HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: comp_oper@darwin.ntu.edu.au (Glenn Wallace)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: a variation on the "aids mary" ul
Date: 2 Oct 92 12:36:12 +0900

In article <80778@ut-emx.uucp>, llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
> i heard a new (to me anyway) version of the infamous "aids mary" ul
> tonight at work,

> it seems that a group of young college women went to florida for
> spring break. while there, one of them met the perfect man and fell
> madly in love. by the end of the week they were engaged. but, of
> course, spring break ended, and the girl had to fly home. at the
> airport, the man gave her a ring box which she assumed was an
> engagement ring. when she got home, she excitedly told her family and
> friends all about mr wonderful, and with them around, opened the ring
> box, which turned out to contain a toy skeleton and a piece of paper
> which said (of course) "welcome to the world of aids."
> 
> has anyone else heard this variant?

Yes.  The local Sunday paper has a back page column of little stories by a
reporter going by the pseudonym of "Bushranger".  His version told of a local
woman's holiday romance while in the U.S.  As told, the box was presented at
the airport prior to her flight back home with the instruction that she not
open it until after take-off.

I am disappointed in Bushranger. 
-- 
Glenn Wallace					comp_oper@darwin.ntu.edu.au
Northern Territory University
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From: dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright)
Subject: Re: UL Chippendales and crabs
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:54:32 GMT

Ross Oliver wrote:
: [John McLoughlin writes:]
:> ...           the doctor nodded and lifted up the woman's eyelid to look at 
:> the lump, at which point a crab ( genital louse ) dropped / crawled out !
: 
: As disgusting as this sounds, it can happen.  My sister worked for an
: optometrist for a while, and he treated a patient for this condition.
: So all you 69'ers be careful out there!

How could she tolerate the critter being in her eye for more than a few
minutes?  Wouldn't she rub it or lift the lid and take it out herself
right away?  When something gets in your eye, how often do you decide to
simply leave it there?  I've heard stories about people "losing" contact
lenses and other small objects in their eyes, but I have trouble believing
these stories because my eyes are no big mystery to me.  Only unfortunate
"mentally challenged" people should have difficulty taking things out of
their eyes.

It's a good UL, though.  It has a horrid aspect.  That gives it an edge.
 
  -- Dan Wright
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Disco "Snuff" Recording?
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 14:31:30 GMT

In article <38654@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes:
>In article <1992Sep27.005314.5424@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep26.173524.29974@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>>
>>>Don't forget Woody Allen.
>>
>>Or David Niven or Peter Sellers or William Holden or Charles Boyer or even
>>Orson Welles (who won't play James Bond before his time).  Most people
>>don't consider "Casino Royale" (the movie) to be part of the popular movie
>>series, since it's a parody of them.
>>
>
><raises eyebrow suavely> Oh really? Casino Royale, 1967. Dr. No, um,
>uh, umm . . .
>
>Well, Dr. No isn't in Roger Ebert's 1992 Video Home Companion, but
>I'm pretty sure that _Casino Royale_ (The movie) came before any of
>the other Bond movies, and was therefore not a parody of them, but a
>parody of the books.
>
>(Casino Royale, the _book_, of course, was the first Bond book,
>followed by _Dr. No_)
>
> -Paul "Monty" Ashley
>   (Here I was, all set to present references and stuff, but I can't
>find anything. The Casino Royale date is from _The Films of Woody
>Allen_, though . . .)
>-- 
>  "Didn't expect to see me again,         | pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
>eh, Svengali?"                            |  [Not a UCSD employee]
>     -- Bugs Bunny                        |

Unfortunately for you, I can provide references (and thus spawn yet another
AFU motto, one never expects someone to provide references (as opposed to
the Spanish Inquisition):

Casino Royale 1967 with Peter Sellers, David Niven, Ursula Andress, Woody
Allen, Charles Boyer, Orson Welles, Deborah Kerr, William Holden, and
Jean-Paul Belmondo.  To quote Scheuer's Movies on TV book: "It's a spoof of
all the James Bond spy adventures..."

Dr. No 1962 with Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord,
Bernard Lee and Anthony Dawson.  Again quoting Schuer: "First of the
James Bond extravaganzas...."

I also recollect that there was an earlier movie that may have incidentally
mentioned James Bond as a minor character; thus it's possible that there
was another one-shot James Bond role for an actor.

cj "one never expects someone to provide references in AFU" l
From: ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Back in the saddle again
Date: 25 Sep 92 15:19:36 GMT
Organization: NC Microproducts, Inc.

In article <2593.2ac0dffe@vger.nsu.edu> j_manes@vger.nsu.edu writes:
}Hi, everyone!  Jeez, it's good to be back in a.f.u. after a long absence.
}And it's good to see that constants are still just that.  In a mere ten 
}minutes of reading news, I saw familiar names in abundance, as well as 
}the worn, familiarly comforting stories of collapsing bridges, exploding
}(imploding???) seagulls, exploding toilets & clumsy paramedics,
}Churchill.....and of course, Craig. 

Hey, it's a tough job, but somebody has to keep these things alive.  Why
if it wasn't for AFU, UL's would probably deteriorate into vapid, lifeless
things, good only for Reader's Digest features and political campaign
literature.
 
}
}Jean Manes          |    Why are you guys skewing my curve???
}

Well, if you treated your curve right in the first place, it wouldn't
have to go elsewhere to get skewed.  Besides, it didn't say anything
to me about you when I skewed it...wasn't even wearing a ring!

Lance "The SkewMeister" Franklin
-- 
Lance T. Franklin            +----------------------------------------------+
(ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org)   | "You want I should bop you with this here    |
NC Microproducts, Inc.       |    Lollipop?!?"                 The Fat Fury |
Richardson, Texas            +----------------------------------------------+
From: fred@aficom.ocunix.on.ca (Fred Ennis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: drink, drive, die sen~or
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:52:10 GMT
Reply-To: fred@aficom.ocunix.on.ca (Fred Ennis)
Organization: AFI Communications - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

That story about "drunk drivers get taken out before the firing
squad in El Salvadore" is 100 percent bunk.
 
Oh? Proof, you ask?  Of course.  How silly of me. 
When I was bureau chief for a radio network in Ottawa, I had one of my 
people talk to the Embassy of El Salvadore.  They found the following:
  1. El Salvadore does not have capital punshiment.
  2. Drunken driving is treated about the same as in N. America
  3. They're a bit distressed about the way the story keeps getting
     passed around.
 
The bottom line is that this "list" has been making the rounds for 
about ten years, and just like Craig Shergold, someone comes along and 
never bothers to check it out and slaps it into some publication. 
 
When we did the story, the Canadian Association of Braodcasters was 
sending radio spots all across Canada with the bogus info in it, which
was being run by radio stations whose news directors never bothered to 
wonder if the stuff was true.
 
Bottom line, El Salvadore is false, don't know about the others.
From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: License Plates and Prisons
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:47:45 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

Terry Chan writes:
>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.
>
The color of urine depends on a lot of factors not all of them to
do with health. Urine becomes darker and cloudier, for example,
if you urinate infrequently. It becomes blue for reasons I'd
rather not go into here...

-- 
Coach Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> Season: 1-5 Lifetime: 1-7
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From: thf2@quads.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Subject: Lethal injection painless?
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 01:45:09 GMT

In article <1992Oct4.145826.16139@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu 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).
>
>However, with lethal injection, the problem now appears to be solved.
>It appears that with lethal injection, you really do just "fade away".

I recall reading a description of lethal injection in the New Republic
that was none to pleasant.  Also, weren't a good number of lethal
injection systems designed by a Massachusetts Holocaust revisionist
who got in trouble for practicing engineering with a license (Leuchter?)

ObNonDisraeliAnecdote: I'm writing a law review comment that mentions the
	per se rule in antitrust, and I'm trying to figure out a way to
	work in "unless it lays eggs in my salad."
-- 
ted frank | thf2@midway.uchicago.edu 
also at quibeaux@uchicago.edu | standard disclaimers
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
ajax crypto-analyzer -- warning! remove all chicken bones first
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: gators 'r us
Subject: Re: Oranjelo and the severed dog's head
	<1992Oct1.183337.17723@infonode.ingr.com>
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 07:10:36 -0500



>>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. They recall
>>this from their childhood and all grew up in different places so they are
>>sure it was true. I'm not buying it. This wasn't on the FAQ list either.
once upon a time, there was a rabies-suspect cat at an animal hospital i 
worked at.  one of the vet techs was assigned the job of cutting its head
off with a hacksaw(the cat was already dead) so its head could be sent to
a lab for testing.  the entire staff, except for the designated beheader,
fled till she was done.  people who work in vet medicine don't gross out
easily, but we were all grossed out by that one.
-- 
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
From: jordan@castor (USENET's Chuck)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Is the electric chair an Edison publicity stunt?
Date: 5 Oct 92 23:53:47 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia

In article <1992Oct4.145826.16139@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>However, with lethal injection, the problem now appears to be solved.
>It appears that with lethal injection, you really do just "fade away".

Sorry to inject some fiction into this newsgroup, but:

There was an interesting short story in an old old OMNI magazine (Bob
Guccione's Science Magazine...hmmm) about a man who had committed crimes
against the state, so he kept getting executed until he confessed.  The
society had found a way to save one's consciousness right as he died and
transfer it to a new body.

The interesting part (about time!) was that he said people always talked
of "dying in your sleep," but there was no such thing -- there was an 
instant of horrible transition from being alive to being dead that was far
worse than all the different ways the government had  thought of for
executing him.  To suddenly not exist was the worst punishment he could think
of.  I would tend to think this is more likely and that a
discussion of the most humane way to kill somebody is pretty moot.

Chuck "But I'd be willing to try it out on the kid from the Encyclopedia
Britannica commercials" Jordan

-- 
                  Chuck Jordan | jordan@castor.cs.uga.edu
SPY Magazine's 1,000 Reasons Not to Vote for George Bush:
NO 498: "It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or
	 another."
From: jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us (Jay Denebeim)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: 666 Cable TV
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:39:25 GMT
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Distribution: alt
Organization: The Software Distillery
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <Oct.3.23.03.08.1992.18588@math.rutgers.edu>, Scott Cromar writes:

> 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.

Yes, they could, probably did, but its pointless now.  Judge Greene 
wouldn't let them charge per phone anymore.  Just house to house.

The method they used was to ring the ringers, and measure the power
required to do it.  People who had more than one phone on their line
detatched the ringer so this couldn't be done.  We had a few in my
house I put in.  Radio Shack was kind enough to sell phones with the
ringer pre-disabled :-)

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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
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 04:38:48 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

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"!!

Isn't that Capatain Kangaroo is better than Williard Scott?

>"Chimpanzees" are better than "Orangutangs"!!

J. Fred Muggs vs. Clyde from Every Which Way But Loose?

>"Pintos" are better than "Mavericks"!!

James Garner was on Maverick.  I don't think there was a show named Pinto,
or even Exploding Pinto, (or was that Exploding Kibo?)

>"James Buchanon" was better than "Andrew Jackson"!!

Maybe it was Edward Buchanan, known for the "slow burn", or was it Kate Jackson
on Charlie's Angels?

>"TRS-80" was better than "C64"!!

I though it was Battleship Gallactica or Gallactica-80, or was it the
song recorded by the Ventures: Walk, Don't Run '64.  (Or may it was When I'm
64?)

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

Isn't Bob (or Ray?)'s son in that show?

>
>Jared "Danger! Danger Will Robinson!" Dahl

A boy like that needs his Mumy.

>-- 
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>| Jared Dahl             | "My heart is human, my blood is boiling, | 
>| Systems Programmer     |  my brain IBM"                           |
>| IBM - Rochester, MN    |              -- STYX,  "Mr. Roboto"      |
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>Opinions expressed are mine, not IBM's.

cj "Gene was in the movies, June was in Lost in Space, and Anne was in
Battlestar Gallactica (Lockhart family)" l
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From: pww9211@zeus.tamu.edu (WINFREY, PHILIP WAYNE)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 01:00:00 GMT

In article <tomcat.718257354@cwis>, tomcat@cwis.unomaha.edu (Jeffrey S. Jo) writes...
>sepstein@scott.skidmore.edu (stacey epstein) writes:
> 
>>thf2@quads.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell) writes:
>> In article <6639@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw+@pitt.edu writes:
> >If Jean-Luc Picard got into a fight with Jim Kirk who would win?
>> 
> 
>I think that this question can be resolved....never mind.
>Really though, I don't think Picard would win.  Kirk has had a lot of
>experience on landing parties and has been in quite a few fights.
>Picard, on the other hand, has only been a on a few away missions, and
>has limited hand to hand combat experience.  I mean, come on, Kirk
>went up against a huge green lizard (Gorn) and his old buddy Finnegan.
>Picard?  An invisible monster he never had a chance to beat, and a
>terrorist.  I don't think I have ever seen Picard win a hand to hand
>combat situation.
> 

      Have you forgotten "Sins of the Father?" In "Captain's Holiday"
      he layed out a Ferengi, although I really wouldn't call that
      a combat situation.  However, the Klingon fight in SOTF definitely
      counts as combat, seeing as he was fighting for his life.  Of course,
      he did get a little help from some raggedy old Klingon hag.


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From: ahill@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill)
Subject: Re: nail in Coca-Cola
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 00:42:05 GMT
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: ahill@boi.hp.com
Organization: LaserJets by Bill & Dave
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

medic@hardy.u.washington.edu (Travis Lauricella) writes:
<hanging nail in Coca-Cola>
> Result, after one week: A heavily disolved nail.  Still intact, but not in
> the best of shape.  Big chunks had been corroded out of the sides, leaving
> "cavities."
>
In a similar experiment (sort of an extracurricular during high school
chemistry), we placed a Gummi Bear in a beaker of hydrochloric acid.  After
a week, no notable changes to the Gummi Bear.  Talk about roughage...
From: jthomp@Si.nosc.mil (Jeffrey B. Thompson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Date: 2 Oct 92 00:14:50 GMT
Organization: /home/Au/jthomp/.organization

In article <1992Oct1.135712.26526@ms.uky.edu> fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff
Davis) writes:

>   But "Pigs in Space" was best.  -- Jeff Davis

Yes!!  Yes!!
Jeff Thompson
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Subject: Re: Perfect Knowledge
From: joltes@husc8.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Date: 2 Oct 92 11:58:06 EDT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>[I wrote] 
>>
>>"no matter how thin you slice it, it's *still* baloney."
>>
>>						--Milo Bloom, "Bloom County"
>
>That would be Harry Truman, Dick.

It may be a Truman quote, but Berke stole it for the "Bloom County" strip--it
was the series when a fundamentalist "researcher" approached Milo with his
evidence that Satanic messages could be heard in reversed recordings of rock
records.

One of his transcribings read:

"Devil bunnies...I snort the nose, Lucifer...banana...banana"

Like I said...

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Dick "or something like that..." Joltes			joltes@husc.harvard.edu
Hardware & Networking Manager, Computer Services 	joltes@husc.bitnet 
Harvard University Science Center

"Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Superglue origin an UL?
Date: 28 Sep 1992 19:27:41 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

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.  Is
  +this true?  It sounds very ULish....
  +
  +I have met at least one mountain climber who claims to use it for this 
  +purpose. Any comments?

While I have heard of many outdoors people using superglue for sealing
wounds, I have usually heard it along the lines of "An unexpected use for 
superglue is for the sealing of wounds in an emergency."  That is, this
use was stumbled upon after the original invention of superglue and is a
variation from its original objectives.

Terry "Never superglued a toilet seat in my life" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe Per Diem
From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: UL Chippendales and crabs
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:41:52 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Sep29.104819.3104@rtf.bt.co.uk>, mclo@rtf.bt.co.uk (John McLoughlin) writes:

> he heard this the doctor nodded and lifted up the woman's eyelid to look at 

> Is this a UL or what ?

It must be.  The doctor "nodded" (knowingly, I assume).  A key give-away.

Now, if he would have yelled: "Get out of the HOUSE immediately" I would
believe it was true. ;-)

Terry "Get AWAY from your terminal IMMEDIATELY!!!!" Wood
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: mikey@cs.mcgill.ca (The Procrastinator P1000)
Subject: Re: ATM Transactions
Organization: Tessier-Ashpool monitor, Maas-Neotek Corp
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:45:50 GMT

>>>
* bill.dehaan@rose.com (bill dehaan) Has publicly proclaimed:
*
>
>Date Entered: 09-26-92 23:00
>In message <1992Sep24.160343.8911@nsscmail.att.com>,
>cel@nsscmail.att.com (clayton EDward LEIHY iii) writes:
>
>cel>Once when I went in to use an ATM, I discovered that the previous user
>cel>was still "logged in" (their card was in the slot and the selection menu
>cel>was displayed).  Interesting question:  If I had withdrawn this
>cel>customer's cash, would I be a Bank Robber??
>
>No. You would be guilty of Fraud (at least under Canadian statutes).

Ok, how about this (It happened)

Woman in line ahead of me withdraws $600 in cash from the machine. Takes the
card and recipt walks away from the machine, leaving the cash behind.

I stroll up insert my card, and lo, behold, there's already $600 there.

Now, I chased the woman (she was still in the branch) and gave her the 
money. But if I had kept it, am I guilty of anything?  (Apart from
East-coast "F*** You" morals?)


					-mikey
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