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From: fielden@spot.Colorado.EDU (j. a. fielden)
Subject: Re: Travelling Lawn Ornament on A Current Affair
Keywords: travelling,lawn,ornament,shenanigan
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:55:05 GMT

In article <malcolm.726268104@wrs.com> malcolm@wrs.com (Malcolm Humes) writes:
>I recall a very simialr story a few years ago, which I think was maybe
>a guest on Letterman's show, but in this case the statue was I think 
>a dwarf (one of the 7?) or something like that, and I don't recall the woman
>calling the cops. 
>
>  - Malcolm 

 Well actually Denver has it's own traveling lawn ornament "pepe"
(sombreo(sp?) man with head on knees)
There was a story sometime back and another one yesterday on one of
the local newscasts. Don't have details since I didn't pay real close
attention. 
I figure the people who took pepe and traveled all over were copycat's.
According to the newscast there are photos of pepe at all different
kinds of locations around the u.s. that were returned with him the first time.
The second time he was in Arizona and there was some long complicated story on
the way he was returned.

So another case of life imitating UL
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
Subject: Re: Pay phone shenanigans
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 06:03:12 GMT

jajmoore@laplace.uwaterloo.ca (Moses Moore) writes:

>In article <C0B9nK.B10@world.std.com>, mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur) writes:
>>  
>> If there's a row of pay phones, one fun thing to do is ring them one at a
>> time.  As soon as one rings, hang up and dial another...  This confuses
>> people greatly, and usually doesn't even cost you a quarter.

>I used to do that, but in the Southern Ontario area the pay phones have been replaced with the electronic models (magnetic strip reader, LED display with instructions and cost of long distance calls, etc) and these don't have the old 99-trick for making 
it ring.  Anyone know of some shennanigans for the new "Millenium" phones?

By 'making them ring', I was referring to calling from a more distant pay
phone (presuming that you've written the number down already.)  This works
on any phone, of course.

>FYI: the 99-ring trick:
>At any telephone, dial the number for the phone you're dialing from, but 
>replace the first two digits with 99.  ie, if the pay phone's # is 560-3254,
> dial 990-3254.  Then tap the handle for 1/3 second (as if to hang up), and 
>listen.  If you hear a steady
> tone, hang up.  Otherwise tap it again.

Actually, this might not work in all areas...  Does anyone know for sure? 
The method of making payphones ring in my area (801) or at least parts of
it, is to replace the first three digits with "939".  I haven't tried "99." 
 
However, the method is the same.  I would guess that each local telco has
"test" prefixes to correspond with the "real" prefixes, but it may vary
from place to place.

-- 
~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`

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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans

Oh, geezzzz


Mr. Rula Lenska writes:
>  mix gasoline with powered laundry detergent...sticks to anything.

Hmm... I once saw this movie about Marines in Vietnam... They had this
little marching song in which the chorus went something like:

	"Napalm sticks to kids!"

	Soo..... Let's be careful out there, shall we?

	>  all disclaimers apply, especially here.

		Heikki

Mr. Lenska... be sure also to look both ways before crossing the
street please... wouldnt want you to get flattened by a Gasoline
truck or anything.

Saftey First!

Duck and Cover!

Go home!


all disclaimers apply, especially here.

Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans,alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college
From: malcolm@wrs.com (Malcolm Humes)
Subject: Re: Travelling Lawn Ornament on A Current Affair
Keywords: travelling,lawn,ornament,shenanigan
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:08:24 GMT

I recall a very simialr story a few years ago, which I think was maybe
a guest on Letterman's show, but in this case the statue was I think 
a dwarf (one of the 7?) or something like that, and I don't recall the woman
calling the cops. 

  - Malcolm 
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: etlanmy@ermintrude.ericsson.se (Allan Murphy)
Subject: Re: Fun with blindfolds
Organization: Ericsson Cellular Division
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 11:03:39 GMT

In article <1ispdhINNd1h@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> nuxollam@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu writes:
>During a rap session last night our resident Spaniard told us a few good  
>shenanigans...perhaps more like pranks but fun regardless.
>
>2.  Have the blindfolded person stand on a chair with a hand on the head  
>of person #1 who is standing in front of the chair.  Persons #2 and #3  
>carefully lift the chair just an inch or two off the ground while Person  
>#1 slowly sinks down onto his haunches.  This makes the blindfolded  
>individual think that he/she is now several feet in the air.  Persons #2  
>and #3 then urge the person on the chair to jump (perhaps shaking the  
>chair a bit for that added encouragement).  Apparently the victim's  
>reaction upon coming in contact with the floor 4 feet earlier than  
>expected is worth all the effort.
>
>I personally have never seen these done so please let me know how well  
>they work.

I've seen number 2 done, except without the jumping bit. It was quite
amusing already - the person on the chair gets really worried as they think
that they are hovering about 5 feet above ground. The effect is helped, as
you say, if the people holding the chair wobble it about and some other
people go "Woah! Watch out!" in the background. The jumping part would be
funny, but probably difficult to persuade the person to do.

--
--
Allan J. Murphy                  /     \ "Curves and lines...of grand designs...
                                 \     /  We break the surface tension with
etlanmy@deep-thought.ericsson.se /     \  our wild kinetic dreams...."  
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: jcc@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jeremy Caplan)
Subject: Idea...
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:01:52 GMT

Let's make up some really creative chemical formula etc. for ome kind of
really cool explosive device or other article of terror.  Then we'll do this
on the terrorism sig.

Ideas?  Suggestions?

Jer
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Sunday, 10 Jan 1993 13:56:06 EST
From: Kind of a stupid game isn't it? <IO10781@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: piss off.

This is just a test. Ignore it.

./~~~~~~~~~~~~~\__________________________._____________/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\,
| It takes a warped mind to make a tender |Captain Ugh may be reached at|
| chicken - From the annals of Victor L M |   IO10781@Maine.maine.edu   |
`\_____________/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~\______________/'
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: reid@ucs.indiana.edu (Frank Reid)
Subject: Re: Homemade mace
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:54:55 GMT

In article <1i9tp9INNh4e@network.ucsd.edu> napier@cs.ucsd.edu (Jim Napier) 
writes:
>Does anyone have a recipe for a homemade form of mace? I'd prefer 
>this to be much milder in its effects than real mace. Thanks.
>
>Jim

Black pepper contains a volatile oil that is the major ingredient in some
of the milder forms of tear gas.  Heating pepper will produce an 
irritating vapor.  One way to do so is to build a circular dam of masking
tape on top of the lightbulb in the mark's lamp, and fill with pepper.
Turn on the lamp.  A few minutes later, the room will be unenterable.

--

Frank     reid@ucs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: chaplin@keinstr.uucp (Roger Chaplin)
Subject: The Huenter Kradaken shenanigan
Followup-To: alt.shenanigans
Organization: Keithley Instruments, Cleveland, Ohio
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:25:57 GMT

Diarmuid Pigott (diarmuid@uniwa.uwa.edu.au) wrote:
: Daniel Steven Reinker (dementia@cheshire.oxy.edu) wrote:
: : Oh please! This sounds to me like utter bullshit
: : I would've thought rec.music.classical was above this
: : sort of sophomoric idiocy.

: However, he also wrote:

: : -- 
: : "You can't help that. We're all mad here."-The cheshire cat, Alice in WL
: : 
: : "A mass hysteria/a megalomania/reveal Dementia/reveal"-Metallica                

: ???

Two BIG blunders here!!

First, don't put stuff in your .sig which looks out of place on a
serious rec.music.classical article.

Second, the referenced article was posted to BOTH rec.music.classical
and alt.shenanigans.  Anyone reading about Huenter Kradaken in
rec.music.classical and seeing alt.shenanigans in the article's header
is going to get suspicious.

Some rec.music.classical readers are already getting suspicious.  Let's
not give them more clues than we already have.  THINK
rec.music.classical!!  ACT rec.music.classical!!  This is an exercise
in role-playing.

-- 
Roger Chaplin / Instruments Division Engineering / "Though I'd been lost now I
chaplin@keinstr.uucp / CI$: 76307,3506          / felt I was found when He
#include <disclaimer.h>                        / looked at me with His
#include "disclaimer.h" /* cover all bases */ / forgiving eyes." - Michael Card
From: squirrel@cco.caltech.edu (Pat White)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Roommate Confusion
Date: 6 Jan 1993 00:44:11 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

An old friend told me some stories about his own personal "roommate from hell"
who had a few odd tricks of his own.  The doors in this dorm all had transoms:
i.e. openings above the door that allowed ventilation.  They could open all
the way down, which opened up a space about a foot high by 3 feet wide.
Anyway, this roommate would drag his bed over to the door, blocking it, open
up the transom, and when anyone walked by, would throw a brightly colored ball
out the transom down the hall, and beg, "Get it!!  Oh, please get it for me!"
Most people, my friend said, would get it for him, but as soon as they tossed
the ball back in his room, he would immediately throw it out again.  He would
then beg again, loudly.  He would do this for hours.

He also had a big punching bag clown, about five feet tall, that he religiously
took out of the room onto a nearby porch every morning, and returned to the 
room at night.  When he had to leave on the weekends, he would very seriously
ask my friend to perform this ritual for him.  When he came home early and
found that my friend had not done what he'd promised, the roommate would 
become very, very upset.

My friend told me his roommate flamed out of school after a few short terms.

Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: judd@wilkinson.cs.colorado.edu (Stephen Judd)
Subject: Re: Yeah, right.  As if anybody in r.m.c believes in HK.
Organization: Universtiy of Coloardo, Boulder
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:24:01 GMT

In article <DUBACH1.93Jan6191421@husc10.harvard.edu> dubach1@husc10.harvard.edu (joev dubach) writes:
>I mean, come on!  With articles like this?
>
>>In article <1993Jan6.031408.21669@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> sklar@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Dave Sklar) writes:
>>>
>>>       I think he's on a Trivial Pursuit card.  The question's about a
>>>composer who later became a zoologist.  I won't get it wrong anymore!
>
>>Another little-known fact about Krakaden is that his speciality in zoology
>>was lemur-training.  Before his death he was training some Ringtailed
>>Lemurs to play the works of Mozart on miniature grand pianos.
>
>>          (oo)					Joel Furr
>Personally, I think somebody's got to do some damage control, and
>denounce messages like this, to have any hope of actually getting them
>to believe in HK.

Too late.  People are consulting Grove's.  Idiots like 'voluptua
love' didn't help either.  My warnings were not heeded.

The joke is over. :-(

Mr. Dementia, instigator of the joke: Please send me some email.  We need
to have a chat.

>DDDDDDDDD   JJJJJJ      | Joev Dubach

					-Steve
--
judd@sgt-york.lanl.gov   //
judd@colorado.edu      \X/
From: eamon@netcom.com (Charles E Taggart)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Wrong-Number Phone Shenanigan
Date: 11 Jan 93 02:38:40 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

We had a similar phone number problem when I was a kid ... the last digit
of our number was one different from Martin Bros. Restaurant, a 24-hour
place that took orders to go.  It seemed like we'd get at least one call a
week from someone trying to place an order at two or three o'clock in the
morning.

It used to really piss my dad off, and the way he usually dealt with it
was this:

"Yeah, this is Martin Bros.  Can I take your order? ... two shrimp
po-boys, two fries, onion rings.  Okay, that'll be $8.23 ... come pick it
up in about 20 minutes."  *click*

Chuck
-- 
 C. E. Taggart / eamon@netcom.com / eamont@well.sf.ca.us / GEnie:  C.TAGGART
           "Whatever you is, BE that!" -- Clifton Chenier's barber
"A day without a strange look is a day wasted." - J. Gough, Heretic (Toasted)
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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: umandru1@ccu.umanitoba.ca (John N. Andrusiak)
Subject: Re: The Huenter Kradaken shenanigan
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:03:42 GMT


Actually, the whole Huenter Kradaken was joke created by the 
rec.musical.classical
Actually the whole Huenter Kradaken shenanigan is a joke being played
on alt.shenanigan by rec.music.classical. If you go back into the
archives, you find that this whole thing has been planned by
rec.musical.classical for quite a long time. You can also not that the
guy who was supposed to have started the shenanigan on alt.shenanigan
is actually a frequent poster on rec.music.classical. 
 
You guys have all been shenaniganned by another group. 
 
------------------------------
John Andrusiak - umandru1@umanitoba.ca
 
"If you mind isn't bent now, it soon will be be." Huenter Kradaken

Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
Subject: Re: Something goofy this way comes.
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:17:56 GMT

My Baloney has a first name..... <IO10712@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:

>I've always through one of the best shenanigans to pull on an eitire campus
>would be to go to every computer in a computer cluster and put the word
>"teh" in the spelling dictionary.

I did this once, in a big way.  (NOTE:  This is probably more of a prank
than a shenanigan, but at least it hasn't been discussed before)

I came into the computer lab at my high school one day and sat at a
computer.  I noticed that the previous user of the machine had been
working on a WordPerfect document and had left it in memory.

The title of the document read, "120 MOST COMMONLY MISSPELLED WORDS".

Seeing this, I just couldn't help myself.  I copied the list three times,
and then went through and edited each copy of each word into a different
misspelling.  I then went into the spell checker and "learned" every
single word...
-- 
~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`
From: rachim_t1@verifone.com
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: more phone phun
Date: 7 Jan 93 11:32:15 -1000
Organization: VeriFone Inc., Honolulu HI

In article <1hnf50INN9uv@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, bq276@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Seese) writes:
> 
> In his article, Craig says he has his answering machine say
> something like ``The number you have reached has *not* been
> changed.''
> 
> I'll bet you miss a lot of important messages that way, Craig.
> I hope you're not interviewing for any jobs.
> -- 
> 
> Michael Seese
> Cleveland, OH (and darned happy to be here)

Who'd want to work for a fool who doesn't listen? !!!
Rich.
From: oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: My answers
Summary: The easy way to morals
Date: 4 Jan 93 14:43:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <C0A6oM.1uA.1@cs.cmu.edu>, drake+@cs.cmu.edu (Drake) writes...
>oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown) writes:
> 
>>>>It would be nice to have a set of rules that worked in all 
>>>>situations, but I haven't yet found any.
>>> 
>>>Why do you say it would be nice?  What, specifically, would be nice
>>>about it?
>>> 
>>
>>Easier.
> 
>Yes, you are correct there.  Now, can you define "worked in all
>situations?"  What criteria would a set of rules have to meet
>in order to satisfy you?
> 

Get outta here.  I said there is no such thing, so why would I 
bother with this homework assignment?

If you think its worth the trouble, you write it up.:)

- Peggy -
Newsgroups: alt.magick
From: scarrobi@shearson.com (Steve Carrobis)
Subject: Re: Looking for info on abortifacents
Reply-To: scarrobi@shearson.com
Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:24:13 GMT

In article 10210@radian.uucp, markbr%radian@natinst.com (markbr) writes:
> In article <C0Jpwv.L8L@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> dart@symphony.cc.purdue.edu (Dartanyan) writes:
> >	I need any possible information about publicly available abortifacents
> >(miscarriage-inducing substances).  Both chemical and herbal substances are
> >of extreme interest at this point.  Any information you can give would be
> >most helpful.  Feel free to reply via email.
> >
> >	No jokes or flames, please.  This is a situation in which the
> >choice lies between the death of a fetus and the death of my wife.
> >
> >	Thank You.
> >						Sean Cannon
> 
> If this is a serious post, why is a normal medical abortion not considered?
> On the other hand, and this is a hand I dislike suggesting, could this be
> a sting?
> 
> 	mark, the paranoid
> 


its quite possible he was looking for a natural means. but i would suggest doing it 
the modern way. if his wife is in danger then better to have doctors around to 
help in case something goes wrong. 
if i were in the situations, and my wife was in this dnger it would have been done 
no questions, no regrets. i love children as much as anyone. but my soul mate comes
first, before any unborn proginy. (p.s. i may think about what it may have been 
like with the child, but i would still be a part of a pair and not half)

---
Steve C. 

 ==> A wise man once told me - There ARE NO Wise Men !
                             - Just fools who think they are.
---------------------------------------------------------------		
 I understand you need someone to do work.
 I don't do work, but, I know this guy who does.
    -Vladimir Taltos
---------------------------------------------------------------
From: thig@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Terence P Higgins)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: re:abortifacents
Date: 11 Jan 1993 13:28:07 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: thig@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

Let me do make clear my objection to providing any substantive information
on the topic...Actually, I'm pro-choice and anti-big medicine. Pro-choice
In my
definition, however, requires the consent of the woman involved. Is
there any way of actually knowing with any degree of certainty that this man
is telling the truth? Isn't there at least the possibility that he's not
being honest and wants this information for some devious purpose? that's my
objection.
From: 004107w@axe.acadiau.ca (CHRISTOPHER KEITH WILDBORE)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: vortex, needed
Summary: looking for Chaos Vortex Rite
Keywords: looking  for rite
Date: 12 Jan 93 02:09:52 GMT
Organization: Acadia University


 Hi, I'm  looking for Chaos' Vortex Rite.  Can someone E-mail it to me, or 
tell me where I can find it? 
Syl-Van-Syr
004107w@axe.acadiau.ca
Newsgroups: alt.magick
From: locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu (SCOTT C LOCKLIN)
Subject: More Shrew Stone
Organization: Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:13:40 GMT
X-Posted-From: titan.ucc.umass.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


Back to the device;
For whatever reason, crystals work best (for skrying) when dimly lit from
underneath. Reading & some practice have convinced me of this.

The device is appropriate as a magickal weapon in the "lamp", "cup" or
pentacle. I suppose it can also be used as a sort of "magickal mannikin"
talisman, though it seems a bit awkward for this.

I've always have a bit of a fascination for gadgets & so the "psuedosciences"
of Reichenbach, Mesmer, the Alchemists, Reich, Galen Heironymous, T.E. Bearden
& others hold a special fascination for me. This unit is based in part on
the ideas of these "Magickians"
I'll prepare an introductory reading list for these concepts if there is
an interest.

My prelimanary experiments with this unit have been quite spectacular in
their visual effects. In previous experiments it has been difficult to
maintain the visual feild inside the xtal. Visuals happen quite spontaneously
in this unit. My experience (shared by others) has been that the xtal becomes
cloudy by slow degrees & then a black "window" opens in this cloudy 
background which eventually becomes the portal to the Aetheric (or earthly)
vision you seek.

Much new-age doo-doo has been written on which shaped xtals are used for which
purposes (some lady in New-Mexico is especially guilty of  this). IMHO the
shape of the facets makes no difference. "Diamond windows" or "recordkeepers"
are no better than plain old hexagons; worse in fact, if they are internally
flawed. Choose what you think is best for its purpose. A "proper" xtal often
"sticks" to your fingers in the rock bin. You will know the feeling I describe
when you experience it. It is a zen thing.

Sorry about the disjointed style of the post; I am trying to jot all this
down before they kick me out of the terminal room. I'll get a better file
together on this sometime soon.

-Scott
Xref: sparky alt.magick:6771 talk.religion.misc:25993
From: mimir@hardy.u.washington.edu (Al Billings)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Contents of the Crystal Tablet of Set
Date: 8 Jan 1993 01:18:46 GMT
Organization: The Friends of Loki Society
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu

The _Crystal Tablet of Set_ is the volume given to all First
Degree Setians upon their admittance to the Temple of Set.

The major items within the _Crystal Tablet_ are:

1. "Black Magic in Theory and Practice", by Dr. Michael Aquino,
which discusses the philosophy of the Left Hand Path, the origins
of the Temple of Set, and our theories concerning magic.

2. Short articles discussing the new Words (magical philosophies)
of Remanifestation and Runa (by their Magi).

3. "Setian Initiation and Recognition", by Robert Menschel, which
discusses the activities and goals of the First Degree Initiate,
and the process of Recognition to the Second Degree.

4. Inter-Member Communication Roster (list of Setians who are
open to correspondence with others).

5. Introductory statements concerning the various Orders within
the Temple of Set.

6. The Temple of Set Reading List (finally uploaded here on
Northern Lights in its entirety).

7. "The Book of Coming Forth by Night", the document received /
transcribed by Michael Aquino which established the Temple of Set
as an organization dedicated to Set.

8. "BoCFbN: Analysis and Commentary", by Dr. Aquino.

9. "The Word of Set", Dr. Aquino's recent translation /
transliteration of the Enochian Keys.

10. "The Diabolicon", by Dr. Aquino (see the posts in Northern
Lights' "LHP" message section for a discussion of it).

11. Dr. Aquino's analysis and commentary on _The Book of the
Law_.

12. Various minor items, such as a list of all pylons within the
Temple, list of all current officials, statement of protocol
(normal forms of address, respecting privacy, etc), discussion of
electronic mail and the Temple's private BBS, etc.

Yes, it's still in print, but available only to Initiates of the
Temple of Set.


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