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From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: Re: Question about "T." in James T. Kirk !!!!!!  (As seen on TV)
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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 07:02:38 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.195448.23369@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In [the following edited and expurgated] article <Bx5Jpw.Iss@math.uwaterloo.ca> fass@math.uwaterloo.ca (The FASS Theatre Company) writes :
>>The T in Captain James T. Kirk stands for [Terry].
>>This was mentioned first in one of the books (forget which one) and
>>confirmed in StarTrek VI.
>
>I wouldn't trust anything VI says.  Now, if it were StarTrek EMACS, I
>might buy that explanation.  But I still think it stands for Theodore --
>Gene Rodenberry was a notorious Chipmunks fan, and was disappointed when
>Desilu Productions forbade him from incorporating the space chipmunks on
>the show.  He should have been more clever, like George Lucas, who, when
>unable to obtain licensing permission to use the Chipmunks in Star Wars,
>satirized the Chipmunks by portraying them in hidden monks' hoods as
>scavengers on the desert world of Tatooine (and Tatooine has eight letters,
>just like Theodore -- see?)

Wrong.  Actually, the T in James T. Kirk stands for "Tananarivo," the
capital of Madagascar.  Madagascar is home, of course, to 99% of the world
supply of Lemurs, and as we all know, Gene Roddenberry was a huge Lemur
fan.  However, the producers wouldn't let him incorporate Lemurs into the
cast because they were afraid that the clever, cunning little primates
would somehow find a way to make the phasers, tricorders, and photon
torpedoes actually *work*.  Plus, in shooting of the pilot, The Cafe, you
can see Lemurs swinging by overhead on the restaurant lights during the
scene in which Pike gets the Talosians to pick up the check.  This was not
a situation which Desilu wanted to see happen again.

Joel "of course, then there was Peter Gabriel's decision to change the
name of the song from "Shock the Lemur" to... well, that's another story"
Furr

jfurr@vtssi.vt.edu
From: hwt@bcarh11a.BNR.CA (Henry Troup)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Courgettes (was Re: doggy style)
Date: 13 Nov 92 15:54:20 GMT
Reply-To: Henry.Troup@BNR.CA
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada


|>Have you ever seen an aluminum or otherwise non-magnetic wrench?
|>Fact:  all wrenches are mostly steel for strength reasons.

I've seen a bronze non-sparking wrench for working on oxygen systems.
                                         
Henry Troup - H.Troup@BNR.CA (Canada) - BNR owns but does not share my opinions
	"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."
From: fmonro@neumann.une.edu.au (F J Monro)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Airport security
Date: 12 Nov 92 13:11:51 GMT

jhh4889@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.H. Huebner) writes:

>In article <fmonro.721277790@neumann.une.edu.au> fmonro@neumann.une.edu.au (F J Monro) writes:
>>warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein) writes:
>>
>>>While reminds me, last time I flew, I wrote down the warning that was
>>>written all over the airport.  Of course I can't find it now, but it
>>>went something like "it is a crime to make false statements concerning
>>>explosive devices aboard airplanes".  Does this mean that if a

>>As a logic student, I just can't resist. try out this statement for size:
>>
>>  There is a bomb on this airplane, but this statement is a lie.
>>
>>So, Have I commited a crime?

>One reasoning that says yes:
>two cases:
>The "statement" is true and you probably put it there.
>The "statement" is false see above law.

Yes, OK, so if the statement is eigther true, or false, a crime has been
commited. 

Of course there are some arguments which claim such statements are 
neigther true, or false. They are eigther meaningless, or without
a truth value.

>the other argument of course is that this is not a statement, but I
>think you will find that legal defintions are not logical ;-)

"If the law says that, sir, then the law is an ass." 

Who said it anyway?

>-John 
>-jhh4889@ultb.isc.rit.edu


-Che "Humans are most illogical" Monro  
aka fmonro@neumann.une.edu.au  
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From: dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes)
Subject: Re: Heart attack in Disneyland's original Haunted mansion?
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Date:  6 Nov 1992 10:58 EST  

In article <19921105152721ECZ5ACK@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>, 
  ecz5ack@mvs.oac.ucla.edu writes...

>One of my coworkers says he has heard a story about the
>Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.  As the story goes, the
>Mansion was originally much more frightening than it
>currently is; it was changed after a woman had a heart
>attack and died inside the attraction.  Has anyone else
>heard this?

Yes, we've heard it; but no, it's not true.  The Haunted Mansion has been
altered a little over the years, primarily to tone down the volume and
suddenness of things that pop up and shriek at you, but that's about all that
has changed.

 - snopes

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From: danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock)
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Reply-To: danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:44:45 GMT

In article <rKB=qf-@engin.umich.edu>, dem@engin.umich.edu (Darryle E Merlette)
writes:
> Ted Frank writes:
>>>[Charles Isbell writes]:
>>>Since the events described therein are true and
>>>given the other facts of recent history, why would anyone actually be
>>>surprised that there is a large minority of people who believe such
>>>things about AIDS, etc?  And in fact, why would anyone dispute the
>>>reality, however remote, of the possibility?
>>
>>Because the conspiracy theory detailed so far is impossible.  And,
>>unlike a Lewis Carroll character, I don't make it a habit to believe
>>a certain number of impossible things before breakfast.
> 
> In light of the facts behind the Tuskegee Experiment, the Violence
> Initiative, and known chemical/biological warfare capabilities, one
> would have to be naive and/or stupid to consider this categorically
> impossible.

   No, one would have to be naive and/or ignorant to consider it possible.  We
do not create finely tuned attacks on the immune system with our current "known
chemical/biological warfare capabilities".  The long incubation time, wierd
viral type (retrovirus) and novel attack method make it _impossible_ that the
HIV virus was engineered or bred.  Supporting evidence is given by its genome
which makes it part of a familly of naturally occuiring viruses.
 
> I'd suggest viewing "The Strecker Memorandum" video. In this video
> a (white) doctor explains in scientific detail how the AIDS virus
> is genetically engineered (ie. man-made).

   From a pair of viruses whoes genomes don't match the AIDS geneome.  This
was discussed in sci.med.aids a while back.  You can download the genomes from
the NIH genebank yourself.


> Among other things, it is
> not possible for viruses to cross species, so that story about AIDS
> originating from the African green monkey is even more impossible.

   Wrong.  As another poster noted, rabies is a multispiecies virus.  It occurs
in foxes, bats, cats, and racoons.  These animals are far more different from
one another than people and monkies.  So I deduce you are a complete ignoramus
spreading known crap easilly refuted from publically available records.  Please
stop, we have enough problems without this kind of nonsense.

   Biological theory takes crossing spiecies boundries as one of the big points
of origin for new, destructive parasites of all sorts.  You might want to learn
something before shooting off your "mouth".

> Even if you don't believe Dr. Strecker's conclusions, at least you'll
> realize alternative possibilities that actually aren't far fetched 
> when you think about it.

   Streckers work is not "bielieved" or "disbelieved" it is demonstrably 
CRAP.

> 	Darryle

Dan
Danwell@IASTATE.EDU
From: dave@eram.esi.COM.AU (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Southern style sex
Date: 12 Nov 92 02:11:59 GMT
Organization: Pacific ESI, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

In article <1992Nov3.163249.28657@redsun.pps.rain.com>,
    don@redsun.pps.rain.com (Donald C. Currie) writes:

| ... that sex was unlawful in public or private places).

Cripes - doesn't leave too many other places in one's body...

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From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Legal Tender
Date: 9 Nov 92 22:16:20 GMT
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Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com


In article <1992Nov8.081142.21615@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>All it means is that you can use them to pay debts. It does not mean that
>a merchant has to accept them. In other words, a merchant could refuse to
>accept cash payments - requiring only check or credit card - if he wished
>to do so.

"legal tender *n* (1739): money that is legally valid for the payment
of debts AND THAT MUST BE ACCEPTED FOR THAT PURPOSE WHEN OFFERED."
-- Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (emphasis added).
OK, it doesn't have the force of law, and doesn't even contain the
word "gullible," but...
-- 
Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Mgr., SAS Institute Inc., Cary, N.C. 27513
From: harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter) 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The hell with Lemurs,
Date: 13 Nov 92 05:15:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Ed Hopper's BBS - Berkeley Lake, GA - 404-446-9462
Reply-To: harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter) 

>Oh, great.  Next you're going to tell me that Old Yeller wasn't really
>sick, and they shot him just for the movie.

>Then you'll tell me that they torched the forest that Bambi lived in just
>to make a good plot complication.

Well, they shot two mules for Patton, so they'd have something to throw
off the bridge.

>Well, there goes my faith in Disney flicks.  Damn.  Thanks alot.

Sooner or later we all must discover Walt Disney has feet of clay.
                                                            
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From: klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Port Out Starboard Home -- That's the Life for ME!
Date: 6 Nov 92 12:27:37 GMT
Organization: Duke University, Nuclear Medicine

In article <9162@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw+@pitt.edu writes:
>Not being a big Ian Fleming fan (Does anybody know JAMES BOND'S middle name?)

  Having seen a number of the Bond movies, numerous times I've heard him say
his name is "Bond James Bond".  So "James" is his middle name.

As for Miss Pussy Galore, I'm sure she is.

k "No Mr. Greer, I expect you to die" g

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From: david.meadows@canrem.com (david meadows)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: amusing pronouns, was: bi
Date: 8 Nov 92 15:06:03 GMT
Reply-To: "david meadows" <david.meadows@canrem.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

MW>An old friend of mine liked calling the place I used to
  >work at, and asking the receptionist to page some non-
  >existant people.  My favorites were:

MW>Mike Hunt
  >Dr. Jack Meehoff
  >Daniel Druff

MW>Any others out there?

I'm sure every Catholic School with a large Italian population and non-
Italian office staff have heard, at least once a year, a page for
Stu Katz ...

               David Meadows
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From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Question
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:56:12 GMT
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Matt Sullivan (matthews@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu) wrote:

: 1) AFOAF said that he could remove THC from his system with a simple
: drug/vitamin? available at GNC-type stores called Goldstar (or something
: like that) I know that THC can be detected in hair, but will this drug
: keep THC from being detected in a urine drug-test?

it sounds like you might be talking about goldenseal, an herb. from
what i've heard, it doesn't do that much for helping you pass a drug
test (though some people swear by it). the best preparation for a drug
test is probably abstinence and drinking lots of water. check out the
alt.drugs faq for more info.

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Date: Sat,  7 Nov 1992 13:41:34 -0500 
From: Joshua Eli Schachter <jsct+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Still Sinking.../Architectural Goofs

Radioactive? I've been told (but I doubt it) that the Mellon College near
CMU has green bricks that are radioactive.

Has this been verified? I am told it has been with a geigercounter.
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Chain Mail is highly illegal.It wastes too many resources. Please dont do it.

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From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: Re: furrfu??
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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 04:37:41 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.163828.17792@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Nov3.083618.25027@wixer.cactus.org> guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery) writes:
>>In article <2NOV199215163314@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> oberle@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Larry Oberle) writes:
>>>What the heck does 'furrfu' mean?  Is it an acronym for something?  I just 
>>>can't figure it out.
>
>It's a secret codeword for initiates into the New York Method (tm).
>There's a second definition, used by Joe Bob Briggs, to describe the
>act of throwing Joel Furr at somebody. 

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

*thump*
From: jberger@novell.com (John Berger)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ex-presidents
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:51:15 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.

In article <27255@dog.ee.lbl.gov> twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>Subject: Re: Ex-presidents
>PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>  +
>  +	How about Rockefeller and Agnew?  Are they yet dead?
>
>Yep.  But they're doing more for their country now then they ever did.
>
Agnew's dead?  Guess my autographed business card of "Spiro T. Agnew, 
Governor of Maryland" is now worth a little more than it used to be (got it 
in '68 when he came through town stumping for a local congressman -- he was 
running for VP at the time).

John "What does the 'T' in Spiro T. Agnew stand for?" Berger
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From: bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson)
Subject: Re: shorter summer (was: DST)
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Keywords: country time lemonade
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Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 18:39:50 GMT

In article <1992Oct31.235648.999@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes:
>All this about time reminds me:  all this summer I kept hearing this
>sentimental sounding ad on the radio for Country Time lemonade flavored
>drink, in which the speaker was talking about there being one less day
>of summer to enjoy all kinds of folksy summer things, including the
>taste of this lemonade flavored drink.  I didn't know what he was
>talking about.  My roommate said yeah, he'd heard something about
>summer being one day shorter this year.  What?  Don`t the seasons get
>determined having something to do with the equinoxes and solstices, and
>don't those fall on the same day each year?
>
Must have to do with the leap year this year. From Meeus, _Astromonical
Tables of the Sun, Moon, and Planets_, the June solstice (beginning of
summer) for 1992 is June 21d3h15m and the September equinox (end) is
September 22d18h44m. Last year the solstice was on June 21d21h20m and
the equinox on September 23h12h49m. Both summers are 93.65 days long,
but there is a percieved difference of one day since both June 
solstices occur on the 21st and the equinox of 1991 is on September
23 and for 1992 on the 22nd. Just another way to sell lemonade, I guess.


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From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Subject: Re: MRI (was: Re: Courgettes (was Re: doggy style))
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 18:19:48 GMT

In article <1ddu5fINN64m@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt)
writes:
>>>I've always wondered how the technique came to be
>>>called MRI.  I recall that in the early days (say, ten years ago), the
>>>field went by the name NMR imaging.  I even remember seeing signs in
>>>hospitals.  Then suddenly there seemed to be a flash cut to MRI.  The
>>>way I heard it, the reason was to get the word ``nuclear'' out of the
>>>term for fear of alarming the hoi-polloi.  Any truth to this?
>>
>>Total truth. As you went on to say, the technique is called NMR
>>'Nuclear-Magnetic Resonance' (or is it 'Nucleo-Magn...'? Whatever), and the
>>reason for the name-change is pure PR, so that jack and jill public won't
>>be frightened off by the radioactive connotations...
> 
>I'm not so sure it was just fear of the catchword nuclear. In addition, 
>the patients and the non-radiological medical community were a bit
>confused about the differences between Nuclear MRI and Nuclear Medicine 
>(a branch of radiological diagnosis that does involve doses of radoactivity).
>Only the chemists raised any stink about the change.

Well, I had an office for a time at the UCSF's Radiological Imaging Lab,
which did a lot of the research for my company.  Some of the people who
developed/refined the technique work there and have told me that the
reason for changing the technique was PR.

  don "that thing isn't gonna melt down with me in it, is it?" baldwin
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: DMARTIN@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:53:12 GMT

------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
>From: dem@engin.umich.edu (Darryle E Merlette)

> I'd suggest viewing "The Strecker Memorandum" video. In this video
> a (white) doctor explains in scientific detail how the AIDS virus
> is genetically engineered (ie. man-made). Among other things, it is
> not possible for viruses to cross species, so that story about AIDS

Isn't rabies a.k.a. hydrophobia caused by a virus? Seems to do nicely in
quite a few species.
From: ssouth@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Steve South)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:20:18 GMT
Subject: Re: HERE'S HOW TO SHUT DOWN THE NET!
Organization: HP Scientific Instruments Division - Palo Alto, CA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

In alt.folklore.urban mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu (Michael T Pins) writes:


>No, you're probably thinking of Julian Lennon's dad, who once said that
>he was better than god....

Ah, there's a UL if ever I heard one. He actually said that he thought that
the Beatles were more popular than god. At the time, and in some places, it
was probably true....

Steve South.
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Question
Date: 5 Nov 1992 05:15:47 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

matthews@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Matt Sullivan) writes:
  
  +2) This same FOAF said that he read/heard that in the New York Times
  +last week somebody said that AIDS to too great a disease to be naturally
  +occuring, and therefore must be man-made. Comment?

Hmmmm...does this imply that Nature can't make the REALLY virulent
diseases and that it takes Homo Sapiens to really hit the big time?
  

Terry "I have more faith in nature" Chan
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From: vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (vance kochenderfer)
Subject: Re: Legal Tender
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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 19:57:43 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.020123.27701@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> gfritz@bell.ecn.purdue.edu (Geoffrey M Fritz) writes:
>I'm assuming that what I was taught is true.
>
[...]
>Don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise.

Nominations for AFU MOTW?

ObStoryFromGuyWhoJustStartedTalkingToMeForNoReasonInTheLineFor"Gypsy":  
Did you know that dancers are often reincarnated as horses?  They're so
graceful, it really makes sense.  Why do you think they [dancers] are
called hoofers?

Vance "I [heart] NY" Kochenderfer
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: College Coed Murder UL
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 06:57:03 GMT

reid@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Robert Reid) writes:
: 
: >Only if you're a co-ed.  These things *only* happen to co-eds.  Men
: 
: I realize that this is a stupid question but why are female students
: refered to as co-eds? If you're talking about an all women's school
: would you refer to them as co-eds? Clearly that wouldn't make sense.
: I guess this has a historical background based on the time when only
: men went to colleges but I still think it is strange to call the 
: women co-eds.

Correct. When the term was first coined, most colleges admitted only
men. So, schools which admitted women were co-educational and the women
were known as co-eds.

Bill