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From: dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright)
Subject: Post the FAQ (was Dead pet UL?)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Salt Lake City
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:13:08 GMT

Jamie Andrews (jamie@cs.sfu.ca) wrote:
: [ ... ]
:      FOAF takes dead rabbit back to his house, bathes it and
: blow-dries it (! - this is really what she said!), takes it back
: to neighbour's yard and puts it back in hutch.
: [ ... novel conclusion of neighbor's rabbit UL deleted ]

An open letter to that honorable, shrewd, and steadfast Terry Chan:

Dear Mr. Chan, sir:

In my humble opinion you should post the FAQ, even if it hasn't changed
since last time.  Now's when it's needed most.  And you might use a
glaringly obvious subject line such as "Here's the FAQ! <-----READ".

As a young upstart, before I had grown an asbestos shell, I remember being
stung by reprimands to some of my (freshman-like) initial postings.  I
honestly feel sorry for those newbies being taken to task for their not
being familiar with POSH, Nova, etc.  Who knows but many of these newbies
might turn out to be masters in their own way.

A disadvantage might be our having to endure threads re-hashing the FAQ's
more intriguing points, but it'll still be worth it.  a.f.u's FAQ is one
hell of a document, thanks much to yourself, and to the legendary,
somewhat enigmatic, consistently articulate, and delightfully lecherous
old hat, Peter van der Linden.

Kindest Regards,

  -- Dan Wright
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ahill@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill)
Subject: Re: nail in Coca-Cola
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:13:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: ahill@boi.hp.com
Organization: LaserJets by Bill & Dave
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao) writes:
> What beverages are most likely to dissolve things or do weird things to
> eggs? Can't you use lemon juice to clean off old pennies?
> I mean, aren't citrus juices acidic, a lot?
>
Well, we have a lot of problems with iron stains, here.  Every six months or
so, I put Tang (the orange breadfast drink) in the dishwasher instead of
the usual soap.  At the end of the cycle - no more iron stains.  Really
makes me respect the strength of my stomach lining.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: Rape movie? (was: "Gang Bang" series)
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:57:06 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.174857.17965@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:
>: 
>: > But the motivation for this, as
>: > stated, is to make money off an explicit movie, and there are easier, more
>: > prudent ways of accomplishing *that*.
>: 
>: Maybe I'm not understanding your argument.  It seems to me that
>: applying a similar definition to a snuff film would mean that no snuff
>: film could ever be found to exist.  I mean, if we assume that a film
>: is not a snuff film unless it is made explicitly to be distributed and
>: turn a profit, then applying your argument would lead to the
>: conclusion that our snuff film could not contain a real murder because
>: it is easier (and safer) to fake a murder rather than carry out a real
>: one. 
>
>Exactly. That is the primary argument against such films existing.

Maybe we are all blinded by our own rationality.

While I have argued at length that snuff films are impossible by
definition (I.e., the definition is setup in such a way that they cannot
exist), I do think that it wrong to assume that the typical snuff/rape
filmmaker is going to be the standard Harvard Business grad, cool,
rational, money grubbing film exec, such as is portrayed in the great
movie, "The Player" (see it if you haven't yet!)

It is likely that, if they exist, these people are about as sick as are
their audiences/customers, so it likely that the assumptions of
rationality that we place upon them are invalid.

I.e., they might not even be able to spell "prudent"...

>: But, as I understand the snuff film UL (boy, I can just hear snopes
>: warming up his terminal now), the idea is that the actual murder (or
>: rape) is part of the excitement that the viewers of this type of
>: pornography experience.  As has been pointed out many a time, with
>: modern special effects a faked murder would probably look more "real"
>: than a real murder, so the gore isn't the source of the excitement for
>: the (hypothetical) audience of such films.  Rather, it is the thrill
>: of "participating" in an experience which is totally contrary to the
>: mores of civilized society.
>
>So - how is the audience to know whether the act was real or not? All
>they can do is take the filmmaker's word for it. 

Rumor and innuendo.  Don't you enjoy "Love Rollercoaster" more, now that
you know what happened during its taping?

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From: cel@nsscmail.att.com (clayton EDward LEIHY iii)
Subject: Re: Names that can and can't be used (Was Re:  Oranjelo)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: NCR Systems Support Center - New Jersey
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:24:28 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.033200.18360@news.iastate.edu> glitto@iastate.edu (Scott M Klabacha) writes:

>a story about two French parents who had tried to name their
>daughter "Cerise" ("cherry" in French), but who weren't
>allowed to use that name on the birth certificate (by the government, or
>whoever's in charge of such matters).

Here in the U.S. of A.,
when we named our youngest daughter CERESE, the nurse who made out the
record of birth (which went to the Bureau of Vital Statistics where
the actual Birth Certificate is recorded) had apparently never heard
of the French prohibition (which might have included variations in  
spellings such as our daughter's).

ObUL:  Some states have a list of Forbidden Names which the provide to
       all pregnant women admitted to the maternity wards.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bakc@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR KR COMAN)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:24:35 GMT

In article <Bvw3ns.A2D@egsner.cirr.com> datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
>From: datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri)
>Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
>Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 05:09:24 GMT
>I was in the UK for two weeks, and didn't see a single Ford Prefect 8^(

 No foolin'!  The last one graduated in 1962, so 'less youz a freeze-dried
 flower-child into deeja-voux...let it go, let it go, let it go, go, go, go.
From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Subject: Re: Headless cheerleaders and other bits & pieces
Keywords: accidents injuries
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:06:52 GMT

hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh) writes:

[gory stuff deleted]

>BTW, it's a real bitch to walk along the edge of a road at night with a 
>flashlight looking for the missing pieces.

Ugh, thanks.  No more AFU during my lunch break.

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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Collected Musical Factoids (was Re: Kirk vs. Picard)
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:53:50 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Oct7.083220.2587@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>Also, I noticed that they replaced Anthony Michael Hall as the son; what
>has happened to this former SNL cast member?

He wasn't an SNL cast member yet.  I suspect that he refused to be in
the sequel in an attempt to get out of playing teenage roles. (Though,
then again, he played against type as a bully teenager in Edward
Scissorhands -- haven't seen hide nor hair of him since.  Probably
one of the few cast members to be more famous *before* he was a 
cast member.)

>Nora Dunn did the same. Dunn was fired, but O'Connor came back, although not
>likely again.

Was Nora Dunn fired for that?  Or did she just leave?

>Can someone name who was a regular on SNL and also In Living Color? (not at
>the same time).

Damon Wayans was a quasi-regular on SNL in the Hall/Quaid/Cusack/Lovitz/
Downey series.
-- 
ted frank | thf2@midway.uchicago.edu 
also at quibeaux@uchicago.edu | standard disclaimers
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
ajax crypto-analyzer -- warning! remove all chicken bones first
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From: wisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wisp)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 09:23:22 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.055419.6729@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>In article <Bvw3ns.A2D@egsner.cirr.com> datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
>>I was in the UK for two weeks, and didn't see a single Ford Prefect 8^(
>
>This is due to a strange effect called RBS, or Rust Bucket Syndrome.  This
>effects any vehicle which is not innoculated at an early age and is exposed
>to the ravages of a British winter.
>
>Take your next holiday in New Zealand,  you would stand a fairly good chance
>of seeing a couple driving around.
>
>Derek "I had never seen one either - until I moved here" Tearne
>

hasn't this got something to do with the crap we spread on our roads in
winter? (We use rocksalt, aka 'grit'). There was a story on some driving prog
a few years back that you Kiwis use pumice, or something like that, that
doesn't melt the ice, like grit, but puts a grippy layer on top of it, so you
can drive safely (carefully!). Of course, we'd never get it here, or our cars
might last 20-30 years before rusting to bits, putting all the motor
manufacturers out of business...

The Wisp.
From: seanna@bnr.ca (Seanna Watson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Disco "Snuff" Recording?
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:34:51 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada

In article <1992Oct14.001124.12546@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>
>There have been double-episodes of Starlost packaged as movies (titles?) with
>so much processing that you can't tell that it was video-taped, rather it looks
>like a badly lit movie reprint.

Actually, as I recall, they looked like that when first shown on TV.

-- 
Seanna Watson   Bell-Northern Research, 
(seanna@bnr.ca) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


Opinions, what opinions?  Oh *these* opinions. | Occam's razor split 
No, they're not BNR's, they're mine.           | hairs so well, I bought 
I knew I'd left them somewhere.                | the whole argument.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Personal message for 'doc'
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:32:48 GMT

pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin) writes:
: 
: Looks like I decided to actually wait until the deadline expired before doing
: anything.  I've now sent mail to postmaster and root at your site.  If that
: doesn't get the desired response, I'm going to phone your dean.  If that
: doesn't get the desired response, I'm going to bill your computer centre for
: the time and money I've spent on your stupid forgery.  As a consultant, I
: bill $150/hour.  I've spent at least 4 hours on this thing.  Add to that the
: costs of modem time from all that mail your forgery netted me, and I think I
: could make a case for billing you $700 plus collection costs.  As a
: consultant, I _do_ know how to collect from accounts that wont pay.  Try and

When you have no documentation that you were hired to perform a service?
Forget it. You might be able to file charges in court, but you have no legal
standing to bill for services rendered. The only service you performed was
to yourself.

If all the college people are smart, they will tell you to provide some
proof, or get lost.

: get a car loan, mortgage or lease when you have a collection agency after
: your ass.

Do that, and you are likely to be in hot water yourself. It is called fraud,
since you would be attempting to collect money under false pretenses. File
charges in court - then maybe you will have grounds for action. Even then,
I doubt if you could prove that he was the one who forged the message. Try
reading alt.forgery - if you don't believe me. 

: Looks like you should have taken the easy way out, and apologized.  I'd
: still settle for that, but if I have to go any higher...

See above. I think you are wasting your time. It is next to impossible to
prove that any particular individual forged a particular message.

Bill
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:25396 alt.folklore.computers:15004
From: tchnd-bf@garnet.berkeley.edu (Nicholas C. Weaver)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Possible UL alert(was Re: Videotaping rapes)
Date: 11 Oct 92 08:57:34 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley

In article <H.qByMjh0x1UA@harvee.billerica.ma.us> scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us writes:
>when i was about 9, i figured out how to count on my fingers in base 5(one
>hands for ones, the other for fives.) i could get up to 30 that way.

	Counting in binary is so much better.  Just remember to skip 4.  
(try it and see why.  :)
-- 
                             Nicholas C. Weaver
nweaver@ocf.berkeley.edu                           nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu
It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, .signifying nothing.
#include <stdwittydisclaimer.h>
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From: styri@hal.nta.no (Haakon Styri)
Subject: Re: famous people
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 17:22:39 GMT

>Anybody else out there ever met, or been somewhere near, somebody famous?

I've been stage door bouncer at a rock concert w/ Uriah Heep and Babe Ruth...
(...and got famous for bouncing the guys from Babe Ruth - didn't recognize 'em)

---
YuNoHoo "need I say more"
From: idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:53:14 GMT
Organization: Eris's Restaurant

In article <1992Oct02.125854.19205@NeoSoft.com> arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva) writes:
>In article <1992Oct1.135256.9286@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> kristyp@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson) writes:
>> There are some really unfortunate car name out there;
>> Chevrolet CITATION?  Nice to name your car "traffic ticket."
>> I also heard rumors of a Dodge IMPACT.  I thought that was a good one, too.
>Nononono.
>The absolute most ridiculous name goes to the Ford Probe.
>I mean, honestly.  Would you buy a used Probe?

NononononoNO!

The Ford Prefect beats that hands-down.
	
And yes, I would buy a used Prefect.  I was one when I was at school:)

			Kay
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From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Organ Theft
Keywords: (a la Bullwinkle) OR...The Well Tempered Clavicle
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:42:13 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

snopes writes:
>
>The _Los Angeles Times_, like all the other major papers, carried an article in
>August about the sale of organs in third world countries.  Buried in the text
>was this one paragraph:
>
>"Since the operations started in the mid-1980s, Bombay also has been plagued by
>a series of kidnappings in which the victims have regained consciousness on a
>back street with a large incision across their abdomen -- a sign that a kidney
>has been removed while they were drugged."
>
>I think an inquiry about the Times' sources is in order.
>

On a technical note: aren't kidneys removed from the back?

One of the goofier questions of the general story is the drugging
aspect. Why not just brute force? And why the careful stitching
up later? And why not harvest every usable organ in sight: corneas,
lungs, liver...etc? After removing the big prizes, drain away the
6 pts of blood for sale? Sort of a chop shop approach. Then, use the
soft tissue in some <ethnic> restaurant later? Everything but the
squeal, as they say. [Sorry, but a.f.u is not for the faint of 
heart.] 
-- 
Coach Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> Season: 1-5 Lifetime: 1-7
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: nail in Coca-Cola
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:36:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <BvrDKs.K4@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>, dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley) writes...
>In article <1992Oct7.151532.28877@newsgate.sps.mot.com> rapw20@email.sps.mot.com writes:
>>Well, I've heard it will remove rust. Also heard that it will remove the  
>>paint from your car if you spill some on it (the car, that is).
> 
>My usual response to such demonstrations and claims is:
> 
>"why would you waste perfectly good Coke like that?"

Use "New Coke" for such demonstrations.

-Mike "I prefer Jolt" Moroney
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: catstyle@deja-vu.aiss.uiuc.edu (Jason R. Heimbaugh)
Subject: Re: Presidential Succession History
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:15:31 GMT

In article <98665@bu.edu> uni@acs.bu.edu (Shaen Bernhardt) writes:
>longer than expected to arrive.  After the remainder of the exercise the helo 
>returned to the White House and was almost shot down by the Presidental
>Protection Service.

How close can you fly towards the White House before you're shot down?

I assume that the Secret Service would have no qualms about shooting down an
aircraft onto a busy street to save the President, but what if it were
flying over Capital Hill, would they wipe out an entire Congress to save
the President?

Jason "Does the Veep assume control immediately after the President is
decapitated, or does he have to wait until the President's head loses
consciousness?"
jrh@uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: stirling@ozrout.uucp (Stirling Westrup)
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Organization: Andre P. Ozrout
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 05:32:15 GMT

kristyp@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson) writes
>Gee, sounds like his parents watched "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"
>one too many times.  Never saw the movie, but in the T.V. series the
>seven brothers had names in this pattern.  (Your story happens to have
>seven, too...)
>
>All I remember about the series other than this is that River Phoenix
>was G.
>
>-Kristy "but what if they had 27 children?" Patterson

Then that kid would be named 'Ampersandy' of course.

Stirling 'or would they spell it &y?' Westrup

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From: jlysagh@hubcap.clemson.edu (james joseph lysaght)
Subject: Loacal UL being investigated
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:41:21 GMT

Here at Clemson Universiyt there has been a tale handed down for 100
years now through the university staff as follows.  The campus is built
on the old southern plantation of John C. Clahoun as decided by the will
of his son-in-law Thomas Greene Clemson who inherited the plantation on
Calhouns death.  There is a cemetary on campus containg the Calhoun
family plot as well as the plots of many famous and important people in
the schools history.  The legend is that in the empty area behind the
Calhoun fmaily plot the slaves of the Calhoun Plantation are burried.
They had no headstones and plain rocks marked the graves.  The rocks
were removed by a groundskeeper who did not know what they were and so
the graves have been left unmarked and forgotten for many years.  The
university is now investigating this legend.  Some historians and
archeologists are carefully digging up the area were slaves are believed
to be burried seeking the graves and any historical knowledge that can
be gained from them.  I have walked by the dig site a few times and they
now have several graves dug fairly deep.  naturally it is a slow process
as they have no idea how deep the bodies were burried or how moch ground
has eroaded from atop them.  

Jim
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 17:06:20 EDT

In article <PBsNr*gr6@deepthot.cary.nc.us>
jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us (Jay Denebeim) writes:
 
>In article <16875F9F1.MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU>, maurice writes:
>
>> Anybody famous ever shoot off a rocket?
>
>Werner Von Braun?
 
Which James Bond movie was he in?
 
ObUL:  Somewhere in the midwest, there is a college library that
is not sinking.  The architects successfully calculated the weight
of the books.
 
maurice
                                                 Maurice Forrester
                                                 mjforres@suvm.syr.edu
From: lafollet@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Paul Lafollette)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: nail in Coca-Cola
Date: 12 Oct 92 22:09:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Temple University
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joe grosch (joeg@gagme.chi.il.us) wrote:
: Mark Monninger (markm@bigfoot.sps.mot.com) wrote:
: : In article <Bvq0oA.8En@well.sf.ca.us> rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao)  
: : writes:
: : > 
: : > I have heard a UL in several places that someone left a nail in some
: : > Coke overnight and it disintegrated, since the Coke is so acidic (or
: : > whatever). Does anyone know the source of this UL? (Unless, of course,
: : > it's true.)
: : > -- 
: : Well, I've heard it will remove rust. Also heard that it will remove the  
: : paint from your car if you spill some on it (the car, that is).
: : 
: Yes, I've used Coke to lossen rusted on bolts when I'm working on a 
: car. Works wonders on rusted lug nuts and exhaust bolts. Makes me wonder 
: why anyone would drink the stuff.

Next time you are in a restaurant with Heinz 57 sauce sitting on the table,
(which might not be for a long time depending on what restaurnats you eat in)
put a penny in the ash tray and cover it with 57 sauce.  After a few minutes,
you can take out the shiniest, brightest penny you ever saw.

Hope this is not an FNP (frequently noted phenomenon)
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