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From: seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Liz Claiborne/Oprah Winfrey UL
Date: 9 Oct 92 11:20:25 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: seawasp@unixd2.cis.pitt.edu

In article <1992Oct9.021256.23476@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>It's bad enough that you go for the newbie bait, but then you use a smiley,
>too.  Feh.

	:)  :)  :-)  {:-)  :)  ;)  [:-|  :->  :)  :)

	There! Do they work as well as a cross on you people?

	Like, what's your problem? The :) and related symbols
substitute for a lot of the nonverbal cues that are not generally
available over electronic formats.

	ObUL: The Navy built an "Invisible Ship" in Philadelphia; when
they turned it on the entire ship didn't just become invisible, it 
disappeared from the area as well, appearing simultaneously or nearly
so in at least eight places around the globe, ranging from South America
to Russia. When it finally returned, one-third of the crew was dead, another
third completely insane, and the last third was tough to test because
THEY KEPT FADING IN AND OUT!
	Sources: lots of people I know who were in the military.


                                 Sea Wasp
                                   /^\
                                   ;;;
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From: rcm@col.hp.com (hpctdfc)
Subject: Re: Q: Eating live monkey brains
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:31:55 GMT
Organization: Don't ask me, I'm Lost!

mick@isi.edu (Mick O'Donnell) writes:
>  I'm trying to track down factual (??) reports about this urban myth
> about societies who eat munkey brains, straight from the owner's skull
> (alla Temple of Doom). Anyone know if any kulture actually did this
> stuff?  Which culture?
> 
>  Where the monkeys still alive at the time?
> 
>   What spices/herbs should one use?

Go rent the movie "Faces of Death".
Rick
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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Craigy babes
Organization: Just put everything on the floor; I can find it.
Date:  8 OCT 92 08:06:38    


In article <13399@texsun.Central.Sun.COM>, 
  johns@uk.sun.com (John Slater - Sun UK - City SE) writes...

>I've been to the local library today at lunchtime to photocopy the
>article, but unfortunately they don't take the Sun. It's not a very
>salubrious newspaper.

Yeah, neither is the Los Angeles Times -- the ink *always* comes off on my
hands.  Why don't you drop a note in the suggestion box and see if you can get
your employers to make their newspaper a little more respectable?

 - snopes

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From: olt@elwood.isgs.uiuc.edu (Scott Olt)
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Organization: Madame Tinkertoy's House of Blue Lights
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:50:43 GMT

crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:

sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>>The American Kennel Club won't let you register a dog whose name
>>contains the word "Dog".  So when I sent in the name of my new
>>Sheltie as "Sir Raging Pooter the Wizard Dog" they eliminated the
>>last word before registering him.  

>I won't rest until I know.  Just what kind of dog is this, Bruce?

It's a Sheltie, natch...a breed sometimes referred to (erroneously) as 
the Toy Collie.

--
Scott Olt
Illinois State Geological Survey
olt@elwood.isgs.uiuc.edu
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From: datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Re: Hollywood Misspellings
Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Dallas, Tx.
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 05:18:47 GMT
Keywords: Kant spel tuu gud

>ST:TOS: Assignment Earth.  The Gary Seven episode where there is no credit
>given for the human female briefly seen as Mr Seven's cat.

Let's be fair -- there are *lots* of uncredited appearances in the episodes.

>On another subject: why are some movies cropped so poorly that you can see
>the boom mikes

A boom mike can be seen in several frames of at least one ST episode.

>obUL2: William Shatner doesn't get made-up creature names right all that
>often

In one of the animated episodes, he refers to Kulkukan as Kluklakan.

>When do we get to Deep Space Nine: the Next Generation?

The same day when the Dracula movie is released, ie., apparently never.

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From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: This week's official motto nominee...
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 21:02:56 GMT


Guess my favourite this week is David Esan wrapping it up with:
>
> I don't think my Dad was made up for the film. :-).

Don't think the smiley will make it to the FAQ though...

---
YuNoHoo  "So, your dad didn't wear _any_ make-up in that film?"
From: dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright)
Subject: Re: Feets too big
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:55:12 GMT

Anthony Datri wrote:
: >This
: >is more important to women, I expect, since we think of dainty feet as
: >something to be proud of.
: 
: Women's feet definitely tend -- or are thought to tend by shoemakers --
: to be narrower than men's.
: 
: >(I should go bck to foot-binding...)
: 
: I've seen pictures of that.  I'd always heard that the practice was
: to keep the foot uniformly small.  I've read that it often actually
: was done to *bend* the instep and heel toward each other so that the
: toes and heel would be adjacent.  Strange but true.

Foot-binding to keep a girl's feet small and dainty, yes, so the girl will
have a better chance of being picked as a concubine in the Royal Court.

Foot-binding to eventually double the feet over, yes, so the girl will be
able to give good foot-jobs to men of the court having foot fetishes who
really appreciate nasty girl-foot-jobs.

Feet are the most common object of sexual fetishes in men.  I've never
found out why though I've done research.  I want to understand because I
have a foot fetish.  It bothers me that I can't make any sense of it.
Where did it come from?  One of the first things I'll look at in a girl is
her feet.  Well, they are good indicators of youth and beauty, that is,
only genuine young dolls have pretty feet (old ladies, and all men, have
ugly feet, so that excludes them).  When a pretty young girl takes off her
shoes and prances around barefoot, to me it is as exciting as if she had
taken off her panties.  Is that weird or what?  Since it's common in many
cultures, I suppose predisposition for the fetish must be a genetic trait,
though I can't imagine how the trait evolved.

  -- Dan Wright
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From: john@bnr.ca (John Ledford)
Subject: Re: The End Of The World
Keywords: baptist, apocalypse
Organization: Bell Northern Research Inc.
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:11:29 GMT

In article <Bw4M2z.Hun@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> ipgrier@compass.uwaterloo.ca (Iain P. Grier) writes:

>It appears that Baptists and some other miscellaneous religion 
>(United Church?) believe that the end of the world is supposed to
>happen on October 28th, 1992.

Well at least that is better than the Oct 23 date that some idiots on the 
news were spewing, esp. since the 23rd is my 21st B-day. I figured they must 
be right because I have great plans for that entire weekend. Leave it to god 
to fuck it up. 


john
 
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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Error in FAQ: Gerbils
Date: 14 Oct 1992 03:39:06 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

adamsd@crash.cts.com (Adams Douglas) writes:

  +Referencing the FAQ:
  + 
  +>T. Gerbils are illegal in California. [CA Regs. Title 14, Sec. 260 (b)(10)(A)].
  + 
  +My roommate, a law librarian, says there is no such reference under
  +Title 14, Sec. 260 (which deals with hunting large game animals). She
  +has also looked through the rest of Title 14 and can find no
  +reference under any section likely to deal with gerbils, animals or
  +rodents. She asks that such citations be double-checked before being
  +posted.
  + 
  +Anybody have the correct citation, or better, the quote from the
  +relevant text?

In looking over the original posting by one of our a.f.u. legal-types,
I think that the conclusion line of the post (on which the above 
reference is based) is not correct.  In the body of the original post, 
I believe that the correct reference should be as above but to Section 
671, not 260.

Want to double-check that Terry?

Terry "Gerbils AREN'T large game animals?" Chan
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From: rogers@rosencrantz.osf.org (Andrew Rogers)
Subject: 18,000 words for "Edsel"
Organization: HICAM/OSD
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:27:04 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.102649.22008@ms.uky.edu> fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis) writes:
>The correspondence between Moore and Ford is among the funniest in
>literature. Unintentional of course. One of the whackball alternates
>that she came up with was the Turtle Stopper...[I'm quoting from
>memory].

Coincidentally, the latest issue of Automobile Quarterly has a rather lengthy
article on the Edsel.  Of course, it mentions Ms. Moore and her suggestions
for naming the car; among my favorites are Hurricane Accipter, Resilient
Bullet, and (I think this is the one you mean) Utopian Turtletop.  They
tried 18,000 names in all and didn't like any of them (although four of
the runners-up - Ranger, Pacer, Corsair, and Citation - were used for the
names of Edsel models), ultimately settling on Edsel over the objections of
the late Edsel Ford's family. 

>Of course, calling the Homely Ocarina-Grill the Edsel is wonderful all by
>itself.


I never heard the grille referred to as an "Ocarina" before, and I *play*
ocarina (well, I know the solo from "Wild Thing").  I've heard it referred
to as a "horse collar", a "toilet seat", and you don't have to be a
gynecologist to note yet another resemblence...

In all fairness, the Edsel's styling wasn't any worse than a zillion other
late-50's cars; compared to, say, a Mercury Turnpike Cruiser, it's downright
restrained.  (As somebody said in the AQ article, at least it didn't have
tailfins.)  The infamous grille - butt of jokes to this day (see above) -
was toned down considerably on the 1959 models (filled in, reduced in
size, and integrated with the horizontal side grilles) and eliminated
completely for 1960.  Not that it mattered much, since only the low-buck
Ranger model (a thinly-disguised Ford) was held over for 1960, and production
stopped completely the following month.

AWR
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: 666 Cable TV
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:21:12 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA

csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Blackplague) writes:
: 
: Sigh, couple of problems here folks.
: 
: 2) The original theological question deals with angles and the number of
: which may dance on the head of a pin.

Depends on how acute they are.

: 3) With the above in mind, we have several questions.
:    a) Do angles dance?  Occording to some christian sects, dancing is a
: sin, and 	so angles, with the possible exception of the Fallen One, would
: not dance and the question is moot.

One of the few things that can be more obtuse than an angle is a religious
fundamentalist.

I would think that any right angle - by definition, would be able to dance
if it wished to do so.

:    b) If angles do dance, then does an angle have a corperal body? 

Only if it is not of the set 0 + 360n degrees.

:    c) If yes, then just how large is an angle?

Depends on whether it is acute or obtuse.

: 			d) If no, then can it be reasoned that an angle is infinitely small?

See above.

: Mathematicly, if the last is true, just how infinitely small is the angle? 
: Is the angle so infinitely small that an infinite number of angles can
: dance on the head of a pin?  Or must an infinite number of angles take up
: an infinite amount of space?

Only people who are more acute than the angles they are attempting to
analyze will be able to determine this.

Bill
From: uni@acs.bu.edu (Shaen Bernhardt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Is that a boom mike in Madonna's butt?
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:31:40 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA



In the original Terminator, there is a scene where "Arnie" surveys a police
station and delivers the line "I'll be back."   Some seconds after this he
crashes through the reception area with a large junker of an American car.
(Try this with an import box!)  Anyway, you'll notice that the cop at the
reception desk looks up.  Why? Because the headlights shine in his face.
Look carefully however when the car crashes through the windows etc.  The
headlights are OFF.  And this is BEFORE the car impacts with anything.
Hmmm,.,,,  Must be those terminator x-ray eyes.

uni
From: cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: More Stupid Lawyer Tricks
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:54:54 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


While driving over from the other campus, I heard a story on the radio
news that reinforces my belief that people will sue for anything.
According to the story, a fellow is suing the police department for
injuries sustained as a result of a high-speed chase with a police
officer.  The police officer says that he tried to get the guy to pull
over when he observed him weaving in traffic at a high rate of speed
(speeds exceeding 100mph).  The cop says that he never tried to give
chase to our hero, but rather that he followed him at the speed limit
while keeping him in sight in order to radio ahead.  Since our hero was
driving drunk (he pled guilty to speeding and drunk driving), he
was unable to keep control and crashed in a most spectacular fashion
which ended in his losing part of one leg.

Of course, the case will likely be thrown out.  After all the lawyers
involved have collected a hefty fee.

--Scott "nothing looks quite as good as a doberman would on a lawyer"
Cromar 

ObUL: Our hero's grandmother successfully sued a microwave oven
manufacturer after an unfortunate incident involving a wet cat.
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From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: Re: Oranjelo and the severed dog's head
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:41:29 GMT

jb = jberger@novell.com (John Berger)
vk = vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (vance kochenderfer
bm = billmcc@seanews.akita.com (Bill McCormick)

bm: I've actually sent a dog's head in to be examined
vk: Can it be sent through the mail with no further packaging?
jb: Yes.  However, it has to wear a muzzle so that it won't bite the mail
jb: carrier.

Why?  Does the head remain conscious after the rest of the dog is removed?
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From: kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:13:13 GMT
Subject: Please Help
Organization: HP Western Response Center
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

              Please answer these 9 questions and return.

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From: kammonen@katk.Helsinki.FI (KAMMONEN HARRI A)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Liz Claiborne/Oprah Winfrey UL
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:19:05 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Computing Centre

In article <1992Oct5.160230.23648@PA.dec.com> snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:


>In article <mjenkins.718116768@cunews>, 
>  mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes...

>>One problem: the story is untrue. Claiborne never appeared on "Oprah"
>>and never made such comments. Still, "Oprah" staffers receive 15 calls
>>a week from viewers who insist they saw Claiborne on the show."

>I saw it.  She was on the show with Zsa-Zsa Gabor, and she told Ms. Gabor they
>don't make clothes for old people, either.  It was reported in all the
>newspapers.

> - snopes

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From: cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: 50 words for "Chevy Nova"
Date: 9 Oct 92 14:06:13 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:

> Navajo White, Blanched Almond, Floral White, WhiteSmoke, Old Lace, linen,
> Antique White, ivory, white....

I think we need a new line in the FAQ:

Tb   Paint store owners have a megaboss number of words for precisely
the same color.  They get a kick out of watching people argue over
whether to use Ivory or Blanched Almond.

--Scott
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From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Subject: Re: Chlorine gas (was Re: nail in Coca-Cola)
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 12:55:59 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

Jennifer Mery writes:
>Jeff Davis writes:
>>I don't think that a urine/household bleach combo will produce enough
>>chlorine gas to bother any but the most sensitive. I imagine there
>>are zillions of kids who have gone #1 into AJAX fresh toilets. 
>
>Does that mean if I pee in the chlorine clean pool water that I wont
>die? What a relief!
>
That depends on whom you're swimming with. How sensitive they are to
heat gradients in swimming pools. That sort of thing. 

-- 
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From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.alien.visitors,talk.rumors
Subject: Re: Perfect Knowledge
Date: 7 Oct 92 12:53:20 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.


When will these people learn to use paragraphs....
-- 
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UTS Sys Admin,  Manchester Computing Centre,  Oxford Rd,  Manchester, M13 9PL
"The Royal Family must think the entire world smells of wet paint."
From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: nail in Coca-Cola
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:21:29 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis) writes:

>Richard Joltes writes:
>>
>>Fun with chemicals...now, if you want *real* fun, mix bleach and ammonia and
>>sniff the fumes that come off it.  Many a housewife has nearly been killed by
>>the resultant fumes (chlorine gas).  The bad thing was, once my mother tried
>>to use bleach to clean dog urine from a concrete floor in our cellar...
>>there are apparently ammonia or compounds thereof in urine, and she nearly
>>gassed herself doing this...lucky the door was open.
>>
>>Kids, don't try this at home...
>>
>I don't think that a urine/household bleach combo will produce enough
>chlorine gas to bother any but the most sensitive. I imagine there
>are zillions of kids who have gone #1 into AJAX fresh toilets. 

Not sure what the volume produced was, but I was there when it happened and the
smell was pretty strong in the general area (much worse when closer to the 
floor, as would be expected--yes, I checked, since the dog was still in the
cellar).

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Hardware & Networking Manager, Computer Services 	joltes@husc.bitnet 
Harvard University Science Center

"Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."
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