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From: frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz (Bruce Clement)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Aluminum cookware:  Recipe for disaster?
Distribution: world
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 19:35:44 GMT
Organization: Private System

In article <20NOV199209484306@csa3.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:
>I doubt that the Nobel committee needs to extend its deliberations this 
>year in order to accommodate that truck driver.

I'd like to nominate this as the AFU motto.

--
Bruce "Subtle's my middle name" Clement    (frey@alfheim.welly.gen.nz)
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Obscene Functions
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:40:53 GMT

In article <BxzItu.Jr3@unx.sas.com> sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>
>In article <bbub02Dc2b0g01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
>>In article <BxvtxL.FGp@unx.sas.com>, sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce
>>Tindall) writes:
>>> Say, has anyone ever met anyone famous who has remarked that the
>>> Paul Simon song from which that lyric is quoted, "American Tune", is
>>> actually a German tune?
>>
>>Which German tune?  Sounds like Tschchcschaikofvskiy's (hey, if misspelling
>>is inevitible, do it with style) "Seranade For Strings" to me.
>
>"O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" from the St. Matthew Passion by J.S.Bach,
>also known as the English-language hymn "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded."
>It's not note-for-note identical, but if I were an 18th century German
>attorney heavily into barratry, I might suggest to Bach that he sue.

Are they as close as say, My Sweet Lord and He's So Fine.

Several years before the George Harrison case, a cover version of My
Sweet Lord was recorded by the Belmonts (sans Dion).  As they fade out,
they add the words "He's so fine".

cj "Sue me, sue you blues" l
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Driving without shoes
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:03:40 GMT

arnett@unixg.ubc.ca (Bill Arnett) writes:
: 
: (3) This thread has *nothing* to do with rec.nude.  *PLEASE* delete rec.nude
: from the newsgroups line before replying to this thread.
: 
: Bill.
: 
: And I'll add...
: (4) That's (partly) what emergency/parking brakes are for.

Hm - nude emergency/parking brakes - pulling of until motion ceases.

Sounds like this should be cross-posted to:
erotica.manipulation.brakes.parking_emergency.nude

Bill "Does the Beetle thank you afterwards" Nelson

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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Soldiers breaking wind
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:02:27 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.183130.12544@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
>
>
>>I heard it was the Throgg's Neck Bridge that was so modified, not the
>>Whitestone Bridge.
>
>	I once modified a Wheatstone bridge.  I put some diodes in.
>
>Jon "did Wheatstone wire Roebling's house" Papai

If there are diodes in the bridge instead of resistors, it's no longer
a Wheatstone bridge, rather it's now a diode bridge or bridge rectifier.

This just means that Phil's job is 4 times easier, since the rearrangement
occurs in quads instead of loose diodes.

Of course, in your case, we may resort to *separating* your bridge rectifiers
back into individual diodes to make sure they stay that way.

cj "Official one-way current device investigator for AFU" l
From: comp_oper@darwin.ntu.edu.au (Glenn Wallace)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Water Tower Suicide.
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:21:00 +0900

In article <1992Nov10.211253.8771@ac.dal.ca>, egilmour@ac.dal.ca writes:
> This is a story of a bizarre incident of suicide that I read about in the paper
> about two years ago that happened in a small town near mine.
> 
> A man was found to be missing when he failed to show up at his best friends
> wedding at which he was supposed to be the best man.  The wedding went on 
> without him but when he failed to show up for days afterward he was 
> reported as a missing person to the police.  
> 
> About six months later, people in this small town were beginning to 
> feel ill and the illness was mainly linked to the water.  Workers went
> up to the water tower in the middle of the town to see if somehow the tower
> was responsible for the unpure water.  When they looked inside the tower, they 
> found a badly decomposed body that proved to have been inside the tower
> for about six months, and was the man that had gone missing earlier.
> 
> It is reported that when this was made public, practically everyone in 
> the town suffered serious bouts of vomiting.
> 
> I actually read about this story in my newspaper and heard about it on
> the radio.  Really!

Yes.  I read the same story several years ago in the Australasian Post.  A
popular weekly Australian magazine.
It was an story of fiction set in a small rural or outback town with (of course)
some minor differences.

-- 
Glenn Wallace					comp_oper@darwin.ntu.edu.au
Northern Territory University
Darwin, Northern Territory,
Australia, World, Universe, etc...
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DISCLAIMER:
This is not necessarily the views of the management of this establishment:-
We just chain him up in that little cubby hole of his and leave him be!
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From: carlos@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Miguel Borges)
Subject: Re: Professor has class unknowingly interpret a non-poem? TRUE
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:24:18 GMT

jrs@zippy.unet.com (John Switzer Frame 3.0) writes:
>In article <1992Nov22.143111.9055@ac.dal.ca> egilmour@ac.dal.ca writes:
>>One of my Profs told a story about a Professor somewhere who wanted to
>>make a point to a class about how unreliable literary criticism is.  
>>The Prof asked his class to give their interpretations of a "poem" 
>>that was on the board.  After an hour of the students interpreting 
>>the meaning of the "poem" and coming to their various
>>intellectual conclusions, the Prof revealed to the class that it
>>wasn't really a poem at all but just a bunch of words and names that
>>were left over from a class that had come before.
>>
>>
>>Is this a UL or is it a true and cruel joke played by an actual Professor
>>in an actual class?

>I would tend to believe it - as a music student, I wrote one piece
>in my composition class which I thought was a straight-forward little
>song. For some reason it captured the imagination of the class when 
>I performed it for them, and they spent about 10 minutes coming up 
>with all sorts of deep and meaningful insights. I just stood there and
>nodded my head, letting them think I was as gifted as they thought. 

It is not a UL.  The professor was Stanley Fish, and it was a class on 
17th or 18th Century religious poetry,.  The "Poem" was an assignment
left over from the previous class.  

I can find refernces if anyone wants them...
-- 
C. Miguel Borges        and his EVIL TWIN BROTHER (tm)        Carlos M. Borges
carlos@morgan.ucs.mun.ca <-------------------------> carlos@garfield.cs.mun.ca
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Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NF. Canada []*[] <-cheap flag
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From: tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks)
Subject: Re: Car Crime
Organization: Automata Design, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:25:14 GMT

David L Anderson (v462etnn@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu) wrote:

: How does the villian know the frequency used? 

He asks Dan Rather.

Terry "Is a villian what English people call a trillion?" Monks

-- 
Terry Monks        Automata Design Inc    (703) 742-9400

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,misc.legal
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: US v Guglielmi
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:06:58 GMT

In article <a8du02pp2bf901@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
>In article <1992Nov18.010644.13078@midway.uchicago.edu>, 
>thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
>> I liked the line about "Horny Boar" much more.
>> 
>> Ted "or was it the movie with the snakes?" Frank
>
>Eels, they were eels, I tell you!  (one of the few cases that will be found 
>if you search on "eels and beer".)
>
>For you folks who are wondering just what the heck we're talking about, the 
>reference is to an obscenity case, US v. Guglielmi, 819 F.2d 451 (4th Cir., 
>1986).  This is also the citation currently in Mark Eckenwiler's signature. 
>
>The case contains fascinating descriptions of the films Mr. Guglielmi was in 
>the basis of making.
>
>You may not wish to read the case over lunch.

Or, conversely, you may.  

The most disgusting thing about the opinion was that Guglielmi got 25 years.
Good use of taxpayer money to keep such scoundrels behind bars for so long.

Legal trivia: Alan Dershowitz was the defense attorney.

Legal trivia two: A recent star-studded appeal here in Chicago featured *both
        Alan Dershowitz *and* Robert Bork on the same side.  Two of the
        three judges were Richard Posner and Frank Easterbrook.

Ted "Maybe it was because they didn't use the missionary position.  Or
     even a missionary." Frank
-- 
ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
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From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)
Subject: Re: Puff the Magic Dragon
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:04:01 GMT

In article <18NOV199221224760@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov> dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes) writes:
>In article <1992Nov18.223459.3424@pixel.kodak.com>, 
>  young@serum.kodak.com writes...
>
>>	HA!  __I__ still have the album!!!
>
>  What's an album?
>
> - snopes

I think it's just an urban legend.  Has anyone here actually *seen*
an album?  Or is it just FOAFs who have owned them?

Wow!  I actually followed up a snopes posting!

		-- Stewart "rubbing elbows with the stars" Tame

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From: damian@cs.monash.edu.au (Damian Conway)
Subject: Re: Incredible injectables (was Re: furrfu??)
Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:48:42 GMT

jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:

>> Anybody ever hear of kids injecting peanut butter or mayonaise
>> in attempts to get high, and dying as a result?

>Wouldn't peanut butter be a bit, uh, viscous to inject?

Depends how big a hypodermic you use :-)

OBUL: Hospital bedpans are kept refrigerated to maintain their sterility.

damian
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where: Dept. Computer Science        phone: +61-3-565-5184
       Monash University               fax: +61-3-565-5146
       Clayton 3168                  quote: "A pessimist is never disappointed."
       AUSTRALIA
From: egilmour@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re:  Child Molestors - internationally organized?
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:35:08 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)writes:

: kubo@zariski.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo) writes:
:
: In sci.crypt, an interesting discussion is going on, in which
: the following claim is attributed to a law enforcement official:
:
: >
: >  In response, and I draw from memory of the conversation
: >  [with the police officer], Child molestation and pedophiles are
: >  a well-organized group both nation-wide and internationally.

bill> According to some people from the UK - pedophilia seems to be fairly
bill> well established there.  It is not in the US.

bill> Here in the US - most child molesters are relatives of the child, usually
bill> the father or uncle.  There are no organized groups anywhere in the world,
bill> that has been documented.

First of all, what do they mean by a well-organized group?  I believe I saw
on 60 minutes or some such show that pedophiles from all walks of life
from many different countries were taking advantage of the situation in 
countries where prostituting children is legal (or at least overlooked), 
and that these prostitution rings cater to international pedophiles - 
even ones from the US.
Does this constitute an organized group?
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From: nolan@lurch.twg.com (General Disaster)
Subject: Nomenclature  (was Puff the Magic Dragon)
Followup-To: /dev/null
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Third Air Force
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:53:27 GMT


[stuff...]
In response to:

        No idea why this is crossposted to sci.med, though one
        could  certainly think of a sardonic hypothesis or two. 
        Might want to followup to sci.military if you mean the
        *other* Puff the Magic Dragon.  :)

In article <1992Nov18.132230.3033@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mr. Furr) writes:

	What, you mean Puff the Headless Thompson Gunner?

To which I say:

No, it's Puff the Magic Hercules, as in C130 gunship. Testors make a decent
plastic model of the beast.

--
Nolan "Man enough to do woman's work" Hinshaw
Internet: nolan@twg.com			Dingalingnet: (415)962-7197	

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From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: More electrical no-no's
Organization: a2i network
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:30:06 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.184101.1@novax.llnl.gov> urbina@novax.llnl.gov writes:
>
>I was in a High voltage safety awareness class a few months back and the
>instructor told a supposedly true story of some idiot kid somewhere in 
>Georgia that took a 600 amp auto battery with jumper cables and touched the
>other ends of the jumper cables to his tongue. (Ouch !) He blew his tongue and 
>lower lip right off.
>
>Remember kids, auto batteries are not like 9 volt batteries.

Ohm's law prevails regardless of the current capacity of the voltage
source.  12V from a big fat battery would be about a third more painful
than 9V from a little skinny one, all else being equal.

I suspect that the unfortunate victim was clumsy enough to draw an arc
between the jumper-cable terminals while they were touching his tongue.
now _that_ sounds unpleasant.

Phil "Remember, kids, I = E/R" Gustafson
-- 
Phil Gustafson <phil@rahul.net>
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From: dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes)
Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Will pay money for food.
Date: 16 Nov 1992 17:55 EST  

In article <1992Nov16.164400.18849@geovision.gvc.com>, 
  pt@geovision.gvc.com writes...

>Gee, I thought it was because the upper (and upper middle) class snobs who
>wrote the constitution wanted to give power to the masses, but not _too_
>much.  If the great unwashed voted for somebody who was obviously wrong, the
>upper class `Electoral College'' could set things right.

Partly true.  If a populist unacceptable to the upper classes manages to gather
broad national support, there's nothing they can do about it.

 - snopes

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From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Relations
Date: 18 Nov 92 13:13:23 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

Just exactly what relation to Winston Churchill is this Matrix Churchill 
anyway?


  From the UK phone book Yellow Pages:  BORING - see Civil Engineers   

  Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England   (44|0)61-275-6033  
  D.Budd@mcc.ac.uk                                          fax 6040
From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Incredible injectables (was Re: furrfu??)
Date: 22 Nov 1992 20:27 PST
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.198
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

> Anybody ever hear of kids injecting peanut butter or mayonaise
> in attempts to get high, and dying as a result?

An episode of the American TV show "Emergency," sometimes descriptively 
if irreverently referred to as "Shake, Bake, and Defibrillate," used
this case or UL in one episode.  A teenage girl had shot some milk into
her thigh muscle -- I forget exactly what she thought she'd get out of 
that. Our heroine (as opposed to our heroin), Nurse Dixie McCall, informed 
her that she'd have a rather large hole where some of her leg used to
be, a definite disadvantage on the beach even by junkie standards.

Never heard of this in a "real-life" news medium, but the fictional
show had, at least nominally, a medical adviser.

Wouldn't peanut butter be a bit, uh, viscous to inject?

Joe "I just watched it because of Julie London" Chew
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:24:01 GMT

No quote, to get to the heart of the matter:

Is Snopes defending the Status Quo, meaning that the Electoral System is
OK by him, or is he merely the messenger pointing out its existence?  It
seems to me that about 30 odd years ago there was talk that the Electoral
System may have outlived its usefullness, certainly since the purpose of
it no longer applied, what with essentially universal citizenship and
mass communications, etc.  I was taught that it was essentially a concession
to the limitations of the times 200 years ago, etc.

So, now that it's 1992 or so, why is this still the case?  The method of
picking the President has been changed before, so what's the compelling
reason not to complain about the current method today?


In many parts of the US, state lines are artificial boundaries relative to
the community.  Should the voters of New York City be represented Electorally
speaking by some Electors for NY State, while their neighbors, the commuters
from nearby New Jersey, and close-by Fairfield County Connecticut be lumped
together with their respective more rural states' population electorally?
Perhaps in the Western portion of the US, this aspect isn't as important,
since population centers are typically self-contained within a single
state, but what of the East where this tends to happen in several areas?

So, if "un-like" groups are being lumped together, why not a popular vote?

Apparently there is no state where your vote counts in any direct sense,
because the few that don't give all to one candidate only give most of the
votes to the candidates by ratio, reserving at least one or two votes for
the "winner" in the state, so to at least that amount, your vote isn't
quite representative, moreover, these states are in the minority.

Also, have there ever been any Electoral situations where the state
refuses to grant their votes for the leading candidate, and instead give them
to a "favorite son" of the state? (similar to actions in primaries)

To give in to a little paranoia, since a President can be decided by a
few key margins, what's to stop someone rich enough from buying enough
votes in key areas to skew an election?  (Are Bill Gates, Lyndon LaRouche,
and Perot all members of the Tri-Lateral Commission?) (Was the first reported
AIDS case discovered before or after the TLC was formed?)

cj "enquiring anachronists want to know" l
From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Aluminum cookware:  Recipe for disaster?
Date: 20 Nov 1992 09:48 PST
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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>Neearly right. The compund was a de-floculant. What actually happened
>was that the driver arrived, found noone ther and, instead of dumping
>his load into a container where it should have gone, dumped it straight
>into a reservoir. The news quoted 200 tons. This seems a little high to
>me, but I have no knowledge of the weights a lorry can pull.

That's 'way high for one load.  An American "semi" or "18-wheeler"
(that's "whacking big articulated lorry" or "road train" to you
imperialists) typically has a gross weight on the order of 36
US tons.  The concern is the loading upon the road; the bigger
tractors can pull a few tens of tons more, and indeed they do so
in states that allow multiple trailers.  But 200 tons is a load 
more commonly associated with railroad cars.

Still, even 36 tons is a lot of chemical to be dumped in all at once 
time in a fashion much different than the engineers had in mind.  I 
doubt that the Nobel committee needs to extend its deliberations this 
year in order to accommodate that truck driver.

>> MSG (is it safe now or not)

The amount that the worse Chinese restaurants consider reasonable
clamps my head tightly in a vise and holds me in place while the
world spins much faster than usual.  At age 18 or so I'd have paid 
money for chemicals that did this, but now I just consider it an 
adverse reaction to something that ought not be put into food.

Joe "I can't hear you -- my ears are still ringing from lunch" Chew
From: desilets@sj.ate.slb.com (Mark Desilets)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Legal Tender
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:56:20 GMT
Reply-To: desilets@sj.ate.slb.com (Mark Desilets)
Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose

In article <1992Nov14.072243.13685@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Nov14.070451.14299@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>>sgs@grebyn.com (Stephen G. Smith) writes:
>>: The court ruled that the dealer wasn't required to take the resulting
>>: mess.
>>
>>This sounds like an UL to me. Terry, can you do a search of Lexus?
>
>Heck, why stop there?  Search to Infiniti!
>
Just make sure your Acura



Mark "Can anybody play?" DeSilets
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