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From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
Subject: Re: Perfect Knowledge
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 01:25:37 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

It's a New Age/druggie pastiche of Tom Waits' classic "Step Right Up".
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Hot (superheated) tea?
Date: 1 Oct 92 00:46:42 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA

jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman) writes:
: 
: I would be more inclined to accept this if you had stuck a
: thermometer in it, rather than a tea bag.  Adding the tea bag
: will lower the boiling point of water, which will no longer be
: pure H2O at that point.  This is a fun trick that chemistry
: students love.  Heat water to one degree below boiling, then
: see how much salt/sugar/other it takes to lower the boiling
: point enough to get bubbles, a similar experiment to
: performing a titration.  The boiling point of water can, of
: course, be increased by heating it in a pressure chamber (or
: possibly taking it to the Dead Sea) but in an open container at sea 
: level will boil at the standard 212 (100 degrees C).  Of
: course, in Denver Colorado, due to the decreased atmospheric
: pressure, it will boil at closer to 185 degrees.

You are completely off the mark here, Jane. Adding tea, salt, or
sugar to the water increases the boiling point. It does not lower
it. For an authoritative backup, do some reading in any elementary
chemistry or physics textbook.

If you get bubbles, it is for another reason.  As you heat the water,
it is continuously releasing the dissolved gases. You can usually see
them on the side of the container - long before the water approaches
boiling.  Adding some solid to the water provides nucleation points
for the gas bubbles to form around.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice)
Subject: Re: the weight of the water
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 16:50:01 EDT

In article <Yly-jdB@engin.umich.edu>
ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering) writes:
 
>Actually, I've never seen an emergency shower with a drain.
 
I'd like to nominate this for the afu motto.
 
Oops, no that's not right.  What I meant to say was that my wife
used to work with safety reports here at SU, and she tells me
that all emergency showers are required to have drains.  But
required by whom, she did not know.
 
maurice
                                                 Maurice Forrester
                                                 mjforres@suvm.syr.edu
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Date: 2 Oct 92 01:14:34 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Oct1.180807.2326@HQ.Ileaf.COM> hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh) writes:
>Let's nor forget the classic Chevy Nova (I have one for sale, BTW) which did
>not get a warm reception in Spanish-speaking countries.
>
>No Va = Won't Go

That's four.

Ted "anyone know any funny stories about tv game shows?" Frank
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         the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: Chuck Adams <chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov>
Subject: Re: Famous Alumni (was "Lost In Space" was CLEARLY better)
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:18:15 GMT

In article <aM2-4Q-@engin.umich.edu> ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence
Doering) writes:

>Why yes, now that you mention it, Ted.  Charles Addams went to my alma
>mater, the University of Pennsylvania.  Some say the Addams Family mansion
>is based on College Hall.  They're wrong, though.  I met Charles Addams
>at a reception on the Penn campus back in 1982, and he told me (and a
>big bunch of other people) that it wasn't true.
>
>Larry "I also went to high school with Pam Shriver" Doering

Nah, I went to Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

p.s.:  Lee Harvey Oswald and Johnny Deuchendorf (aka John Denver) went to MY
high school.

                      Charles Adams,  WB5WRR   (The Charlester)
                 Not an official document of DOE, SSCL, URA or EG&G
               Try Internet brand Tequila -  "A worm in every bottle"
             Internet:  chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov  (aka 143.202.130.11)


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From: jlysagh@hubcap.clemson.edu (james joseph lysaght)
Subject: Re: Stone Age Sex
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 15:41:14 GMT

snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:


>In article <1992Sep29.161258.979@hubcap.clemson.edu>, 
>  jlysagh@hubcap.clemson.edu (james joseph lysaght) writes...

>>Or he could be the first evidence of homosexual rape 

>Maybe he was the world's first felon.

Well, wouldn't he be the victim of the first felon?  I was always tought
that Cain of the Cain and Able story was the first felon so maybe our
poor butt plugged friend here is Able?

Jim
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From: smith@ctron.com (Larry Smith)
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: 1 Oct 92 20:27:53 GMT
Reply-To: smith@ctron.com
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Cabletron Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep30.025642.14492@rchland.ibm.com>, jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
>What a stupid thread!!

>"Clarabelle" was better than "Bozo"!!
>"Chimpanzees" are better than "Orangutangs"!!
>"Pintos" are better than "Mavericks"!!
>"James Buchanon" was better than "Andrew Jackson"!!
>"TRS-80" was better than "C64"!!

>Any more?? I think I've heard this thread before!!
>GET A LIFE!!

I think this thread was better than the "Religion versus Science" thread.

:)

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!
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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: gary larson committed
Organization: Will work for food, but not for DEC.
Distribution: na
Date:  5 OCT 92 08:30:05    


In article <BvH5x4.ExB@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, 
  phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes...

>I have it on good authority that Gary Larson is at least as sane as
>Jonathan Winters.

But Gary Larson is funny.

 - snopes

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From: ian@falcon.Centric.Com (Ian Macky)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Counterfeiting
Summary: Parking Meters
Date: 6 Oct 92 01:35:38 GMT
Organization: Centric Engineering Systems

A well-known trick for parking meters abuse: take a penny, file down one
side flat (nearby curb works fine) until the diameter is the same as a
dime, and slide it in the dime slot.

The effect is curiously to give about 2/3 scale reading on the meter, *no
matter what the overall full scale represents*.  That is, on a 1-hour meter,
you get maybe 40 minutes.  On a 10-hour meter, you get 6 or 7 hours or
whatever.

Perhaps this is why a lot of meters have changed over to taking quarters
only.

--ian
From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Datsum Was (Re: Mixed up translations
Date: 29 Sep 92 00:46:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Sep28.193236.10445@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson) writes:
>My understanding of this is that the name of the manufacturer, Nissan
>was persuaded to use a more western sounding name. When the car 
>became popular in western markets, Old man Nissan wanted his name

Old man Nissan . . . that ol' man Nissan . . . he must know
somethin', but don' say nothin' . . .

I used to have a 1981 Maxima. The manual and doors said Nissan; the
hood ornament and radio said Datsun.

 -Paul "Monty" Ashley
   (He just keeps lorrin' arong . . .)
   (I am deeply ashamed of that joke)
-- 
  "Didn't expect to see me again,         | pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
eh, Svengali?"                            |  [Not a UCSD employee]
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: AFU West - Terry (AFU West III to the rest of you)
Date: 4 Oct 92 09:20:43 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <26618@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry) writes:

>
>If anybody doesn't like La Fiesta, T.S. Eliot, unless you also post
>recommendation we can consider.

How about Bud's I.C. in SF?

cj "How about Treasure Island" l
From: cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: 666 Cable TV
Date: 4 Oct 92 03:03:08 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund) writes:
> 	The topic was cable TV and pirating extra TV's inside your home off
> a socket.  I was "informed" that
> 	a) The cable company can test electrically for the number of live
> 	   connections.
> 	b) When they discover a site is cheating they send a powerful electric
> 	   current thrugh the cable and destroy (explode?) all the TV's in the
> 	   offenders' house.

I heard something similar to "a" about the phone company.  According
to my source (who knows about as much as me about this whole subject),
the pnone company checks every so often to see how many devices are on
the line.  When they check, the phones are supposed to "chirp," ie
just go through one very short ring.

About "b," I heard (from another source, though the level of expertise
of the sources in these things is comparable) that a cable company in
NYC had figured out a way to zap cable boxes that had bee illegally
altered to receive premium channels for free.  He is sure he heard it
on the radio in the car (FHORIC?).

ObUL:  You can wipe out cable service in your neighborhood by applying
a large voltage across your coaxial cable.

--Scott "I'm Churchill's grandson.  Or was that Disraeli?" Cromar
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
From: rdale@cstp.umkc.edu
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 05:56:57 GMT
Organization: UM - Kansas City, Computer Science

>>  What I'd like to know is why the artificial gravity never gives out.  The
>>engines fail, the life support fails, but the gravity never fails.
> 
>  Perhaps gravity has highest priority, because without it, the crew wouldn't be
> able to function at %100, and thus couldn't fix the other systems.

	It's hard to simulate the "zero gravity" or "vacuum" (how come that
never looks right?  vaccum, vacuum) of space when you're on a planet with
a gravity and an atmosphere.  That's why we see scenes of astronauts
exploding (or not) when thrust out of the ship in their skivvies.

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From: news@geovision.gvc.com (News Administrator)
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:13:44 GMT

byarlay@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Wayne Byarlay) writes:

>...But of course this is the ST conference, and thank god this
>doesn't exist:

>"rec.arts.LostInSpace.DrSmith.fandom"

Not to mention:
 alt.will.robinson.die.die.die

-- 
Paul Tomblin, News Administrator Extraordinaire.  (pt@geovision.gvc.com)
You all know that this stuff is my opinion, don't you?  Nothing to do with
GeoVision at all.  Honest!  "I wish the Meach would make me do it"
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From: hasch@chem.queensu.ca (Hartmut Schmider)
Subject: Craig Shergold sighting in the great white north
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Summary: Say no to Craig
Keywords: Craig, is, back
Organization: Dept. of Chemistry, Queen's University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:47:52 GMT

Wouldn't you know it, September 28 issue of `Queen's Gazette', Kingston,
Ontario:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
                        A CALL FOR CARDS

Help set a world record!

D.M. (he probably wants to stay anonymous), alumni branch manager 
for Alumni Affairs, is helping a branch president fulfill a terminally
ill boy's wish to get into the Guiness Book of World Records.

Seven-year-old (forever young) Craig Shergold would like to have the 
largest number of business cards ever collected by one person, and to 
that end M. is approaching all business card users at Queen's. 
`All you have to is stick your card (where? tell me now) in an envelope 
and send it to me at Alumni Affairs. I'll make sure it gets to Craig.'
(I'm sure you will, it gets to me too).

M. hopes to collect the cards this week and send them off by Friday.
(No hurry, it waited so long, it can wait another century).
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Who's the guy who said it can't happen here? Stuff in brackets is mine. 
And to top it, in a local Deli there's a jar for business cards for
the poor guy.  'nough said.


Hartmut "Death where is thy sting" Schmider
From: jacobs@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Henry Jacobs)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Mrs. Field's Cookies Recipes
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:31:09 GMT
Reply-To: jacobs@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Henry Jacobs)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

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.
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From: bill.dehaan@rose.com (bill dehaan)
Subject: smll tlk
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 04:06:11 GMT
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From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)
Subject: The Elevator Incident
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 22:58:56 GMT

On the front page of today's Detroit News was an article titled "The
Legend of the Elevator Incident."  It was an interesting variation on
the familiar story.

	  Maybe you've heard it.  Maybe you believed it.  The current
	version in Detroit goes something like this:
	  A middle-aged white lady from a small northern Michigan
	town accompanied her husband to a convention at the Renaissance
	Center.  While he was at a meeting, she left the room and got
	on an elevator at the RenCen's Westin Hotel.
	  Two young black men entered the elevator and stood behind
	her.  Then she heard one of them say: "Hit the floor, lady!"
	  Believing her worst fears had been realized, she threw
	herself on the floor.  The men burst out laughing, helped her
	to her feet, and said they only meant she should push the
	button for the floor she wanted so the elevator doors would
	close.
	  Embarrassed, she apologized, and they went their separate
	ways.  But that evening at the Summit Restaurant atop the
	RenCen, she and her husband received a bottle of fine
	champagne with a note attached.
	  "Thanks for the best laugh I've had in a long time," the
	note said.  "Sincerely yours, Isiah Thomas."

			-- James Tobin, The Detroit News, Oct. 4, 1992

   I thought it was kind of an interesting variation with the dog
gone . . . 

The article goes on to give a brief history of the legend and its
variations, mentions Brunvand's books, and gives a brief mention of
other common urban legends as well (nothing about Craig Shergold though.)
A related article on an inner page gives the Detroit variations on three
legends, "The Vanishing Hitchhiker", "The Spider in the Hairdo" and
"The Boyfriend's Death."

		-- Stewart Tame

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Pee-wee Herman, Bart Simpson, Tipper Gore, Murphy Brown, Maggie Thatcher,
and the Easter Bunny.
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Need reference for court case
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:03:50 GMT
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited

Just picked this one up in the `comp.security.misc' newsgroup.

In article <Bvo9vF.JuL@cs.psu.edu>, jim@math.psu.edu (Jim Duncan) writes:
|> In article <1992Oct5.024348.23203@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> rjs@crs.cl.msu.edu
|> (Robert J. Stanton) writes:
|> > I heard or read of a case a while back where the hacker
|> > who was being proseuted was exonerated because the system
|> > that he broke into printed a "welcome" greeting.
|> > 
|> > Can anybody point me to some info about this, preferably 
|> > something in print?
|> 
|> I asked about this at the USENIX Unix Computer Security Symposium in
|> Baltimore a few weeks ago and Gene Spafford told me that this appears to be
|> an urban legend.  I don't have the details, but I believe he cited a search
|> of LEXIS by some researchers looking for just the case you mention and
|> nothing was found.
|> 
|> That's not to say that someone didn't start to bring the case and then
|> dropped it before it got to trial.
|> 
|> Sorry I don't have some details for you.
|> 
|> 	Jim
|> 
|> --
|>     Jim Duncan <jim@math.psu.edu> Penn State Math Dept Systems Administrator
|>  "[A computer is] like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy."
|> 						Joseph Campbell

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	  it was ok to break into the house"
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From: eradm@brahms.Berkeley.EDU (Erik Radmall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Craig Shergold sighting in the great white north
Keywords: Craig, is, back
Date: 2 Oct 92 20:05:44 GMT
Reply-To: eradm@brahms.Berkeley.EDU (Erik Radmall)
Organization: Xerox

In article <BvI9Fs.F21@knot.ccs.queensu.ca>, hasch@chem.queensu.ca (Hartmut Schmider) writes:
|> Wouldn't you know it, September 28 issue of `Queen's Gazette', Kingston,
|> Ontario:
|> --------------------------------------------------------------------
|>                         A CALL FOR CARDS
|> 
|> Help set a world record!
|> 
|> D.M. (he probably wants to stay anonymous), alumni branch manager 
|> for Alumni Affairs, is helping a branch president fulfill a terminally
|> ill boy's wish to get into the Guiness Book of World Records.
|> 
|> Seven-year-old (forever young) Craig Shergold would like to have the
|> largest number of business cards ever collected by one person, and to 
|> that end M. is approaching all business card users at Queen's. 
|> `All you have to is stick your card (where? tell me now) in an envelope 
|> and send it to me at Alumni Affairs. I'll make sure it gets to Craig.'
|> (I'm sure you will, it gets to me too).
|> 
|> M. hopes to collect the cards this week and send them off by Friday.
|> (No hurry, it waited so long, it can wait another century).
|> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
|> 
	[stuff deleted]
|> 
|> Hartmut "Death where is thy sting" Schmider

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                         A CALL FOR TERMCAPS

Kibo is helping to fulfill a terminally ill boy's wish to get into the Guiness
Book of World Records.

Seven-year-old Craig Shergold would like to have the largest number of posts
about a single person in AFU. To that end, please post your termcaps to the AFU
newsgroup. Also, please be so kind to send young Craig a copy of your termcap 
at craigs@kibo.guiness.com (that'll make sure he gets proper credit).

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From: cbenson@cs.strath.ac.uk (Calum F Benson CS90)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Room numbering (was: Floor numbering)
Date: 6 Oct 92 11:14:44 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland.

In article <1992Oct5.094707.25929@ericsson.se> etlanar@slartibartfast.ericsson.se (Alan Arthur) writes:
>>   [My original colourful description of Royal College deleted - CB]
>
>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!
>
>
	Ah yes! I omitted to mention that spiral staircase. And the mysterious
seventh floor of which few people know. I stumbled across the secret passage
to the union one day last year, so it was obviously passable then; I don't know
what the current state is. Although there are now signposts up in the Royal
College saying `this way to the Union', I don't know if they take you that way
or not; I've never dared follow them without my sleeping bag handy in case of
emergency.

	Wierd!


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