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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 14:51:36 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

cboerm48@ursa.calvin.edu (Christopher Boerma) writes:

> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
> 
> >Only problem is that this is wrong. Pluto is closer to the sun that Neptune.
> 
> Only at a few times in the Pluto year... Most the time, Neptune in closer.
> 
Oh YEAH? I said "this *IS* wrong" [emphasis] added. I Didn't say is wrong
most of the time, or all the time. It just IS wrong NOW.


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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:17:06 GMT

In article <22@jptcs.COM> Jarett.Weintraub%bbs@jptcs.com (Jarett Weintraub) writes:
>Or, Katie, please come out for goodness sake. (no sub-species there)

But what does the "O" stand for?

>Jarett "but how does Ted Frank remember anything?" Weintraub

Who?

Ted "never had his vanity license plate stolen" Frank
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
From: leb@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (BASEL, LESLIE)
Date: 12 Dec 1992 21:51 MST  
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In Seattle in an area known as capitol hill, there is a sign with a 
spread-eagled human figure upside down over a silhoute of a stylized
car font end with the caption HIGH PEDESTRIAN COLLISSION LOCATION.
Due to the nature of the neighborhood it left up to the reader to decide
which noun the adjective is describing.

Rodger Coghlan
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Counterclockwise Twisters
Date: 12 Dec 92 14:32:07 GMT
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited

In article <mcirvin.724107548@husc8>, mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin) writes:
|> jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman) writes:
|> 
|> >Recently, a series of small tornados touched down in Northern
|> >California, ripping up greenhouses and roofs as twisters are
|> >wont to do.  But what got to me was that the commentator on
|> >the radio mentioned that they were revolving counterclockwise,
|> >"As is characteristic for tornados in this part of the world."
|> >So, do they revolve clockwise in Australia?  Or did he mean
|> >that they revolve clockwise in the Great Plains?  
|> 
|> I'm not sure about tornadoes, but *hurricanes* certainly do revolve
|> in a hemisphere-dependent direction.  The Coriolis force is not
|> insignificant on scales much, much larger than a bathtub.


ObUL: Many tornadoes in the US are started because vehicles are driving on
      the right side of the road. Passing vehicles then kick off lots of
      baby tornadoes that may grow to disasters.

---
YuNoHoo
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.shenanigans
From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
Subject: Re: Send more than one dollar to this address
Keywords: money
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Distribution: Here.......there.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 09:49:09 GMT


(stuff about various scams deleted)

I figured the 'send one dollar..' thing was illegal.

I'm always getting junk mail on some 'get-rich-quick' scam, usually
variations of pyramid scemes or MLM scemes of dubious repuatation.

I haven't fallen for any of them.

Simon
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:03:05 -0500 
From: "Andrew C. Plotkin" <ap1i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Mnemonics & Now - Burning Mines
	<13080084@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>

Excerpts from netnews.alt.folklore.urban: 14-Dec-92 Re: Re: Mnemonics &
Now - B.. Ray Depew@hpfcso.FC.HP.C (724)

> > quartz
> > topaz
> Corundum.  Rubies, sapphires, emeralds.  NOT Carborundum -- that's a
> registered trademark.
> > diamond

Tsk. Sapphires and rubies are corundum (aluminum oxide, with impurities
to impart color), but emeralds are beryl (aluminum/beryllium silicate.)
Topaz is aluminum silicate, so emerald is probably around the same
hardness as topaz.

--Z

"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
From: manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Conductivity of water
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:13:16 GMT
Organization: DSC/Optilink Access Products

In article <10DEC199221565567@csa3.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:
>
>What I want to know is the rationale behind the big, big voltages
>somebody mentioned earlier in this thread -- something like 13 kV
>to run an electric train.  Plainly there are motors beyond my
>experience; I was thinking more along the lines of "medium hundreds
>of volts, many amps" on motor and third rail/trolley, with perhaps
>higher voltages on the transmission line.

Simply: 

Power = Volts * Amps

For the same power, high voltage means lower amps.

If you model a transmission line as a simple resistance,
the power lost in the transmission line is given by:

Power Lost  = (Amps)^2 * Resistance

Therefore: to get the most power through a transmission
line step up the voltage, thereby decreasing the current,
thereby decreasing the resistive losses.

Now why not run the third rail at lower voltages?  Power distribution
systems typically run at 8-13 kV.  To get lower third rail voltages
you need step down transformers.  Now, how long a track can be powered
from a 13kV source vs. a ~600V source?  I don't know, but I'd assume
you'd need more feed points for the lower voltage systems.  More feed
points = more step down transformers. That's more expensive to build
and maintain. So what other differences are there?  I suppose you
could consider the difference between a suicide jumping on the two
different systems. (I expect you'd find that both are adequate to the
task, and if the trains run frequently...) Also if you can build a
transformer to operate at 13kV, it should be apparent that you can
build a motor that operates at 13kV - after all they're both just big
inductors. 

I really don't know anything about power distribution or trains
so if all of the above is wrong send me $1 so that I can further
my education.

Dave "not really a Terry (not even an honorary one)" Manley

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: Re: chelsea clinton (was re:
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:56:11 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.071312.21428@cbnewse.cb.att.com> doctor1@cbnewse.cb.att.com (patrick.b.hailey) writes:
>>She's in fact named for the song "I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea",
>
>No, no, no.  She's named after Chelsea Manchester, that Tigr of a Spitfire.
>

If I remember correctly, Chelsea Manchester is/was a porn star.

But those of us who have lived in Ann Arbor will remember that the
sign on I 94 at the junction with M52 between AA and Jackson, does, in
fact, say "Chelsea Manchester", because if you go north, you get to
Chelsea and if you go south, you get to Manchester.  Both of these are
charming little places and I miss them.  Its what I gave up to move to
the big city...

Bob Talbert was a columnist for the Detroit Free Press and he used to
have a running thing about how freeway signs often sounded like the
names of soap opera stars.  Chelsea Manchester is a good example of this.

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From: mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser)
Subject: Re: Another University Exam One
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:43:05 GMT
Organization: a stone mountain of Kudzu

In <Bz9o92.8y@cs.dal.ca> craig@ug.cs.dal.ca (Ryan Craig) writes:

>In article <1992Dec14.182412.28582@u.washington.edu> nicolett@carson.u.washington.edu (Nicolette Roberge) writes:
>>
>>I once had a high school physics teacher give a test that started with the
>>severe admonition to read the entire test before beginning to answer any
>>questions.  The last line on the last page (3 pages?) was to initial the
>>last page and sign your name on the front. And to sit quietly until the
>>end of the test period. 
>>
>>Nicolette "he pretty much tested what he taught us" Roberge
>>

>This sort of test is an urban legend, but I did have a teacher, who
>undoubtedly had heard this UL, who once gave me a test like this, just to
>see if we actually followed the directions on the test, I guess.

My mother taught 7th grade in Frankfort, Kentucky, in the mid-1960's.
She used this very test on her students, and still has a few copies of
it stored away.  It may have UL-ness all over it, but I _know_, 
personally, that such a test was given prior to 1968 (we moved from
Frankfort to Washington, DC, in December, 1967).

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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Date: 18 Dec 92 09:47:36 GMT
Organization: Escape from Blacksburg, VA

<1992Dec17.021905.541@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Escape from Blacksburg, VA

In article <1992Dec17.021905.541@midway.uchicago.edu> gr2a@midway.uchicago.edu w
rites:
>
>In article <28014@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>>One day, my friend's friend noticed one of her sister's stories,
>>and was curious about her sister's writing style.  When she
>>read the story, she was shocked because it was pornographic.
>>It turns out that there is a huge segment of the trekkie
>>subculture that meets and shares stories where the characters
>>from the old series are in egaged in much racier stories (the
>>one that stuck in her mind was Kirk and Spock's homosexual
>>relationship) than those commonly associated with the series.
>>Can anyone provide any further enlightenment on this point?
>
>Apparently there are dozens of 'zines put out by and for Star Trek
>fans, mostly full of fiction. There are all sorts of sub-genres - for
>instance, series just dedicated to the further adventures of Nurse
>Chapel, or Uhuru, etc - ranging from standard science-fiction style to
>romance-novel type plots to straightforward porn, of which the writers
>are overwhelmingly, BTW, women. The graphic stuff is all written by
>women, but it's always men who are getting it on with each other -
>particularly Kirk and Spock who have this longstanding passionate
>affair. (I think there's a special series called the S/K series, or
>something like that, entirely dedicated to Kirk-Spock romantic episodes.

Written by women, OR written by men using female pen names, or forged by Bruce
Becker and attributed to strangers at random?

>
>Oh, yeah, and they come with illustrations - at least, one article
>provided a couple of extremely explicit examples of...I think it was
>supposed to Spock buggering Kirk and not vice versa but it wasn't the
>greatest likeness in the world (actually both of them looked more like
>someone's idea of a Tolkein elf, with lots of ornamental curlicues and
>leaves all over the page too.)

Can anyone *prove* that Spock and Elrond are not related?  Don't say that a
FOAF told you they weren't.  Let's see some *facts*.

>That's about all I can remember, but I must say for my own sake that
>it makes me feel sort of happier about the world to know that somewhere
>in it teenage girls with rapidographs are spending hours and hours
>on delicate, intricately drawn pictures of the crew of the Enterprise
>having carnal relations with one another.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson)
Subject: Re: WAY stupid things to do with guns (was self-i
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, 11 Dec 92 19:01:46 GMT

In article <1992Dec8.172059.18295@husc3.harvard.edu> wichers@husc4.harvard.edu (JJJJJust JJJJJohn) writes:
>In article <1992Dec8.114351.18282@husc3.harvard.edu> joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes) babbles on the way he is wont to do:
>>random@cbnewse.cb.att.com (David L. Pope) writes:
>>>Speaking of which, has anyone ACTUALLY caught a bullet or arrow
>>>inflight? No tricks now, just reflexes.
>
>>Bullets, I would doubt...Davey Crockett and Daniel Boone notwithstanding.
>
>During the Civil War, many soldiers lost fingers trying to touch cannon
>balls as they flew past...

Cool! Did you hear this from Shelby Foote?

--
Bruce Watson  wats@nyx.cs.du.edu  Toy Cows, Toy Cows in Africa, Toy Cows
                                                       --- Chance
From: maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J L Saunders)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: New Idea
Date: 15 Dec 1992 06:54:03 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk

In article <18291@borg.cs.unc.edu> saxe@opsin.cs.unc.edu (Eddie Saxe) writes:
%ObUL:  Studying improves one's scores on tests.

ObUL: T. Doing tests inproves one's scores on tests.

Merry Xvob to you one and all!
-- 
    "Merry Xvob!"      Jason L Saunders [ RouE ]       "Merry Xvob!"
                     email: maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk
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From: nicolett@carson.u.washington.edu (Nicolette Roberge)
Subject: Re: Another University Exam One
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:24:12 GMT


I once had a high school physics teacher give a test that started with the
severe admonition to read the entire test before beginning to answer any
questions.  The last line on the last page (3 pages?) was to initial the
last page and sign your name on the front. And to sit quietly until the
end of the test period. 

Nicolette "he pretty much tested what he taught us" Roberge

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: davew@willow03.cray.com (Dave Wagner)
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Originator: davew@willow03
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 14 Dec 92 11:30:45 CST


Believe it or not.  I still spell Arithmetic by:

A Rat In Tom's House Might Eat Tom's Ice Cream.

Weird, huh.
-- 
Dave Wagner                                     Cray Research, Inc
davew@cray.com , uunet!cray!davew               655F Lone Oak Drive
(612) 683-5393                                  Eagan, MN  55121
From: bob@kc2wz.bubble.org (Bob Billson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Date: 13 Dec 92 17:26:47 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Color Computer 3: Tandy's 'game' machine

system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) says:
>>       "Mother Very Easily Made a Jam Sandwich Using No Peanuts, Mayonaise or
>> Glue" - 
>>       Mercury
>>       Venus
>>       Earth
>>       Mars
>>       Jupiter
>>       Saturn
>>       Uranus
>>       Neptune
>>       Pluto
>> (in some universes)
>>       Mickey
>>       Goofy
>
>Only problem is that this is wrong. Pluto is closer to the sun that Neptune.

Only for a very short time is Pluto closer to the sun than Neptune since
Pluto's orbit is a bit eccentric.  Right Pluto is moving beyond Neptune where
it spends most of its time.  Guess we need this mnemonic for the better part
of Pluto's 200-odd year orbit and another for those few years the order is
switched. :-)
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Subject: Re: Why Not?
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
	<1992Dec14.061024.16145@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
Date: 14 Dec 92 20:21:52

Bill Nelson writes:
>I thought it was Cindy who had a troll. I am sure that she said his
name
>was something besides Peter.

I get it.  This is a way to see if i'm still around, right?

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway

PS The troll's name is Stein.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Another University Exam One
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:32:06 GMT

egilmour@ac.dal.ca writes:
: 
: Sitting in my exam today the professor beat to death that we should read
: the entire exam first. This sparked a memory of a grade six science teacher
: that told us naive eleven year olds to always remember to read the entire
: exam because when he was in university they once had this really long 
: exam that went on for over ten pages. And when he turned over to seventh
: question on page six it started by saying "IGNORE ALL QUESTIONS BEFORE
: THIS ONE"
: Anyone else heard this one?

Yep - many times. I wonder if anyone has ever turned up an actual exam
that had this "feature"?

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pjswan@engin.umich.edu (Peter Swanson)
Subject: Re: Making Urban Legends - Carjacking
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 22:59:28 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <Bz3z8o.Kny.1@cs.cmu.edu> rhuss+@EDRC.CMU.EDU (Robert Huss) writes:

[description of falsified carjackings deleted]

>	Has anyone else heard of hoaxes of this kind?  People copying
>urban legends?  Do you think it is an attempt to stir up racial tension,
>or simply an unoriginal alibi to commiting crimes of their own. 

There were several of these in Detroit over the past year.  In one
case, a woman lent her boyfriend her car with their (under 5 yo)
child, and then called 911 to report the car carjacked with her
child in it.  The police found her boyfriend and the car a few
blocks away within minutes.  Apparently, she was mad at her boyfriend
and wanted to get back at him.  She ended up being charged with
"falsely reporting a crime", and spent a night in jail.  The
beautiful part is that this was all covered live on the evening
news.

Other people reported carjackings to avoid taking responsibility for
accidents, like hitting parked cars or pedestrians.

Another silly car theft story:
One day in October, car thefts were reported all around Detroit: someone
was taking new cars on test drives, and not bringing them back.  It
turned out that the guy was driving the cars to other dealers, and
taking a different car for a test drive.  He got up to 5 or 6
different dealers and 150+ miles before the police found him and
explained that it wasn't supposed to work that way.  The guy honestly
thought you got to keep the car for a whole day in order to really
thoroughly try it out.  Furrfu.

pete "A Fist Full of Keys" swanson
-- 
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| PhD Pre-Candidate                  |  controls specialist                |
| Electrical Engineering:Systems     | Fortunately, ah keep muh feathuhs   |
| University of Michigan             | numbahd for just such ahn emergency.|
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thealien@nevada.edu (Minstrel Alien)
Subject: Re: Another University Exam One
Organization: The Danger Zone
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:19:18 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.171200.9466@ac.dal.ca> egilmour@ac.dal.ca writes:
>An other UFL to go with the BLUEBOOK exam story
>
>Sitting in my exam today the professor beat to death that we should read
>the entire exam first. This sparked a memory of a grade six science teacher
>that told us naive eleven year olds to always remember to read the entire
>exam because when he was in university they once had this really long 
>exam that went on for over ten pages. And when he turned over to seventh
>question on page six it started by saying "IGNORE ALL QUESTIONS BEFORE
>THIS ONE"
>Anyone else heard this one?


	Well, with me it wasn't quite that long, but I got a test like that
in 6th grade, then in 8th, and then in 11th.  Teachers thought they were cute..

	Joys of Being Smarter than your Teachers, Part I

Minstrel
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Legal language
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 16:48:18 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:

> thier congregations don't understand.  Even the marvelously poetic King James
> Bible was written in language that was archaic _at the time_ to increase its
> sonority.

This is news to me. Please elaborate. I've heard some people suggest that
Shakespeare collaborated on some of the writing. The King James doesn't seem
to me to be more archaic than Shakespeare.

[Miscellaneous bits deleted, including an intro to this bit which talks
about doctors hastening the death by doctors, etc]
> hastened by their attendants include Napoleon (who was given purgatives,

But wasn't it shown that Napoleon was in fact murdered (by arsenic)
posioning by his second in command?




-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,misc.legal
From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Subject: Re: No trespassing
Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:52:28 GMT

In article <4312@novavax.UUCP> mitch@novavax.nova.edu (Mitch Silverman) writes:
>In article <1992Dec1.033650.16412@eff.org> mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
>
>>But the law does have a cure for brevity. Try reading a deed or contract
>>sometime. What it does not cure is trivial shit: "De minimus not curat lex."
>>
>
>Isn't the phrase "De minimus no_n_ curat lex?"

Of course it is. But my silly typing fingers caused me to make
a tyop or two. You are kind not to mention the misspelling of 
"minimis."


--Mike


-- 
Mike Godwin,    |"Everything one invents is true."
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(617) 864-0665  |                           --Flaubert
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college
From: st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Adam Levin)
Subject: Re: College Folklore
Reply-To: st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:22:08 GMT

thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
>
>
>At Brandeis, there's a statue that does absolutely nothing at all when
>a virgin walks past it.

Actually, they installed one last year that used to play the Brandeis
Fight song when that happened. The racket got so loud, they took it down.
 
-- 
>ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
>standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
>the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637

And Ted, you'll be happy to know that two years ago, you defeated
the entire frat system singlehandedly in College Bowl. 

Adam "I'll never be cool enough to have a legend at Brandeis" Levin