>Virginia.  Governor Wilder vs. Senator Robb.
>Or is there a similar case in Minn. too?

Yes.

An aide to the now Minnesota Governor Carlson had made a tape recording
and passed out several copies.  I am lacking in details but it made the
news last month.




E. David J. Ternes                                       dternes@udev.cdc.com
Goal: To live either in obscurity or in competance.
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: What makes an urban legend work?
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:38:53 GMT
 <1992Sep4.175649.14099@news.media.mit.edu>
Organization: The Ohio State University

tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte) writes in

>Isn't the symbol for death the cross? I remember a series of five
>symbols on a cover of a GAMES magazine (male, female, life, death,
>infinity) from some movie or TV show that had a "Dr." in the title.
>Skull and crossbones means piracy or poison, to my knowledge.
>
>				-Dave


	That would be the popular tv show "Ben Casey, MD"

J.P. "The title part was not played by Ernie Koufax" Papai

ObUL: The "Skydome" sex incident was repeated in Pittsburgh last
night.  A stripper appeared in a 3-rivers loge at a bachelor
party during a ball game.  Everyone in the loge was ejected from
the stadium when the stripper took off her blouse and rubbed her
breasts on one of the gentleman's face, and some old bitty in a
nearby loge complained to security.
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From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: The Posh WC
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:29:27 GMT

In article <BtM1C8.6Fu@unx.sas.com> sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>
>In article <Aug.26.13.55.01.1992.1156@math.rutgers.edu> cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:
>>The landlord, not being familiar with what a "WC" was, assumed that it
>>stood for "Westminster Chapel."  He then wrote back a lengthy letter
>>describing the WC's historic importance, and a recent renovation in
>>which the seats were reupholstered in velvet.
>
>Just this week I heard a tape of Jack Paar telling this story on
>the old Tonight show (circa 1960, I guess).   His "WC" was "a
>*wayside* chapel," but it's the same story.

The story goes beyond that.  If memory serves, the NBC censors chose not
to allow Paar to recite the extremely innocuous story.  Paar, never one
to hide his feelings, complained vigorously about the censorship, got
rather misty, and walked off the set.  This created a lot of media attention,
and the mildly amusing story was printed and broadcast over and over.

I could easily be wrong about this, but I don't believe Paar ever broadcast
the joke, at least on the Tonight show.  I believe that you heard the tape,
and am curious about its origin.  (Maybe they let him tell the joke when
he came back, which he did.)

For amusing insight into NBC censorship, see "The Making of Star Trek".
James T. Kirk may have porked every bimbo in the galaxy, especially the
tin-chested one in "Gamesters of Triskelion", but worked under a rigorous
"NO OPEN-MOUTHED KISSING" ukase the whole time.

Phil "How did Johnny get that job, anyway?  Give me Steve Allen.  Smok!
Smok!" Gustafson
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|work: (Under Construction)              | Phil Gustafson                   |
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From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: Kimberly Dunning, or "Whatcha talking about?"
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:19:02 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.011345.9111@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>Didn't she pose nude somewhere along the way?  Or was that a different
>childhood star trying to rid herself of her wholesome image?

That was her... I have a .GIF.

-- 
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    If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, go real limp, so people will think
    you're a dummy, and they'll try to catch you, because hey, free dummy!
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From: rjlov@ecr.mu.oz.au (Richard J. Lovejoy)
Subject: Re: Monty Python's 3-sided ?
Organization: Dept. Engineering Computer Resources, Melbourne Uni.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 03:41:29 GMT

	There _is_ a Monty Python three sided record, as well as multiple
sided records with the calling of a horse race: ie there is a different
result each time.
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From: dternes@duke.cdc.com (David Ternes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Kimberly Dunning, or "Whatcha talking about?"
Keywords: true crime, video store, Diff'rent Strokes
Date: 26 Aug 92 18:33:19 GMT
Reply-To: dternes@mips.COM (David Ternes)
Organization: Advanced Product Development

In article <1992Aug26.172524.7085@natinst.com> scott@natinst.com (Scott A. Taylor) writes:
>Her name was Dana Plato.  She couldn't have been too destitute; she had
>posed in Playboy not too many months before (I *assume* Hugh pays the
>women who appear in his magazine; or do they do it for purely humanitarian
>reasons?)

The local auctioneer's daughter Carmen Berg who appeared in Playboy in
1986 received $15,000.00 for her one day of work.  I assume celebrities
probably get more.  However, after deductions for taxes, social security,
health insurance and drug addiction, Plato might not have had much left.


E. David J. Ternes                                       dternes@udev.cdc.com
Goal: To live either in obscurity or in competance.
From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Spaghetti trees
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:35:29 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <25783@dog.ee.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov writes:
>
>ObUL:  Muesli and Omoline horse feed are identical.  A friend, who has 
>sampled both, claims that this is so.  Yea or neigh?


None of my business, of course, but what was your friend doing eating
horse feed?  



-- 
Lauren Crawford  //  crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
            -- J. Danforth Quayle  
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From: artn@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Ellyn Sandor)
Subject: Re: Death by sneezing
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:07:51 GMT


	I have yet to show my wife your suggestions, but thanks.  I'll
print them out, and on our next airplane trip, whip them out and
say "quick, read these!"
	In other news.....
	Can anyone other than me do the reverse trick?  I can hold my
nose and breathe IN, to lower the pressure in my eustatian (sp?) tubes.
When taking off, breathe in, landing breathe out.
	(hmmm... could be a mnemonic there... I always forget which
is which, and I have to think about which way the air pressure is going,
as in "we're taking off, so we're going up, and the pressure is lower
there, so the pressure in my ears is too high, so I have to suck out air.")
	Help!  Find me a good mnemonic!!!!!

		sbm
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From: mjg51721@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael James Gebis)
Subject: Re: The Flat Earth Society???
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 21:27:34 GMT

I don't know why I didn't remember this in my last post, but....
In one of the OMNI book of games, there is a write up on a group that
doesn't believe in gravity.  (I think this is what they don't believe in...
I read it a LOOONG time ago.)  WHy, then, you might ask, don't we all fly
off into space?  Well, we're all on the INSIDE of a spinning globe.  The
rest of the bit I've forgotten, but I figure that this group is at least
as notable as the FES.
Mike "I wish I remembered the whole thing, not just half bits" Gebis

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