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From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The hell with Lemurs,
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:19:38 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>: >Shot Old Yeller? Me thinks your memory is worse than mine. 
>: 
>: Not only did they have to shoot a cool dog, they had to shoot him shortly
>: after he saved them from a rabid wolf.
>: 
>: That kind of thing is guaranteed to ruin your day.
>
>Hm, are you talking about the movie "Old Yeller"? I do not recall any
>such thing occurring. Of course, it has been about 35 years since I
>saw the movie - it may have been re-released with a different ending.

I can't recall the movie's ending (although it was a Disney flick, so they
may well have sanitized it by removing the nasty bits) but the book ended with
Travis shooting Yeller in the corncrib because the dog had "hydrophobia" (aka
rabies) from his contact with the "big old loafer Wolf."  However, the stranger
from earlier in the book (who gave Yeller to the family in exchange for dinner)
came back and gave them a new puppy to fill the void.

For any non-'Merkins out there:  we're referring to a movie/book called _Old
Yeller_, which was about an American frontier family and some adventures with
"an old Yeller dog" ("Yeller" being both his color (yellow) and his 
disposition) given to them by a passing herdsman.  It's practically required
reading in some grade schools (6-12 years old) around the country, or was 
when I was that age...

Right now, though, I'm wondering **why** I remember all these details...

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From: dbsjwb@Edm.Arco.COM (James Bielak)
Subject: Re: The hell with Lemurs,
Originator: dbsjwb@doofus
Reply-To: bielak@arco.com
Organization: ARCO Exploration and Production Technology
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:26:12 GMT


In article <1992Nov13.185221.19455@igor.tamri.com>, donb@igor.tamri.com (Don
Baldwin) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov13.024736.6838@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
|> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com
|> (bill nelson) writes:
|> >: Oh, great.  Next you're going to tell me that Old Yeller wasn't really
|> >: sick, and they shot him just for the movie.
|> >
|> >Shot Old Yeller? Me thinks your memory is worse than mine. 
|> 
|> Not only did they have to shoot a cool dog, they had to shoot him shortly
|> after he saved them from a rabid wolf.
|> 
|> That kind of thing is guaranteed to ruin your day.
|> 
|>    don
|> 
|> 
|> 

The execution was delayed because they ran out of film and had to get
more. The dog playing the role of Old Yellow had the name "Snuffles".

jw "believe it or get outta here" b
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From: franklir@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Ryan J Franklin )
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs
Subject: Re: Urban Lemurs
Date: 15 Nov 92 23:46:23 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1e68sqINNk30@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa595@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dan Duvall) writes:
>mkohlhaa@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (mike) writes:
>
>>On the off chance that I should see a lemur here in Indiana, how should the
>>lemur be approached?  If I offer him food and beer will he be friendly?
>
>Do not taunt the lemur. Offer it beer at your own risk, for you could
>well be arrested for Contributing to the Delinquency of a Lemur.

On the other hand, *DO* offer it a Twinkie, for as you are certainly
well aware, lemurs prize the Twinkie over all other foodstuffs.  Be sure
to offer the lemur a toothbrush and toothpaste afterwards, though, so
that the high sugar content of those ConfectionsWithIndefiniteShelflife
doesn't rot his dental comb.  
 
You may want to introduce the lemur to the USENET, especially this newsgroup,
alt.licker.store, alt.mcdonalds.smut, and alt.butt-keg.marmalade, which
all discuss our Prosimian Pals constantly.

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From: vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (Vance Kochenderfer)
Subject: lemurs!
Followup-To: alt.fan.lemurs,alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 23:28:00 GMT

<article crossposted from alt.folklore.urban>

From: C521832@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
Subject: Re: lemurs!
Date: 22 Nov 92 20:33:37 GMT

Lemurs! I used to be a volunteer at the zoo in Memphis. They had an
island there (well, a small hillock surrounded by water) on which
a number of monkeys were kept--hence, Monkey Island.
 
The monkeys had a tendency to escape, however; at one point numerous
ones did so and fled the zoo. Most were caught climbing up the side
of a tall apartment complex across the street.
 
After this, the zoo replaced the monkeys with Lemurs, who were
much less inclined to escape.
 
As a volunteer, I and my co-workers spent many lunch breaks watching
the lemurs running about the little island in their trademark
loping gait.
 
We coined a simple verb to describe their action : "leeming", or
"to leem," which is to run about like a lemur.
 
FYI.
 
Rev "they leem better when you give them alka-seltzer" John


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From: aa595@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dan Duvall)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,rec.pets
Subject: Re: .  lemurs as domestic pets?
Date: 15 Nov 1992 19:38:51 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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ann@plx.com (Ann Lindstrom) writes:

> they are not housetrainable, and defecate whenever startled.
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well, yeah, but so do I.

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,alt.folklore.urban
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Subject: Re: The hell with Lemurs,
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:40:42 GMT

In article <BxozKK.AAM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu
(Kiran Wagle) writes:
>donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes about "Old Yeller":
>
>>Not only did they have to shoot a cool dog, they had to shoot him
>>shortly after he saved them from a rabid wolf.
>
>Oh great.  More wolf-bashing.  
>Wolves are cool, they don't deserve this kind of thing.

Hey, I like wolves too.  However, rabid animals need to be shot because
they're sure to die anyway and will give you the disease too, given half
a chance.

Hmm, anyone seen Pat Buchanan lately? :) :)

   don
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From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: Re: lemurs as domestic pets?
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 04:04:37 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.170325.5348@ncmicro.lonestar.org> ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin) writes:
>jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr) writes:
>}aa595@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dan Duvall) writes:
>}>
>}>Anyone know if it's legal to keep a lemur as a pet?
>}>
>}I suspect that 1) they'd be very expensive, and 2) sufficiently exotic
>}that you'd be better off leaving them in the wild.  Most vets wouldn't
>}know much about what to do with a sick lemur, and you can't buy books
>}titled "know your lemur."
>
>I beg your pardon!  I myself recently acquired the book "Know Your Lemur" at
>our local booksellers.  It's quite excellent.
>
>Of course, it wasn't quite what I was expecting...it wasn't until I got
>it home and removed the wrappings that I found out it was a Sex manual,
>but I was still quite pleased.

Lance, did you know that you can sum up Lemur sexuality in one simple
sentence by simply noting that "Lemurs rate sexuality as a function of eye
size; the larger the eye, the sexier the lemur."  This means that Lemurs
find photographers from wildlife magazines irresistable due to the large
camera lenses which the Lemurs mistake for very appealing eyes.  It also
means that the back ten rows of any Anime convention are usually packed
with Lemurs staring raptly at the large eyes of the animated characters
onscreen.
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From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,alt.folklore.urban
Organization: gators 'r us
Subject: Re: The hell with Lemurs,
	<1992Nov13.203158.17231@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
	<1992Nov16.111939.17497@husc3.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep  5 1992
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 11:11:38 -0400

In <1992Nov16.111939.17497@husc3.harvard.edu>, Richard Joltes writes:
>billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:

>I can't recall the movie's ending (although it was a Disney flick, so they
>may well have sanitized it by removing the nasty bits) but the book ended with
>Travis shooting Yeller in the corncrib because the dog had "hydrophobia" (aka
>rabies) from his contact with the "big old loafer Wolf."  However, the stranger
>from earlier in the book (who gave Yeller to the family in exchange for dinner)
>came back and gave them a new puppy to fill the void.

the book ended with travis shooting an apparently healthy yeller, beacuse 
yeller had been mauled by a rabid wolf and was sure to get rabies himself. 
travis begged his mom to wait and see, and was told something like"don't be
gross, we don't want to see poor yeller get rabid".  so travis shot him anyway
(sob).

the movie ended with mom and travis deciding to wait and see, yeller going 
all nasty and almost killing travis' rotten kid brother arliss, who didn't
understand why yeller was locked up and tried to release him, and *then* 
travis shooting yeller.  rather than sanitising the book, disney added 
scenes of yeller being a nasty rabid would-be killer.

the new puppy wasn't from yeller's former owner(in the book anyway, i forget
how the movie went.)  in the book he was given to travis by a neighbor girl, 
from a litter her bluetick had had which was sired by yeller.  the pup
in the movie looked something like old yeller and was called "young yeller".
in the book he was a liver and white spotted houndy looking dog named 
"savage sam", the eponymous hero of the sequel, in which travis, arliss,
and the neighbor girl were kinapped by indians and saved by sam.


i recently reread the books, since i got a bluetick myself less than two years
ago, and remembered a bluetick in the book.  i've never seen the whole movie,
but sometime in the last decade i saw the ending on tv while flipping channels.
-- 
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-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
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From: dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes)
Subject: Re: The hell with Lemurs,
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Will pay money for food.
Date: 16 Nov 1992 13:41 EST  

In article <1992Nov16.111939.17497@husc3.harvard.edu>, 
  joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes) writes...

>I can't recall the movie's ending (although it was a Disney flick, so they
>may well have sanitized it by removing the nasty bits) but the book ended with
>Travis shooting Yeller in the corncrib because the dog had "hydrophobia" (aka
>rabies) from his contact with the "big old loafer Wolf."  However, the stranger
>from earlier in the book (who gave Yeller to the family in exchange for dinner)
>came back and gave them a new puppy to fill the void.

No, that's the way it has always ended.  Except the owner doesn't come back
to give them a new puppy -- Old Yeller had impregnated a neighbor's dog before
dying, and they end up with a whole litter of new yellers.

 - snopes

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From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The hell with Lemurs,
Date: 20 Nov 92 19:36:28 GMT
Followup-To: alt.fan.lemurs
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <BxozKK.AAM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>
>Oh great.  More wolf-bashing.  
>Wolves are cool, they don't deserve this kind of thing.

Wolves *are* cool, and rate much higher than dogs on all sorts of
problem-solving tasks... but rabid carnivores of any stripe are not
good things to have around the house.  I like wolves, but if my
dog saved me from a rabid one I'd be pleased.  (Not bloody likely,
as my family's dog is a Golden Retriever who would have trouble
repelling the attack of a rabid mole, but still.)

				--Diamond

diamond@acpub.duke.edu |   The soul may choose its own society and shut
Elizabeth S. Abrams    |   the door, but the body gets thrown into bed
		       |   with the damnedest people.  --Peter Beagle
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From: mute@ramanujan.WPI.EDU (The Amazing Immolating Man)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The hell with Lemurs,
Date: 20 Nov 1992 00:26:59 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <1992Nov18.195649.22269@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>
>Hm, you saw a different version than I saw back in the 50s. In it, Yeller
>did not have rabies - just a chicken bone stuck in its mouth. Thus, the dog
>was not killed in the movie.  I wonder how many versions were issued, and
>when?

Hm. Around 84, I saw the "updated" version- it was colorized (and they
made Ol' Yeller light brown. Idiots.). In it, Ol' Yeller gained
Satanic powers through the worship of rabid bats and destroyed an
entire town in several especially gory ways. Finally, he was defeated
when they pulled the mystic Chickenbone of Hell from his throat and
removed his powers. 

Was the director the same? Also, is there a Director's Cut version out
somewhere? I heard rumors of a version with the extra lemur scenes
added back in. 

Josh

ObLemur: frink!



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From: ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The hell with Lemurs,
Date: 19 Nov 92 19:24:55 GMT
Organization: NC Microproducts, Inc.

In article <1992Nov18.195649.22269@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
}scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator) writes:
}: >billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
}: 
}: the book ended with travis shooting an apparently healthy yeller, beacuse 
}: yeller had been mauled by a rabid wolf and was sure to get rabies himself. 
}: travis begged his mom to wait and see, and was told something like"don't be
}: gross, we don't want to see poor yeller get rabid".  so travis shot him anyway
}: (sob).
}: 
}: the movie ended with mom and travis deciding to wait and see, yeller going 
}: all nasty and almost killing travis' rotten kid brother arliss, who didn't
}: understand why yeller was locked up and tried to release him, and *then* 
}: travis shooting yeller.  rather than sanitising the book, disney added 
}: scenes of yeller being a nasty rabid would-be killer.
}
}Hm, you saw a different version than I saw back in the 50s. In it, Yeller
}did not have rabies - just a chicken bone stuck in its mouth. Thus, the dog
}was not killed in the movie.  I wonder how many versions were issued, and
}when?

Ah, I see where the confusion is coming in now....folks, the original
movie was an early experiment in "interactive cinema".  The audience,
when entering, were handed one of those little metal clicker thingies,
and at certain places in the film "Ol Yeller", they could pick from
several different possible plot-lines by clicking their clicker
when prompted by the screen.  The versions of "Ol Yeller" you now
see on the small screen are actually an edited version of the original...
the portions used during the editing are largely up to the editor.

To put it in simpler terms...it was kinda like the movie "Clue", only
funnier.



Lance 

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,alt.folklore.urban
From: stevew@teleride.on.ca (Stephen M. Webb)
Subject: Re: The hell with Lemurs,
Organization: Teleride Sage Ltd.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:51:43 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.123605.9576@mr.med.ge.com> hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
>bill nelson (billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com) wrote:
>: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
>: : 
>: : Oh, great.  Next you're going to tell me that Old Yeller wasn't really
>: : sick, and they shot him just for the movie.
>: 
>: Shot Old Yeller? Me thinks your memory is worse than mine. 
>
>I thought they shot him at the end because he was hurt or sick or something....
>I don't recall, I thought it was the funniest movie ever, and laughed all
>through it.

They didn't really shoot Old Yeller.  Old Yeller had the rabies, so he was
too dangerous to shoot, so they had to shoot a stand-in instead.

Redirect follow-ups to alt.sex.bestiality.snuff


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From: aa595@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dan Duvall)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs
Subject: Re: Urban Lemurs
Date: 15 Nov 1992 19:36:58 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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mkohlhaa@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (mike) writes:

>On the off chance that I should see a lemur here in Indiana, how should the
>lemur be approached?  If I offer him food and beer will he be friendly?

Do not taunt the lemur. Offer it beer at your own risk, for you could
well be arrested for Contributing to the Delinquency of a Lemur.

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,rec.pets,misc.misc
From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: Re: lemur language, part I
Followup-To: alt.fan.lemurs
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	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 04:09:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.070339.11878@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mr. Furr) writes:
>This is a discussion between several experts in the Lemur field on the
>subject of Lemur language.
>
>G. Shapiro:  "So what kind of sounds do lemurs make?  Given their
>appearance, I would guess a kind of whimper, but my source says they go
>"Whooooooo!  Whooooooo!"  (I think she made it up)"
>
>T. McDonald:  "Seriously now, I know what sound a cow makes.  I know what
>sound a frog makes.  What sound does a lemur make?"
>
>C. Karluk:  "boink?"
>
>J. Furr:  "I've always pictured it as "cheep cheep.""
>
>J. Cook:  "The sound a lemur makes... "frink!""
>
>J. Furr:  ""frink!"?  Did you get that from an encyclopedia?"
>
>J. Cook:  "yea."
>
>R. Davis, coming in late and answering original question:  "The same sound
>any other lemur would make."
>
>C. Karluk, getting back to this "frink" thing:  "And what kind of sound,
>exactly, is "frink"???  What sound is it similar to?"
>
>T. Monaghan: "Well, "freenk", "fraenk", and "frynk" are close with
>"froenk" and "ptang" nearby."
>
>J. Cook:  "I think "frink" is kind of a high pitched squeak with a DEFINITE
>K at the end.  "ptang" is the Lemur battle cry."
>
>J. Winter: "squonk."
>
>T. McDonald:  "I wasn't aware that Lemur lips could form the "p" sound."
>
>J. Cook:  "Well, it's a real primitive sounding "p" sound."
>
>V. Kochenderfer:  "Moooooo!  Oops, wait a minute, wrong discussion."
>
>

Comments?

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From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: Macaques (Was: Re: Man-eating lemurs)
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	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 04:07:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.173512.1077@microsoft.com> siobhan@microsoft.com (Siobhan Harper) writes:
>In article <BxI69I.7vG@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>>>--Siobhan, Queen of the Macaques
>>
>>Are you acquainted with Imo, the Archimedes of the Macaques?
>
>Not personally (or would that be "simianly"?), but her exploits are
>renowned. I used to clean macaque cages; it would bother me how often
>they were able to trick me until I realized, it just meant they were
>more intelligent than I was. Once I accepted that, we got along famously.

What's a macaque?  Assuming that it's a primate, how were they able to
trick you?  I read a post once that there is no cage that a sufficiently
determined baby lemur cannot escape.  Perhaps it's a primate thing.
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Subject: Re: The hell with Lemurs,
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 01:04:25 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <14NOV92.13344523@meena.cc.uregina.ca> obrienjj@meena.cc.uregina.ca writes:
>
>  Yes indeedy - the one and only ending of "Old Yeller" has him dying of
>a gunshot wound when he contracted AIDS after sharing needles with a rabid
>wolf. Pretty sad, but then life's like that. 

Was that before or after 1959 and what, if anything, did the CIA or Whatson 
and Crick have to do with it.

Derek "Disney creates AIDS - SHOCK HORROR PROBE" Tearne


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