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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Cheese popcorn
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:41:31 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.095001.556@news.cs.indiana.edu> dbreece@cherry.ucs.indiana.edu (Dave Breece) writes:
>In article <1h7970INNe2c@bigboote.WPI.EDU> driel@wpi.WPI.EDU (Deborah
>M Riel) writes: 
>>>Have you ever tried to buy the cheese stuff they use to make cheese
>>>popcorn?  They don't have THAT at my grocery store.  Maybe we
>>>should cross-post to alt.conspiracy......
>
>>I wanted to make my own cheese popcorn once, and got the brainstorm of
>>using one of those packets of orangey cheese powder from a box of
>>macaroni and cheese.  It worked!  
>
>I don't know if they make this anymore, but a few years back, Kraft
>was making grated cheddar cheese, much the same as their parmesan,
>only in an orange can, instead of green.
>
>It makes (made) wonderful cheese popcorn!

The Kraft Mac & Cheese mix is essentially the same, only with more starch or
something.

Does anyone know if they still make the grated cheddar cheese?  I love the
stuff, and would love to know where to get some.

Please post, as I do not read my e-mail often.

Ted "also misses Grape Tang" Frank
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From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: kpix SCREWS UP (was Re:    Skyscraper FALLS DOWN.)
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 00:24:51 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.064554.25146@netcom.com> obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien) writes:
>ObUL: Dan Quayle's law degree was partially chewed up by the dog
>	Bob "just heard that on KPIX" O'Bob

I was watching KPIX-TV news on Dec. 31, 1983, when the ignorant blow-dried
newscreature mentioned that we were about to start the year 1984, in which
(he said), George Orwell warned us that computers would be a danger to the
world, blah blah blah.  Of course, anyone who's ever read _1984_ knows 
that computers are not even mentioned in the book (except perhaps for the
"speakwrite", which plays a very minor role).  The motion picture had a
lot of nice touches capturing the low-tech nature of the society portrayed
in the book, such as the rotary dials on the mechanical device for calling
up old newspaper isues, and the black-and-white telescreens.  No 'puters.

So "heard that on KPIX" should be a contender for AFU motto-of-the-whatever.

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From: bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson)
Subject: Re: African-American-top
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 08:20:41 GMT

In article <1993Jan1.003451.27818@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>Speaking of Time magazine and political correctness, a couple of weeks
>ago Time published a sneering column about a university drama department
>that had put on a version of Brecht's "The Good Woman of Szechuan"
>entitled "The Good PERSON of Szechuan".  It then went on to make PC
>titles out of all sorts of literary works such as "Person and Super-
>person, by G. B. Shaw" etc. etc.  
>
>Unfortunately for Time, the play's director may not have been being
>PC, just literal.  The title of Brecht's play in the original is
>"Der gute Mensch von Sezuan".  Now, boys and girls, get out your
>German dictionaries and tell me what "Mensch" means....

Ahh, but you should also notice 'Der gute Mensch', clearly masculine.

This could, of course, be a case of mistranslation rather than PC
muddling.

ObUL:  Translaters intentionally miss the subtlety of the original language
so that students in foreign language classes have to read the original.

ObUL2:  Good translations are available if you "know the right people".

Ben "I wonder how well Shakespeare reads in German" Jackson
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From: wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis)
Subject: Re: Crash Test Dummies (was: A FAQ for the Holidays)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 06:44:15 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.150128.1312@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>ObUL: Since the crash test dummies were licensed to a toy
>company and have become big sellers, the networks no longer
>run crash test dummy PSAs.  They consider them free advertising.

  This appeared, BTW, in an article in the Dec. 92 Harper's. It's in
the middle of an article about a new crash-test-dummies toy to be 
released this Xmas (hmmm, probably already released then). The toy
is a car that can be crashed into walls and will crumple up. 
Quote from the article:

"Ironically, the three major networks now refuse to air NHTSA's public-
service ads, arguing that the spots amount to ads for the Tyco toys."

Other interesting quotes:

"The decapitated head [sic] has a friendly expression that invites sadism,
a detail that Tyco knows will appeal to little boys."

"A female dummy, Darlene, was planned, but Tyco decided boys would not
play with her and that girls were not likely to want the toy."

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From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
Subject: SM (was Cheese popcorn)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:42:21 GMT


In article <1992Dec25.073227.24964@u.washington.edu>
wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis) writes:

>In article <1992Dec22.213606.22305@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>>ObfoodUL: The pound cake is so called because it takes
>>a pound of butter.  Avoird(mumble) or imperial pound?
>
>   Actually, a pound of _every_ ingredient. At least, an Old Family
>Recipe (tm, r, c, sm[*]) --- which produces delicious pound cake let
>me tell you, as long as you're not on a diet --- does. Well, not a
>pound of salt, but ...
>
>[*] What does this stand for (besides sadomasochism)? Seems to me
>    I once heard it explaines as "sales mark" or something equally
>    contrived.

Service Mark.

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From: yergeau@phy.ulaval.ca (Francois Yergeau)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:07:21 GMT
Organization: Universite Laval, Quebec

I saw this while going through a village in the Massif Central of
France a few years ago.  The road was branching off in two directions,
and there was this helpful sign for the clueless traveller (my
translation):

+----------------------+
|                      |
|    ALL DIRECTIONS    |
|                      |
|      <-------        |
|                      |
+----------------------+
|                      |
|   OTHER DIRECTIONS   |
|                      |
|       ------->       |
|                      |
+----------------------+

After a second of hesitation, I picked the left branch, which was of
course the right one.

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From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: terry awards
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:22:53 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.155514.26813@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>
>ObUL: The sum of the squaw on the hippopotamus equals the sum of
>the squaws on the other two hides.
>
That would be the _son_, rather than the sum, in both cases, Jonathan.
You've sorta tried to multiply lemurs on a log table.

>Jon "Not a Terry" Papai

And with rather a way to go, too.

Phil



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From: LAURA@UCF1VM.BITNET (Laura Kittleson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: RE: Ethnicity & Soc.Secur.No.
Date: 29 Dec 92 18:38:00 GMT
 <1992Dec29.165000.24830@sunova.ssc.gov>
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Central Florida--Computer Services

Another hand raised from a USA-born, waspy-as-they-come person
with an even middle number in her SSN.


--Laura Kittleson
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From: obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien)
Subject: Re: Fruitcake
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:58:50 GMT

Want the *real* low-down on friutcake?  The untold stories?

What they _really_ are, how they got here, what they're doing,
and how they do it?

Too bad.

but there *is* a half-hour special coming up Friday (Xmas) evening
on the Discovery (cable) channel, at 9:30 Pacific time.
Should be fun...

	Bob
From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: ruining fountains with detergent (Was: Re: Net's Funniest Kitchen Disasters
Date: 29 Dec 92 23:21:19 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1992Dec26.041832.10572@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
[Re vippysue students foaming fountains:]
> but it's really kinda pointless and wasteful.

Unlike usenet.


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Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:32003 alt.folklore.science:4477
From: worden@bouncer.nsc.com (Dennis Worden)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: The All Glorious Monty Hall
Date: 23 Dec 92 19:30:00 GMT
Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation

Keywords: 

Very interesting!!!  I had actually re-thought out the problem last night
prior to these new postings.  The person who posted the 1 in a million 
example bothered me, and finally led me to my error!!!  I see the light!!
Or rather the odds!!!  I thank all of those people patient enough to make
another try at enlightening me.  My error was in reassigning the probability
from the opened door to *all* the remaining doors.  It only reassigns to
those doors within its group (the other 999,998 in the million case, or
the single door in the 3 door case).  The probability of the prize within
a group remains constant!!!  The groups are "my door" and "all the rest",
and those group's probability remains 33% vs 67%. 


***** 
From: gix@mdd.comm.mot.com (Brian Gix)

>It's only 50-50 if after Monty opens a door with a goat, you are blind-folded, spun
>around 50 times, and have the rooms re-arranged, and you don't know which door you
>originally picked.

This is in fact the crux of my error.  Excellently put.
*****
From: carlf@panix.com (Carl Fink)
>  (I know in advance this is likely a waste of time)

WRONG!!!  I read every post that relates to a subject I comment on and do my 
best to evaluate it with an open mind.  I understand your frustration, and do 
appreciate your patience with this posting.

*****
From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
>You are making a fool of yourself.
>This is a well known problem.

WRONG!!  You are making a fool of yourself.  Somebody can come up with a problem
that will stump anybody, yourself included.  Not understanding something does not
make someone a fool.  Not listening to others makes them the fool.  Even though
I felt sure of my position, I still read and thought about every response posted
either directly to me, or just on the subject.  A lot of times, it takes looking
at the problem in just the right way to achieve the breakthrough.  And as for it
being a well known problem, only to those who read the proper news groups.  Try
asking people on the street, or better yet, ask the family at Christmas Dinner.
Then tell me it's a well known problem.


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From: zstewart@nyx.cs.du.edu (Zhahai Stewart)
Subject: Re: PRODIGY New and improved STILL SUCKS, HORRIBLE as before
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, 23 Dec 92 20:55:09 GMT

The Prodigy STAGE.DAT thing has been pretty well debunked.  However, the
situation was more complicated than the first phase skeptics made it out to
be.  Apparently, not only can old sectors hold deleted data (as everyone
knows), but some MSDOS disk caches apparently even contained and wrote data
from other disks; data which some folks found which had never been on the
same drive as STAGE.DAT was one of the most damning initial reports.  This 
was confirmed by Phil Becker, author and owner of TBBS software in Denver,
Colorado.

Good example of UL based on distorted facts.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: Re: AFU Flan Cub
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 08:38:39 GMT

In the interest of science and of not eating frozen jelly-donuts, I
put some in a microwave last night.  They did not explode.
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From: tomj@monster.apd.saic.com (Tom Johnson)
Subject: Re: Don't tell them the recipe's from the Mrs. Field's cookbook
Organization: SAIC, Reston, VA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:41:52 GMT

styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:

>Pro. equip. I can understand, but what is pro. ingredients (part from
>snake oil)? Is it a polite way of saying "secret ingredient", or do
>pro. cooks have a license to buy things ordinary people must do without.

>C'mon, I've been working with pro. chefs that never brought anything
>special into the kitchen except the odd "secret spice mix". Ok, I do
>have things in my kitchen that I have to buy at the chemist rather than
>at the local supermarket, but - pro. ingredients???

Have you ever tried to buy the cheese stuff they use to make cheese
popcorn?  They don't have THAT at my grocery store.  Maybe we
should cross-post to alt.conspiracy......

Actually, they probably don't mean "pro ingredients", they probably
mean "artificiallycreatedinamadscientistschemlabforfactoryproduction
indgredients".

--------------------
Tom "I Wanna Make My OWN Cheese Popcorn" Johnson
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: Re: Mrs. Field's cookies (this is really new!)
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:05:18 GMT

In article <BzMHAv.2yw@acsu.buffalo.edu> v462etnn@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (David L Anderson) writes:
(Discussion of Debbie "Don't call me Deborah" Fields - deleted)
>
>She's not a real ball of fire, btw.

She was on Hollywood Squares one week, if you can believe that.
As I remember, she was not too inspiring (Certainly no Shadoe Stevens...)

One wonders what one has to do to become worthy of Hollywood Squares...

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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: American Civil War Stuff
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:56:57 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.195845.18834@midway.uchicago.edu> cjt1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Dec19.222536.19404@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>>ObACWstuff: At Antietam Battlefield National park, South of town
>>and near the creek, stands an obelisk with an inscription that
>>reads approximately: "Near this spot, on September 17,1862,
>>Seargent William McKinley, later President of the United States,
>>served coffee and biscuits to weary soldiers from Ohio.

On September 18, he served Folger's, and no-one noticed the difference.

The Poppin-Fresh biscuits he substituted did not go over as well.

>>ObUL2: A newsgroup actually exists that discusses ONLY this kind
>>of stuff.
>
>Gee, I knew I should do a better job of monitoring this newsgroup
>for cross-pollination.  

Speaking of cross-pollination, you missed the one about the Civil War
bullet that impregnated a virgin.

>The correct answer to ObUL2 is (drum roll)
>alt.war.civil.usa.  Come join us sometime.

It's not in comp.society.war.civil?  I thought alt was a sewer...

>--Chuck
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Whenever you visit the D'Angelo Law Library, be sure to ask Chuck to
see the special collection of materials on obscentiy law that they keep
locked away on the third floor, a collection rivalled only by that of
Ed Meese or the Vatican.

Ted "How come no one cares about the Crimean War?" Frank
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: asteroids beyond Jupiter
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 08:32:02 GMT

jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr) writes:
: In article <1992Dec24.192807.29315@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
: >:                         Pluto's "moon", however, doesn't strike me as a
: >: likely asteroid capture because Pluto just wouldn't have the gravitational
: >: pull to snag something nearly as large as itself and keep it there.
: >
: >That is not the major problem - the problem is: where would sufficient
: >energy be shed - the same is true for the supposition that Pluto was
: >captured by Neptune.
: 
: Bill, I think it's time you take this to sci.space and out of a.f.u.  It
: strikes me as more appropriate there.

It might be better to just drop the thread.

Bill
From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Fellatio laws, cases cited (was: Re: FAQ list)
Date: 29 Dec 92 15:25:04 MDT
Organization: Omega:  The Final Solution

In article <1992Dec23.231752.13617@sunova.ssc.gov>, Chuck Adams
<chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov> writes:
>>In article 62140@cc.usu.edu, I wrote:
>>>     (1)  A person commits sodomy when the actor engages in any sexual
>>>act with a person who is 14 years of age or older involving the
>>>genitals of one person and mouth or anus of another person, regardless
>>>of the sex of either participant.
>>
> Wait just a minute - so it is legal for an actor (or whatever) to perform such
> acts with a person who is 14 years of age or *younger*  ?
> 
> NEWSFLASH:  THEY LIKE 'EM YOUNG IN UTAH

     Do you really want me to look up the statutory rape laws, too? 
They're in the same section of the criminal code.  Which does not deny
your newsflash, btw.  A number of cities here claim to have "one of
the highest per capita teen pregnancy rates in the nation."
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From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: "Mr." Socks?
Followup-To: alt.religion.kibology,rec.pets.cats
Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:25:36 GMT

[alt.folklore.urban]
In article <726036048snx@sgml.com> brian@sgmlinc.com writes:
>It seems to me that I heard someone, early on in the Clinton 
>transition, refer to the first cat as "Mr." Socks. Now all I ever 
>hear the horrid thing called is "Socks the Cat"
>
>Has anyone else heard the more proper form? Either way, I can't 
>wait until the Prez-to-be shows his manhood by whirling the 
>animal around by his ears.

So this Spanish-speaking guy of no particular ethnic persuasion is
looking around the White House for something.  A butler tries to help
him but the butler knows no Spanish.  The butler starts bringing the
person various things.

Mr. Clinton's bank book.  "No." 

Some styrofoam Big Mac boxes from Clinton's archives.  "No."

Some partly-chewed red, white, and blue jelly beans that Reagan stuck
under the desk.  "No."

Clinton's cat.  "!ESO SI QUE ES!"  "Well, why didn't you SAY so?"


(womp womp)
								-- K.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: little girl embedded in grille (was: Re: I Li
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <1992Dec22.201220.22029@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:18:24 GMT

geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner) writes:

>I was watching a 'Holiday Drunk Driving' type news report on WMTW
>Portland, ME the other night and I had to laugh when they asked a cop how
>he looks for drunk drivers. His response went like this, "People driving
>below the speed limit, people speeding, people driving over the center
>line for excessive periods of time, people driving eratically...."


ObUL: The rate of traffic deaths on holiday weekends is not any higher
than other times.  The state and radio and TV only report stats.
on holiday weekends.

Jon "Grandma got run over by a reindeer." Papai