HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lchsu@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Leon Hsu)
Subject: Re: That'd be in the Astroturf, Bob
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:15:57 GMT

In article <Aug.24.04.38.29.1992.18060@math.rutgers.edu> cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:
>
>While thumbing through the 1992 World Almanac en route to other
>information, I stumbled across a couple of news stories from 1991.
>They may or may not be ULs, but who's checking?
>
>One of the stories is apparently a continuation of a story from 1990.
>It seems that a couple had "an intimate interlude" (this IS the World
>Almanac) on the balcony of their room in the Toronto Blue Jays
>Sky-Dome Hotel--in full view of a stadium full of fans.  (The article
>doesn't say whether they were BASEBALL fans.)  Now guests to the rooms
>overlooking the Sky-Dome must sign a conduct code agreeing to conduct
>themselves appropriately on the balcony.
>

This story is actually true ... created quite a stir around these parts
when it happened. Great source material for the local comics.

-leon.

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From: damian@cs.monash.edu.au (Damian Conway)
Subject: Shergold fever update
Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 00:04:35 GMT

Thanks to all those who sent information regarding the history of
Shergold-mania. The local outbreak is curtailed, though it will doubtlessly 
mutate and reappear.

One final request - please stop sending info.
The cure is beginning to mimic the disease. :-)

damian

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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: organlegging/stolen organs
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 18:48:59 GMT

In article <13080056@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> mort@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jeff Mortensen) writes:
>	So, can you fight statistics?  Bond used to say after being asked 
>	"Mr. Bond, the odds are against you", "thats only if you play the
>	odds".  So, true!!!
>

What are the statistics on this Bondian story:

After it befell on Roger Moore to play 007, it became a curious coincidence.

It seems that several years earlier, Moore was playing in a movie, where he
was attempting to break his "Saint" mold and was playing a crooked lawyer
for the mob.  In one scene, he utters the now funny words:  "Who do you think
I am, James Bond?"

So what are the statistics for this coincidence?

cjl
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From: IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (macphil)
Subject: Re: Jeffrey Dahmer's Parents Sued
Organization: IUPUI
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:41:42 GMT

In article <Btv8vE.GGG@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
neath@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Ian Neath) writes:
 
>I read in the paper that Jeffrey Dahmer's parents are being
>sued in civil court for not raising their child correctly.
>Apparently it is the parents of Dahmer's first victim
>(hors d'oeuvre?) that are suing.  Any confirmation?
>
 
I don't remember which newspapers are available in W. Lafayette (but
attending the juggling convention there this Saturday will be a
refresher, I suppose), but according to the Chicago Tribune today,
the suit is because they should have recognized him to be a threat
moreso than how he was raised...basically, that the parents (incl.
step-parents?) should have recognized him as a "deviant" and done
something about it.  The value I saw on the suit was $50 million.
 
I supposed this is their way of grieving...
From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Spaghetti trees
Date: 27 Aug 92 22:02:50 GMT
Reply-To: lawson@aldia.UUCP (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA

In article <87098@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
>All this talk about parents giving us bum information (screaming peaches)
>and Chef Boy-Ar-Dee has brought back memories of my mom and dad telling us
>about spaghetti trees.
>
>Apparently, back when TV was first becoming popular, some wise-acre ran
>a "documentary" on where spaghetti comes from.  It showed all these happy
>Italian farmers, using their pitchforks to harvest spaghetti from the
>spaghetti trees.  My folks saw this; my mom believed it.  I have no idea
>what my dad thought; he's not saying.  
>
>Anybody else ever see this gem?  Or know anything about it?  Wonder if
>it's still around anywhere ...

I've never seen the original, but I saw one a few years back based on
this idea.

No pitch forks, though.  The "tender, fresh" pasta was picked by hand.
It had lots of smiling farm families gathering noodles.

-- 
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lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
From: wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Viruses: was(Re: aids started by cia?)
Date: 28 Aug 92 03:21:57 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Aug25.160703.10475@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>>Has a virial infection ever been *CURED*?
>
>close enough - the small pox virus is now extinct.

  Smallpox has been eradicated. But the question was whether a viral
infection had ever been *cured*. Big difference there. Especially if 
you have smallpox.
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From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: What makes an urban legend work?
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:30:14 GMT
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 60023@mimsy.umd.edu, tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!)) writes:
> Of course there's a natural B-12 source that's not derived from meat.
> B-12 isn't produced by animals, it's produced by microbes found in the
> soil.

Those are animals, aren't they?

Brian "Bacteria Cafeteria" Scearce
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From: nichol@asc.slb.com (Bruce Nichol)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Sex on the Train
Date: 31 Aug 92 07:33:09 GMT
Reply-To: nichol@gest20.sinet.slb.com
Organization: Schlumberger Austin Systems Center


	I read a short story in a recent international edition of
Newsweek about a couple in a train in England.  Apparently they were
having oral sex on the train and were pretty much ignored by the other
passengers.  However when they were finished, the lit up cigarettes.
This caused much dismay among the other passengers, some of whom
complained to the conductor.  "I say, you can't smoke here!"  They
were later arrested for indecent exposure or something like that.  



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From: tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:48:29 GMT
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory

In article <1992Sep4.054825.23384@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>
>ObGIfact:  The first version of the GI theme, sung by the Wellingtons,
>mentions Gilligan, the skipper too, the millionaire (and his wife), the movie
>star, and the rest.  Apparently when the theme was recorded, the characters
>of the Professor and Maryann had not been finalized yet.

This was for the first season, and though The Prof & M.A. had been
'finalized', they weren't seen as big characters.

ObGIFact: 	The actor who played the professor now lives in Washington
		State on an island.



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From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Cellular Frequencies
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:56:50 GMT
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

So long as we're doing "my frequency's bigger than yours", the highest
channel I've seen was CITY (independent) in Toronto, channel 79
(changed to 57 after the frequency reassignment).  Bids for 80, 80, 80?

Brian "CITY-TV... EVERYWHERE" Scearce
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From: etlanar@slartibartfast.ericsson.se (Alan Arthur)
Subject: Re: What makes an urban legend work?
Organization: Ericsson Cellular Division
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:33:55 GMT

In article <18rpbz7d@csv.warwick.ac.uk> csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~) writes:
>In article <1992Aug28.193831.17920@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>>The there was the UL that for each can of Coors you buy, the company would
>>purchase a bullet for the KKK.
>
>Yeah, and the one about Marlboro being in league with the KKK. Something to do
>with the colours on the packets, especially those dots (test colours, I always
>thought) that are hidden until you break the packet up. The rumor went
>round Cambridge (UK) in 1981-82, and it was amazing how many people bought it,
>and stopped smoking Marlboro. Of course, they just switched to something
>else...
>
>Later,
>
>The Wisp.
>-- 
>     Chris Williams <csuah@uk.ac.warwick.csv> aka <csuah@csv.warwick.ac.uk>


I thought the Marlboro story was based around the fact that you can (dubiously)
find three K's on the standard cardboard packet (doesn't work on softpack).

The red and white patterns do (sort of) make K's, and there is one on the front,
one on the back, and one on the bottom...

  ============         ============
  =====  =====         =====  =====
  ====    ==== ---->   ====    ====
  ===------===         ===      ===
  ==        ==         ==        ==
  =    oo    =         =          =
  =          =
  = MARLBORO =
  =          =
  =          =
  =          =
  ============




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From: carolo@cse.ucsc.edu (Carol Osterbrock)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: QWERTY
Date: 29 Aug 92 06:49:20 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
NNTP-Posting-Host: arapaho.ucsc.edu

In article <1992Aug28.010427.26089@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

>ObULInFAQFormat: 
>   F: The QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typists.  

Well, so what *was* the reason for the design?  I think I was told
that it was so that common letter combinations were unlikely to cause 
the machine to jam.  To me this means that it forces you to type more
slowly, since a jam is caused when one key is returning when another
one is striking.

-carol "hunt & pecker" o
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From: lchsu@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Leon Hsu)
Subject: Re: mouse in Coors can
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 01:17:34 GMT

In article <92241.155614WCE2@psuvm.psu.edu> <WCE2@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>See also FOAFtale News No. 14 (June 1989), a fairly interesting article by
>Michael J. Preston of U. Colorado, Boulder, on an actual case in which a
>Jacksonville, Florida, man tried to extort money out of Coors by opening a
>can and inserting a mouse, then calling in press (he got 18 months).

Sounds like Bob and Doug MacKenzie trying to get money from Elsinore Beer
by stuffing a rat into a beer bottle ....

Take off you hosers!  :)

-leon.

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From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
Subject: Re: Thomas Crapper and Spread Spectrum
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:48:52 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.


>Also, can anyone verify or debunk the notion
>that Hedy Lamarr (the actress) holds the
>original Spread Spectrum patent in the 40's?

I don't have the issue or the citation in hand, but the IEEE "Spectrum"
ran a sidebar on Lamarr's anti-jamming torpedo guidance system patent
from the 30's, sometime in the past 3 years. It should appear in their
index. (Ever since seeing that article I've been looking for am 8x10
publicity photo of Lamarr to hang over my desk. Any suggestions where
to find such a thing?)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Flat Earth Society???
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:12:20 GMT

phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes:

>Phil "Please: We aren't allowed to have sophomoric 'What is Proof' 
>arguments on a.f.u.  No smilies, and no swipa's" Gustafson

I would like to apologize for my previous post.  Please ignore its
first paragraph.  I wasn't thinking about the possible consequences.

Wasn't there a three-sided r*SPLAT*
-- 
Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: What makes an urban legend work?
Date: 31 Aug 1992 23:01:44 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 22717@news.columbia.edu, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
> There is an ongoing debate as to whether there is a "natural" B12
> supply not derived from meat, and a "quest" for an alleged vegetable
> source that is an obscure plant, etc.

Yes, this is known as the Quest for the Holi- Gruel.

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From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: IS TOLEDO GOING TO THE DOGS?
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:26:36 GMT
Reply-To: lawson@aldia.UUCP (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA

In article <2508@israel.nysernet.org> warren@nysernet.org writes:
>In <1992Sep1.060438.8808@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> ag445@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott Medlong) writes:
>
>>NOT ONLY DOGS CAN LICK HANDS.
>
>4.5 Shergolds.  One frozen chicken.

I heard that Walt Disney is frozen.

-- 
Drew Lawson                      If you're not part of the solution,
lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
From: cummings@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Cummings)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Monty Python's 3-sided ?
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:12:05 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

In <1992Sep1.171207.6878@panix.com> fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller) writes:

>Mad magazine once released one of those cheapo square flexi plastic records
>that had 7 different "shock" endings to the same song: "Super spectacular
>day"

>a free cheeseburger to anyone who can correctly post the lyrics to it.

It's a
Great, big, beautiful
Wonderful, Incredible
Super-spectacular day!
And your heart is hummin'
With good times comin'
And you've got that happy feeling things are going your way.

All the bells are ringing
And a little bird's singing
As he sits on your window sill
Saying, "Yessirree, I can surely see
It'll plainly be, most definitely!
A super-spectacular da-a-a-a-y!"

UNTIL...

[Insert ending here]

Do I get my cheeseburger?

>a free big mac if you get all seven endings as well.

Alas, this was from memory, and I just don't remember the endings like I do
the song.

Here's a fragment of one:

[can't remember very beginning]
The street's all aglow with a large UFO
A creature comes out with two heads and a snout
It croaks like a frog and throws up on your dog
It thinks you are great and wants you for its mate
[can't quite remember]
And you finally say as the Earth fades away that IT'S NOT SUCH A
SUPER-SPECTACULAR DAY!!!

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From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Eating Dogs
Date: 31 Aug 92 21:07:50 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Aug31.153420.15895@hubcap.clemson.edu> jlysagh@hubcap.clemson.edu (james joseph lysaght) writes:
>I remember when I lived in Philadelphia back in High School.  There was
>this cult group called MOVE.  They had something like 30 people living
>in a small row home.  The had baracaded the house like a fort, installed
>a machine gun nest on the roof, set up loud speakers and shouted
>obscenities all night long at the neoghbors.  They were rumored for the

[lots of totally impossible stuff deleted]
>
>anyone else out there from Philly around this time and remember all
>this?

Unfortunately, much of the world remembers all this.  I wasn't living in
Philly at the time, and I heard about it.  I live here now, and I still
hear about it.  Less, now, because Wilson Goode is no longer mayor, though
he will go down in history for the MOVE bombing.  

I think it's kinda symbolic of Philadelphia itself, actually.


-- 
Lauren Crawford  //  crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu

I believe we are on the irreversible trend toward more freedom and
democracy -- but that could change.   -- J. Danforth Quayle  
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Thomas Crapper and Spread Spectrum
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:21:52 GMT

In article <7844@public.BTR.COM> grady@btr.BTR.COM (Grady Ward  grady@btr.com) writes:
>Does anyone know the origin of the "Thomas Crapper"
>(as in inventor of the toilet) myth?
>
>Also, can anyone verify or debunk the notion
>that Hedy Lamarr (the actress) holds the
>original Spread Spectrum patent in the 40's?

I thought that Hedy (not Hedly!) Lamarr was famous for spreading her own
personal spectrum in some European movie in the '30's before coming to
Hollywood.

cjl
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From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Re: Counterfeiting 
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 00:44:34 GMT

I am planning a Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH meeting on this topic in the near
future.  It will be an outgrowth of color copier technology (we'll
probably hold it at Xerox PARC).  I also plan to invite the Secret Service,
a company which I know which makes money recognizer machines (they have
plates), and a few other people.

Watch for it in comp.graphics or ba.seminars.  Probable date: January.

Time to 'u'.

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
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From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Cannibaderm, anyone?
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 21:03:11 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.150818.8256@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:
>
>Or [marijuana] can be extracted with alcohol and imbibed.  No heating.
>

To no good effect, though.  As Freewheeling Franklin sez, "Drinking beer and
smoking dope at the same time is like pissing into the wind."

Phil "Insert cat cartoon here" Gustafson
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From: bobk@ESD.3Com.COM (Bob Konigsberg)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Abandoned/Booby Trapped Aircraft hangars
Date: 31 Aug 92 22:06:40 GMT

It finally struck me last night of something that MAY be another urban
legend, or since I heard it in the service, a military legend...

Anyhow, when I was in the service, I was stationed at Coleman Army
Airfield in Mannheim in West Germany (at the time).  It was a common 
tale there that underneath the airfield
that we all worked on, was a maze of aircraft hangars left over from
World War II.  The U.S. Army, had lost several people to booby traps
when trying to investigate these hangars, that they finally flooded
them, and sealed off the entrance.

Question: To verify its authenticity (or more precisely the lack thereof)
Does anyone else know of such a tale being repeated at their airbase,
or similar circumstances?  OR better yet, can anyone substantiate the 
story?

Thanks,

BobK
From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Spaghetti trees
Date: 26 Aug 92 18:01:05 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

All this talk about parents giving us bum information (screaming peaches)
and Chef Boy-Ar-Dee has brought back memories of my mom and dad telling us
about spaghetti trees.

Apparently, back when TV was first becoming popular, some wise-acre ran
a "documentary" on where spaghetti comes from.  It showed all these happy
Italian farmers, using their pitchforks to harvest spaghetti from the
spaghetti trees.  My folks saw this; my mom believed it.  I have no idea
what my dad thought; he's not saying.  

Anybody else ever see this gem?  Or know anything about it?  Wonder if
it's still around anywhere ...


-- 
Lauren Crawford  //  crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
            -- J. Danforth Quayle