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From: arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 09:26:07 GMT

> >In article <1993Jan4.032205.9702@nmsu.edu> dtasman@NMSU.edu (Dan Tasman) writes:
> >>I personally like harsh, hard-to-pronounce ethnic street names in central  
> >>Buffalo, like "Schreck Avenue", "Scrutum Avenue" and "Paderewski Drive".  


There's a few of those around here.

When I drive to Galveston with out of town guests, I like to point out
the Fuqua exit sign and ask them how they think it might be pronounced.

Then there's Kuykendahl, which no one seems to be able to agree on how it's
pronounced, but the most common is "KIRK en doll."

There's San Felipe, which half the people pronounce "San FILL i pee" and the
other half indignantly pronounce "San Fuh LEE pay."


Stephanie "It's 'FYOO quay'" da Silva
From: v462etnn@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (David L Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Date: 7 Jan 93 01:55:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1993Jan6.224750.20151@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, dsegard@nyx.cs.du.edu (Daniel Segard) writes...
> 
>      Tomita's BERMUDA TRIANGLE album has some sort of data (typical modem
>squeal sound) recorded on it.  According to the album notes there is a
>message encoded and you can decode it if you are running a Tarbel
>compatible computer.  (Whatever that means.)

Tarbell was a tape interface for old hobbyist computers.  You used to be able
to get Tarbell interfaces in S100 format.  Let you save your 8080 code in a
standard tape format.  The other major standard was called Kansas City.

David Anderson
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From: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz)
Subject: Re: Phone Calls at 2/3 the Speed of Light
Keywords: phone, telephone, speed
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:21:54 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.044909.6050@infonode.ingr.com>,
krajnatg@infonode.ingr.com (Tom G. Krajna) writes:
> While watching the traditional wintertime pigskin fest today, I noticed
> an AT&T commercial that showed three red sports cars and listed their
> speeds in miles-per-hour.  Next came a red phone (cute, eh?) and listed
> its speed: 440,000,000 mph (if I remember correctly).
> 
> Doing the ol' 186,282 * 3600, though, I get more like 670,615,200.  So
> what gives?  Is AT&T using slow lines?  Is my math bad?  More
> importantly,
> will Sprint or MCI run ads touting a 50% speed increase over AT&T?

Electricity has a lower than light speed. Cooper wires give you 
about 1/3 of the speed of light. So I guess AT&T gets the 2/3 figure
by using fiber optics and satellites whith near c speed.





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Alex Lopez-Ortiz                              alopez-o@maytag.UWaterloo.ca
Department of Computer Science                      University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario                                                   Canada
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From: kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 12:56:11 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.032205.9702@nmsu.edu>, dtasman@NMSU.edu (Dan Tasman) writes:
|> 
|> In the Atlanta region, there is supposedly over 50 streets named "Peachtree".   
|> Just about every community in Erie County, New York (Buffalo area) has a  
|> "French Road".
 
 Some street names that can be found in just about every city in New York:
 
 Fulton
 Erie
 Clinton (furrfu, they didn't even wait for his inauguration)
 Hudson
 Cuomo
 Mohawk
 Iroquois
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From: geturner@aer.com. (George Turner)
Subject: Re: Conspiracy_Theory theory
Keywords: conspiracy
Organization: Atmospheric & Environmental Research, Inc.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:38:42 GMT

William Manchester wrote something very interesting in the NY Times about the
JFK assassination.  He said that for all the horror of World War II, there
was a great evil, nazism, that helped explain or balance what happened.  In
JFK's assassination there isn't a great evil to explain or balance the story,
just one nut with a rifle. 

It doesn't seem right, so people invent there own stories.
From: lobaugh@a.chem.upenn.edu (John Lobaugh)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Date: 9 Jan 93 21:59:53 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1993Jan5.205843.6163@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> bspencer@cs.mcgill.ca (Brian SPENCER) writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.191741.26982@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes:
>>Can anyone identify a major city for me that does not have a street named
>>after Martin Luther King, Jr.?
>I assume you mean in the United States. For what it's worth, Montreal
>does not.

But it does have a street named after JFK called JFK blvd. (right in front 
of McGill-my old gray matter). 


-- 
John  lobaugh@a.chem.upenn.edu
From: etlcrcy@bugs.ericsson.se (Chris Cleverley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Classic one liners.
Keywords: phone, telephone, speed
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:44:37 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Ericsson Cellular Division


  I just heard a classic one line 'chat-up' which goes something along the lines of;

M: Fancy a shag and a pizza ?
F: Nah, I'd prefer a kebab.

 There must be hundreds of these so called chat-up's...

 I await eagerly.



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From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
Subject: Re: enterprise vs. love boat
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:40:56 GMT


In article <1993Jan12.000348.11267@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:

>barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (me) writes:
>	[NOTICE OF MY DYSLEXIC TENDENCIES DELETED]
>>Actually, if you think about it, there's a closer parallel than that:
>>
>>_Category_                              _ST:TNG_        _Love Boat_
>>
>>Black Bartender                         LaForge         Gynan (or however
>>                                                        you spell the name
>>                                                        of Whoopi Goldberg's
>>                                                        character)
>
>	Maybe I'm missing something, but, they're both on the same
>show.  I would compare Guinan on ST:TNG with the black bartender on
>the love boat, Grady.

Oops.  Now *my* dyxlesic tencendies...dylexisc tednecnies...er, confusion is
showing.  The comparison I meant to draw was:

_Category_                       _ST:TNG_               _Love Boat_

Black Bartender                  Guinan                 bartender (wasn't
                                                        his name Isaac?)


Barth "the bald guy should have stayed in Minneapolis" Richards

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From: jvarley@crash.cts.com (J.J. Varley)
Subject: Re: 'Springfield' is NOT a city in all states!
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 04 Jan 93 23:44:23 PST

	The quickest place to check for those names would be Hawaii. VERY
few towns there, if any, are not hawaiian names. 



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From: nigel@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca (Nigel M Burnett)
Subject: Re: Amusing signs 
Organization: as little as possible
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:12:09 GMT

Ian A Parkin (twod@socrates.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Well in good old Holland they have a round red sign with a picture of a dog 
: pooping in the middle, with NO diagonal red stripe !! Yes thats right 
: folks, if your dog want a poop then this is the place to drag it. 
 
: Only the dutch eh !

No, I have a photograph of the same sign that I took in Hong Kong two
years ago.  In fact, I have photos of wierd signs from all over the
world.  I figured that I'd send them all into NatLamp one day but I
lost their address.

Nigel (rarely without a camera) Burnett
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a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.  His own
good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.   John Stuart Mill

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Send e-mail to nigel@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca or try uunet.ca!kink!kathunk!nigel
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From: jmoody@netcom.com (Jim Moody)
Subject: Re: General Hooker and whores (FAQ)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:34:20 GMT

Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:

>>FAQ writes:
>>>Tb.US Civil War Gen. Hooker is the source for a common term for streetwalkers.

>Probably F, unless you have a citation.  The Oxford English Dictionary
>has a quotation from 1845 using the term.  Not-yet-general Hooker would
>have been about 30 years old at the time.  Was he *such* a rake that his
>name would have been a byword for "whore" in Norfolk (where the quotation
>is from) even though he was born in Massachusetts and lived in California?
>*Could* have happened, but...
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Is it possible that this stems from a famous incident in the civil war
when, I believe it was Hooker, was so outraged at the behavior of 
Southern women in the occupied cities toward Union Officers and troops
that he issued an order stating that any woman who insulted a Union
officer was to be treated as a lady of the town, or a lady of the streets?

I'll try and look up the incident.  The last time I remember hearing about
it was in Episode three of the PBS Civil War series.

0
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From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <C0EyDp.A6I@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:40:28 GMT

In article <C0EyDp.A6I@ccu.umanitoba.ca>,vnelson@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gerald Vernon Nelson) dares to contradict me:
>Jon Papai writes:
>>Why's this O'brien guy named Miles.  ST:TNG is consistent about
>>using only SI units, while ST:TOS was all the time using regular
>>units like feet and miles.  Shouldn't he be called "Meters
>>O'Brien".
>BZZZT.  TOS used meters and kilometers.

BZZZT.  I'm not a trekkie, like you people.  But I know I've heard
'miles' and 'feet' used by the crew of the ncc1701 (no bloody a, b,
c, or d).  I've never heard these useful units used on ST:TNG.

ObInconsistency:  Hows come in the first season, Data says to old
baldy 'French is an old dead language', (or some such rot),
whereas, later it seems to be a living language.

Jon "Shatner's best role is where he and Majel Barrett had the
hot-tub scene in _Big Bad Mama_" Papai
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From: L.H.Wood@lut.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Date: 4 Jan 93 22:22:30 GMT
Reply-To: L.H.Wood@lut.ac.uk (Lloyd Wood)
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.

Deep Space 9 - to boldly stay where no man has stayed before.

(Hyuk, Hyuk!)

L.
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Late breaking potential UL!
Date: 5 Jan 1993 06:30:33 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Distribution: world
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

RE  Bill Clinton

bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM writes:

  +He managed to become Time's Man of the Year in the year before he
  +assumed office -- the guy's obviously got the jump us somehow, Terry.

He's got the jump on a lot more than that....

Terry "Did that come out right?" Chan
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Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
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From: zstewart@nyx.cs.du.edu (Zhahai Stewart)
Subject: Re: Mother Lifts Car Off Child. Uh huh.
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: Fri, 8 Jan 93 02:51:23 GMT

>Also, I made a foray to my GARAGE where I performed twisted experiments
>on my innocent light blue Tercel. It was _remarkably_ easy to pick up
>the back corner of the car and lift the wheel an inch off the ground.
>
>Then I stood there wondering, now what? How do I get the hypothetical
>child out from under the car (if it can't get out under its own power)?
>I couldn't drag it out with no arms free. I couldn't even kick it out
>because both legs were busy. I couldn't figure it out. So I put the car
>down and went inside.

As you discovered (once the strain on your muscles increased the blood
pressure in your brain), just lifting up the car a bit doesn't help much.
You have to flip it over your shoulder; well, at least flip it over like
a bug (easier if it IS a Bug).  Didn't you ever read comic books?

Either that or use a crush proof child who is merely encumbered by the car's
weight, but not too damages to move once that is removed.
  ~z~

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From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Conspiracy_Theory theory
Keywords: conspiracy
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:31:32 GMT

dolonsgh@unix1.tcd.ie (DL) writes:

>I am wondering why conspiracy theories make such good stories-what the
>attraction is that makes people almost want to believe them.

I bet *THEY* made you post this, right?

Paul "I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of a kibo-ist
organization" Tomblin
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Paul Tomblin, pt@compass.gvc.com
(This is not an official opinion/statement of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
"There is nothing wrong with making up .signature quotes, but... make *new*
ones." - Apologies to Henry Spencer and D.Sim
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:07:21 GMT

alex@animal.Bell.CA (Alex Laney) writes:

: : these things work, knows that if you really hooked up a "one bit" DAC to
: : the data on a CD, you'd get complete static. So, whats the deal with
: : this?  What does it really mean.
: 
: : BTW, some brands call this "MASH" (I believe Technics, Panasonic, and
: : their subsidiaries)
: 
: It truly is a one-bit decoder. The music is reproduced by varying the space 
: between the 1's and 0's. A form of pulse modulation. Anyway, I find the
: results to be superior...

Yeah right. You should give some indication that you are kidding. Otherwise,
people might believe that you think you know what you are talking about.

For more information than you could possibly desire - check any basic text
on digital storage technology.

Bill
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From: rperkins@strato.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Architecture (Was: Architect Suicides)
Date: 12 Jan 93 20:16:06 GMT
Organization: st. alfonso's pancake breakfast

In article <wpg=vD@engin.umich.edu> thumper@engin.umich.edu (Bob Topping) writes:
>In article <1993Jan12.161238.27019@vela.acs.oakland.edu> alrobins@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Amanda Robinson) writes:
>>>are there any other Kresge auditoria out there?
>>
>>Hmmm, no Kresge auditorium here at Oakland.  Will you settle for a Kresge
>>library?? We have one of those...

>  The University of Michigan has several Kresges.  There's the Kresge
>Business Library, the Kresge Eye Institute, and a couple of Kresge
>Auditoria.
>
>  Eastern Michigan, just down the road from UM, has the Kresge 
>Environmental Education Center, aka "Fish Lake", which is a bio-
>logical research station and sometime astronomical field trip
>gathering place.
>
>  I'd assume that there's a higher percentage of Kresge legacies in
>the Michigan area because he started here. (duh.)
>
 the question i originally was concerned with was : are they all the same
structurally? do thay all look like triangular sheets of cloth nailed down
on the corners and inflated in the middle? do they all have walls like the 
one at MIT, or are some of them open-air, like the one at interlochen, MI.?

have we ascertained that the kresge in question is the one that started k-mart?

bah.
i am the asciibo!

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		    -just give me what for,
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Subject: Re: Ring in the New Year with Some FAQs
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 16:00:35 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:

> >ObLemur: Any lemur is welcome to have an account on my BBS. See below for
> >phone number.
>  
> Lemurs are not an indigenous species and should not be allowed in New Zealand
> So Wayne would probably have a hard time importing one.

They can make a toll call.

> ObUL1: There are _no_ snakes in New Zealand - not even in Zoos.

ObFact: The only snake ever allowed into New Zealand was for Bo Derek to have
draped around her in a film [about the garden of Eden?]

ObUl2: This required an Act of Parliament.
 
> Derek "The only good Possum is a dead Possum" Tearne.

ObUl: Animal rights activists opposing fur coats killed the noxious possum
fur cat industry.

ObUl: Australians think possums are cute and feed them in parks in Sydney.

ObUl: Possums are kept as pets.


-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU

"I hate quotations." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Rush!Rush!Rush!
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:58:39 GMT
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor

In article <C0Jy1I.HC9@unx.sas.com> sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>
>>In article <28254@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>>>Terry "Does anybody know the name of some BAD groups?" Chan
>
>First prize: Florence Foster Jenkins.
>
As usual, Bruce is spiking the afu punch with a little class and erudition.

Some readers, however, might be too young, undereducated, or busy with
actual useful things to know who FFJ was.

Florence Foster Jenkins was a portly, well-to-do soprano with a truly
God-awful voice.  I can't sing much, but I can do better than Mrs. Jenkins,
even on hard stuff like the forging song from _Seigfried_.

Mrs. Jenkins, for all her lack of talent, was sufficiently well-to-do to
give a charity concert every year, and had enough well-to-do friends to
make a go of it.

I once had a rather remarkable Florence Foster Jenkins album, but can't
find anything between Jefferson Airplane and Janis Joplin among the
pop vinyl, or anything with a "J" in the classics.  

Phil


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Subject: Norman Travels??
From: rhamilt@husc10.harvard.edu (Rowan Hamilton)
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:31:28 GMT
Keywords: Spaghetti,Hastings,TheBlackHand,1066
Summary: and who hasn't conquered Sicily, anyway?

I recently heard someone claim that the Normans (of 1066 fame), before 
arriving in northern France, were in fact for awhile based in Sicily. The
claim was that they based themselves in Sicily while marauding in the
Mediterranean, and then moved to France when they found better pickings 
in the North. Can anyone out there confirm/deny this?


-- 
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hamilton@huhepl.harvard.edu                   hella shit."
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From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Until Death ... NOT
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 08:59:29 GMT

Here's another great story from my favourite newspaper. The story,
however, comes from some other newsagency:

A 41 year old Berliner was still living with his 16 years older
girlfriend 8 months after she died. He told the police that he
could not stand the thought of loosing her. He shared shared a
twin bed with the corpse.

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YuNoHoo  "what's that smell..."
From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Bugger it
Date: 11 Jan 1993 23:16:41 GMT
Organization: Sun
NNTP-Posting-Host: positive

>Thirdly I was at graduate school with a man who was cheating the telephone
>system by making collect calls to different public phone boxes in England.

From: reid@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Robert Reid)
> I must have missed something. How does calling public phone boxes in
> England collect get you anywhere?

He had a girlfriend there;  she'd send him a bunch of callbox numbers,
he'd send her a bunch of corresponding times when he'd call.  She'd be
in the right callbox at the right time and "accept the charges".
You can't do this any more.


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