HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Re: Oranjelo and the severed dog's head
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 10:42:18 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.175346.1@ducvax.auburn.edu> bwaid@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
> My (ex) wife and two of her friends say they heard that if a dog bit 
> someone and was believed to be rabid that its head (the dog's for the
> parsing impaired) had to be cut off and sent to a lab for testing. 
> I'm not buying it. 

Hm.  We talked about rabies a long time ago here.  
But anyhow, what's so hard to believe about this?  When an animal is tested
for rabies, it does get destroyed (they take a sample of brain cells because
that's where the virus is most concentrated).  

A couple of years ago, my daughter was bitten by a stray cat upon no
provocation on her part so we caught the stray and called Animal Control to
have them come pick it up.  They said it wasn't necessary to have her undergo
rabies shots as there hasn't been a reported case of rabies in a cat or dog
in this area for something like 15 years.  They did test the animal for
rabies; I guess it's common procedure (meaning they destroyed it).  It
tested negative.
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From: etlanar@slartibartfast.ericsson.se (Alan Arthur)
Subject: Re: Room numbering (was: Floor numbering)
Organization: Ericsson Cellular Division
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 09:47:07 GMT

>	What makes the Royal College unique is its incredible layout. No two
>floors are the same, for starters.  Staircases fly off in all directions,
>and you'd swear there isn't a corresponding one on the floor above/below.
>Rooms are cunningly hidden down murky side corridors, and doors which you
>think have rooms turn out to have more corridors behind them. Then there is the
>superb numbering system. Each room number is of the form Rf.nn, where f is the
>floor number and nn the room number. But naturally, placing rooms with 
>contiguous numbers adjacent to each other would be far too easy, so all the
>odd-numbered rooms go on the east side of the building and all the even ones
>on the west! Are you supposed to take a compass in with you, or something?
>Then, of course, there is at least one room which takes up two floors, so that
>it has entrances on both the third and fourth floors.
>

Ahhh, but what about the rooms that are between two floors, or the secret 
passage that brings you out onto the 4th floor of the Union? (Or have they
blocked that up again...?) Or even the spiral iron staircase that goes nowhere,
or the door that is half way up a wall for no apparent reason....	  

...You are in a maze of twisting passages, all alike...

AAAAAAARRRRGH!


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From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Presidential UL's
Date: 28 Sep 92 23:55:30 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <Sep.24.10.28.33.1992.13403@math.rutgers.edu>, 
cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:
> Al Haig was the subject of one of my two favorite bumper stickers from
> the 1988 campaign.  This sticker featured a mushroom cloud and the
> words "Haig in '88: Let's Get It Over With."
> 
> The other was a traditional "Run, Jesse, Run" bumper sticker--on the
> front bumper.
> 
> --Scott "this year I like the "Read My Lips: No More Bushit" sticker"
> Cromar 

I like "Four More Months!"

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
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From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: Superglue origin an UL?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:10:47 GMT

george@windslc.seri.gov (George Scott) writes:
>bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce) writes:

>>In article 27881@colorado.edu, crosby@caesar.cs.colorado.edu (CROSBY MATTHEW JAME) writes:
>>> I have heard from *several people* that Cyanoacrylate (superglue) was
>>> originally invented by mountain climbers as a quick fix for
>>> wounds/cuts/gouges/etc.

>>I had heard that it was used as a replacement for stitches by the US
>>military, but not that it was invented by mountain climbers.  I'll give
>>climbers their due, but surgical R&D is probably not their strong
>>suit.

>It wasn't invented by climbers, but apparently some rock climbers (this is a
>different animal from mountain climbers) use it to repair 'flappers', an
>uncomfortable condition where a large (e.g., 0.25" by 0.25") chunk of skin
>is almost detached from your finger by a sharp hold. I prefer adhesive tape
>and a lot of cursing.
>-- 
Cyanoacrylate IS used by vets and surgeons to close wounds.  I don't know
if it was invented for that purpose.
--
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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Liz Claiborne/Oprah Winfrey UL
Organization: Will work for food, but not for DEC.
Date:  5 OCT 92 09:01:46    


In article <mjenkins.718116768@cunews>, 
  mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes...

>One problem: the story is untrue. Claiborne never appeared on "Oprah"
>and never made such comments. Still, "Oprah" staffers receive 15 calls
>a week from viewers who insist they saw Claiborne on the show."

I saw it.  She was on the show with Zsa-Zsa Gabor, and she told Ms. Gabor they
don't make clothes for old people, either.  It was reported in all the
newspapers.

 - snopes

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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Subject: Re: Disco "Snuff" Recording?
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 17:35:24 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.061423.19757@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>obJamesBondFact: Charles Lasner is not related to George Lazenby, the only
>one-shot James Bond in the popular series of movies.

Don't forget Woody Allen.
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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Alligators in Sewers
Organization: Will work for food, but not for DEC.
Date:  5 OCT 92 08:32:09    


Long ago and far away, styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) wrote . . .

> In article <1992Aug17.060659.29114@PA.dec.com>, snopes quotes 
> _The New Yorker_:

>> In 1935, a seven-foot alligator was found in a sewer on East 123rd Street,

> [and later]

>>alligators live at temperatures between seventy-eight and ninety degrees, and 
>>caimans need temperatures between eighty-four and a hundred, so if an animal 
>>was flushed or dumped into the sewer it might survive the spring, summer, and 
>>fall, but winter's cold would kill it.

>Good research by the reporter. According to Brunvand [TVH] the 1935 story
>was published in the _Times_ on February 10th. That's winter by my book.

It took a while, but I finally got a response from _The New Yorker_:

Dear Mr. Mikkelson:

     Thank you for your letter of August 24, and for bringing your sharp-eyed
attention to our pages.  It is likely that the alligator found in New York in
February of 1935 had been only recently deposited in the sewer; had it not been
found it might soon have perished.

     Thank you again for keeping us on our toes.


Duh . . .   If I had wanted conjecture, I wouldn't have written to them in the
first place.  I'll have to try writing to Diane Ackerman (the article's author)
directly via her publisher.  I'd really like to know who was walking around NYC
in mid-winter with a fully-grown alligator, and why this person suddenly
decided to deposit it in the sewer.

 - snopes

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From: jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us (Jay Denebeim)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Is the electric chair an Edison publicity stunt?
Date: 7 Oct 92 02:30:19 GMT
 <1992Sep24.164700.4506@hemlock.cray.com> <1992Oct4.145826.16139@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: The Software Distillery
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In article <1992Oct4.145826.16139@midway.uchicago.edu>, George Jetson writes:

> According to Panati, there has been, throughout history, the search for
> a "humane" way of putting criminals to death.  Each new invention was
> greeted with excitement that the goal had been attained, followed by
> disgust at finding out the truth (that it was really quite painful).

I've always favored placing the subject at ground zero.
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From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: Re: Video taping rape
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 3 Oct 92 19:09:09 GMT

In <1992Oct1.172317.2298@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> agillum@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Aaron C Gillum) writes:

    One of the participants gets the tape a few weeks later, and realizes
    that the women he raped was his (cousin/sister/even mom).

Who he recognizes from that camera angle?
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From: MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: the weight of the water
Date: 26 Sep 92 13:06:34 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University

In article <1992Sep25.145810.13934@PA.dec.com>
snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
 
>
>In article <1686CF5BE.MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU>,
>  MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice) writes...
>
>>Naturally, I have made no effort to check on the validity of the story.
>
>Isn't this the standard AFU creed implied in each and every post?
 
It being September, I thought I needed to spell it out.
 
maurice
                                                 Maurice Forrester
                                                 mjforres@suvm.syr.edu
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From: latarra@buhub.bradley.edu (Lisa Ehren)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.startrek.fandom,alt.religion.kibology,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:20:56 GMT
Organization: Bradley University

mikkelson%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
> Yeah, and "Lost in Space" was on longer, so it had to be better.  At least the
> "Lost in Space" guys were able to build a robot that you couldn't destroy just
> by confusing it.

Yeah, but at least in Star Trek, they didn't have the entire show caused by
a neurotic wimp <Dr. Smith> hiding on a spaceship...where was the security?

And where is "Lost in Space: The Next Generation"?  Hmmmmm?
--
"Is you in, or is you ain't?"
"You cannot just grab a penis and make it erect." 

Fuzzies to everybody who wants them...New shipments every Thursday.
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From: boosman@adobe.com (Frank Boosman)
Subject: Re: Mrs. Field's Cookies Recipes
Organization: Adobe Systems Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:52:03 GMT

Henry Jacobs writes:

> Over the weekend, I wandered into the local mall bookstores. There is
> now a cookbook titled "Mrs. Field's Recipes" and has all sorts of cookies
> and other goodies recipes.
> But...are they the REAL recipes...
> It's almost (but not quite) sad to see an Urban Legend overtaken by
> events. But as with Craig Shergold, who cares, the Legend will go on.

The book does not contain the recipes used to bake the cookies you buy
at Mrs. Field's outlets, and explicitly states this fact. I don't have it
in front of me, but in the book, Debbi Fields writes to the effect that
they use special (or special-quality) ingredients, special ovens, and other
techniques not available to the home cook. Therefore, the cookie recipes in
the book are endorsed by Mrs. Fields, but not used by her stores.

-- Frank Boosman
   boosman@adobe.com

PS -- My wife made cookies using the Orange Chocolate Chip recipe in the
book over the weekend, and they were great. Recommended.
From: jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us (Jay Denebeim)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: 666 Cable TV
Date: 4 Oct 92 16:43:45 GMT
 <5348@balrog.ctron.com> <1992Oct2.131227.15928@spectrum.xerox.com>
Organization: The Software Distillery
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In article <1992Oct2.131227.15928@spectrum.xerox.com>, Erik Radmall writes:

> In article <5348@balrog.ctron.com>, smith@ctron.com (Larry Smith) writes:
> |> In article <1992Sep25.135427.5512@sei.cmu.edu>, kh@sei.cmu.edu (Kurt Haverstock) writes:
> |> >It occurs to me that we might as soon debate on the number of faeries
> |> >that can dance on the head of a pin.
> |> 
> |> I think it's "ten".
> 
> You are obviously not accounting for the dance style. The tango requires more
> space, hence fewer faeries. The waltz, on the other hand, allows up to 13o
> of the critters.

Hold on a minute, I thought you had to have an even number of faeries to
waltz.

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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Disco "Snuff" Recording?
Date: 1 Oct 92 00:50:17 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA

thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell) writes:
: In article <1992Sep26.061423.19757@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
: >obJamesBondFact: Charles Lasner is not related to George Lazenby, the only
: >one-shot James Bond in the popular series of movies.
: 
: Don't forget Woody Allen.

How about David Niven? "Casino Royale"?

Bill
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From: bogart@sabre.larc.nasa.gov (Ed Bogart)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Reply-To: bogart@sabre.larc.nasa.gov (Ed Bogart)
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 21:13:52 GMT

On a recent trip to amsterdam, I went on a tour boat around
the harbor.  The tour guide was doing her speil in Dutch, 
German, French and English.  When we passed the new railroad
station (which was constructed on 30 thousand redwood pilings)
she substituted the plural adjictive form of the German 'rot'
and informed us that if was built on "30 thousand rotten wood
piles".

Ed "amsterdam is great, rotten wood and all" Bogart
From: smith@ctron.com (Larry Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Disco "Snuff" Recording?
Date: 1 Oct 92 20:45:54 GMT
Reply-To: smith@ctron.com
Organization: Cabletron Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep25.211126.10616@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>Marvin Miller, better known as Michael Anthony, the
>man who gave away 1,000,000 dollars (tax free) of John Beresford Tipton III's
>fortune to some poor wretch on each episode of TV's The Millionaire.  (Can
>anyone name JBT3's estate?)

"Silverstone".  My God, way did I _remember_ that?!

Larry Smith (smith@ctron.com)  No, I don't speak for Cabletron.  Need you ask?
-
How about we all do something reasonable?  I bet that'll confuse 'em!
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Radar Cars (was: stupid cop tricks & t)
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:42:03 GMT
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates

In article <60718@mimsy.umd.edu> tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!)) writes:
>pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>
>>Speaking of which, is the average speed on the Maryland Turnpike still
>>about 90MPH?  (I haven't been there in some time now)
...
>     Methinks you exagerate a bit. I commuted daily from Baltimore to
>College Park along I95 in Fall of '88; about 70-75 was the average
>speed in the far left lane. Although there were and are cars out there
>doing 90.

I should have noted that I was not talking about commuting time.  I
drove the stretch exactly twice - from the northern border down to
Baltimore then back, during off peak times (late at night).

But it was definitely the case that the pace picked up when we got into MD.
(We were driving down from NJ)

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Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 02:38:53 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

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In article <1992Sep25.190057.13519@geovision.gvc.com> pt@geovision.gvc.com writes:

>One further observation - Japanese car manufacturers pander to the US market
>- that's why Nissan was Nissan all over the world, except when they called
>themselves Datsun (in the North American market).

Fact:
Datsun was used in most of the export markets including Britain and Europe.
Possible Urban Legend:
I heard they used that name Datsun as it sounded more English than Nissan.
It translated to an Insult in Japanese though so they changed the name to
Nissan when they realised this.  Seems strange they waited to long though.

ObJoke: The cargo door of a plane carrying Japanese car parts flew
	open yesterday.  The contents of the cargo bay were strewn over the 
	surrounded countryside.  A local was reported to have said.
	"Strewth, it's raining Datsun Cogs outside".

Derek "They cogged up the drains drains pretty badly too" Tearne

-- 
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Some of the more aware dinosaurs were worried about the environmental
consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.  
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From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Subject: Re: Mrs. Field's Cookies Recipes
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:05:45 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

In article <26000@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, jacobs@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Henry Jacobs) writes:
> Over the weekend, I wandered into the local mall bookstores. There is
> now a cookbook titled "Mrs. Field's Recipes" and has all sorts of cookies
> and other goodies recipes.
> But...are they the REAL recipes...

Umm -- you've forgotten an important detail.  What did the book cost?
Not two fifty, I hope....
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: sub-standard quality prerecorded VHS tapes
Keywords: VHS EP tracking adjustments
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 01:05:51 GMT

Anyone familiar with these scammy video tapes sold in some stores?  You
see a recent movie in a good normal sleeve, usually shrink-wrapped, looking
for all the world like a normal first-run video release for purchase, except
the price is too low to believe.  Occasionally, there is a peelable label
inserted (I've seen outside and inside the shrink wrap) informing you that
the tape is in EP mode, or "may require tracking adjustments" or somesuch.

The quality is downright awful, etc.  Are these "legitimate" tapes or a
strange form of bootleg?  The sleeves look very good in general, etc.  Is
there some form of "niche" in the area between a good copy and a bootleg
that someone cut a deal to manufacture?

Needless to say, you're better off purchasing a "preowned" tape that is
used, but at least is an SP tape.  BTW, notice how many tapes now have
a "commercial" on them encouraging you to do this, and the add copy is
always about the movie you're watching?

cjl
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: License Plates and Prisons
Date: 4 Oct 1992 02:35:26 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

warren@nysernet.org writes:

  +An article about Corona beer in a Jerusalem local paper (it's
  +available here now, the article said it costs about $6, but that might
  +be the price at a bar) mentioned that "it is the color of healthy
  +urine".

Is bright yellow urine healthy?  I always thought that the clearer
the better.

Terry "Of course, nothing beats a pee after a meal of asparagus" Chan
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From: u8802356@cs.uow.edu.au (Stephen Lance Rogan)
Subject: Re: Flavored Condoms
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 06:44:39 GMT

datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri) writes:

>I've come to the conclusion that "posh" exists only to spawn UL's, and
>that nobody ever actually uses it.
What about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ?
They devote a whole song to POSH.
Elephant.
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