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From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: College Pranks (Was Re: Vacation Time!)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:29:13 GMT

In article <1992Aug5.230541.23375@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
> jthompso@reed.edu (jonathan) writes:
> : there was a case here (reed college) where some people on the ground floor of
> : a dorm were complaining about a continually leaking ceiling. upon investiga-
> : tion it was discovered that the people on the second floor had put a piece
> : of plywood with rubber seals across the doorway of a communal shower and 
> : were using it as a swimming pool, but somehow it was leaking down through
> : the walls or something.

> Do you honestly believe that the structure of the building would stand up
> to that deep a pool of water?  I can believe a wading pool - if it was 1
> foot deep, the weight would be 62+ pounds for every square foot of area.
> In other words, if the shower was 10 ft by 20 feet, then there would be
> over 6 tons of force that would have to be supported by the floor joists.
> And, this is with water only 1 foot deep. 

Reminds me of an UL I heard once.  I mentioned this before quite a while ago.
Some renters of a house were really peeved at their landlord for some reason.
One of the last things they did after moving their belongings out was
set up an above-ground swimming pool in the attic of the house, run a garden
hose up to it, turn on the water and skipped town.  Several hours later the
weight of the water caused the house to collapse.

Supposedly happened in the student ghetto in Buffalo, your mileage may
vary.

-Mike
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: Cannibaderm, anyone?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:17:42 GMT

In article <Bt714o.6xE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes...
>Cute, but definitely a UL.  Marijuana has to be heated to activate the
>psychoactive components, and they are not particularly stable at room
>temperature (or higher).  So it isn't very feasible.  Also, the 
>cannabinols and cannabidiols aren't water soluble - how would you
>get them absorbed into the skin?

DMSO is widely used in medicine to transport various stuff through the skin.
Water would be a poor choice since the skin is quite waterproof.

-Mike
From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:35:53 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <16842C9A0.MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU>, MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice) writes:
> In article <BsvJvw.818@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
> jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (doc) writes:

>>You can take all the cheap shots and flames at me you want

> May I suggest another afu motto?

Sorry.  It's already taken as the motto of soc.women.

Terry "Oops!  Did *I* post that?" Wood
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From: tlouie@athena.mit.edu (Tom Louie)
Subject: Re: Japanese snuff! sort-of...
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:20:26 GMT

In article <25589@dog.ee.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov writes:
>We Americans have little room to talk, although our mainstream
>movies don't usually dwell on the graphic details of the hacking
>or whatever, and there's usually a puritanical message -- "sexuality,
>especially female, must be punished" -- that I assume isn't in
>the Japanese films and manga to which you refer.
>
>I wish I could remember who wrote the analysis of the "slasher"
>genre that I read once.  The essay showed that, for all their
>inventiveness with pig guts and makeup, these movies are as
>formulaic as Kabuki and that the formula reflects aspects of
>our cultural heritage we needn't be too proud of.

Yes, I agree.  I'll try to dig out the essays I've read about how horror
movies can be broken down and analyzed.  Where as beer commercials seem
to say, "Drink beer, get laid", most horror movies seem to say "Females
flirt, get killed".

Tom "splat" Louie
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth)
Subject: Re: Man Shot In Head Survives!
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 03:44:16 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Keywords: headache

In article <ww4nby82@csv.warwick.ac.uk> csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~) writes:
>
>Damn, of course! How could I possibly have forgotten that? Of course, if
>you lose a large chunk of BOTH hemispheres...
>

You run for Office?

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:21:59 GMT

In article <Bsu53D.7zD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (doc) writes:
>The names of the films are Faces of Death, I thru IV.  I cant answer your
>second question; check your local stores.  Im puzzled by your third...why
>would I want to do that?  The films are completely legal.

I've not seen any of the FOD movies but I have heard many allegations that
some (not all) of the footage in them was faked.  Certainly they are not
snuff films in the truest sense of the word.  A true snuff film would
consist of a death (or several deaths) specifically staged for the camera.
The people who made FOD did not stage any of the deaths (none of the real
ones anyway.  At least not my knowledge), they merely compiled and edited
the footage.

As long as we're on the subject of snuff film wannabes, anyone seen the
Amok Assault Video?  (or however the title of that goes.)  Lots of found
footage from various TV and movies including one on-camera suicide from a
news program (probably the footage was never aired.)  Never seen this one
for rent anywhere and am not sure where it can be bought but a friend of
mine has it.

	-- Stewart "yes, he *did* obtain it from another friend but
				it's not what you think" Tame

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University, but also those of Dan Quayle, Richard Nixon, Frank Zappa,
Pee Wee Herman, Bart Simpson, Tipper Gore, Murphy Brown, Maggie Thatcher,
and the Easter Bunny.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan)
Subject: Re: College Pranks (Was Re: Vacation Time!)
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organization
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 18:36:45 GMT

In article <_2-y2jd@rpi.edu> kasprj@rpi.edu writes:
>In article <1992Aug4.125345.8023@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>
>> Think of a male shower unit in a mixed dormitory. A door---and a door strong
>> enough to withstand a concerted attack by hordes of women---seems a necessity.
> 
> Shit! I went to the wrong college. I lived in a mixed dorm for a year and 
>we didn't get a single concerted attack by hordes of women on our shower. 
>And we even left the door open to make it easier for them.

I lived in a mixed dorm, too, and as far as I can remember even the slightest
suggestion that we women might accidentally enter a men's bathroom or shower
room was greeted with expressions of extreme nausea.  Something about men's
total inability to hit the urinal/toilet or wait until they left the shower
to even aim.


Carrie		ceb@rechenau.unify.com	x6244	     ---------------------+
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Re: zest (re: pure soap)
Summary: Snopes, snopes, the wonderful fruit
	 The more you eat, the more you Kibo
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 10:54:44 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.181445.23586@sunova.ssc.gov>,  Chuck Adams <chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov> writes:
> 
> Are you saying that some soaps are not detergents, but that no detergents are
> soaps?

No, he was saying that some snopes are not detergents and no detergents
are snopes.
-- 
Stephanie da Silva                        Taronga Park * Houston, Texas
arielle@taronga.com                           568-0480   568-1032   
  "We are the beaters that scramble your eggmen.  We are..." 
                    "Really dumb." -- The Darkwing Squad and Steelbeak
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: Political ULs
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:49:33 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.044233.22063@news.columbia.edu> egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.042127.15123@PA.dec.com> snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
>>
>>In article <1992Aug15.135353.23142@midway.uchicago.edu>, 
>>  thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes...

>>>I have a friend who used to be on Dan Quayle's staff

>> What happened?  Did he finally get his GED?

>If he did, he was probably fired for being a better speller than
>his boss.  We can't have subordinates who are better, right?  That's
>why Bush choose Quayle.


...and that's why me read your post.



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From: cascio@garnet.berkeley.edu (Janice E. Cripe=)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.sex
Subject: Re: Semen, NOT sailors!
Date: 20 Aug 1992 14:56:43 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu
Keywords: A quart?!

In article <1992Aug19.192006.23601@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>In article <y1fy!c=@rpi.edu> kasprj@rpi.edu writes:
>>In article <1992Aug19.015423.19963@udel.edu>, bower@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Tyson Bower) writes:
>>|> I heard a similar story.  From what I heard, she was performing
>Someone got a book full of medical statistics?  I'm sure
>some obsessed person must have recorded a number for the "average semen
>volume" generated per orgasm.

Well, I don't have a book, but it's supposed to be about 10cc,
or one "loving spoonful".

Now do the songs make sense?

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- Janice Cripe

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From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Driving tests
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:17:34 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee Oil and Lube Center

In article <BsxuH6.MKA@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley) writes:
>In article <mcirvin.713733658@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:
>>
[Details of Mcirvin's driving test in Virginia removed]
>
>That sounds nearly identical to the Tennessee test that I had to take.
>The funny thing was that I had just recently taken a test in downtown
>Toronto which involved making a left turn crossing a six lane major 
>intersection (no light) then a series of rapid lane changes (I would
>like to point out that it was both rush hour and raining) then another
>left turn onto a back street where I was asked to parallel park, but
>the instructor cleverly asked me to park 'just over there' which
>happened to be across railroad tracks.  Then around the block and back
>to the parking lot.  Then she sat there in silence for a minute while
>I panicked thinking that I had flunked for sure until finally she 
>sighed and said that I had just barely passed (she seemed so disappointed).
>I saw 2 separate accidents both within 10 yards of my car during the
>test.
>
>So, of course this wasn't GOOD enough to be able to drive in Tennessee
>and they made me take their test just to make sure...  people in Canada
>don't even have paved roads do they?

Heck, all we have are dirt roads in the Cumberland Mtns anyway.  And
what the Hell do we need to know about parallel parking hereabouts. Most
of the time we don't need to parallel park because there's lots of
empty space, and Geez, our cars down here are so beat up, it don't
matter none if someone bumps into us.  Whaddaya think we drive down
here, Jags, and Feraris?  Get real!!!!  What did you drive? A Volvo?
I betchya I'd have no trouble running you off the road in my Monster 
Truck!!!!

Bah!

						M
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From: connolly@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.lang
Subject: Re: "Yes Virginia!" What does it mean?
Date: 15 Aug 92 23:51:27 -0600
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Memphis State University

In article <1992Aug14.010844.14366@pony.Ingres.COM>, bobm@Ingres.COM (Bob McQueer) writes:
>> >I ran into the expression "Yes Virginia!" in several places and couldn't
>> >find any explanation in dictionraies (either standard or Slang/Americansims
>> >ones). I guess it's from an American movie.
>  
>  
>> I don't normally get into these debates, but isn't this one from an
>> extremely sappy song in the '70s (or earlier), where some guy is
>> telling his daughter Virginia about Santa Clause the famous Christmas
>> tree[1], and says Yes, Virginia, there really *is* a Santa Clause.
> 
> Actually, it comes from a famous editorial in response to a little girl
> writing a letter to an editor asking if Santa Claus existed or not because
> she'd been told he didn't.  The sappy (or heartwarming if you prefer)
> editorial preceded the sappy song by decades.

The New York World, in the 1890's.  Virginia had an Irish last name
(O'Halloran, I think) and lived in the 100 block of West 95th Street
in Manhattan, on the North side of the street (odd numbers).  I have
the strange distinction of having lived at 150 West 95th, so I could
see her now empty brownstone from my window.

The editorial is still reprinted annually in our local newspaper, the
Memphis Commercial-Appeal, and presumably in many others.

By the way, the editorial is dreadful.

--Leo Connolly
From: peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Right-Left
Date: 13 Aug 92 07:09:18 GMT
Organization: Public News & Mailserver, Commodore Germany PM UNIX, Frankfurt

msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:

>> BTW, is left on red legal [in England]?  what about the one-way laws (right
>> on red when going from a one way to a one way)?

>Nope.  The idea that it's legal to proceed against a red light just
>because you're turning in a certain direction is, as far as I know,
>confined to (most of) the US and (parts of) Canada.  

Not really. In the former DDR (east Germany) they had this rule. But not
for any traffic light, only those that are marked with a green arrow sign.
Now after reunification, the easterners want to keep this rule which
they like, but it's forbidden after the (now also there valid) western
german right. Until now they have a temporary special regulation that
these green arrows are allowed for some time still, but it's still
uncertain what will become of that.

Funny that in this regard the communist DDR had something in common
with only the USA!

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
Subject: Re: Cannibaderm, anyone?
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:11:36 GMT

In article <Bt714o.6xE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
>amconn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
>>A friend of mine recently returned from Chicago said that she heard that some
>>enterprising pharmacology students at a midwestern university had made,
>>entirely for recreational purposes, transdermal slow-release patches for
>>marijuana (a la Nicoderm). Has anyone else heard about this? Sounds like a UL.
>*----
>Cute, but definitely a UL.  Marijuana has to be heated to activate the
>psychoactive components, and they are not particularly stable at room
>temperature (or higher).  So it isn't very feasible.  Also, the
>cannabinols and cannabidiols aren't water soluble - how would you
>get them absorbed into the skin?

Don't know about the maryjane, but the whole point of the cannabes(tm) is that
they are fat solubel. Water soluble compounds don't pass through the skin,
whereas fat soluble ones do (like nerve gases etc.) Of course, not all fat
soluble compounds pass through skin - it's more complicated than that - but as
a rule of thumb (no, not another UL!!!) it's pretty reliable...

Later,

The Wisp. [pass me the gasoline...]
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: perry@Unify.Com (Perry Clarke)
Subject: Re: Imponderables - Toilet Designs
Keywords: n
Organization: Unify Corporation
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 01:56:07 GMT

dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright) wrote:
>[tons o' stuff deleted]
>
>  -- Why are flush-handles on toilets on the left side?
>
>Used to be you would pull the chain with your right hand while seated.

This is not particularly standard.  My loo in England has the flush handle
on the right hand side.  Toilets in France (and other parts of Europe)
generally have a large push button in the middle of the cistern lid.  On my
various travels about the world I have always been amazed at the consistency
of design within a country which is at complete odds with the variations
when countries are compared.  What I mean to say is, each country has its
own "style" of toilet.  For example, American devices generally have a large
surface area of water while English ones are deeper and have a smaller
area.

I don't suppose there are any toilet design consultants on the net who
could shed some light on this?

>[more deleted]

Perry "I must have better things to do than post queries about toilets" Clarke
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER)
Subject: Re: Microwaved cat explodes
Reply-To: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:24:59 GMT

slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com (Mark Slagle) writes
>And don't forget the fun you can have
>tipping over cows.  The bigger they are...

I don't know if this was mentioned in this group or not, but here goes:
There is a new (1-2 year old) invention for recovering tipped cows.

It seems that once a cow is tipped, it is very difficult to get it back on
its feet, and even when it is righted, it loses all confidence in its ability
to srtand up. It just lays there and starves.

This new invention is a variable hoist. You put it around the cow, tighten
he straps, and raise the cow by tightening a couple screws. It then acts
as a walker for the cow, untill the cow regains its self confidence.

Amazing what people will come up with...
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.electronics
From: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER)
Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
Reply-To: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:58:31 GMT

I have read somwhere that there is a maximum distance that it is possible
to walk on hot coals before all the moister between them and your feet 
vaporizes. I think it was 3 steps weith each foot.
From: mort@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jeff Mortensen)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 03:47:38 GMT
Subject: Re: clothes dryer left on
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

In alt.folklore.urban, fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis) writes:

> 
>      [story of clothes dryer running and running and running...
>               deleted]
> >
> Heard it? I've lived it. In various forms: refrigerator not closing all
> the way and returning from vacation to find Steve McQueen and a 
> bunch of high school kids fighting the Inevitible Outcome; the dryer getting 
> stuck on (not as long as in the story above, but enough to scorch the 
> clothes); and the little ball in the toilet not fitting down
> snugly after a last pit-stop before hitting the road for a 2 week vacation.
> 
	Wow, and I thought I had bad luck when I munched a cat with my fan
	blade when it was sleeping in my engine compartment.  What a mess!!
	You on the other hand have had it pretty bad...........Jeeezzzzzzz!

sorry...
Morty

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From: alpert@cs.bu.edu (Richard Alpert)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,nyc.general
Subject: Re: Whither Manhattan? (was Re: Cannibaderm, anyone?)
Date: 19 Aug 92 23:38:35 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <1992Aug19.183216.10375@engage.pko.dec.com>
					moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes: 

>Gee, did NY and NJ have a war that NY lost or something?  Every map I've
>seen showed Liberty Island as being part of NY (State, at least), despite
>being on the NJ side of a line drawn down the middle of the river.
>An exception of some sort, based on some ancient treaty or war or something.
>Probably the same reason Staten Island is part of NY despite being closer
>to NJ.

My version of history includes an anecdote about two early governors (?) who
had a rowboat race around Staten Island, with the Island going to the winner.
New York won, much to the disappointment of then and contemporary Staten
Islanders.

 - Richard Alpert