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Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was CLEARLY better
From: rdale@cstp.umkc.edu
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 05:41:40 GMT
Organization: UM - Kansas City, Computer Science

> Does anyone else know someone famous who went to their college, or know
> someone who does?

	Patty McGuire, "Playboy" centerfold in the Jimmy Carter interview
issue went to Southwest Missouri State.  I met her once.  Ehhhhhh, okay
I guess.  But once you've seen her naked. . .

	Frank Bonner allegedly went there, too.  When I worked at the
radio station we heard he was injured in a sky-diving accident and hurt
his back.  I was unable to locate him in any student records, although
it was an old card file system.

	Red Skelton walked across campus one day.  Nice guy.  Black
Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Heart, and Black Oak Arkansas don't count,
I guess.

	Oh yeah.  Frank Bonner is Herb Tarlek on "WKRP".

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From: thf2@quads.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Subject: Re: Possible UL alert(was Re: Videotaping rapes)
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:26:48 GMT

In article <H.qByMjh0x1UA@harvee.billerica.ma.us> scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us writes:
>In <1992Sep25.203226.9366@news.columbia.edu>, Charles Lasner writes:
>>
>>But for most of us, we have 8 fingers on both hands.  The rest is, as they
>>say "all thumbs" so it's quite natural to use base 8.
>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.

That's okay, I got up to 1023.

Ted "doing 132 would get me beat up, though" Frank
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From: datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Re: Radar Cars (was: stupid cop tricks & t)
Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Dallas, Tx.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 00:20:43 GMT

>>I've been told that Connecticut (the state with even worse drivers than Mass,
>>and some seriously pinheaded cops)

The thing that struck me the most about Conn. drivers was that they --
especially trucks -- were fond of changing lanes without so much as a glance
in their mirrors or out their windows.  There were several occasions on
which large trucks nearly crashed into me doing this.

>>is using this method, and I've been watching
>>for any suspicious-looking cars along I84 during my trips through the state.

I found the Conn. cops to be quite active in trying to hide.  One thing
they'd often do is to have a normal-looking car pulled off on the shoulder
with the hood raised, as if the car were having engine problems.  Given
the class of car they used, it was entirely plausible.  There'd be a cop
with a radar gun crouched in front where one couldn't see him.  Another
ploy was to have an obvious marked car with a gun at the entry to a
curve.  People would assume that they were safe after passing, and would
speed up as they rounded the curve, only to be caught by a second car
around the bend.

The stretch of I84 going through NY has inter-lane fistulas every mile and
a half or so, many of them occupied by speed cops.

Cops in Penna. were fond of hanging out in the cover of overpasses.
From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: FAQs for Sale
Date: 6 Oct 92 03:35:00 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Oct5.215059.1526@infonode.ingr.com>, palmerc@abulafia.b21.ingr.com (Christopher M. Palmer) writes:
>
>*classic* UL.  But... The evening news confirmed the story.  They didn't give
>the gory details, but reported that the cheerleader was killed when
>she hit a telephone pole while hanging out of a bus.
>

Did the evening news say the girl was "killed" or "decapitated"?
That people die when they whap into metal signs at 70 mph is not in
question. However, the UL requires that the head be sliced clean
off (or, that the body be chopped in two). 

See, it's the gory details that make all the difference.

 -Paul "Monty" Ashley
   (Spot the afu Motto Nomination . . .)

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: Chuck Adams <chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov>
Subject: Re: Rainbow Head - Sports Fan
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:23:09 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.220558.1675@u.washington.edu>
starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:
>chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov (Chuck Adams) writes:
>
>>I heard this morning that "Rainbow Head", the guy you have probably seen on
TV
>>at US sporting events with the rainbow colored hair and holding a "John 3:16"
>>sign was for some reason in jail in California.  I have heard several times
>>that there is more than one "Rainbow Head", that it is some kind of cult.  I
>>have seen this guy (or some other freak that looks like him) on consecutively
>>televised sporting events from opposite sides of the country, so it can't be
>>the same guy.    Or is it?
>
>I'm sure at least five thousand people have responded to this by now, but I
>wanted to leap back into things here at afu so I'll add my response.
>
>'Tis not a "cult," although I will admit those guys are strange.  Cecil Adams
>does a good job of covering this in _More of The Straight Dope_.

Nope.

There was such a deafening lack of replys I figured my post didn't make it (or
maybe Rainbow head has ultimate usenet control too).

Thanks for the source info.


                      Chuck Adams,  WB5WRR   (The Chuckster)
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From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Gross Stories (true?)
Date: 30 Sep 92 11:03:36 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

j.a. fielden (fielden@spot.Colorado.EDU) wrote:

: That would be the movie Pink Flamingoes starring the transvestite 
: Divine. A big theme of the movie was the "most  disgusting person in
: the world". When I saw it however the chicken stomping scene had
: been cut do to protests by (I think) the SPCA. 

chicken stomping? are you referring to the scene where crackers has
sex with the girl and the chicken, or was the version i saw cut? i was
pretty sure the guy who owned the tape said it wasn't...

cool movie.
From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: License Plates and Prisons
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:34:29 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <1992Sep29.050641.19794@midway.uchicago.edu>, 
thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell) writes:
> Furthermore, I wonder how true the cliche of prisoners manufacturing
> license plates still is, if it ever was.

True, at least in some states.  I always liked the mental picture of inmates 
in New Hampshire stamping the state motto on every plate.

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: AFU West - Terry (AFU West III to the rest of you)
Date: 4 Oct 92 03:03:18 GMT
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry)
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

After an extensive series of negotiations between sponsors, our agents, 
lawyers, and other representatives, Terry Carroll and Terry Chan are 
organizing the next AFU West get together.

The tentative date is for 7:00 pm PDT (or whatever time it is at the
North Pole), Wednesday, October 28.  Suggestions for other days between 
October 27 and and October 29 will be entertained.

The suggested place is La Fiesta, a Mexican joint in Mountain View,
California.  They carry 4 or 5 kinds of Mexican beers, some with the
color of healthy or not-so-healthy urine.

We invite all participants, lurkers, and FOAFs of a.f.u.  Some past
highlights and perhaps some that you may be able to catch this
time around include:

	- Phil Gustafson rearranging diodes for free (BYOD), 
	- Trelford Pinkerton reminisce about Churchill and Disraeli 
	  and discussing suggested techniques for stalking tall strangers, 
	- Brian Scearce describe what is was like to model for the Adult 
	  Film Museum, and 
	- Participate in a wet-beard contest.  

As an added bonus, Peter van der Linden may be on hand to autograph 
copies of his books (or anybody else's for that matter.  Ed. Note:
Bring your own copies).  Plus, at least two Terrys for the price of one.

Please RSVP so that we may have some semblence of a count:
 
	Terry Carroll at tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com
     Terry Chan    at TWChan@lbl.gov
     Terry Wood    at tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu probably won't get you anywhere
                      unless you found his e-mail address in a public restroom.

If you can't reach us via e-mail, post, it's not like there's a high
volume of posts on this newsgroup anyway.

If anybody doesn't like La Fiesta, T.S. Eliot, unless you also post
recommendation we can consider.


Terry, Inc.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: drink, drive, die, sen~or
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:53:00 GMT

I wrote:

>>Affiliation: Philadelphia Enquirer

sean.smith@cs.cmu.edu replied:

>Last I knew, there is no publication by this name.
>There is a Philadelphia Inquirer, however.

It must be September, spelling corrections are beginning to
show up with increased regularity on the net.  YAWN.


J.P. "we don't need no stinking CMU" Papai
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From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was CLEARLY better
Summary: ABSOLUTELY TRUE!
Date: 30 Sep 92 21:54:29 GMT
Reply-To: tjw+@pitt.edu
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Sep30.183021.23546@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>, barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards) writes:

>> I think it's important to point out that while Lost in Space did NOT have
>> a science officer, Dr. Smith did have a PhD.  Mr. Spock only had a Master's
>> Degree from a trade-school on Vulcan.  Mr. Spock was also a licensed
>> refrigerator repairman.

> As I recall, he was also a licensed chiropractor.

On some planets.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: olt@elwood.isgs.uiuc.edu (Scott Olt)
Subject: Re: Oranjelo and the severed dog's head
Organization: Madame Tinkertoy's House of Blue Lights
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 19:23:16 GMT

palmerc@abulafia.b21.ingr.com (Christopher M. Palmer) writes:

> bwaid@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
>>1)
>>[about twins named Oranjelo and Lemonjelo]

>Heard this one from my high school band director.  He claimed that a
>friend of his who was a band director in Valdosta, GA actually taught
>these two unfortunate twins.

In Dan Jenkins' book _You Gotta Play Hurt_, there are twins named
Orangejello and Limejello who play football at Texas Christian
University.

I wonder if Dan knows your H.S. band director... :)


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Illinois State Geological Survey
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From: tim@sinix.UUCP (Tim Bissell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Alligators in sewers
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:05:11 GMT
Organization: SNI AG Muenchen, STO XS

I was on holiday in Brittany (France) a couple of weeks ago, and went to
a large aquarium in Vannes.  Amongst their attractions was a crocodile which
had been caught in the Paris sewers in 1984.  It is about 4 feet long (my
guess) and that is all the information on it.  Anyone know anything else
about it.

It looks like it happened in Paris, so it *could* have happened in New York!

Tim.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 21:21:03 GMT

sietsma@latcs1.lat.oz.au (Jocelyn Sietsma Penington) writes:
: In article <5176@daily-planet.concordia.ca> david@donald.concordia.ca (David Gaudine) writes:
: >
: >  What I'd like to know is why the artificial gravity never gives out.  The
: >engines fail, the life support fails, but the gravity never fails.
: >-- 
: 
: Have you ever tried to act weightless?  Go on - convincingly pretend to be
: floating a few feet off the floor...

What do you mean "pretend"?

Bill "Spacey" Nelson
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Stone Age Sex
Organization: Will work for food, but not for DEC
Date: 30 SEP 92 16:14:08    


In article <1992Sep29.161258.979@hubcap.clemson.edu>, 
  jlysagh@hubcap.clemson.edu (james joseph lysaght) writes...

>Or he could be the first evidence of homosexual rape 

Maybe he was the world's first felon.

- snopes

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From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
Subject: Re: Famous Alumni (was "Lost In Space" was CLEARLY better)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 23:18:05 GMT

>>>Does anyone else know someone famous who went to their college, or know
>>>someone who does?
>>>
>

I went to elementary school with a girl named Susan Anton; this was in
Norridge, Illinois, just outside Chicago. She moved away somewhere when
we were in 6th grade, which must have been 1961 or 62. 

Does anyone know for sure if this is, or is not, the "famous" Susan Anton?

P.S.: She had dark hair then.


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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
Subject: Re: the weight of the water
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 23:49:27 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.

In <1686EE9CD.MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU> MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice) writes:
> 
>used to work with safety reports here at SU, and she tells me
>that all emergency showers are required to have drains.  But
>required by whom, she did not know.

Indeed. I never saw an emergency shower with a drain at Caltech
or at U of WI/Madison, either.


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering)
Subject: Famous Alumni (was "Lost In Space" was CLEARLY better)
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 02:58:17 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <1992Oct1.005727.27318@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>That's okay, Gates McFadden went to Brandeis, my alma mater.
>
>Does anyone else know someone famous who went to their college, or know
>someone who does?
>
>Ted "the net will close in five minutes" Frank

Why yes, now that you mention it, Ted.  Charles Addams went to my alma
mater, the University of Pennsylvania.  Some say the Addams Family mansion
is based on College Hall.  They're wrong, though.  I met Charles Addams
at a reception on the Penn campus back in 1982, and he told me (and a
big bunch of other people) that it wasn't true.

Larry "I also went to high school with Pam Shriver" Doering
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Subject: Re: Perfect Knowledge
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:18:17 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

Phil Gustafson writes:
>Richard Joltes writes:
>>
>>"no matter how thin you slice it, it's *still* baloney."
>>
>>						--Milo Bloom, "Bloom County"
>
>That would be Harry Truman, Dick.

I'd flush that answer down the WC, Phil. Err...Fields.

-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering)
Subject: Re: Disco "Snuff" Recording?
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 22:50:47 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <26497@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>  +
>  +Anyone else related to someone famous, or knew someone who was?
>
>Betcha Larry Doering doesn't.

Me?  What, exactly, are you insinuating, Mr. Chan?  Just because I had
dinner last night with Wendy Case, lead singer and guitarist of the
local band Ten High, who happens to be friends with Scott Ashton,
drummer for Iggy Pop's first band The Stooges, do you expect me
to try to impress people by mentioning it on the net?

I, sir, am deeply wounded.

Larry "Steven Jobs shook my hand once" Doering
From: std_fleming@hg.uleth.ca (John Fleming)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Canadian pennies
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:27:44 GMT
Reply-To: std_fleming@hg.uleth.ca
Organization: University of Lethbridge


  A while ago I was told that it costs the Royal Canadian Mint (which is
supported, in part, by -my- tax money) four cents to mint a penny.  Has anyone
else encountered this rumour, and if so, is it true?  Thank you.


                                John (I wonder what it costs them to mint a
                                Loonie) Fleming (STD_FLEMING@HG.ULETH.CA)
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Flavored Condoms
Date: 30 Sep 92 02:08:30 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <BvDBJt.IzE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> kkr42091@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (QUEEN ZENOBIA!) writes:
>>Where does the word posh come from?
>
>Port Out Starboard Home refers to the rooms that are most wanted in a 
>cruise ship... luxury liner.... whatever they are called.
>at least that is what i have always been told.
>
>-kimberli roan

Net, this is Kimberli.  Kimberli, this is the Net.

Okay, net, be nice to Kimberli.  September still has a couple of days
left in it.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Subject: Re: Fine Art 
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:55:25 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

snopes writes:
>
>Paul Vader writes...
>
>>On that note, have you ever heard the one about the house behind the farm
>>couple in Grant Wood's "American Gothic"? Supposedly it's a house of "ill
>>repute"... PV
>
>As I recall, Tom and Roseanne Arnold recently purchased the Iowa farm on which
>that house is (or was) situated.
>
Probably not pertinent: the woman in the picture was the artist's sister,
Nan, and the gent was the artist's dentist. Which explains why he looks
so down in the mouth. 

Just a standard Iowa, balloon-frame, gingerbread Gothic farm house.
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From: cde@mulka (Colin Entwisle)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Videotaping rapes
Date: 29 Sep 92 08:04:25 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3



: In article <+b_py!c.barry@netcom.com> barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
: #In article <1992Sep28.030029.6036@engage.pko.dec.com> nancyb@os2lan.enet.dec.com (nancy b.) writes:
: ##re:  barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry)
: ### How would one show that a recorded "rape" was not an acted simulation? 
: ##
: ##	Simple.  Ask the woman.
: #
: #	Bingo. Now ask the next question: why would anyone market a
: #recording of themselves committing a felony which, in combination with
: #the woman's testimony, makes an open-and-shut case?
: #
: #	Urban legend; QED.


	Unless you can say you understand the mind of someone who would
rape, and further more the mind of someone who tapes this rape, how can
you understand the reasons?
	I mean if someone is stupid enuff to rape why wouldn't they
be stupid enuff to incriminate themselves.

	The question above should be be - why would any commit the said
felony (full stop). ?

						CE
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: American view of justice
Date: 4 Oct 1992 02:34:09 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

eeopensh@cybaswan.UUCP (j p openshaw) writes:

  +>However, I think the widespread belief that "we allow rapists and
  +>murderers to go free on technicalities" is largely ULish.  I seem to
  +>remember it being discusses some time (in this very newsgroup) and
  +>apparently the belief far exceeds the reality.  I am sure some of the
  +>lawyer types here can provide some figures.
  +
  +Rubbish, it happened every other week on `Starsky and Hutch'.
  +
  +John (who hopes Captain Dobey has had a coronary by now) Openshaw.

What?!  Are you kidding?  Him and Huggy Bear were the best parts of
that show!

Terry "So, do they dub the dialogue in the UK?" Chan
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From: kevind@pogo.wv.tek.com (Kevin Draz)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Date: 5 Oct 92 06:42:23 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.

>  What I'd like to know is why the artificial gravity never gives out.  The
>engines fail, the life support fails, but the gravity never fails.

What I'd *really* like to know is how the phasers work.  Sometimes a
red-shirt shoots someone, and they just freeze and then fall down dead.
Other times, they just glow thinner, and thinner, and totally vanish.  Do
phasers have different settings, more than just "stun" and "kill"?  Like,
kill, but save the body for a snuff film?

And when they disappear, why do the effects just stop at their shoes?  Why
doesn't the ground keep on vanishing for a specific radius?  Why isn't there
a sonic snap from the vacuum they left being filled in?

Why are all green-skinned alien women sexually compatible with Kirk?
Parallel evolution? (or creation?)

Kevin "We come in peace...  Fire Phasers!" Draz

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