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From: 2ck1racicr@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: re* lighting farts
Date: 16 Dec 1992 08:48:34 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2ck1racicr@vms.csd.mu.edu
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In article <92349.13014434I5VXB@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>, Don Dangler <34I5VXB@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> writes:
>I've never done it, but a friend of mine spent an afternoon at my house lightin
>g them through his jeans.  he simply laid back, put the soles of his shoes toge
>ther and flicked his bic when the moment arose.
>
>
>############################################################################


I know of some kid that lit a fart and the flame traveled up his ass. It 
burned the hair in his ass. He spent the next month in the hospital
while it grew back.

	See the hair helps you defecate your excrement. Since it 
burned away the hair, nurses had to "plunge" the kid's butt.

	I but that was an expensive plumber job!

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: crosby@romeo.cs.colorado.edu (Matthew Crosby)
Subject: CU French final cancelled due to basketball
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:13:50 GMT

Well, I haven't seen this posted yet, so I thought I would.  Technically, it
isn't folklore, since it really happened, but is should have been :-)

Anyway, on Monday morning a French final at CU was cancelled 1 hour into the 
test.  The reason:  The basketball team needed to practice.  So, naturally,
since sport takes priority, the examinees where sent home, with promises that
they would get an A   (All the big finals take place in the large basketball
gym here)

There have been a lot of red faces in the administration over it!
Still, it seems that aspiring honor students have found a less violent method
of securing an A then having their roommate die :-)


-- 
-Matt
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the net!!!!
mcrosby@nyx.cs.du.edu     or     crosby@cs.colorado.edu
From: tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:53:21 GMT
Subject: Re: re* lighting farts
Organization: the HP Mtn.View Resp. Cntr.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college

This is dangerous folks!
I believe the common term for this is BlueFlame.

A kid died from this a few years ago.. I think it was in the SJ Mercury News..

There is a certain position you can get the body in where you can create 
enough vacuum to suck in air into your lower colon...  if you are 
in this position (I wouldnt know...but it was an interesting effect to 
see someone else act like an idiot spouting blue flames) and ignite any
highly flamable and stinky methane, you can cause hemmoraging(sic?)
because of the explosion etc...  

It is not very common, but it happens.  I would not recommend anyone
do it after hearing about the kid croaking....


"insert coin, turn unit on, have fun!" -the Flannagan brothers

all known disclaimers apply, including those yet unknown.
From: mbreen@sdacs.ucsd.edu (Michael Breen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Beer bongs, was Re: Drinking Contests
Date: 18 Dec 1992 21:27:00 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
NNTP-Posting-Host: sdacs.ucsd.edu

In article <1992Dec12.220919.16230@ncsu.edu> srmaygar@eos.ncsu.edu (STEVEN RICHARD MAYGAR) writes:
>
>>Another. Try this
>>Go to Canadian Tire or foreign equiv. and buy a funnell with a hose on the end.
>>Then fill the funnell with beer, kneel on one knee, and chug the beer, then
>>stand up.
>>Record events if possible  (for posterity)
>
>But try to do it in 2 or less gulps, one if possible.

NO! NO! NO!  You want to do these "beer bongs" in one "gulp".  You see, it's
not technically a "gulp" at all.  You want to just open up your throat and
deliver the beer to stomach, with no throat muscles involved.  This takes
practise, but the research is fulfilling.

I posted recently about our two floor beer bongs at UCSDs Argo hall,
executed with a beer bong, a looong hose, lots of beer, a building with
at least three floors, and a little help.  We would do a six-pack in
one "inhale" (no, that's not the right word either; imbibe?), and you
sepnd the next 60 seconds saying "Down stomach!  Bad stomach!  Heel
stomach!" 

Michael Breen
singing and philosophizing
(those were the days)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki)
Subject: Enough with the Omar postings!!!!
Keywords: innertube hudson water balloons
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 06:11:04 GMT


Enough with the Omar postings allready!  God, if it bothers you that much just take it to mail or something.  Geesh, you'd figure that some people would figure out what a joke is.                                                                                                                                             --Jason Balicki                                                                 kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
From: okes@essex.ac.uk (Simon Oke)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: NI3
Date: 20 Dec 92 14:48:16 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK.
In-reply-to: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu's message of 16 Dec 92 22:21:39 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.222139.4548@news.unomaha.edu>
torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes: 
>Is this the
>same thing as fulminate of mercury?  In the play/movie Mr.Roberts,
>Ensign Pulver makes a firecracker out of this and blows up the
>laundry.  A very funny movie!

Yes. Mercury fulminate is the substance used in kids' cap guns to make the
bang. It's also used (in slightly larger quantities :-) to make industrial
detonators (at least that's what my school chemistry book said).

--
Simon Oke, 3rd year Computer Science
undergraduate at the University of Essex, UK.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: cpc@shell.portal.com (Chris Cebelenski)
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS being discontinued Dec 1992
Organization: Portal Communications Company -- 408/973-9111 (voice) 408/973-8091 (data)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 03:11:23 GMT

In article <BzEJrD.K7x@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <IISAKKIL.92Dec16131502@lk-hp-13.hut.fi> iisakkil@lk-hp-13.hut.fi (Mika Iisakkila) writes:
>> kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki) writes:
>> >Argh!  Why does EVERYONE ignore the Amiga.  :)
>
>> Aaaaagghh! Now you said it! It won't take long before THEY come here
>
>We've been here all along, you great steaming leather-bound clockwork git.

Yep.  Just lurking in the shadows, waiting to pounce!!

>-- 
>Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
> `-_-'   Oletko halannut suttasi tnn?
>  'U`    
>Tarjoilija, tm ateria el viel.

Chris Cebelenski  - cpc@shell.portal.com
#include <std-disclaim.h>

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: cmcurtin@bluemoon.use.com (Matthew Curtin)
Subject: Re: Apple ][e emulator (?)
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 13:20:52 EST

c3q@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:

> A couple of us CS types were discussing the old ][e, and concluded that it
> would be a SMOP to write a ][e emulator (sort of an interpreter that took ][e
> object code and ran it on a virtual 6502, virtual graphics chips, etc). 
> Although this would be a real cool hack, *I* don't have time for it.  Has
> anyone heard of anyone else talk about this project (either software or 
> vaporware)?  I'd like to meet the demented heroic fool!

Try posting to a NeXT group... I don't remember who, but someone had or 
was going to develop such a thing for the NeXT...


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From: valdis@black-ice.cc.vt.edu (Valdis Kletnieks)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: PI
Date: 16 Dec 92 01:01:30 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

In article <1992Dec15.134732.3739@piccolo.cit.cornell.edu> smr2@cornell.edu (Szymon Rusinkiewicz) writes:
>Daniel Drucker (daniel@mertwig.uucp) writes:
>>A while back people were asking for the 50000 digits of pi; if anyone is 
>>still looking for it, please mail me with a subject of "send pi".
>
>>If I get more than 15 requests in the first day, I will post it.
>
>For THE 50000 digits of pi? Since when is pi finite?   :-)

Well, if you're enough of a wizard, you can declare 'pi' to have
as many digits as you want. ;)

Personally, I'm amazed that our buddy Daniel was able to write a
program that was able to compute a 50,000 digit result, and didn't
clue in that 'pi' is an irrational number.

Back to folklore - what's everybody's favorite fast-converging
series expansion for 'pi'?

				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Engineer
				Virginia Tech

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: bob@NCoast.ORG (Bob Allison)
Subject: Wang 2200
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 01:19:55 GMT

   I acquired an old Wang model 2200 computer a while back.  I'm looking
for the boot disk(s) and system disk(s) for the machine.

   I also have a Wang 2336ds terminal, but I need a keyboard for it.  If
anybody has any one of these items and would be willing to part with it for
a modest fee, I'd greatly appreciate a reply.

   The 2200 is too big to be a paperweight or a doorstop, but it sure makes
a nifty endtable/conversation piece ;)
-- 
   -=> Bob  Allison <=-     |  O   O  O_    _    ___ ...      O  |    // I
      bob@ncoast.org        | ||| /|\ /\  O/\_   /       O  //\/ |   // Use
            or              |  l  | |  |\   / \ /\         \/\   | \\/ Amiga!
ab382@cleveland.freenet.edu | How would I accelerate an IBM? / 32 feet/sec^2!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.folklore.urban,alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: Proper pronounciation of 'Kibo'
Keywords: Tkibosk
Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:20:48 GMT

In article <1go3neINN2vp@gap.caltech.edu> kwp@wag.caltech.edu (Kevin W. Plaxco) writes:
>In article <Bz2wAA.9Kx@world.std.com> kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:
>>But I'd just ignore that, the way I do when the grep script finds many
>>"skiboots for sale", "Skibo hall", "kibosh", "Tkibosk", "kibou to
>                                               ^^^^^^^^
>
>I admit it, I am ashamed, but I admit it.  While posting a note to
>soc.culture.soviet requesting information for a trip I am planning 
>on taking to a really.obscure.ex-soviet.independant.state, (Kirgh-
>izstan) I slipped this made up place name into it just in a fit of 
>piqueishness. I guess I just wanted some attention.  No such place 
>exists.   I apologize for any inconvenience my thoughtless actions 
>may have caused.

I know it doesn't exist, you silly person, because if it did I'd be
finding its name in relcom.* all the time.

Well, maybe not--in KOI8 it might be spelled differently.  Like "tKIB^oSK".

>-Kevin "is right justification of his post penance enough?" Plaxco

No, because

a) justification is evil, *especially* of fixed-width fonts
b) the next-to-last line has a big gap in it
c) you didn't hang the hyphen in line 3
d) the "g"s look funny.

You are doomed to spend all eternity in Tkibosk, or worse, Tskiborsk,
which sounds more Russian.
							-- K.
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From: unrza3@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,soc.culture.nordic,soc.culture.german,soc.culture.french,news.admin.misc,news.future,comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: 8-bit news
Date: 15 Dec 92 09:20:27 GMT
Reply-To: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
NNTP-Posting-Host: cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de

pcj1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Pierre Jelenc) writes:

>In article <1992Dec14.044314.10327@qiclab.scn.rain.com> Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org writes:

>>
>>Actually, even "PC compatible" gear can use ISO Latin-1! You just have to
>>have EGA or VGA and install the proper "code page". I'd give details,
>>but I misplaced that manual. (Arrrggghhh!)
>>
>>So it *is possible, just inconvenient. 
>>-- 
>Assuming that the PC has the Latin 1 code page loaded, how does one get
>it to display netnews and email that comes in as 8 bit to the Unix
>system, but shows up as 7-bit on the screen of the PC connected to
>the Unix?

On UNIX try 

  stty cs8 -istrip

or whatever is appropriate for your version. One the PC use MS-Kermit 3.11
or newer. This program offers excellent ISO 8859 support!

Mit freundlichen Gr|_en

Markus

-- 
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From: daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Famous flame wars, examples please?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 17:21:49 EST
Reply-To: daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net  (Daniel Drucker)
Organization: Abnormalities of Reality

lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:

> cmcurtin@bluemoon.use.com (Matthew Curtin) writes:
> Does anyone have an article on the history of internet worm?
> 
> PS: I'm not after source code - I'm just curious.

I am. I'm also just curious.


--
Daniel Drucker        N2SXX       Coconut seashells whispering to me
daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net         "Forever, forever, my Coda..."
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: David.Kelman@launchpad.unc.edu (David Kelman)
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS being discontinued Dec 1992
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:35:10 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.034923.23872@news.uiowa.edu> mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu (Michael T Pins) writes:
>
>cheryl@gallant.apple.com (Cheryl Lins) writes:
>
>>In article <9212162327.54@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:

< stuff deleted >
>
>>Ha-ha-ha!!! You make a funny, no?
>
>>Only those brought up on dinosaur derived systems and mentalities. And i'm so
>>very certain that Mom and Pop want to be programmers (even in the very limited
>>form of writing shell commands). But that's a discussion best suited for the
>>'famous flame wars' thread (GUI vs command line). And I have better things to
>>do than spend time trying to convince you otherwise or start a new flame war.
>
>No, he make a good point, no?
>No one is asking Apple to do away with their GUI (which *would* be really
>stupid).  What people are asking for is an alternative, in other words, a CLI.
>Only those who are perpetually computer illiterate don't see the use of a CLI.
>The GUI is wonderful for Mom and Pop, secretaries, and for opening comm
>programs, word processers, etc.  But for a lot of things, a CLI is considerably
>more powerful, not to mention quicker.  The Amiga has had both since the day it
>came out (and please, no Amiga vs Mac flame wars), and Amiga users know how
>nice it is to have both.  Steve Jobs figured this out (remember him?) which is
>why the NeXT gives you both.  Only Apple is still lagging behind.
>

	This last August I was in the market for a new computer.  I was
looking to spend between $3000-$5000 on a system that I thought would last me
at least a couple years, that I could be productive on and could play
with.  I looked at the Mac, and while it had a lot of features that I
wanted, like the ability to read both Mac and IBM disks, it didn't have a way
for me to get to a command line, which I like (at 29, I don't think of
myself as a dinosaur).  IBM doesn't have a real integrated GUI (you still
need to go to the command line to do system stuff with Windows), so I bought
a demo model of a color NeXTStation at the university bookstore.  If the Mac
had a CLI, I would have probably gone with it.  Instead it's Apple's loss and
NeXT's gain.

David Kelman
kelman@vaxe.niehs.nih.gov


--
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Mark Brader Posts!  (Was: Re: Amusing Signs)
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:36:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec20.195428.17256@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:

>Lane, Lange, Larsen, Larsson, Lasner, Lav, Lawrence, lcs, LEB, Lee, Lee,
                               ^^^^^^

Hey, I resemble that remark!

>Zeitlin, ZEUS, zonker, and Zych are all the same person, and therefore
>the proposal passes by a vote of 151-1.

no, by that logic the vote is a tie of 1-1, and is therefore an inadequate
vote and thus flunks for that reason!

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
Subject: Re: Famous flame wars, examples please?
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:02:05 GMT

In <1992Dec10.184747.25079@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
>In article <1992Dec10.134214.8650@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath) writes:
>>There is _currently_ a pretty hot and long-lived flamewar going on between
>>the Greeks and Turks on Soc.history.

>It's been going on since circa 300 B.C., but at the outset it was a REAL war,
>not just a flame war. :)

It started much earlier, as a flame war, but in 300 B.C. someone pulled the
plug on the Usenet link between Greece and Turkey, hoping that that would
stop the flames coming in.  It didn't work out quite the way he expected.

HansM
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: octal to decimal converter?
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:44:23 GMT

In article <3952351@zl2tnm.gen.nz> don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
>lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>> As I said, this is a general-purpose kind of claim; that eliminates all of 
>> those advantages, because if you do enough of them, the tricks can't cover all
>> of the requirements without stumbling around.  The VAX has some instructions
>> that could take other machines many lines to do, but if you change the
>> requirement a bit, then it's just as clumsy as others, etc.  In any case, I
>> think that the alleged overhead is not the biggest cause of problems in a 
>> more general sense.
>
>To put it bluntly, I don't believe you.  8-)
>
>For example, a simple move on an accumulator machine takes two instructions.
>On a two-operand machine, it takes one.  The same applies to most operations.
>I *am* talking about general cases, not special instructions.  (I mean, who
>*really* uses the POLYx instructions on the VAX? 8-)

PDP-11 has a "simple move" instruction, but look how many bytes it takes to
state how to move something from point A to point B, while the PDP-8 uses
two 12-bit instructions in 4 total cycles to move a 12-bit A to a 12-bit B.
Are we going to count instructions regardless of how complicated they are
as *one* each?

>
>A challenge: state the purpose of your 48 word routine in enough detail
>so I can have a go at implementing it on a pdp11 or VAX (possibly other
>architectures too).  Let's get objective about this!

It's not "my" routine, and certainly not my count of length of it; I merely
took an off-hand count of what someone else proposed, and suggested that I
could do it shorter than that on the -8 than on the alleged -1 version.  
Someome else suggested that the -1 could do it in less space also.  I would
tend to agree, but I make no claims about -1 expertise.

I suppose I could whip up something vaguely similar as long as we could
define some "ground rules" so that there is a level playing field.

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: octal to decimal converter?
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:07:30 GMT

In article <D03PVB3w165w@mertwig.uucp> daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net  (Daniel Drucker) writes:

>> That seems a bit long, assuming it's PDP-8 code; probably too many bits since
>> the PDP-1 was 18 bits, not 12.  When you're trying to write tight code you
>> have to eliminate all extra bits!
>
>Well, you'd know more than me; I read it in Steven Levy's 'Hackers', you were
>probably there...
>
>I would like more info on this subject though...feel free to mail me if you
>don't think it's appropriate here.

In many instances, the PDP-8 wins hands down on programming for the shortest
number of instructions to solve a particular problem, assuming that 12 bits
is enough to solve it at all.  In many cases, a highly particularized machine
quirk may beat it for size, but in general this will limit the overall "score"
of such things.  Also, you have to be careful how you count such comparisons.
Some machines, such as the PDP-11, fetch multiple bytes per instruction as a
function of the instruction itself.  Thus counting "instructions" may be
misleading.  Except for the case of certain extended arithmetic (EAE) 
instructions, all PDP-8 instructions are 12-bits long, and may possibly fetch
a 12-bit operand or indirect pointer and operand (making the instruction take
2 or 3 cycles instead of 1; all of this assumes no pre-fetch optimization, 
pipelining, etc.).  The majority are one cycle however.

I would think that the PDP-1 code to do that specific problem would be a bit
longer than the equivalent PDP-8 version.  Of course, the maximum input and
output ranges would have to be scaled accordingly, etc.

cjl
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