HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: ...is this a UL??? (3)
From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Date: 12 Nov 92 13:32:44 EST
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Ted Frank sez:

>In article <1992Nov10.160922@axion.bt.co.uk> AMcBride@axion.bt.co.uk writes:
>>arranged a party for the night of his birthday.  [...]
>>His girlfriend arrived early and they got amorous.  [...]
>>dining room which was nearer.  They shuffled and
>>grunted their way in, turned on the light and there
>>waiting for them was a host of family and friends
>>and a big surprise party.
>
>Yes.  In JHB's "The Vanishing Hitchhiker."  Variations usually
>involve a babysitter.

My favourite twist on this one was the version in which a the wife of a fellow
--who may have been the local priest--wandered into the dining room starkers
after having a shower, drying her hair with a towel that covered her vision
sufficiently to miss seeing the several dozen people who were waiting.  She
then proceeded to shout "come and get it while it's clean!" much to the amuse-
ment of everyone present...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dick "embarassing moments #122B" 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..."
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: College Coed Murder UL
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:04:11 GMT

00kjfehn@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:

: Scrawled on the mirror in her roommate's blood is something along the lines
: of "Be happy you didn't turn the lights on."
: 
: When this story was told to me 4 years ago, it supposedly occured at 
: Purdue University (2 hrs. away), and the moral of the story was to 
: always lock your door.
: 
: Has anyone ever heard this story before?
: Is there any fact to it?
: Did it happen at Purdue? Or anywhere else?
: Is this just a good Halloween/scare freshman story with no basis in fact?

I have heard several variations on the story. It is definitely an UL.
Whether there is fact behind it or not is another matter.

Bill
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From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Date: 9 Nov 92 07:48:42
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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In-reply-to: thf2@quads.uchicago.edu's message of 8 Nov 92 17:22:59 GMT

thf2@quads.uchicago.edu (Mmmm... Purple) writes:
|>|I've seen a similar stat somewhere.  The theory has been most recently
|>|espoused by noted epidemologist and viral specialist Spike Lee, and the
|>|media's been dutifully reporting his ravings.
|>Spike Lee aside, have any of you read _Bad Blood: The Tuskegee
|>Syphilis Experiment_?  

|No, but I'm aware of it.

|>Since the events described therein are true and
|>given the other facts of recent history, why would anyone actually be
|>surprised that there is a large minority of people who believe such
|>things about AIDS, etc?  And in fact, why would anyone dispute the
|>reality, however remote, of the possibility?

|Because the conspiracy theory detailed so far is impossible.  And,
|unlike a Lewis Carroll character, I don't make it a habit to believe
|a certain number of impossible things before breakfast.

Why is it impossible (I'm unaware of the details of the claim, I
suppose)?  Do you take the view all such conspiracy claims are
impossible?  COuld you think of any that are less than impossible?

--
Peace.
                    "We don't necessarily discriminate.  
                     We simply exclude certain types of people."
                             -Lt Col. Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor 
                              at M.I.T., on D.O.D. 1332.14
                                   -\--/-
    Don't just adopt opinions     |  \/  |       Some of you are homeboys
          develop them.           |  /\  | but only I am The Homeboy From hell
                                   -/--\-
From: csa09@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Paul Singleton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: More odd net.acronyms (was Kryptonite bike locks)
Date: 9 Nov 92 13:23:52 GMT
Organization: Keele University, England

From article <4752@moscom.com>, by de@moscom.com (David Esan):

> O Be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me-now UL (for astronomers)

Surely that's

  "O Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me Right Now Sweetie"

but I can't for the life of me remember what it's a mnemonic for ...
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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: HIt by lightning - Yeah, sure
Date: 11 Nov 1992 00:46:29 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov (Chuck Adams) writes:

 +This brings up an interesting point......does anyone know the odds of being
 +struck by lightning, that is like Hans where HE actually got hit......I
 +understand that something like 80 people or so get hit in the US every year,
 +thats 80 out of 250 million.  So how many folks that read this newgroup have
 +been hit?  That could really scramble your diodes, Phil if it happened to you!

Well, haven't stumbled across the odds of being struck by lightning yet
but I did find that, the number of accidental deaths from electric current 
has fallen steadily since 1970 when there were 1,140 deaths to 1988 when 
there were 714.  Accidental drownings have also declined from 6,391 to 4,199.

I also note that there were 71,354 injuries associated with TVs in 
1988 and 13,576 associated with pet supplies and equipment.


Terry "Pet supplies?" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe Per Diem
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Merry-go-round vs. Carousel
Date: 5 Nov 92 11:43:44 GMT
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep  5 1992

In <Bx7HHA.rr@scd.hp.com>, Brett K. Carver writes:
>: In an old magazine I found a reference to the belief that when discussing
>: amusement rides with mechanical horses attached, a carousel is said to go
>: counterclockwise, and a merry-go-round clockwise. (or vice versa).
>
>I always thought the difference was that on a merry-go-round some (all) of
>the horses move up and down, on a carousel everything is fixed in place.

both wrong.  all carousels are merry-go-rounds, and vice versa, regardless
of direction or whether there are jumping horses.


i'm a member of the national carousel association, have read several books on
the subject, and i've even met frederick freid.  carousel
is the preferred word, but merry-go-round is just as correct.

fred freid, wrote a history of such things several decades ago.

at the time the usual spelling was "carrousel", but he got tired of typing
it that way and shortened it to "carousel", which is now the usual spelling.
mr. freid says, as recently as of last year's nca newsletter, that this is true.
-- 
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: catstyle@cathouse.aiss.uiuc.edu (Jason R. Heimbaugh)
Subject: Re: 1950's Darryle, damnit.
Reply-To: jrh@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:07:20 GMT

In article <XrB=1k@engin.umich.edu> dem@engin.umich.edu (Darryle E  
Merlette) writes:
> Even if AIDS appeared in the 50's (what evidence is there of this?)
> and is a naturally occurring virus, that doesn't preclude its use in
> wiping out populations just as smallpox was used to wipe out the
> indiginous people of North America. So you are wrong if you think 

Don't forget syphillis that the indigenous people of North America used
to kill Europeans and had the callousness to send it back to Europe with
them.

--
Jason R. Heimbaugh (CatStyle)
jrh@uiuc.edu
"If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?" --Ronnie Van Zant
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Puking on shoes - A part of the culture?
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:31:36 GMT

In article <BxGx1w.D47@rahul.net> phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:

>>A note to new readers:  the weasely :-) symbol is frowned upon in this
>>group.  Any questions, see Phil Gustafson who will gladly rearrange your
>>diodes for you.
>
>This diode thing has gone on for some time, and it's all Terry Chan's
>fault.  At AFU |\/, I passed out more diodes than everybody could carry.
>No more diode jokes.  This includes tunnel diodes, Gunn diodes, step
>recovery diodes, and obscure devices only cjl can remember.

I got a more obscure device: a rectifier that works mechanically: the
synchronous vibrator:

Lotsa car radios used to have vibrators to create AC to step-up with a 
transformer then convert to high-voltage DC using a cold-cathode rectifier
(Gas-filled such as an 0Z4; note the 0 meaning no volts on the filament
that isn't present!).  Some actually used conventional tube diodes.

But there's an obscure replacement for all of that tube-type diode stuff:
the synchronous vibrator!  It was used in some military equipment.  The idea
is that the basic vibrator works like a doorbell buzzer: the magnetic field
created by powering the electromagnet pulls the contacts away from the
circuit connectorm thus the field goes away, and the springy contactor jumps
back which reestablishes the circuit, so it just keeps going back and forth.
This sends pulsed current into the transformer where it's stepped up and
becomes the high-voltage AC, and gets rectified by the diode, etc.

But in the synchronous vibrator, there are extra contacts that reverse the
transformer connections as well, so when the field goes up, the connection
is positive, and when it goes downward, the winding leads are reversed, so
the other half-wave actually contributes to the positive DC instead of
cancelling it.  Thus, this is a form of "switching" diode rectification
device, but it's neither solid-state, gaseous, or vacuum, it's a mechanical
diode.

Moreover, vibrators come in these nice metal cans with contacts on the bottom
vaguely reminiscent of some early tubes, quite nice to sort out, rearrange,
etc.

American Flyer used one of the asynchronous vibrators in their sound-effects
module.  A carrier-current was induced into the track current by the vibrator,
and the high-frequency signal was picked up and connected to a small speaker
in the coal-tender portion of the engine.  Thus, the train had a wireless
whistle.

Tune in next week when Phil learns to rearrange RCA Nuvistors, and 
ceramic-metal forced-air cooled transmitting tubes, and 1B3/8016 high-voltage
rectifier diodes.

cj "one-way currents 'R us" l
From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ex-presidents
Date: 10 Nov 92 01:18:40 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <1dkll0INNhcu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu 
(David Lesher) writes:
> Others said
> # John "What does the 'T' in Spiro T. Agnew stand for?" Berger
> 

I don't think we can say for sure that Agnew had a middle name.

Therefore, I suggest we put this in the FAQ as 

 Spiro Tb Agnew.

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:28469 soc.culture.african.american:11060 sci.skeptic:19551
From: vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (vance kochenderfer)
Subject: Re: Amusing pronouns, was: Big Brother Radio Shack
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 00:00:53 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.235304.9315@unislc.uucp> pjd@unislc.uucp (Priscilla Davidson) writes:
>From article <13070@optilink.UUCP>, by walsh@optilink.UUCP (Mark Walsh):
>> 
>> An old friend of mine liked calling the place I used to
>> work at, and asking the receptionist to page some non-
>> existant people.  My favorites were:
>> 
>> Mike Hunt
>> Dr. Jack Meehoff
>> Daniel Druff
>> 
>    My husband was baptized into his church many years ago by a Jack Hoff.

 The better joke would be to call up, sounding like an adolescent attempting
to stifle a laugh, and ask for an ordinary name like, oh, James Parry or
something.  

Vance "No soap, radio!" Kochenderfer
Virginia Tech                     |   "Trust me, I know what I'm doing"
vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu            |                     -Sledge Hammer
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: flar@iastate.edu (Bradley M Armitage)
Subject: Re: Where can I look for any scholarly info....
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 21:37:22 GMT

In <BxD6IJ.6Bo@rahul.net> phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:

>In article <flar.721161426@vincent2.iastate.edu> flar@iastate.edu (Bradley M Armitage) writes:
>>Hellow, 
>>
>>I've been following this group for a few days, and have decided to have
>>one of my students do a speech for competition on urban ledgends.  

>You might start by teaching your students to spell "hello" and "legend".
>Sheesh.  All this unemployment, and this Bradley guy still has a job?

>Phil "Hey, you thought snopes was mean.  For the time being, you're
>stuck with an extremely nasty Phil" Gustafson
>-- 
>Phil Gustafson <phil@rahul.net>

Yup, that's is the problem with this fucking net, a silly typo and the
flames come in numbers.  Well excuse me Mr. Jack ASS, Oh, did I spell
that right?????  Sheezzee, give a bad typist a break or just don't post,
I mean, that was pretty silly, two typos and here you go.  Who the hell
are you????

All I wanted was some information, if you don't have it, don't post, if
you have nothing inteligent to say, say nothing, and excuse any more
typos!

I thought spelling flaming went out a long time ago, with the advent of
inteligence!!!

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* Can you hear me crying out for life?  Can you tell me, where's the glory? *
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*******************  flar@iastate.edu (Brad Armitage)  **********************
From: chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov (Chuck Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Hit by Lighning, Yeah Sure!
Date: 5 Nov 92 15:43:08 GMT
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory

Here in the great state of Texas, the new state lottery is a big thing. 
Various news reports have mentioned that even with all the hype and promotion
of the lottery by the state, that the chances of winning the lottery are less
than the chances og being hit by lightning.

Since my house suffered a lightning strike in late July (and frying all the
electrical things in my house in the process), am I not due to win the lottery?
 (or maybe I should be lottery tickets first?)

                      Chuck Adams,  WB5WRR   (The Chuckster)
                 Not an official document of DOE, SSCL, URA or EG&G
             "I cut you three ways, man:  quick, deep and frequently"
                       Internet:  chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATM's for $$$$
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 07:46:34 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.184730.3578@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> khoover@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (kent.d.hoover) writes:
>
>By the way, what does the middle initial 'T' in ATM stand for?

What does the middle initial 'T' in FTP stand for?

cj "ATT?" l
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: neath@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Ian Neath)
Subject: Re: Legal Tender
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:40:02 GMT

When I lived in Connecticut, there was an article in the NY Times about
protesters in New York upset that the subway fare had gone up from $1
to $1.15 (or something like that).  As a protest, they were paying in
pennies, which the subway system was legally forced to accept.  Maybe
there is a difference between the government's having to accept their
own money and private individuals' choices.

Ian "Just my 2 cents and you have no obligation to accept it" Neath

--
    Ian Neath, PhD     | There are four kinds of people in this world:
neath@psych.purdue.edu | cretins, fools, morons and lunatics - U. Eco
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:27817 alt.conspiracy:12052
From: m1tca00@fed.frb.gov (Thomas C. Allard)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:42:01 GMT
Reply-To: m1tca00@fed.frb.gov (Thomas C. Allard)
Followup-To: alt.conspiracy
Organization: Federal Reserve Board, Wash, DC

In article <lfjvvaINNbaa@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Trelford Pinkerton) writes:
> I heard, sheesh, that Bill Clinton has a secret plan that he will
> put into effect in his first few weeks of office.   The secret plan
> will eliminate PACs, Special Interest groups, Lobbyists, and pork barrel
> projects.
> 
> The details of the plan are too secret to tell you, but
> speed is of the essence.   Watch the skies.   You heard it
> here first.  Eat some toffee.
> 

I *like* this conspiracy theory.  So often, conspiracy theories are vague about the goals and are ongoing, or they are covering up some past misdeed where most of the actors are dead (murdered???).  But I can really sink my teeth into this one.  If it hasn't happened by mid-February, it will have proven to have been false.

Oh wait...  maybe they will see that their secret plan was leaked and abort it.  Then they can spend the next four years covering it up!

Seriously, why would Bill want to eliminate PACs, Interest groups, etc etc.  Isn't that how he was elected.  Who does he think his constituency will be in 1996?  The PEOPLE!?!

PS: Followups to alt.conspiracy.
----
"Oh Life's a Cabaret
 Like Berlin, 1930,
 All I crave is my escape"  --Dead Kennedys, "Saturday Night Holocaust"
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[implied disclaimer]
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:28277 rec.arts.startrek.misc:11584
From: crdunlea@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Christopher R. Dunlea)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Question about "T." in James T. Kirk !!!!!! (As seen on TV)
Date: 12 Nov 92 04:30:51 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

In article <1992Nov11.071852.26520@mr.med.ge.com> hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
>: >>>>Terry
>: >>>Timmy
>: >>Testicular
>: >Tasteless
>: Transvestyte
>Taliesin
>

And now the REAL answer----TESTOSTERONE!!!!!
From: starman@crash.amigans.gen.nz (Robin Halligan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: 2+2 and carrots
Date: 6 Nov 92 22:40:42 PST
Organization: No organisation at all
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Mike Schneider (schneid@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: Wow!  There's no greater feeling than starting some thread (this 2+2 thing)
: that goes on and on and on and on...

You think this thing goes on and on take a look over at rec.arts.startrek.teck
thay are in the middle of the "A PERSON EXPOSED TO A VACUME WILL EXPLODE"
type of Babble that consumed many tera bytes of space here some months ago
and it looks to be takeing just as much time. furrfu! on NSH
--
Starman@crash.amigans.gen.nz  (Robin Halligan)
Amigans Public Access UUCP Node Wanganui New Zealand

I'm a K 1 W 1 from the land of the long white cloud
    from the day i begun till the day i'm done
                     I'm a K1W1
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Ex-presidents
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 06:54:06 GMT

tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
: In article <1dkll0INNhcu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu 
: (David Lesher) writes:
: > Others said
: > # John "What does the 'T' in Spiro T. Agnew stand for?" Berger
: > 
: 
: I don't think we can say for sure that Agnew had a middle name.
: 
: Therefore, I suggest we put this in the FAQ as 
: 
:  Spiro Tb Agnew.

I thought it was Spiro Terry Agnew. James T. Kirk was named after him.

Bill "Not a Terry and, after the above comment, no chance of becoming one
either" Nelson
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
From: dem@engin.umich.edu (Darryle E Merlette)
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 16:29:34 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

Ted Frank writes:
>>[Charles Isbell writes]:
>>Since the events described therein are true and
>>given the other facts of recent history, why would anyone actually be
>>surprised that there is a large minority of people who believe such
>>things about AIDS, etc?  And in fact, why would anyone dispute the
>>reality, however remote, of the possibility?
>
>Because the conspiracy theory detailed so far is impossible.  And,
>unlike a Lewis Carroll character, I don't make it a habit to believe
>a certain number of impossible things before breakfast.

In light of the facts behind the Tuskegee Experiment, the Violence
Initiative, and known chemical/biological warfare capabilities, one
would have to be naive and/or stupid to consider this categorically
impossible. 

I'd suggest viewing "The Strecker Memorandum" video. In this video
a (white) doctor explains in scientific detail how the AIDS virus
is genetically engineered (ie. man-made). Among other things, it is
not possible for viruses to cross species, so that story about AIDS
originating from the African green monkey is even more impossible.
Even if you don't believe Dr. Strecker's conclusions, at least you'll
realize alternative possibilities that actually aren't far fetched 
when you think about it.
	Darryle
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban