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From: neil@robots.oxford.ac.uk (Neil Townsend)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Falling bullets on Marilyn's Parade
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:01:44 GMT
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.


This has been done to death by people attempting intuitive type
explanations - but it's a counter intuitive problem:

Bill writes
>Pick A and be shown C - switch and get a car.
>Pick C and be shown A - switch and get a car.
>Pick B and be shown C - switch and get a goat.
>Pick B and be shown A - switch and get a goat.
>
>Work it out for yourself.

Ted attempts to correct Bill
> NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
> 
> Okay, there are *nine* possibilities.  Car in A, B, or C; first pick
> being A, B, or C.
> [ Pretty diargram cut which attempts to show you should switch. ]


And then William picks up the obvious flaw in Ted's diagram
>
>Why not count the 2 cases of what Monty shows you as 2 seperate cases, because
>they ARE!  this gives you  a new table with 12 possibilities, 6 of which get you
>the goat, 6 the car.  That's only 50%.

The correct answer is to switch because:

You pick a door (say A). It has a 33% chance of having the car behind
it. Together, the other two doors have a 66% chance of having the car
behind one of them. Monty then shows you a goat behind B or C.
The remaining door therefore has a 66% probability of having the car
behind it. 

Neil `Can I have the goat and the car?' Townsend

-- 
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in love pretty soon or you'll lose all your chips."         \/  re the disc
                       (paraphrase) "Dead Heat" D.Francis   /\  laimer goes
Neil Townsend   neil@uk.ac.ox.robots  273126               /  \ -----------
From: lt503_424960@EMUNIX.EMICH.EDU (Void where prohibited by law.)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Matching Tie & Handkerchief
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:16:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: emunix.9204080216.AA11992

In Article 38509 of alt.folklore.urban Neal Whitman writes:

>>Actually, they did.  If you look carefully at either the jacket, or the label,
>>or maybe both, it lists all the routines on side A, all the routines on side B,
>>*AND* all the routines on side C.
>OK, that does it.  When I go home in a week or two, I'm going to dig out my
>copy of this record, which I played quite enough (I should think) back in
>high school to have heard at least once, that mysterious third side.  I'll
>give it 10 tries and if I don't hear anything new by then I'm going to be
>pissed, and you guys better have a list of exactly WHAT sketches were on
>side C.

Actually I think only the *first* pressings of this album had three sides.
Remaining pressings combined sides B & C.  My source is _Monty Python: The
First 20 Years_ which is packed in a box somewhere so I can hardly check
it for author and page number now can I?  First pressings of MP records
included *lots* of nifty little extras that got deleted the second (and
subsequent) releases . . . 

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From: linden@ella.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Run out of town on a rail
Keywords: eat more cruciferous vegetables for Jesus.
Date: 5 Apr 92 18:32:31 GMT
Organization: The Ego and the Squid.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ella

OK, we unscrambled the phrase "Bob's your Uncle";
we saw that the Economist doesn't know the difference between "hanged" 
and "hung".   And we had a lot of fun with "the whole nine yards."

This week's phrase is "run out of town on a rail".
It means to eject someone in disgrace.
But why add "on a rail"?
What does it come from?


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Peter van der Linden     linden@eng.sun.com    (415) 336-6206
"Counsellor Troi is a little bit anal" -- actress who plays Troi on Star Trek.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Geronimo!
From: f67709317@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Date: 11 Apr 92 15:41:42 MST
Followup-To: alt.folklore.science,alt.folklore.urban
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
Nntp-Posting-User: f67709317

In article <10APR199218471700@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu>, ae313406@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu (Vance Kochenderfer) writes:
>   Sorry to inject some facts into this newsgroup (AFU motto), but here's
> the calculation:
> 
> Symbols:
>     D=Drag force on body           CD=Coefficient of drag=D/(.5*d*V^2*S)
>     W=Weight of body               l=length of body
>     d=density of air=1.23kg/cu.m. at sea level
>     dl=density of lead=14000kg/cu.m. just about anywhere
>     S=characteristic area of body
>     V=speed of body                r = radius of body
>     Vol=Volume of body [etc.]

OK, since you've wheeled out formulas and symbols, I suggest we take
this *EXCRUCIATINGLY DULL* topic to alt.folklore.science, and leave AFU
to urban legends, Churchill anecdotes, and non-mathematical stories.
It is for uninteresting pedanticism such as this that a.f.s was created.

ObUL: Winston Churchill once stayed in the same hotel as Reggie Jackson.
Churchill happened to walk into the same elevator as the ballplayer, who
had a Doberman pinscher on a leash.  The elevator door closed, and Reggie
commanded, "Sit, Lady!"  Churchill looked sharply at Reggie.  "I said that
to Lady Astor once," and he puked all over the Doberman.  The next morning,
Reggie sent a fine breakfast up to Churchill's room, along with a note of
apology for upsetting the former Prime Minister so badly. 
-- 
Greg Franklin                             "Death is everywhere,
f67709317@ccit.arizona.edu          there are fries on the windscreen."
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: david.lloyd-jones@rose.uucp (david lloyd-jones)
Subject: Ask Marilyn Again
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 15:27:29 GMT
X-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.2)


Date Entered: 04-12-92 15:48
Replying to: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
T(>Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
T(>Subject: Re: Ask Marilyn Again
T(>>

T(>>The New York Times interview he did several years ago, when this
T(>>first became big news, seemed to me to imply that the first was the
T(>>actual algorithm.

T(>The Times interview was last summer.

Last summer's interview was last summer.

T(>The algorithm is a third one: "Out of the two doors you did not choose,
T(>I will open the one with a goat; if both of the two doors have goats,
T(>I will randomly select one of those doors."  I think this also indicates
T(>it's pretty straight-forward that one should switch.
                                        ]

I'm slow, but I'm convinced.  Thank you all for your patience.

                          Cheers,

                                 -dlj.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: mikkelson@breakr.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Polio immunizations
Organization: Still waiting for the snuff films . . .
Date: 16 APR 92 10:29:30    


In article <1992Apr16.152700.15122@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, 
  hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes...

>"...no identification of self or mission; no interference with social develop-
> ment of said planet; no references to space, to other worlds or more advanced
> civilizations."   The PRIME DIRECTIVE, by Gene Roddenberry and Gene L. Coon.

 . . . except in episodes featuring computers, women, or other life forms.

- snopes
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: SNUFF FILMS sighted in TIME MAGAZINE!!! (Dworkin and MacKinnon, too)
Keywords: HEY WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING HERE FOR? SET THE FOLLOWUP LINE CORRECTLY!
Date: 10 Apr 92 22:35:36 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Apr10.165017.1@vm2.cis.pitt.edu> tjw+@pitt.edu writes:
>From the March 30th, 1992 edition of TIME (Page 52).
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>"Pornography currently has more protection than women do", MacKinnon told the
>statehouse committee considering the Massachusetts bill.  In corroboration,
>several witnesses gave chilling testimony of being sexually abused by
>husbands and boyfriends who admitted that they had been prompted by porn
>films or magazines.  Fighting back tears, Pat Haas of Brookline, Mass., said
>she had been beaten by her boyfriend, who forced her to act out scenes from
>pornography.  "He did what was in the movies", says Haas.  "If he had seen a
>SNUFF FILM, I wouldn't be here". 
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

As I mentioned in December, it's rumored that MacKinnon's next book will
be all about snuff films.  
-- 
Ted Frank          + "He wanted to be the car rather than the thimble or the
1307 E 60 St, #109 +  hat."  -- District attorney explaining Marc Cienkowski's
U o' C Law Skool   +  murder with bow and arrow of Michael Klucznik in
Chi, IL 60637      +  Doylestown Borough, PA over a game of Monopoly.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: ewf2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Eric "JUICE" Fritzius)
Subject: Re: Weird Profs
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 02:31:53 GMT



In high school I had a Physics instructor who was a classic.

His name was (and I believe still is,) Paul Cuicchi (pronouced: Quicky.)
He was quite fond of tormenting various people who dared to
walk past his door.  HE was known to kidnap students from the hallways
and make them sit in a corner and yelling at them if they 
tried to get up.

My senior year he came up with a gag that sent some people to the
ground with laughter and some with fear.  Our physics labs
were assigned to do measurements that involved one lab member
going up on the roof of the gym and dropping a golf-ball to the
ground.  (You can tell how much I remember, or care, about
physics.)  Only one member from each group was allowed to
go up to the roof and Cuicchi was to accompany us.

So I was chosen.  As we made our way to the roof we noticed
Cuicchi carrying a large plastic bag.  He showed us what was
in it.  He had a large cloth dummy that was dressed in clothes
identical to the ones he was wearing.  He told us that
he and his daughter came up with the idea to pretend to 
pick a fight with one of the students in her class and then
throw the dummy off the edge.

However, his plans were changed when the Vice-Principle
said that no more students could go up on the roof and that
he would have to drop the golf balls himself.  So during
the next class period he is up there dropping these 
Golf-balls from the roof of the gym and his daughter's class
was below.  He made an excuse to stand up and then pretended
to slip and flung the dummy from the roof.  His daughter
screamed "Daddy Daddy!" and everyone freaked out.

Some figured it out immediately and others were still screaming
when they noticed that the dummy had no feet.

Later he walked into the teacher's lounge and made sure that
everyone there saw what he was wearing.  HE said he was going
up to the roof and they all told him to be careful.
He went up to the roof all right.  He went up and, while
screaming at the top of his lungs, dumped the dummy off the edge
of the building onto the air conditioning unit outside the window
of the teacher's lounge.  Some un-teacher-like words were
reportedly said.

JSA
 
what
he was going to do with it.  The following class period,
not mine but the next, he went up to the roof and  
.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: zkessin@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Zach Kessin)
Subject: Re: a thought about "frats"
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 14:49:24 GMT

kcahr@next09wor.wam.umd.edu (The Durlan) writes:

>In article <S8759859.92Apr4135540@titan.ucc.umass.edu>  
>s8759859@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone) writes:
>> Yeah, but my response to that is:
>> "I'll call a fraternity a 'frat' because my country IS a 'cunt':  It's
>>  run by a dick and he's fucking us all!"

>LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT. PAL.

This is The USA!!! We have the right to think that the government is a
bunch of asses. (they are)

And I DO love The USA. Just not That Man in the White House!

--Zach

   Zachary Kessin               
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 (617)736-5878                 /   news server gets that group!    |
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From: falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: MIT's "Infinite Corridor"
Date: 8 Apr 92 03:37:56 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: peregrine

In article <JIM.92Apr6110952@fuji.eng.yale.edu> jim@fuji.eng.yale.edu (James J. Szinger) writes:
>
>Airports survey their runways out to about 6 decimal places.  For
>a straight runway, the two ends do not point in the same
>direction (+180 degrees).  The earth's curvature and all that fun
>stuff.

They *survey* the runways, but I don't think they go to any
extrodinary lengths to *level* them.  For instance, at San Francisco,
runway 10L is at 3' at one end and 11' at the other.  At LAX, there's
a 25' difference between the ends of runway 7L.  On the other hand,
25' over a 12,000' runway is pretty impressive.  At Catalina Island,
I'm told that the runway humps up in the middle to the extent that you
can't see the far end from a normal approach path.

		-ed falk, sun microsystems
		 sun!falk, falk@sun.com
	That's one thing about going against the flow:  there's
	less traffic in that direction.
From: ericd@concour.cs.concordia.ca (DELORME eric p)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Creative Building Names (NOT!)
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:04:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

Well, here at ConU, we have 2 campuses, Loyola and Sir Geerge Williams. At
Loyola, they have typical college-style names: Centennial, Bryan, Central,
Administration, and stuff like that. Downtown at Sir George, we have the
Hall Bldg. Fine. That's OK. But, all the other buildings are "annexes," so
we have to wonderful X Annex, W Annex, C Annex, A Annex. These all seem
to have been randomly assigned. The only other one's I can think of
downtown are the Norris Bldg. and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. These
have names. Everything else is an "annex."

BTW, maybe you guys could help us out? this September they are opening a
brand-new $46-million library complex across the street from the Hall Bldg.
It looks like an inside-out bathhouse. (they put all sorts of disgusting
peach tiles on  the outside. bleh) Some  names were tossed around, but they're
much too boring (ie McKenzie Bldg, stuff like that.) We need something with
a little more style and panache. (McGill U. a few blocks east of us just
renamed their Union Bldg. to the William Shatner Bldg. in honor of you-know-
who who was an engineering (or something) student way back when.)

--
emroLeD cirE
ac.aidrocnoc.sc.ruocnoc@dcire
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Why classrings?
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 21:40:01 GMT

In article <92099.160033ICSCH@ASUACAD.BITNET> ICSCH@ASUACAD.BITNET (Scott Craig Hume) writes:
>Why do people wear classrings?

They're sort of like moodrings, they change color as your income level rises.

-- Ted "Either this man's dead, or my watch has stopped" Frank
-- 
Ted Frank          + "He wanted to be the car rather than the thimble or the
1307 E 60 St, #109 +  hat."  -- District attorney explaining Marc Cienkowski's
U o' C Law Skool   +  murder with bow and arrow of Michael Klucznik in
Chi, IL 60637      +  Doylestown Borough, PA over a game of Monopoly.
Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:43:53 -0400 
From: Christopher Patrick Nelson <cn0m+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Prof.'s accent blunders documented

JGS109@psuvm.psu.edu (Jay Schwitzgebel) writes:
> pobram, pobwem -----------problem
> paff ---------------------path

You mean no one else has a professor who says "sex" when he means
"sets?"  The introduction to one lecture was "Today we are going
to talk about sex."  I was rather disappointed to learn the truth.

<cpn
-- Fuzball Maniac
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Date: Thu,  9 Apr 1992 09:56:34 -0400 
From: "Jonathan R. Ferro" <jf41+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Creativly Named Buildings (Not!)
	<1992Apr9.004827.9699@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
Distribution: na

tgpt_ltd@jondalar.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill) writes:
>        Our Transportation and Maintainance blgd. is called "612", after
>it's street address.  I really don't think it has a name.

MIT wins again.  *ALL* of the buildings have numbers.  Only about half
have real names and most people wouldn't recognize the real names if
asked about them (well, except for the totally obvious ones like
"Student Center").  It used to be the case that "We have our priorities:
all our buildings have numbers and all our computers have names", but
with so many workstations they're having to resort to names like
w20-575-117.mit.edu.  Oh, well.

For example, here is a drawing of about 1/3 of the main campus.  (I
didn't feel like finishing it, but you can see where the hallways north
are dangling off into space--there are several more buildings in the
30's connected together up there, as well as a bunch more off to the
east.)

                                                NE43
                                                 ^Tech Square (AI Lab, LCS)
.  . :.  Vassar St.  .  .  .
     :                                  +-+20-+-+
     :                              |   | | | | |
     :                        |    26   + + + + +
     M        |              22     |         ^TMRC
     a        9               |    16---56-------66--+
W20  s        |    11        12     |
     s        7----+----10----+-----8 <The Infinite Corridor
     .        |    |          |     |
              5    3          4     6
     A        |    |          |     |
     v        |    |          |     |
     e        +----+          +-----+--+----+
     .        1                     2  | 14 |
     :        +----+          +-----+  +----+
     :
= = = = Memorial Drive = = = = = = = = = = = = =
     :
    | | < Harvard (Smoot) Bridge
    | |   ~ ~ Charles River ~ ~

--
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jf41+@andrew.cmu.edu	"We can hack it!"
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From: st890020@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Eureka!)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: weird professors
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:43:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr9.164332.19441
Reply-To: st890020@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

This is not so much a story of a weird professor, but just a funny thing that
happened.  In high school, one of my math teachers didn't really like our
class and was constantly frazzled by us.  We were the same group of about 15
people through all four years, because it was a Gifted-Talented track of math
and the other teachers knew us well enough to know we like to have a good 
time in class. Well one day, we came into the room and someone not from our
class had moved the trashcan from beside the desk to the corner of the room.
Our teacher started right in with a long trig problem that took up both sides
of the board.  She tripped when she was moving over and fell right into the 
trashcan because she didn't know it was there!  It was so funny, and from 
that day on if it was there, she always moved it away first. It was even 
funnier because she didn't have a sense of humor about it an turned bright 
red!
--Erica
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: a thought about "frats"
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 14:56:31 GMT

In article <1992Apr5.024238.5985@cs.columbia.edu> dcw@cs.columbia.edu (David Chaim Worenklein) writes:
>In article <unruley.702368746@mcl> unruley@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (Kriss Boyce) writes:
>>I recently attended my first fraternity party (and probably last) and was
>>given an interesting quote:
>>"Don't call them 'frats', after all would you call your country a 'cunt'?"
>
>Would you call your mother a 'mutt'?

I believe it's "Would you call your mother a 'moth'?"

Would you call your railroad "rail"?
Would you call your economics class "econ"?
Would you call your statistics "stats"?
Would you call your alternative newsgroup "alt"?
What's in a hamburger anyway, chopped ham? No, it's chopped steak!
-- 
Ted Frank          + "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it
1307 E 60 St, #109 +  is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in
U o' C Law Skool   +  color and content according to the circumstances and
Chi, IL 60637      +  the time in which it is used."  --  Holmes
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From: spencer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college
Subject: Re: Steam Tunnels
Date: 14 Apr 92 00:06:16 GMT
Organization: Princeton Univ. Class of '94
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU

In article <1992Apr5.051116.16008@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church) writes:
>Something to keep in mind while roaming around steam tunnels. Watch for
>puddles of water on the floor. Live steam is invisible.

Ok, "real" steam is invisible, but I'd think that any live steam present
would be rapidly condensing in the air and consequently you would see
all the condensed water vapor.

Wouldn't you? :-)
----------
Spencer Sun - Princeton Univ. Class of '94 - Dept. of Computer Science
Clockwork Orange (Princeton Ultimate) (when I bother to show up for practice)
"I'm nice... He's nice... and we're both f---ing lunatics.  Can I
come in please?"
From: unruley@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (Kriss Boyce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Profs: THe good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Date: 11 Apr 92 21:27:42 GMT

my high school chemistry teacher used to say "ioDEEne" as in rhymes with 
chlorine flourine and bromine.....
i still say it....silly me 

kriss
From: tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: creatively names buildings
Date: 12 Apr 92 17:32:08 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

In article <1992Apr11.193300.2939@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> wasylik@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Michael Wasylik) writes:
>
>Or let's buy Ted an rational viewpoint...
>

	Nobody has _THAT_ much money.


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