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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Credible Evidence? (Was Re: Faces of Death)
Organization: Just put everything on the floor; I can find it.
Date: 11 SEP 92 21:35:49    


In article <1992Sep8.193635.27371@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, 
  jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker) writes...

>There's a guy here in Austin named Mark Weaver who supposedly claims to 
>have a snuff film (the guy is sorta a fruitcake/ultra-right-winger who is
>said to drive around with a trunk full of pornography for "research purposes").
>I've posted here before stating that I'd volunteer to give this guy a call 
>and see if I can meet this guy and find out what he's got, BUT...
>....say this guy pulls out a videotape and shows me the thing and it seems 
>to be genuine. How can I present this as sufficient proof to the net? (and 
>thereby get my name immortalized on the AFU FAQ :-) 

Well, presumably if this person is willing to show you, a total stranger, his
collection of snuff films, it wouldn't be hard for others to view them as well.
Why not worry about that detail when you come to it?  Chances are this person
is going to turn you down flat, come up with some fabricated excuse, or show
you "Faces of Death".

 - snopes

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From: Chuck Adams <chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov>
Subject: FAQ it to me
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:42:01 GMT

Terry
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Viruses: was(Re: aids started by cia?)
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 23:35:35 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1992Sep11.205002.16018@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>Not likely.  H-IV lacks 5-6 characteristics key to turning it into a weapon.
>You would not even start with such a virus.
>

Yes "Nyah Nyah you're gonna die sometime in the next ten years"
really tips the balance of power in battlefield conditions.

-- 
Derek Tearne. -- derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz --  Fujitsu/ICL New Zealand -- 
Some of the more aware dinosaurs were worried about the environmental
consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.  
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
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From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Presidential UL's
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:47:43 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

UL?:  Richard Nixon watched the movie "Patton," starring 
George C. Scott, six times while deciding whether or not 
to bomb (Laos/Cambodia??)

UL?:  Ike ordered the death of hundreds of thousands of
German POW's after WWII? (by starvation)

UL?:  JFK and Jackie smoked pot in the white house.

UL?:  Reagan was actually awake during his terms!!(probably false)

UL?:  John Hinckley Jr.'s parents are good friends of George and 
Barbara Bush.( I know, alt.conspiracy )


There must be tons of UL's out there about our illustrious
leaders, mostly political bull****, but some should be based in 
truth.
 
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From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Modern Mummies
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:15:14 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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>Here is something that I heard recently at the office, from someone
>who claims to have read about it somewhere:

Well, that's a cut above our usual source, who merely claims to have
HEARD about it somewhere.

>Due to the enormous amounts of preservatives that we eat in our modern
>everyday lives, our bodies are taking longer and longer to degenerate
>in the grave.

This story plainly has more holes in it than a "Deer Crossing" sign in
Texas, but perhaps the biggest is, um, the enormous amount of preser-
vatives they pump into you at the funeral parlor.  Even those don't
work forever against the conquering microbe.

By way of experimentation, maybe you could put a Twinkie in the coffin 
at the next funeral you attend.

Jessica Mitford's _The American Way of Death_ hasn't come up in a long
time.  You (and your all-swallowing friend) might find it amusing.

>Mike "found 'gullible' on the second try" Baudais

Joe "Do the gullible explode when you feed them Alka-Seltzer?" Chew
From: esrne@warwick.ac.uk (Mr P I Neaves)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Notorious Toothpaste Skit
Date: 11 Sep 92 11:50:08 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK

In article <1992Sep10.172818.8887@unislc.uucp> dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright) writes:
>>stuff deleted..
>
>........Lastly I'll bet McGrew pays the girl who swallows
>something like 50 bucks (joke away with that line you clowns).
>
>  -- Dan Wright


50 bucks for a girl who swallows ?

The most I've paid is

1. "Yes, of course I love you..."
2. "If you *really* loved me...
3. And of course, a candle lit dinner and a bunch of flowers.

This reminds of the worlds three worst lies:

1. The cheque is in the post.
2. I love you.
3. I wont come in your mouth.


Phil.
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Notes (was Re: Counterfeitin')
Date: 8 Sep 92 11:01:37 GMT
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited

In article <1992Sep8.073859.3106@ericsson.se> Alan Arthur writes:
>
> Hmmm, if you travelled a few hundred miles north, you'd find that in Scotland,
> we still quite happily use 1 pound notes (in fact there's four different kinds
> in common circulation)..

That's the fun of Scotland and Northern Ireland. In these countries the
banks can print their own notes. (Jersey do as well.) A nice opportunity
to hoax ignorant tourists, but for all other reasons it's probably just
one of them ol' traditions.

---
YuNoHoo  "I'd like to pay with this 1,000,000 pund note, please"
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Wild Chicken Flocks
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:49:14 GMT

lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson) writes:
: 
: Terry, Terry, Terry. . .  There hasn't been lead as a gasoline additive
: since when, 1988?  Most chickens don't live so long, except perhaps as
: pets.

There isn't. Then why do they specifically call one or more grades of
gas "unleaded" while another is called regular?

Bill
From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Third to be bombed...
Summary: Enough to go around
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:40:37 GMT
Reply-To: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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>: In at least two cities I've lived in (Charlotte, NC and Binghamton, NY),
>: there is the claim that that city is "third" on the list of sites to be
>: bombed by the Soviets [. . .]

Civic pride, I suppose.  With slightly over 30 000 weapons (including 
both strategic and theater sizes) in Fragmented Soviet Union hands at 
the present time, and about 20 000 under our presumably kinder, gentler
control, there seems to be little need to ration out the apocalypse.

Joe "Owns a wooden house within fireball radius of Alameda NAS" Chew
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From: GREERIH@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.magic,rec.misc,alt.stagecraft,alt.tasteless
Subject: Re: Notorious Toothpaste Skit
Date: 11 Sep 92 19:29:08 GMT
Organization: Yale University

In article <1992Sep10.172818.8887@unislc.uucp>
dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright) writes:
 
>
>For four years I attended a private co-ed boarding high school named
>Wasatch Academy.  During orientation at the beginning of each year,
>students were separated into groups presided over by faculty advisors,
>and each group was told to come up with and to practice a skit, which
>they would have to perform that evening for the rest of the school.
>Each year Mr. McGrew convinced his group of new students perform the
>same notorious skit.  Even though I have seen that skit four times I'm
>still not sure how he persuaded his students to do it.
>
>On a small table are a glass of water, a toothbrush, and a tube of
>toothpaste.  The first performer comes on, squeezes some toothpaste onto
>the brush, and proceeds to brush his teeth.  He then rinses with the
>water, spitting it back into the cup.  The next performer comes on,
>squeezes more toothpaste onto the brush, brushes his teeth thoroughly,
>then uses the dirty water to rinse, again spitting it back into the cup.
>The audience gets more grossed out and groans more loudly as two other
>performers come on and further dirty the water in their turn.  The cup
>is looking positively sickening when the last performer comes on.  For
>this role Mr. McGrew would chose the prettiest, most dainty girl he
>could find.  After brushing her teeth, this girl does the unthinkable:
>she raises the filthy cup to her lips and drinks it all down, swallowing
>several times, till every last drop is gone.
>
>I can only imagine that McGrew has each of the students brush their
>teeth five times immediately before performing the skit.  I have also
>wondered whether the "toothpaste" was something more inert like
>cornstarch-paste.  Lastly I'll bet McGrew pays the girl who swallows
>something like 50 bucks (joke away with that line you clowns).
>
>Have any of you seen a similar trick?  Do any of you know of some other
>device or explanation for this skit?
A group here on campus does the skit and they take a lottery to see who goes
last!
 
Eric
 
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From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
Subject: Re: Colour perception (was: Death by sneezing)
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:20:00 GMT

In article <Bu6BGB.Fy2@rice.edu> swaim@owlnet.rice.edu (Michael Parks Swaim) writes:
>In article <fq5pbb4@csv.warwick.ac.uk> csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~) writes:
>>In article <Z3umqB1w165w@dogbox.acme.gen.nz> dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (dogbowl) writes:
>>>moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:
>>>
>>>> ObUL:  Red traffic lights are tinged a little on the orange side, and
>>>> green lights tinged on the blue to help red-green colorblind folks to
>>>> distinguish them.
>
>>I very much doubt this. (All of it) If you can't read a traffic light, you
>>have to be vertically-blind, as well as color-blind. The position of the light
>>in the stack, and the fact that you can tell which light is on or off, is all
>>you need to use traffic lights.
>
>  What if the lights are horizontal, like some here in Houston? (I've seen
>them horizontal in other U.S. cities as well.) I think that the left one's
>red, but I'm not sure. Then there are the ones with four or five lights
>on them, also...
>

Ok, OK, I take it all back!  ;-) I was speaking from UK/Europe experience,
where all traffic lights are in threes, vertically, red amber green from
the top. BTW, I was in Houston a long time ago, and never saw any odd lights:
are they new? Where are they???

The Wisp. [curiouser and curiouser...]
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From: delisle@eskimo.celestial.com (Ben Delisle)
Subject: Re: Eskimo words for 'snow'
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 05:56:32 GMT

	It is my understanding that the '723' words or phrases for snow is 
spread out amoung several native tribal languages.
	



--
 delisle@eskimo.celestial.com | Nothing is fool-proof, fools are too ingenous.
 
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Subject: Re: Counterfeiting
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:23:32 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.030621.24943@NeoSoft.com> arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva) writes:
>In article <BuKrJy.7HG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
>>So using
>> brass washers in toll booths and vending machines, and shuffling play
>> money through faulty change machines, are counterfeiting, and have
>> definitely been done for trivial denominations.
>
>So one time when I was complaining about it to Peter (who happens to be 
>from Australia, if you didn't know), he casually mentioned that the Oz 
>10 cent piece was about the same size as a quarter and should work in 
>the washing machines.  He also had quite a stockpile of Australian currency 
>laying around.  They did work, quite nicely in fact, and I'm sure I
>evened up the score in the process.

When I lived in Boston, the washing machines would take MBTA-tokens rather
than quarters.

Ted "but I made it up in volume" Frank
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: baudais@bnr.ca (Michael Baudais)
Subject: Modern Mummies
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.,
Distribution: alt
Date: 8 Sep 92 08:50:39


Here is something that I heard recently at the office, from someone
who claims to have read about it somewhere:

Due to the enormous amounts of preservatives that we eat in our modern
everyday lives, our bodies are taking longer and longer to degenerate
in the grave.

Even I, who looked in the dictionary to find the word 'gullible', had
to laugh at this one.

Mike "found 'gullible' on the second try" Baudais
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From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,ca.driving,rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: stupid cop tricks & t
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:25:50 GMT
Reply-To: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov
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{LA County meter maid tickets parked car containing dead driver}

It occurs to me that maybe some local ordinance or police regulation
prohibits them from towing a car merely because it is illegally
parked without first ticketing it.  Whether or not it is illegally
parked because somebody blew the driver's brains out. 

Still, it's a nice Kafkaesque touch, sort of like the very badly
smashed-up San Francisco pedestrian who was recently cited for
jaywalking ($55) after the accidentand may have to make a court 
appearance with life-support equipment attached.

Crossposted to ca.driving and rec.autos.driving; followups back here.

Joe "Bet they checked his registration sticker, too" Chew
From: under@cs.cornell.edu (Judith Underwood)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Third to be bombed...
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:33:04 GMT
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853

In article <CINDY.92Sep9223734@solan10.solan.unit.no> cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf) writes:
>I heard a variation of this legend several times when i was a wee
>thing, growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (alas).  But the
>way i heard it, we were _twenty-second_ on the list.  

This sounds more familiar.  Where I grew up, the legend was that we 
were on the list at all, surprising since we were in the middle of 
nowhere and had no military bases or command sites or anything.  
(Well, we were 70 miles from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, but 
that doesn't really count.)

The explanation was that we'd get bombed because our airport had a 
bomber runway and military planes could land there.  It might be true
about the airport since it was a supposedly a training site for pilots
during World War II, but I don't know what kind of runway modern 
military planes require, or if they'd really worry about hitting every
last runway.

By the way, this was in Walla Walla, Washington.

Judith Underwood
under@cs.cornell.edu
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From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: Viruses: was(Re: aids started by cia?)
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 11:55:47 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.205002.16018@nas.nasa.gov>, Eugene N. Miya writes:
>
> Not likely.  H-IV lacks 5-6 characteristics key to turning it into a weapon.
> You would not even start with such a virus.

Reminds me about weapon training when I was in the army. When I started using
live handgrenades I suddenly changed my mind about weapons. (And then we were
told that the time delay would malfunction on a small fraction :-) of the
grenades.)

---
YuNoHoo
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Counterfeiting (Was: You are humble and loveable)
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 23:55:54 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <1992Sep5.190842.17065@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>perry@Unify.Com (Perry Clarke) writes:
>>Apparently, the new bank notes in the UK came about as a response to the
>>(then) new color photocopiers.
>
>New Canadian $50s and $100s have a little shiny metal patch on them with the
>number engraved.  It's just striking enough that you'd probably realize it if
>you were handed a colour photocopy.  The photocopy may look about the same, but
>it wouldn't reflect light.  I forget when these bills came in; it's been a
>couple of years or so; the old ones are still in circulation.


Canon is supposedly coming out with a new line of color copiers in the US
that recognize US currency, and just print a black smudge on the paper.

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Eskimo words for 'snow'
From: frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz (Bruce Clement)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 12:59:47 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Private System

snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com writes in article <1992Sep10.043359.12312@PA.dec.com>:
> 
> 
> In article <yq5pbq4b@csv.warwick.ac.uk>, 
>   csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~) writes...
 
> >(I claim the OED as my source, before you ask ;-> ).
> 
> The OED?  The Oxford ENGLISH Dictionary?  Good source for information about
> words in eskimo languages. I must admit.
 
No, the much thinner & less well known Oslo Esquimau Dictionary. Available at
all good booksellers for two-fifty

--
Bruce Clement    (frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz  SNEWS/2,  UUPC 1.11q)
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From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Re: Price gouging in Florida and Guam
Reply-To: lawson@aldia.UUCP (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:35:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.152955.28480@chpc.org> rboudrie@chpc.org (Rob Boudrie) writes:

>I'm not defending persons taking advantage of other's misfortunes, but
>could someone please explain precisely what law was broken by vendors
>adjusting their price to market conditions?  

Generally, they are violating price gouging laws.

I don't know about the situation in general, but I know that South
Carolina passed such a law in the wake of Hugo.  I don't know the
specifics, but assume that the laws prohibit selling necessities at
prices beyond the normal rate during the aftermath of a disaster.

An example would be that posted by another poster:  generators
available in Florida for $250 were being sold for $1800.  It is
considered distasteful to make a killing at the expense of others,
particularly when the entire world is watching.


Drew "Want some bread?  It's only two-fifty" Lawson
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From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: Mailing Coconuts
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 16:10:35 GMT

In article <1992Sep5.014623.8618@news.iastate.edu>, glitto@iastate.edu (Scott M Klabacha) writes...
>>T. You can send a coconut thru the mail without any further wrapping. Yowser!

>I've wondered about this one for some time now. What are the details? What
>kind of implement do you use to write on a coconut? Do the stamps just stick
>on, or do you need to use glue? Would there be any use in writing "This End
>Up" seeing as how the thing's gonna roll around anyway?

>Seriously, though, what are the details about this? Why is it possible? What
>do you do if the people at the post office don't want to accept it?

I don't know about the specific case of coconuts, but the postal regulations
on agricultural products are somewhat unusual compared to other products,
so perhaps something as sturdy as a coconut can be mailed if you can get
the stamps and an address label to stick.

Perhaps more interesting is you can (and people often do) ship live bees
through the US mail, for the purpose of establishing honey-producing hives. 
From what I hear 5 pounds of buzzing motivation (about 12,000+ honeybees) makes
great incentive to have the package treated carefully and delivered promptly! 
The bees do, however, require a package.

-Mike
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Subject: Re: Hurricane Iniki Struck Kaui, FAQs Later
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:12:33 GMT

Y'all used to post a list of revisions to the FAQ.  My memory's not
good enough to be able to figure out what's new and what's not.

ObUL: Bloody hook hanging from suction cups inside rear windshield.
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          ted frank | thf2@midway.uchicago.edu | standard disclaimers
         the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
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