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From: scott@natinst.com (Scott A. Taylor)
Subject: Re: Kimberly Dunning, or "Whatcha talking about?"
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Summary: I remembered her name!
Keywords:  true crime, video store, Diff'rent Strokes
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:25:24 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.220421.27918@unlv.edu> edcrwfrd@unlv.edu (Edward Crawford) writes:
>In article <1992Aug25.195848.12212@cci632.cci.com> adw@cci632.cci.com (Allen Williams (co-op)) writes:
>>
>> While at a party, cancled tv shows became a topic that was ernestly discussed.
>>Someone made the claim that the actress who played "Kimberly" in "Diff'rent
>>Strokes" was arrested for holding up a convenience store.
>>
>> What was this actresses name? What possesed her to hold up a convenience
>>store? Was she on drugs, or simply out of work after her resuidals ran
>>out? Was she convicted, and/or served time or was otherwised sentenced?
>>What was the name of the convenience store - 7-11 ? How old is she? Did
>>she have an accomplice or was this a solo effort?
>>
>I know this answer, but her name escapes me at the moment...
>Although she did not rob a convenience store, rather a video store.
>

Her name was Dana Plato.  She couldn't have been too destitute; she had
posed in Playboy not too many months before (I *assume* Hugh pays the
women who appear in his magazine; or do they do it for purely humanitarian
reasons?)

>She does have a drug problem and in fact she has been arrested
>(after the robbery) while she was in a hospital for stealing
>medicine. She was convicted (plead guilty i believe) but she
>didnt serve time i believe. The name of the video store
>was lakes video (about 3 miles from my house) in las vegas, nv.
>It was solo, in fact the clerk recognized her (regular customer)
>and didnt believe her at first....
>
>Hmm.. if you are intersted i can look this up in the newspaper
>here and double check the info (for some reason an Al Philips
>dry cleaning shop keeps popping in my mind)


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From: vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish)
Subject: Discordians! (Re: The Flat Earth Society???)
Summary: All Hail Eris!
Organization: SURAnet, College Park, MD, USA, NA, Earth, Milky Way
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:26:47 GMT

st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:

>There is also a Discordian Society (they even have their own "bible", or so
>my friend claims)

Of course, it's hard to get Discordians to agree on just which book is
that "bible".

>Incidentally, the only reference to the Discordian Society that I know of is 
>in the card game "Illuminati". Is there any other?

You should read the _Illuminatus!_ trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and
someone else. Great stuff (I read it at least once a year). It's non-
sequential and most people find it somewhat "confusing" but well worth
the effort.

Nick "Yeah, and I went to a great Spinal Tap concert when I was in high
      school." Vargish

p.s. The book is real. Make up your own mind about Discordians.

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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Cellular Frequencies
Date: 25 Aug 92 18:29:13 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA

sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>In article <rdippold.714754071@cancun>, rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>>Occasionally it [law against monitoring cellular phone conversations]
>>gets used as a political tool, as in the case in Minnesota (?) where a
>>candidate for governor is in trouble for possessing a recording of

>Virginia.  Governor Wilder vs. Senator Robb.
>Or is there a similar case in Minn. too?

I'm pretty sure there's a more recent case than Virginia's.
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From: k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (Matt Marchese)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Bathroom Embarrassment UL
Date: 27 Aug 92 10:03:42 GMT
Organization: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH, Hamburg

In article <1992Aug27.015040.26616@bcrka451.bnr.ca> seanna@bnr.ca (Seanna Watson) writes:
>Here is an account by Walter Hooper, an American biographer of British
>author C.S. Lewis, about Hooper's visit to Lewis' house (from the book
>_G.K._Chesterton_and_C.S._Lewis:_The_Riddle_of_Joy):
>
>...Eventually, after what had been at least two hours of steady tea-
>drinking, I asked, with that embarrassment the English find comic, to be
>shown the "bathroom".  I didn't know that in most English homes the bath-
>room and the toilet are separate rooms.  "Of course you may use the bath-
>room," said Lewis, and he took me to his.  Pointing to the tub, he flung
>down a pile of towels and laid out not one but several tablets of soap.
>"Are you sure you have everything you need?" he asked before closing the
>door behind him.  I stood a long time in that bathroom gazing at the tub,
>towels, and soap, wondering what to do.  When I couldn't bear it any 
>longer I returned to the Common Room and told Lewis it wasn't a bath I
>wanted.  "Well, sir," said Lewis, bursting with laughter, "'Choose you
>this day.'  That will break you of those silly American euphemisms.  And
                                                ^^^^^^^^
I find this rather amusing in light of the English having coined the term
"Water Closet".

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From: perry@Unify.Com (Perry Clarke)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Counterfeiting (Was: You are humble and loveable)
Keywords: n
Date: 29 Aug 92 01:56:01 GMT
Organization: Unify Corporation

artn@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Ellyn Sandor) wrote:
>
>	Two points on counterfeiting
>
>	1) Are there any recent stories about counterfeiters whose work
>is so good it totally eludes detection?  If not stories regarding them
>getting caught for stupid reasons (like the one repeated recently in
>Germany, only more recently), then perhaps some government estimates
>about how much counterfeit money passes inspection?

Not really wishing to state the obvious ... if they "elude detection" how
would any (substantive) stories be reported ... oh, I forgot, this is AFU!

>
> [stuff deleted]

Apparently, the new bank notes in the UK came about as a response to the
(then) new color photocopiers.  The bank note designers saw the threat early
on and had such a machine installed in their offices so that they could test
their efforts (the machine could supposedly run off perfect copies of the
old currency).  The resulting scrip is (IMHO) a bit ugly but apparently the
combination of exactly the *wrong* shade of bluey purple (on the fivers) and
moire patterns for blocking out areas makes it almost impossible to copy it
successfully.

>		sbm
>-- 
>--
>Stephan Meyers | artn@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu
>(Art)^n Laboratories, inventors of the Stealth Negative PHSCologram
>(312) 567-3762

I have heard various rumors about "new" $20 bills but have never actually
seen one (was it here that I came across a story about someone being accused
of counterfeiting because no one had ever seen the new bills before?).  Do
they exist and, if so, in what way are they different?

ObFact: The official currency of Liberia is the US dollar.

Perry "who has *never* Xeroxed dollar bills for the vending machine" Clarke

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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Counterfeiting
Date: 30 Aug 92 05:42:56 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Aug30.004434.3887@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>I am planning a Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH meeting on this topic in the near
>future.  It will be an outgrowth of color copier technology (we'll
>probably hold it at Xerox PARC).  I also plan to invite the Secret Service,
>a company which I know which makes money recognizer machines (they have
>plates), and a few other people.
>
>Watch for it in comp.graphics or ba.seminars.  Probable date: January.

How much will it cost?  Can you pay cash?  Can you wait until after the
seminar to pay?

Ted "hoping for free samples" Frank

ObUL: A friend told me with absolute certainty that the Vatican has the
      world's largest stolen art collection, only they can't show it to
      anyone, because then they'd have to repatriate it, a la British
      Museum.  I didn't have the heart to ask her how it was that this
      was widely known if noone's seen it.  (Or how the Vatican got a
      hold of stuff plundered by the Emperor Titus, whose arch was "proof"
      that the Vatican held ancient Jewish treasures.)
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From: geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 21:45:46 GMT
Organization: Roller Coaster fanatic with no hope for a cure
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Organization: Roller Coaster fanatic with no hope for a cure
Keywords: 

00mlschmalz@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:
>Ever heard 'NIMBY'?  'Not In My Back Yard.'  It's an Urban Planning
>term for something everyone needs, but no one wants near their home.
>Landfills and sewage processing plants are examples of urban NIMBYs.

Which translates in real life into BANANA:

	Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone

Geoff

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From: artn@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Ellyn Sandor)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Death by sneezing
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:23:55 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Val Salva) writes:
>In article <fwlpb8d5@csv.warwick.ac.uk> csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~) 
>writes:
>>Well, it's called the Valsalva manoeuvre, and is sometimes used to slow the
>>heart (in SVTs etc.). 
>Does anyone know the origin of the name of this maneuver?  Was it invented 
>by a Dr. Guido Valsalva or something?

	Does anyone have a clear description of how to do this?  I have been
trying to teach it to my wife for a while, since airplane pressure changes
are sort of difficult for her, but I can't for the life of me figure out
how to describe what to do.

			Stephan Meyers
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From: dheisler@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Dave Heisler)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: classic commericals, was: Chef Boy-Ar-Dee
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:03:32 GMT
Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University


 how 'bout the norelco one with santa riding a shaver
 up and down the hills.

 i new i wasn't REALLY christmas until i saw that commerical
From: creeper@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Wolfgang Kies)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Political ULs
Date: 27 Aug 92 22:17:57 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <1992Aug24.193232.664@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.201612.11825@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>
>>>Has anyone on the net actually _seen_ Dan Quayle with their own eyes?
>
	I have. He came to my High-school sometime after the gulf war.     


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From: neath@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Ian Neath)
Subject: Jeffrey Dahmer's Parents Sued
Summary: for not raising him properly
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:57:13 GMT

I read in the paper that Jeffrey Dahmer's parents are being
sued in civil court for not raising their child correctly.
Apparently it is the parents of Dahmer's first victim
(hors d'oeuvre?) that are suing.  Any confirmation?

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neath@psych.purdue.edu | cretins, fools, morons and lunatics - U. Eco
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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Cellular Frequencies
Keywords: n
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:41:48 GMT


perry@Unify.Com (Perry Clarke) writes:
>Isn't it also true that each "side" of the conversation is broadcast on a
>different frequency?  So to be a "master" criminal you would need *two*
>"Radio Shack portable TV"s!

Yes, the forward link (cell to mobile) and the reverse link (mobile to
cell) are at diffrent frequencies.  For instance, for Channel 1 it's
825.03 MHz for reverse and 870.03 MHz for forward.


>to listen in?".  A demonstration was given which showed that the combination
>of one frequency for each direction and the fact that both frequencies
>change completely (and unpredictably) when the phone (assumed to be in a
>car) moves from one "cell" to another made it very difficult to get a
>complete conversation.  A device the size of a suitcase with an impressive

That's handoff.  And yes, if your "listener" doesn't interpret the
handoff requests and hand you off with the conversation, to you it
would just disappear.  (Sometimes even to the people talking on the
phones, it just disappears!  Or they find themselves talking to
someone else or other wierdnesses.)  This, I assume, is why people
find cordless phones more interesting to listen to.


>array of knobs and dials was shown which was alleged to be a unit used by
>the police to implement wire taps of cellular phones.

Probably a modified tester such as those made by Marconi, HP, etc.


>Is it illegal to listen to one's neighbor's cordless phone?

Not in the US, under federal law.  It may be a law in your state under
state law.


>BTW, in the UK some *police* bands are in the middle of the standard *FM* 
>radio spectrum (i.e. between 87 and 108MHz).  It's illegal to listen to those
>too :-)

Geez.


BTW, the next generation of digital cellular phones (CDMA types at
least) address this issue and put the protection where it should be -
actually protecting the link instead of "legally protecting" the link.
In addition to the difficulty of decoding _anything_ of the spread
spectrum signal without the CDMA ASICs, each conversation can be
scrambled with a huge privacy code (far greater than 32 bits) which is
never transmitted over the air, and isn't deterministic (it's unique
for each mobile).  You have to get every one of the bits right before
you hear any conversation, and it's not anything simple like XORing
the data with the code, the code actually affects the frequency
spreading at its lowest level.  Now maybe the NSA could eventually
figure out how to defeat it, but it'd be easier for them to just talk
to the phone company.  At the very least it should put the kibosh on
casual listeners for quite a while when the privacy code isn't used,
and everybody but the most well-equipped agencies when it is used.
-- 
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clean in word and deed. / Don't solicit for your sister, that's not nice,
Unless you get a good percentage of her price... -- Tom Lehrer
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From: dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley)
Subject: Re: Bathroom Embarrassment UL
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:05:41 GMT

In article <804@dsbc.icl.co.uk> abw@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Andy Wardley) writes:
>
>I heard this story so it MUST be true.  Infact, two different FOAFs
>told me about it  - only problem was that they described different
>people, different places and different times.  Oh well, give it a 'U'.
>
>This couple had been seeing each other for a while and he wanted her
>to meet his parents, so they arranged to go round to his parents' place
>one evening.  He came from a very well off family and had a huge house 
>and she was quite nervous about not betraying her more humble background.
>
>All seemed to be going well and eventually the time came for them to 
>leave.  Wanting to answer the call of nature before the long car journey 
>home, she asked his mother for directions to the bathroom.  His mother,
>taking her quite literally, directed her to a bathroom which she was
>horrified to find did not contain a toilet (in the UK a bathroom implies
>a bath, not necessarily a toilet).
>
>Not wishing to appear foolish by leaving and asking for directions
>to a toilet, she decided to relieve herself in the sink, and then just
>pretend on leaving that she had been fixing her make-up or something.
>
>So she hoiked herself up onto the sink which promptly came away from the
>wall, propelling her onto the bath upon which she hit her head and knocked
>herself out.  Upon hearing the commotion, the family ran upstairs and 
>eventually had to knock the door down to find her flat on the floor in 
>a state of various undress with a sink no longer attached to the wall.
>
>She never saw the boyfriend again.
>
>
>Andy "At least run the water" Wardley

I recently heard this very story from a FOAF who insisted that it had
actually happened to a FOAF of hers.  Only in this case, the story took
place in Toronto in one of the big old mansions in the Forest Hills area.
The story was identical, however.

Now, to be a proper UL, it should have a moral.  I am not sure, but I
think that the moral is something like "it's never rude to ask where the
washroom is", but it could be "if you date out of your class you will be
found out and humiliated".

Kevin
From: de@moscom.UUCP (David Esan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: North Pole (was: The Flat Earth Society???)
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:38:39 GMT
Reply-To: de@moscom.UUCP (David Esan)
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY

In article <Btv8EE.E6s@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>In article <1992Aug30.053237.18509@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
>>ObUL: Peary led the first party of men to reach the North Pole.
>And UL it is indeed. The leader of the first party to reach the Pole,
>and be able to prove it, was the same Roald Amundsen who first reached
>the South Pole fourteen years earlier.  Cook and Peary and Byrd claimed
>to have been there, but serious study shows them all as mountebanks and
>liars.
>Amundsen did it in an Italian dirigible, and it's entertaining to compare
>his story with that of Nobile, the Italian pilot.

Well, there has been some controversy about Peary.  The National Geographic
had a long article about Peary and his claims, and concluded that even
though there are some inconsistancies to his notes, he did make it to the
Pole (along with Matthew Henson and two natives of Greenland).

Amundsen did not reach the North Pole.  He flew over it.

The USS Nautilus reached the North Pole, but to the best of my recollection
no one got off the ship, so they two failed to actually stand at the Pole.

The first explorer then to reach the North Pole, and stand there, and
have no controversy about his position, were the group of explorers who
recently took snowmobiles to the Pole (about 5-7 years ago).  This is also
documented in the National Geographic.





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From: de@moscom.UUCP (David Esan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Keywords: situations, normality, coitus, direction
Date: 26 Aug 92 14:50:44 GMT
Reply-To: de@moscom.UUCP (David Esan)
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY

In article <1992Aug25.203750.11874@natinst.com> scott@natinst.com (Scott A. Taylor) writes:
>In article <1992Aug25.181531.25673@sunova.ssc.gov> Chuck Adams <chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov> writes:
>Don't forget to put scuba on your list (self-contained underwater breathing
>aparatus).  Or are you only looking for ones involving disastrous situations
>and four-letter words?

LASER - Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation
MASER - Microwave Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation

POSH?

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From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: You are humble and loveable.  CHOMP!
Summary: It's trivially easy to silver pennies if you have access to a photo lab
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 02:39:36 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.235335.29860@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes...
>By the same token, no one would silver a penny to make it look like a dime.

As I mentioned before all you need is spent fixer (not developer as I posted
earlier) and clean pennies, and voila! silver pennies.  It's not worth using
this to counterfeit dimes since pennies don't look enough like dimes.

-Mike
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.cascade
From: galt%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Greg Alt)
Subject: Re: apples to teachers - idea why
Date: 25 Aug 92 11:43:10 MDT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban,alt.cascade
Reply-To: galt%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu
Organization: University of Utah, CS Dept., Salt Lake City

Ted Frank writes:
>Anthony Datri writes:
>>Cacey Kade write:
>>>"What? Over? Did you say it's over? Nothing's over, till we decide it is! 
>>> Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!" --John Belushi
>>Bill Murray.
>Winston Churchill.
Norman Bates.


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From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
Subject: Re: You are humble and loveable. CHOMP!
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:37:35 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.


>The US printed STEEL change during 1943 but the public opinion of it was
>so negative that they returned to copper and silver.

Only 1943 US pennies were steel. No other US coins were (or are) steel.
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