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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: AFU EAST
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:16:08 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <1993Jan20.194552.15086@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <C15xK6.F7n@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel Furr) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan20.141140.5333@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>>In article <C15M20.D3C@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel Furr) writes:
>>>>
>>>>I propose AFU EAST should be held sometime in March, preferably around the
>>>>15th, in Pittsburgh.  Anyone interested?
>>>
>>>That's the middle of finals for me.  
>>>
>>>When or where is AFU Midwest?
>>
>>Well, Ted, we can be flexible.  How's mid-February?  Say, Saturday,
>>February 20, 1993?  
>
>Furrfu, is a.f.u going to rent a Concorde so we can get the whole
>bicoastal thing going?
>
>(And, hell, don't everybody mess up all these a.f.u. conventions on
>my behalf.)
>
>>Pittsburgh has Terries, so that would be a good place
>>to meet for me.  Any other comments?
>
>Pittsburgh also has a Nigel, so I should even have a place to stay.  Maybe
>I'll just auction my appearance to the highest bidder.  Coase Theorem and
>all that.  (Then again, there *is* the problem of the commons... Hmm, maybe
>everybody should just send me two-fifty so I can afford to pull this off.)
>
>Who's going to be in Pittsburgh?  California has two Terries *and* a 
>vanderlinden...
>
>Ted "decisions, decisions" Frank

We're working on an AFU East in Pittsburgh and an AFU Southeast in
Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina.  I'd like one to be held in February and
one in March.  If you're interested, reply to this post and say so.

AFU Southeast would of course have to include a visit to the DUke Primate
Center so we could visit the Lemurs.
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From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Events (was The horse's butt -- err -- mouth)
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:17:11 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.014602.23122@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>
>Bill "Whips and leather and chains! Oh! My!" Nelson
>

Well, we have been honored with STella's company from time to time.

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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:54:50 -0500 
From: David O Hunt <bluelobster+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Bambi meets Godzilla.

On 25-Jan-93 in Bambi meets Godzilla.        
user Derek Tearne@nezsdc.icl. writes:
>The well known film 'Bambi meets Godzilla' just came up in conversation.
> 
>You know, the one were Bambi just prances around pronking and saying hi to
>all the cute animals and then getting squashed underfoot by Godzilla.
> 
>We were just wondering if it ever really existed.  Who were the producers
>etc. and how much did it gross (out?). 

No idea what the profits were, but yes, it exists.  I've seen it!

David
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From: mswing@lonestar.utsa.edu (Michael S. Wingfield)
Subject: Re: John Denver (Re: Snipers at Stalingrad)
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:59:47 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.154932.16487@spectrum.xerox.com> eradm@wbst845e.xerox.com writes:
>In article 15572@acuson.com, lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan20.212531.13607@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>>>In sci.military, conversation turned to snipers at Stalingrad,
>>>with no mention of exploding dogs:
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Can someone older tell me when the US started sending troops to Viet
>>Nam?  1963?
>>
>
>1958.

Good answer. But for those of you who are interested in the trivial pursuit
q/a's, 58 is when the President sent the first team of advisors (this was
shortly after the french were defeated at Dien Bien Pu (sp?))

the first American troops sent to Vietnam, actually took place during WWII
to establish a network to evacuate American pilots shot down over china.
Take a guess who America's contact man was, the man the government thought
the north in its fight against us, if that's any clue for you.  Guess
Noriega and Hussein were the first leaders we assisted, then had to go
fight

Sorry about stretching the thread on snipers in Stalingrad to include this
little dribble of trivia, but there's been more than one time someone poste
1958.  Have fun everyone :D

Michael "is Majors the next world leader we have to watch?" Wingfield

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From: obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB)
Subject: Re: AFU EAST
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:54:20 GMT

PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>
>In any case, if I show up in P'burgh, I'll try to get ahold of some
>liquid nitrogen and a kryptonite lock, and perform a demonstration
>to check the voracity of the FAQ entry:
>
>>WILD LIFE IN THE FAST LANE
>>Tb.Freon can be used to break Kryptonite locks.
>>Tb.No self-respecting car thief would use it though.
>>Fb."The New York Method" is a means of contraception.
>
>I'll use liquid nitrogen rather than freon because it's
>earth-friendly, and alot cheaper.


Not to mention several orders of magnitude more effective.

Tb.LN2 works so-so
F .Freon makes a difference compared to room temp 

Anyone who considers Freon "cryogenic" must be gullible or something.

	Bob
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Bungee Lynching in NJ!
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:28:54 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.020907.3043@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
>I always figured that bungee lynchings would occur in the Southeastern USA

Well, the most recent lynching in the US occurred in New York City, so go
figure. 

Ted "don't think they used the New York method, though" Frank
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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Date: 28 Jan 1993 22:27:40 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

de@moscom.com (David Esan) writes:

  [RE a near fatal spelling blunder remarkably similar to one I made
      a long time ago]
  +
  +Oh ROT it all, I thought we didn't do spelling flames.
  +
  +Hey, are you making fun of the spellingly-challenged?  I think that I am
  +being discriminated against here.  I best start collecting the rest of the
  +followups and find me a good lawyer.  I could collect at least two-fifty from
  +each of you!

Oh yeah?  Just try it bub, I've got legal insurance.  BTW, Terry 
Carroll isn't giving legal advice, but maybe Ted Frank can help 
you out.  He could probably get you a couple of chickens and he'll 
have free time SINCE he's not coming to AFU WEST V like most in^H^H
sane people.

Terry "Orthographically impaired" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Yeah, right.
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From: pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN)
Subject: Re: Coca Cola dissolves meat?
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:16:06 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.203158.11723@bmw.mayo.edu> tcg@mayo.edu writes:
>   Maybe it's another old hat, but, hey, I'm relatively new to the U.S.:
>there was a "story" I repeatedly heard in the 60's that was meant to illustrate
>the allegedly harmful effects of Coca Cola on the mucous membranes of your
>stomach. It went like:
>"If you put a piece of meat in a bowl of Coke overnight, the meat will dissolve
>completely." Of course I never got around to trying it out ...
>
>   I'm sure it's UL, where did it come from? Anybody else over here ever heard
>this or tried it?
>
>         - Thomas "I'm a vegetarian, anyway" Gerber
>
  This is true, actually.  I've dissolved nails in Coke.  The phosphoric
acid is probably what's reacting with the meat.  But, as we all know, this
doesn't mean it's bad for your digestive system.  Hell, a chunk of meat will
dissolve in a glass of salive (and you thought cutting up brains was gross)
and we have 1M hydrochloric acid in our stomachs...
>   
>
>
>
>


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From: VBCSC03L@VAX.CSUN.EDU (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Johnny Carson
Date: 26 Jan 1993 01:15:46 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

While doing some research on the the various purported talk/game show 
incidents (yes, research is ongoing, even if there are no results worth
posting), I came across this paragraph about Johnny Carson in an article
from an old copy of _Newsweek_:

  "When exercising his tongue, Carson hardly took . . . risks.  His vaunted
  sexual 'naughtiness' may seem quaint now, bit it was quaint back then, too.
  About as far as Carson ever went was to ogle a starlet's cleavage and
  crack: 'You never get to see any more good double features.'  He immediately
  looked abashed.  She giggled.  So scrubbed was Johnny's image that, when he
  once bemoaned a dead joke by inadvertently blurting 'Ah, shit,' the studio
  audience went into silent shock."

Doesn't sound like the sort of person who would make the "pussy" quip so
often attributed to him.

 - snopes

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From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Where AIDS came from
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:55:59 GMT

Danger, Will Robertson!  Interminable thread alert!  Interminable
thread alert!


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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: motani@watson.ibm.com
Subject: Chocolate Protein Content
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:15:23 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.17c by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: motani@vnet.ibm.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Keywords: chocolate cockroaches

In light of the recent Washington state incident involving food poisoning at a
fast food franchise caused by an "unacceptable level" of animal manure in hamburger
meat, we just had another enticing lunch-time conversation regarding the allowable
levels of cockroach material in chocolate. Somebody claimed that the North American
regulating agencies actually allow a certain level of cockroach material in
chocolate products since roaches are common in storage areas where there is
cocoa powder. Can anybody confirm this and cite allowable levels in the US and
Canada with references?

________________________________________________________________________________
Muiz Motani
IBM Canada Lab                  motani@vnet.ibm.com
Distributed System Products
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey)
Subject: Re: Jesus' Birthday
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
	<dlphknob.727548943@cs1.bradley.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 1993 19:56:23 UTC

In article <dlphknob.727548943@cs1.bradley.edu> 
dlphknob@cs1.bradley.edu (Jemaleddin Cole) writes:
>In <930119201117.1095@VAX.CSUN.EDU> VBCSC03L@VAX.CSUN.EDU (snopes) writes:
>>>> Wasn't Jesus really born in March?
>>>  No, in April.
>>  Well, he was born on Easter, so we'd have to look it up and find out 
>>  whether it fell in March or April that year.
>There is no way of knowing when he was born.  It is possible that if
>Shepherds only let their flocks graze in certain parts of the year that we
>could know if he was born in summer or winter, but I doubt that that is the
>case.

Jesus was born in spring when lambs are born. Easter is probably
correct.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Cuttin' the Rug
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:32:58 GMT

In article <728170810frey.frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz> frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz (Bruce Clement) writes:
>
>Perhaps it is also blasphemy to *try* to create a perfect rug, as that is
>saying that you feel as perfect as Allah - so you always end up with
>two errors in the rug - the one you intended to show that you weren't 
>attempting to compete with Allah, and the one you made because you are
>human & fallible?
>
One could apply mathematical induction to this.

It would make a pretty ugly rug.

Phil

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From: cooper@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (Ralph 'Hairy' Moonen)
Subject: Re: Fax that pizza
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:24:03 GMT

In article <lltnl3INN4cd@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:
> > There was also a story of a pizza command on a machine somewhere. They had
> > a fax machine attached to the computer, and the program sent a fax for the
> > order to local pizza place
> 
> That was at Sun Microsystems.  We have this running in our demo center
> in Palo Alto.   It's called "pizzatool".   
> 
> The software was written by Don Hopkins, and relies on his PieMenus package
> which itself needs NeWS, and a faxmodem.

David Goldfarb here at AT&T once wrote 'pizza' for the 5ESS phone switch that
automatically listed the nearest pizza place. Didn't fax or call them though.

--Ralph
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.discordia,alt.slack
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Jesus' name (was Re: Late breaking potential UL!)
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <1jo0kfINNlb7@lynx.unm.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:01:39 GMT

blowfish@centauri.unm.edu (rON.) asserts:
>
>I am Mel Gibson.
>At least I was last tuesday.
>r.

Most schitzophrenics claim to be Napolean, or at least that's the
way it's always portrayed in Hollywood.  This fellow thinking he's
Mel Gibson might be the antipodean version of the same belief.
Anybody got the scoop on who is the most popular delusional
figure these days, or any days.

Mel Gibson is Aussie, isn't he?

ObDelusion:  Some visitors to Jerusalem suddenly decide they are
Christ.    (didn't save ref., but it was Wall Street Journal,
sometime 87?-91)

Jon "Still myself" Papai
...........
Now I never wrote a "good" line in my life, but the moment after it
was written it seemed a hundred years old. ...  Any new formula which
suddenly emerges in our consiousness has its roots in long trains of
thought; it is virtually old when it makes its appearance among the
recognized growths of our intellect.
Oliver Wendell Holmes   _The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table_  1857.
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From: pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey)
Subject: Re: Break dancing (was Re: Cuttin' the Rug)
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
	<Bill.Fleischmann-270193135444@no-name-anes.med.umich.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 1993 00:29:58 UTC

In article <Bill.Fleischmann-270193135444@no-name-anes.med.umich.edu> 
Bill.Fleischmann@med.umich.edu (W.P. Fleischmann) writes:
>No, I thought you were going to finish with 
>                "And that's the *REST* of the story..."

fiddle-fee fiddle-fie fiddle-foe fiddle-fum, I smell the blood of an
English - muffin, huffin' and puffin', selling his soul, j-e-l-l-o, ya
know? roll with the squad that makes back flips stick, tisk tisk tisk ya
should-a used wisk, now you shouldn't appeal to be a BIFF, insist that
your mode is on scramble, remember the skips and enter the sample,
knowledge provided by the years of true and blue, perched on the front stoop,
checking for the base loop, so the troops are rolled out and the tolls
are paid set and done, and hon, here it -comes!

Good - day!
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From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: Cuttin' the Rug
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:17:32 GMT

In article <C1JG6y.GJ5@rahul.net> phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>One could apply mathematical induction to this.

AFU hipness alert:  diodes are out, coils are in.

Bruce "millihenry the 0.008th" Tindall

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From: dlytle@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Don Lytle)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: The Association for the Study of Play Conference
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:37:56 GMT
Reply-To: dlytle@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: oavax.csuchico.edu

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

TASP 1993 - St. Paul, MN
The Association for the Study of Play
April 22 - 24, 1993 % The St. Paul Hotel % St. Paul, Minnesota

       The Association For The Study of Play (TASP) will hold its 1993 annual meetings in St. Paul, Minnesota.  The conference will begin Thursday and continue until Saturday, April 24.  There will be featured speakers, playshops, and forums for the discussion and presentation of research papers on all aspects of play research, theory, performance and behavior.
	TASP conferences traditionally have provided a mechanism by which researchers in diverse fields have the opportunity to share ideas and interact in a friendly and collegial atmosphere.
       Papers and proposals for panel sessions or tutorials related to the broad study of play are invited.  Sessions include, but are not limited to:
 - Humor, laughter
 - Computer and cyperspace play
 - Folklore
 - Children's play behavior
 - Cross-cultural play
 - Body work and play art
 - Performance 
 - Anthropology of festive play
 - Sport
 - Literary playfulness

Deadline for submission of abstracts is February 5, 1993.

Send abstracts (100 word maximum), audio-visual needs, and registration fees ($60 professional and $20 student made payable to TASP) to:

Dr. Don Lytle
Department of Physical Education
California State University, Chico  95929-0330. 
Bitnet/E-Mail: DLYTLE@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU; FAX: 916 898-4932; 
Phone: {916} 898-6617 or 898-6373 {message}/894-5028 {evening}.
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Subject: Re: Glitch at the Dog Track
From: andrewb@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Andrew Bevin)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 00:58:54 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <JTCHEW-200193163754@b50-afrd5.lbl.gov> JTCHEW@lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:
>No, not glitch in the Potrzebie Lexicon of Euphemism sense, but rather in
>the computer sense.  Check out COMP.RISKS Digest, Vol. 14, Issue 28,
>"Racetrack goes to the dogs as computer fails."  (There will surely be
>followups in future issues.)  It contains a third-hand tale, attributed to
>the BBC, about a dog track where a computer glitch allowed spectators to
>place bets after a race was over and the results were available...
>
>...and supposedly 139 people bet on losers anyway!
>
>Joe "That dog won't hunt" Chew

Happened here in NZ about a week ago.

The state owned TAB ( Betting agency ) allow bets to be placed for a greyhound
race after the race had been broadcasted.

Oddly, the TAB lost on the race due to large amounts of money being placed on
the successful trifectia combination ( picking the 1st,2nd, and third ).

Approx 150 bets where placed on losing dogs after the race had been broadcasted.

The TAB is attempting to apprend the winners and get their money back.

But the TAB will not refund the money for the 150 losing bets.


Andrew "They're not getting their $50 back until they refund my $150" Bevin.

"Truth is stranger than shit" -"Once upon a time in America"

-- 
Andrew Bevin      			                     andrewb@icl.co.nz
SDC, Fujitsu New Zealand                      ## I do not speak for Fujitsu! ##
Auckland, New Zealand   
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Subject: Re: Tip Waitress, Not Cows
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 07:47:10 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:

> In article <TJ1FXB7w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.n
> ...
> >So it is TRUE that one in two MAARIAGES end in divorce.
> >It is NOT true that one in two of every couple who get married will end up
> >divorced.
> 
> You need to go back and re-read snopes's posting.
> Now, listen carefully, "The mere fact that there are twice as many
> marriages as there are divorces in any one particular year does not mean
> that half of all marriages end in divorce."

I don't need to go back and read Snopes posting. I don't care what Snopes
posted. I'm quoting from my knowledge of New Zealand statistics, which are
largely comparable to most of the Western world (other than Sweden), all of
which show the same trends, even though some countries are at different points.
> 
> >Check out the statistics on successful second marriages where one partner
> >has been previously divorced. And then both partners. Might as well go play
> >in the street.
> 
> Is there some point you are trying to make here?
> (He asks, petulantly...)

Ok, I'll type slowly so you can understand.

X and Y get married. If X was previously divorced or Y was previously divorced
then there is over 50% chance that the marriage will end in divorce within 5
years. If BOTH X and Y were divorced then there is an 87% chance that the
marriage will end in divorce within 5 years. New Zealand figures. Again,
I understand largely comparable to Western world. New Zealand is a "leader"
but all countries (other than Sweden) catching up. So my sources indicate.
I haven't checked too many countries stats personally.

So if you think a divorce is a BAD THING(tm), rather than two divorced couples
getting married, you have better odds on surviving playing in the street than
your marriage lasting 5 years.

Otherinterestingfact: Couples living together before marriage are somewhat
more likely to divorce.


-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU

"I hate quotations." - Ralph Waldo Emerson