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From: strat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Date: 28 Dec 1992 00:18:42 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

jamesh@netcom.com (James Hightower) writes:

>>Anyone have any interesting CD stories not involving green markers, or
>>know someone who does?

>I understand that the Boston "Third stage" gives a countdown on your
>cd players display during the intro.

Apparently, at any point during a track the CD producer can put in a
code that says "The rest of this track is spacing between this track
and the next ..." There is a Jimi Hendrix live at Winterland CD that
does the same thing a you describe.

Stratocaster
-- 
	   Steve Davis (I'm a student, not a spokesperson!)
      strat@cis.ksu.edu - Kansas State University - Manhattan KS
				   
Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us form ourselves. - Rush
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: AFU Flan Cub
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <1992Dec28.100645.28718@nntp.nta.no>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:08:16 GMT

styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:

>At least nobody have posted 250 muffin recipes to a.f.u as long as this
>rec.cooking crossposting has been going on.

Maybe a crosspost to comp.bbs.waffle would bring some breakfast recipes.

ObUL: Since the breakup of the USSR, USA moved from 4th to 3rd in population.

ObUL2: When Canada breaks up, USA will move to 3rd in land area.

Jon "Breakfast, what's that?" Papai
From: brian@sgml.com (Brian E. Travis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: "Mr." Socks?
Distribution: world
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 04:40:48 GMT
Organization: SGML Associates, Inc.
Reply-To: brian@sgmlinc.com

It seems to me that I heard someone, early on in the Clinton 
transition, refer to the first cat as "Mr." Socks. Now all I ever 
hear the horrid thing called is "Socks the Cat"

Has anyone else heard the more proper form? Either way, I can't 
wait until the Prez-to-be shows his manhood by whirling the 
animal around by his ears.

Brian "Is that what it is?" Travis

--
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lucio@phyrql.Alt.ZA (Lucio de Re)
Subject: Yet another _sewer_ newsgroup...
Reply-To: lucio@proxima.Alt.ZA
Organization: MegaByte Digital Communications
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:55:49 GMT

PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:

>Jon "alt.tla, the newsgroup of palindromes." Papai

"... and of three-letter-abbreviations"

Lucio "I saw it earliest" de Re.
-- 
Lucio de Re (lucio@phyrql.Alt.ZA)
The supernatural does not exist, but it gives me the creeps...
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson)
Subject: Re: African-American-top
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 04:09:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan2.130701.3358@pollux.lu.se> magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson) writes:
>In article <C07wIH.HHz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson) writes:
>>Ahh, but you should also notice 'Der gute Mensch', clearly masculine.
>
>Sorry, but "der Mensch" means simply "the human" or "the person",
>regardless of that person's sex. 

Sorry, but "Der Mensch", regardless of what it means, is still masculine.
I wasn't implying that it had to refer to a man, I was merely muddying
the waters.

>You may of course say that the German language is sexist, since it
>assigns the masculine gender to _all_ human beings by default, as it
>were. 

Actually, I've often wondered what a PC movement would do in Germany.
The only thing I could think of was making all nouns neuter.  Other
languages don't have neuter nous; everything is masculine or feminine.
Then, I suppose, you might get a movement of people who would decline
everything as feminine just to make up for years of "unfair declention"(sp?).

>On the other hand, the Swedish word for 'human', 'M"anniska', always
>takes the feminine pronoun.

As it is in French I believe.

Ben "I am a jelly doughnut" Jackson
--
"The direction of the eye, so misleading...
 The defection of the soul, nauseously quick." -- Pearl Jam, _Garden_
Ben Jackson, ben@ben.com, bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:32085 sci.space:18195
From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.space
Subject: Re: asteroids beyond Jupiter
Date: 24 Dec 92 22:20:32 GMT
Followup-To: sci.space
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <1992Dec24.192807.29315@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr) writes:
>: >: >
>: >Guess I will have to do some study of the recent research. Do you have some
>: >cites to simplify my astronomical task?
>: 
>: Well, yes. I've been trying to get into a library to get actual books to
>: cite from, but they're all closed here at Va. Tech for the holiday.  You
>: claim that all true asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter.  Then, I ask
>: you, what about the asteroids that show up in the papers zooming past
>: Earth every so often?  Every year or so they tell us that another one came
>
>No - I never did make such a claim. My definition of asteroid is: any object
>that originated in the asteroid belt. I claim that such an object could not
>be captured by a planet - without undergoing a serious kinetic energy loss
>somewhere.
>
>: within a million miles.  Furthermore, although the name of the asteroid
>: class escapes me while I'm unable to get at books, there is a whole class
>: of asteroids that spends most of their time out around Saturn and beyond,
>: in highly elliptical orbits that infrequently bring them in nearer the
>: Sun.
>
>Ok, you now have asteroids that have been perturbed out to around the
>orbit of Saturn. Keep going, you have got 1/3rd the way to Neptune.
>
>:       Saturn and Jupiter now have so many moons verified as orbiting them
>: that it's not big news anymore.  Each has ten or so tiny rocks that used
>: to be asteroids orbiting way out.  From what I recall reading in astronomy
>
>Do you have some documentation for this? I suppose, for Jupiter and Saturn,
>it might be possible to capture an asteroid - since they have enough moons
>to possibly cause enough energy loss.  However, I am still cynical.
>
>: books, some of these will orbit their gas giant for a few million years
>: and then escape again.
>
>Where are they going to get the energy to do so?
>
>:                         Pluto's "moon", however, doesn't strike me as a
>: likely asteroid capture because Pluto just wouldn't have the gravitational
>: pull to snag something nearly as large as itself and keep it there.
>
>That is not the major problem - the problem is: where would sufficient
>energy be shed - the same is true for the supposition that Pluto was
>captured by Neptune.
>

Bill, I think it's time you take this to sci.space and out of a.f.u.  It
strikes me as more appropriate there.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dtasman@NMSU.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:22:05 GMT

torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:

: "Park" is the most common street name (I believe all variants were counted)
: in the U.S.

In the Atlanta region, there is supposedly over 50 streets named "Peachtree".   
Just about every community in Erie County, New York (Buffalo area) has a  
"French Road".

I personally like harsh, hard-to-pronounce ethnic street names in central  
Buffalo, like "Schreck Avenue", "Scrutum Avenue" and "Paderewski Drive".  

: Torsten "trying to figure out Blondo Street" Adair in Omaha

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                                                     molson@rever.nmsu.edu
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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    Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: Gravity
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 07:52:16 GMT


> > ObUL: Tidal forces from the moon are slowing the rotation of the
> > Earth, and lengthening the day by .001 sec/century.
> 
> We were told it was 0.000530 seconds (and the last zero is probably not
> significant, since it was originally milliseconds).

Perhaps "we were told" refers to my posting a few weeks ago in connection
with leap years.  The numbers I gave in that were taken from Van Nostrand's
Scientific Encyclopedia, and that source does give the figure of "about"
1 ms (i.e. .001 second) per century for the lengthening of the day.

From the same source, the tropical *year* is shortening by .530 seconds
per century.  It was written that way, so if they're not being careless
then the third digit *is* significant.  I may have rendered it as 530 ms
in my article, which didn't need 3-digit significance.

(For those who were asleep last time, the term "tropical year" refers to
the physical cycle on which the calendar year is based, i.e. the time
from one vernal equinox to the next.)

ObGravUL: F = G M m / r^2
-- 
Mark Brader            \ "It's not in the slightest bit harder to write Fortran
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto  \ or Basic programs in C++ or Smalltalk than it is
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com \ to write them in C or Pascal."   -- Peter da Silva

This article is in the public domain.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: richha@microsoft.com (Richard Harrington)
Subject: Re: More on "Thad"
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:41:48 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
Distribution: PNW


They've mentioned on the news a couple of times that a similar letter
was found last year around this time.

I think it is a hoax.  I think someone is trying to instill some
"Christmas Spirit" by creating an instant cause.

Besides, an adult could have told a kid what to write...
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: FIZZIES (was: Re: Cheese popcorn)
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: add
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:06:03 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.063113.23441@netcom.com> obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien) writes:
>
>	round 'n round 'n round she goes...

Does she have three sides?

cjl
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:32026 rec.food.cooking:23826
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: AFU Flan Cub
Date: 23 Dec 1992 23:35:10 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117


Commenting on Ted Frank's (so this has some relevance to cooking)
clarification:

I constructed:

  +>Brussels Sprouts is Italian for small cabbage?  You guys are
  +>really confusing here on a.f.u.  Broccoli is the guy who
  +>produces Matt Helm movies (Pierce Brosnan is in the next one).
  +>         ^^^^^^^^^
  +>Terry "Can't someone give me a straight answer w/o a flame?!" Chan
  
  
To which dfw@thumper.UUCP (Doris Woods) tries to correct and writes:
  +
  + Ahhhh .......... don't you mean James Bond movies?

No, no.  I was wrong, it should have been Maxwell Smart movies.

Broccoli is doing the life of George Bush.

Terry "Leonard Maltin has nothing on me" Chan
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From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Fellatio laws, cases cited (was: Re: FAQ list)
Date: 21 Dec 1992 20:57:58 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 62140@cc.usu.edu, slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer) writes:
>     (1)  A person commits sodomy when the actor engages in any sexual
>act with a person who is 14 years of age or older involving the
>genitals of one person and mouth or anus of another person, regardless
>of the sex of either participant.

NEWSFLASH: RIMMING LEGAL IN UTAH

Brian "But, but" Scearce
---
Brian Scearce                                           bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
              The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
                  "You can't fit the truth on a t-shirt, man."
                                 "That'd fit."

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:12:04 GMT

quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:
: In <lj05n6INNago@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> trelford@trelford.Eng.Sun.COM (Trelford Pinkerton) writes:
: 
: >Doesn't anyone ever give in to the urge to scramble Data's diodes
: >by running a powerful magnet over the back of his head?
: 
: Everybody knows that you can't scramble diodes by using a magnet . . .
: sheesh . . .

Sure you can - all you have to do is use enough pressure.

Bill "20 tons should be sufficient" Nelson
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bml@netcom.com (Brian Leibowitz)
Subject: Computer theft
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:08:38 GMT

I heard this story many years ago and was wondering if it really happened.

A programmer at a bank changed the interest calculations on accounts
to round down instead of rounding to the nearest penny.  All the fractions
of pennies were put in a dummy account and then withdrawn.  The bank did
not notice for a while because the amount of interest paid was still correct
and the books balanced.
After the programmer was caught, the bank pressed charges.  The defense
was that the programmer did not steal from the bank and thus the bank
had no right to press charges - the depositors as a group would have
had to press the charges.  The courts agreed and the programmer was
found not guilty.  The programmer could not be retried due to double
jeopordy laws.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Does anyone know if this really happened?
[the crime sounds likely, but the court ruling may be an UL]

Brian
From: manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: afu motto du jour
Date: 30 Dec 92 21:44:45 GMT
Organization: DSC/Optilink Access Products

>In article <1hq206INNq1f@spim.mti.sgi.com> mpolen@suntory.mti.sgi.com (Mike Polen) writes:
>
>>I am not saying this happened, but there is not reason to believe it
>>couldn't happen.

Dave^H^H^H^HTerry "what'd he say?" Manley

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February 3 is National Honorary Terry Day.


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <1992Dec23.010026.6475@news.columbia.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:02:14 GMT


	I hate to return a thread to its original intent, but,
The original question was on use of the holodeck by Riker for a
three-way with holographic recreations of Troi and Crusher while
a holographic Wesley looked on.  Well, the new series "Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine" will clear up the question.  See _Time_,
December 28,1992, p. 63, which says the space station will have
"a promenade with a space-age cash machine and a holographic
brothel."

ObUL: Q is _Time_'s man o'the year

Jon "Space 1999 was better" Papai
From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: I Live to FAQ!
Date: 23 Dec 92 00:14:22 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <1992Dec22.194453.27356@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards) writes:
>In article <5522.434.uupcb@ehbbs.gwinnett.com> curt.tucker@ehbbs.gwinnett.com
>(Curt Tucker)  writes:
>>I've heard this for years and have found no counter-example.  The
>>Numbers/letters may or may not correspond to particular regional Federal
>>Reserve Banks.  I bet the Fed or the Treasury Dept. would explain if
>>anyone cared enough to call.
>
>The numbers and letters do, in fact correspond to the Federal Reserve Bank
>that issues the note.  The large black letter that appears in the middle of
>the Federal Reserve Bank seal (the black seal to the left of the portrait),
>the letter at the beginning of the serial number, and the four black numbers
>that appear towards each of the four corners, but still within the white
>area of the bill, all correspond to the issuing Federal Reserve Bank.  The
>banks are numbered (and lettered in the order in which they were
>established.  An incomplete list of the banks (going by what I presently
>have in my wallet) follows:
>
>          Boston, MA             1     A
           New York, NY           2     B
>                                 3     C
>          Cleveland, OH          4     D
           Richmond, VA           5     E
>                                 6     F
>          Chicago, IL            7     G
>                                 8     H
>                                 9     I
>                                10     J
>                                11     K
>          San Francisco, CA     12     L
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jjonsson@alexandria.lib.utah.edu
Subject: Re: Trademarks (was Re: ...film at 11...)
Organization: Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 12:34:34 GMT

In article <Bzq15y.MEC@brunel.ac.uk> Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner) writes:


>My brother regails me frequently with the tale of the games company
>that produced a game about WWII, and tried to trademark / copyright
>the word "Nazi."

Probably T$R the bastards.

Hmm, what was the point of this post?


Jeff Jonsson
Marriott Library System Support, University of Utah.
==============================================================================
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-- the world." -Cliff Steele   --  "You talkin' to me?"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: STella@thelema.uucp (STella)
Subject: Re: FIZZIES (was: Re: Cheese popcorn)
Organization: Idiosyncratic Anarchic Order
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 14:19:10 GMT

In article <1992Dec24.045535.26040@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>3) Also misses...

>>Fizzies!!

>>Anybody else remember them?  Came on a foil-backed card of eight (I
>>think); you dropped one in a glass of water, and like an Alka-Seltzer(TM)
>>it would fizz into a drink, but of whatever flavor tablets you bought.

Oh ghod, FIZZIES!!!  Useful when the gal down the street wanted to
play "first communion"; dressed in my dad's bathrobe and whatever
other priestly drag we could muster, I'd talk in piglatin for a while,
then give her a host, placed carefully on the tongue.  Usually a
saltine or oyster cracker, once she told me that it was blasphemous to
chew the host (wonderful sign for a party "Please do not chew the
host", but at our house, we'd take out the third word), I had the idea
of using something that wouldn't require chewing.  After she received
the Holy Fizzie, she never pestered me to play communion with her
again.  But ghod, she looked like the holy ghost was giving her
mouth-to-mouth, shrieking in tongues and spewing purple (well, it WAS
communion, and even though RCCs don't get the wine, it seemed the best
choice) foam.  Some even came out of her NOSE, which I thought both
decorative and anatomically unlikely, not yet having discovered that
one can get there from here.

>I suppose you also had "Happy Fizzies parties" as well?

And then there were the ducks in East Lansing.  (This is just about
three statutes of limitations ago.)  I became aware that local campus
ordinances were such as to make it more of a beef ($50 versus $25, if
memory serves) to molest the ducks in the creek than to harass a coed.

This pissed me off, somewhat.  So I took my absolutely last EVER
Fizzies (I had hoarded those puppies for YEARS.  Never knew what for
till this day), mostly grape, but a few cola, orange, and lime, broke
them into pieces, stuck them in my pocket, and strolled down to the
ducks.  Chummed with a couple slices of bread, and then tried a bit of
fizzie.  Didn't even need to hide it in bread -- just toss, and they'd
gobble it RIGHT down.

Ghod, when the gas has started, it is a sight to enjoy.  The average
duck flutters its wings, squawks in desperation, and best of all,
backs around at random to escape the gouts of brightly colored
foam issuing from its beak.  Several of these ducks, all backing
around in frantic foaming discontent, are even better.

It may be that seagulls can't burp (wouldn't know, never burped one),
but ducks both can and (after a happy fizzie party) DO.  In
technicolor.

STella@xanadu.com	1016 E. El Camino Real, #302, Sunnyvale, CA 94087
STella%thelema.uucp@dec.com	Don't blame me, I voted Libertarian!
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: A FAQ for the Holidays
Date: 23 Dec 1992 07:57:08 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes in response
  to comments on the FAQ by Joel Furrfu^H^H::

  +>>OFFICIAL AFU MASCOT
  +>>  - My pet King snake, Elvis
  +>>  - Peter's pet dalmatian dog, Pixel
  +>>  - snopes' pet cat, Snopes
  +>>  - little gator's bio-challenged gator, harvee (sorry, no use of
  +>>    the "s" word here)
  +>>  - Cindy's pet troll, Steinar
  +>                             ^^
  +>                             |_ should be "Stein". "Steinar" is her husband.
  +>   - Nigel the Lemur
  +    - Nigel's pet human, JKF

I like this one.
  
  +
  +> U. Lemurs love Twinkies and will do anything to get them.
  +     Will they post to afu to get them?

I give it a thought when I see a post from Nigel.
  
  +>What?  Doesn't my noble and valiant effort defending the alt.folklore.*
  +>hierarchy from Net.Huns get me any credit? :) 
  +
  +What about me?  I traveled 30 years into the future to be added to the FAQ
  +and I don't get any credit either.

Well, if you travelled 30 years into the future, then that means you
didn't exist from the time after you left, therefore you're not really
here and so you can't be put in the FAQ.  What do you think this is?
rec.arts.startrek.misc or something?

I'll give your (Charles and Joel's) comments due consideration.  If
it doesn't make it in by the New Year, well, maybe next year.

Terry "Pocket veto" Chan
Terry 
--
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Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe per diem
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