HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: maynard@groo.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: Re: Imponderables (Yawn)
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 09:48:42 GMT

In article <BtoKGv.7qM@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, iam30974@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
(Happershanz) writes:
>thompson@cuug.ab.ca (Bruce Thompson 272-1800(w) or 229-3370(h)) writes:
>
>>The explanation that I heard for why yanwing is contagious came from a
>>Calgary Zoo employee when I was on a tour. We had just passed a
>>display with a troup of primates (I cannot remember which specific
>>primates) and the dominant male raced out and yawned at us (no, I'm
>>not kidding) a large number of us yawned back automatically, and
>>Leslie Anne explained that among primates yawning is, among other
>>things, an indication of dominance or aggreesion.
>
>Pardon if this is well-worn ground:
>	The reason for why people yawn at similar times (at least, the one
>I grew up with) is supposedly linked to the basic fact that people with
>similar schedules of activity get tired at similar times of the day.  One
>yawn could just remind your system that it too is needing an extra boost
>of O2.  So yawning at a boring football game may have more to do with the
>long lines, and all the time spent driving, standing, and ..eating..

I think this is completely bogus. Here on campus I interact with people who
are sleeping and waking up across the full 24 hrs, but that doesn't change
the fact that yawns are contagious. And they often happen in situations
where we're all sitting around chatting, so it's not like we've all exerted
ourselves physically and are deprived of oxygen.

Maynard Handley
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From: eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Cellular Frequencies
Date: 1 Sep 92 10:15:59 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Superseding Information, Inc.

In <g9yeie2@Unify.Com>, perry@Unify.Com sez:
>Is it illegal to listen to one's neighbor's cordless phone?

No and maybe, depending on which state you live in.  It is NOT a
violation of federal law, as Title III expressly excludes cordless
transmissions from the coverage of the federal anti-interception
statutes. 

Here in NY, it's a crime under state law.

-- 
      I am George Bush, miwwionaire.  I own a mansion and a yacht.

	Mark Eckenwiler    eck@panix.com    ...!cmcl2!panix!eck
From: eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Date: 30 Aug 92 02:01:08 GMT
Organization: Superseding Information, Inc.

In <1992Aug29.173058.15215@husc3.harvard.edu>, rocher@husc8.harvard.edu sez:
>In article <1992Aug28.010638.26158@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>
>>Ted "what's Nova an acronym for?" Frank
>
>	Speaking of novas, that reminds me of a story from several years ago. It seems the marketing bigwigs at Chevy couldn't figure out why sales of the
>Chevy Nova were so poor in Latin Amreica. etc. etc. etc.

Look, we're gonna have to organize this thing better.  When Ted
flushes the newbies out, *one* of you has got to fire the
frozen-chicken cannon at them or they'll get away.


Did I mention the new flavor of Alka Seltzer that tastes just like
seagull? 

-- 
		   I am of course experienced in teaching
		  and have read the writings of Dana Plato.

	   Mark Eckenwiler    eck@panix.com     ...!cmcl2!panix!eck
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lclawson@ws17.ips.iacd.honeywell.com (Larry Clawson)
Subject: Re: Cellular Frequencies
Reply-To: lclawson@ips.iacd.honeywell.com
Organization: Honeywell Industrial Automation and Control
Distribution: alt.folklore.urban
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 22:10:02 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.101559.20586@panix.com>, eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler) writes:
|> In <g9yeie2@Unify.Com>, perry@Unify.Com sez:
|> >Is it illegal to listen to one's neighbor's cordless phone?
|> 
|> No and maybe, depending on which state you live in.  It is NOT a
|> violation of federal law, as Title III expressly excludes cordless
|> transmissions from the coverage of the federal anti-interception
|> statutes. 
|> 
|> Here in NY, it's a crime under state law.
|> 
|> -- 
|>       I am George Bush, miwwionaire.  I own a mansion and a yacht.
|> 
|> 	Mark Eckenwiler    eck@panix.com    ...!cmcl2!panix!eck

There are no federal laws against listening to 'cordless' phones. Cordless
meaning the type in the home that has a base and the phone must be within
so many feet of that base.

However, there are federal laws against listening to cellular phones even
though it is easier to listen to them. The law was passed so that the
cellular phone companies could claim the transmission is 'protected'.
The transmissions are *NOT* secure by any means. One should NEVER discuss
anything that you would not discuss in a loud voice in a room full of
strangers (i.e. business deals,legal or not, stock deals, company secrets,
etc).
-- 
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the last politician is strangled to death   | not those of my employer even
with the entrails of the last bureaucrat."  | though I'm right.
                 Apologies to Voltaire      | Honeywell's opinions aren't
                                            | mine either.

larry clawson ( lclawson@ips.iacd.honeywell.com )
Honeywell IAC
Phoenix, AZ   (602) 436-4831
From: dolf@echo.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: DoD mistake (Was: Flat Earth Society)
Date: 1 Sep 92 07:32:35 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, E.C.H.O. development department

michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown) writes:

>                  They have a quartlely mag and flat earth maps (North Pole 
>at the center, south pole the outer edge).

Hmm, this rings a little, but vague bell. Does anyone know more about the
following story/UL:

During the cold war the Americans looked only at the regular maps and decided
that if the Russians should start attacking the US they would come either
via the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific, so the early warning systems in the
US were all positioned in an East West direction. It was not until someone
looked at a globe and said: "wait a minute: the route via northpole (and
Canada) is much shorter thus more likely". Then a complete new warning
system had to be made.

Dolf
-- 
   _ _
  / U | Dolf Grunbauer    E.C.H.O. Development    Digital Equipment Enterprises
 /__'<  dolf@echo.philips.nl  dolf@toet.echo.tds.philips.nl
88  |_\ mcsun!echo.philips.nl!dolf                         Was Dat voor niets ?
From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Tom Lehrer (was Re: Mnemonics)
Date: 25 Aug 92 22:32:44 GMT
Organization: Purdue University

In article <1992Aug23.201413.15034@husc3.harvard.edu>  
rocher@husc8.harvard.edu (Jean-Marc Rocher) writes:
> 	According to political comedian Mark Russell, Lehrer said upon 
> retiring that "I knew satire was dead when Henry Kissenger won the
> Nobel Peace Prize", I have never heard any mention of a lawsuit.

I think it was Mort Sahl who made the remark about Kissinger.

Back when Lenny Bruce was making headlines and getting busted for using  
language that would be considered tame by most comics today, he and Mort  
Sahl were playing at two comedy clubs in San Francisco. When Lenny got  
arrested, Mort would fill in for him at the other club.

One night, after doing a series of shows at both clubs, Mort was  
recognized as he was crossing the street between the clubs. "Hey, you're a  
funny guy," the other man said, "but I gotta tell ya, there's a guy at the  
club across the street who is stealing all your material."

--
Dave Seaman
ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: chris@state.COM.AU (Chris Keane)
Subject: Re: Japanese snuff! sort-of...
Organization: Group Treasury, State Bank of NSW
Date: 28 Aug 92 05:24:59 GMT

flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy) writes:

>In article <1992Aug19.105158.58255@cc.usu.edu> slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer) writes:
>>     Gee, you must have loved Police Squad!.  (How does one punctuate
>>that sentence, anyway?)  A murder during every set of opening credits,
>>all of them men.  Talk about sexist!

>  Hey, wasn't Florence Henderson gunned down during one episode's
>credits?  She defined womanhood for a generation of Americanos.

Oh! I thought she was a transvestite! I've heard that some women like
that in a man.


regards...                                                 
Chris "Suspenders and Bra" Keane. State Bank NSW        ph. +61 2 259 4459
Unix Systems Administrator   (Group Treasury)     chris@rufus.state.COM.AU
Famous Gravitational Joke: It must have been density that brought us together

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: The Posh WC
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:36:08 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


>In article <Aug.26.13.55.01.1992.1156@math.rutgers.edu> cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:
>>The landlord, not being familiar with what a "WC" was, assumed that it
>>stood for "Westminster Chapel."  He then wrote back a lengthy letter
>>describing the WC's historic importance, and a recent renovation in
>>which the seats were reupholstered in velvet.

Just this week I heard a tape of Jack Paar telling this story on
the old Tonight show (circa 1960, I guess).   His "WC" was "a
*wayside* chapel," but it's the same story.
-- 
Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Manager, SAS Institute Inc., Cary NC 27513
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <1992Aug25.181531.25673@sunova.ssc.gov>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:53:28 GMT

	SOME USEFUL ACRONYMS:

	snafu	situation normal, all fucked up
	fubb	fucked up beyond all belief
	fubar	fucked up beyond all recognition
	fumtu	fucked up more than usual
	tarfu	things are really fucked up
	figmo	fuck it, got my orders
	janfu	joint army-navy fuckup.  (When American troops get shelled
		by their own side, in this case involving both the army and
		the navy.)
	gfu	general fuck-up
	samfu	self-adjusting military fuck-up
	sapfu	surpassing all previous fuck-ups
	susfu	situation unchanged, still fucked-up
	fujimo	fuck you jack i'm moving on

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: spice@convex.csd.uwm.edu (James G Spice)
Subject: Re: Sinking libraries and floating ships
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:47:27 GMT

>>>A co-worker of mine says he heard from "a friend who knows somebody" in
>>>the Architecture College that when our library was being designed,
>>>the architects did not figure in the weight of the books and therefore
>>>the building is slowly sinking into the ground.
>>>
I seem to recall about 10 or fifteen years ago the city of Greenbay
WI had a problem with a newly constructed bridge.  The architects
successfully estimated the proper clearance for ships coming into
the bay over which the bridge extended, but forgot to consider
the fact that ships float higher in the water once they unload
their cargo.  The result was that ships were able to get under the
bridge, but would be stuck in the bay once they unloaded.  They would
have to load back up to get out again.

I don't recall what, if anything, they did about the situation.  Any
long time Green Bay residents out there that can confirm this?


-- 
--------------------------------------     Jim Spice
And we're off, like a dirty shirt!         U. of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
		--Lester Earnest Spice     Dept. of Political Science
======================================     spice@convex.csd.uwm.edu
From: sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Death by sneezing
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:15:54 GMT
Reply-To: sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501

In article <1992Sep2.001819.21474@bert.eecs.uic.edu> artn@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Ellyn Sandor) writes:
>	I guess that's why we have so many different names for colors.
>I, like many men (though not all, but this seems to be a cultural male-
>female thing) can't seem to understand most of these names, like the
>differences between salmon, rose, and coral, but the words are there.
>And why we have Pantone colors, too.
>
It isn't cultural. Men are massively more prone to colour-blindness than women,
and have less acute colour distinction than women too. No sources for that,
but it's true (tm).

>			sbm
>-- 
>--
>Stephan Meyers | artn@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu
>(Art)^n Laboratories, inventors of the Stealth Negative PHSCologram
>(312) 567-3762


Tony "don't do that, you'll go blind" Sweeney.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: iam30974@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (uncertain_future)
Subject: Color UL (was Re: Death by sneezing)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:04:48 GMT

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>Obul: we all don't see colors just the same way at all, but since we can't
>describe it we are all assuming that we see it the same way.  In fact this
>is a "natural conspiracy" because unbeknownst to us, we all have quite
>different color vision, which is part of why some people like garrish
>color combinations unliked grossly by others.  [... ...]
>cjl (is my red your green?)

I believe this was discussed somewhere before, but either way, rest assured
that if I presented you with two frames, one light-green and one dark-red,
and said which one is *darker*, you'd probably say red.

This is apart from any biological evidence/chemical evidence someone may
propose.  Basically, those that can see can detect light/dark at least.

--
-ivan  "I say it's the *moon*, Kate" 
	forward all fires to iam30974@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.tv
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Chef Boy-Ar-Dee commercial
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 22:05:35 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.145033.19684@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> craigb@ot.austin.ibm.com writes:
>

>This got me thinking about various&sundry "banned" commercials, ie, 
>commercials which got pulled because someone got PO'ed.

What about the National Lampoon commercial parody about Teddy Kennedy, if
he had only driven a Volkswagen (which floats) with Mary Jo, etc.  Didn't the
Kennedy family do some string-pulling to yank most of the copies of this
off the newstands because they personally didn't like it?

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ccuppern@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Cyndi Cuppernell)
Subject: Re: Pencil in Priorities
Organization: UIUC Department of Psychology
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:03:03 GMT

joslin_paul@ae.ge.com writes:

>The same professor claimed that only two drugs of that time period
were
>still used today for the same illnesses - quinine and digitalis.
I doubt
>this, but can't think of a counter-example except opium/morphine.

This reminds me of a question I've had.  In both the book , Anne
of Green Gables, by Lucy Maude Montgomery, and the movie by the
same name, Anne saves the life of a young child with the croup by
giving her a full bottle of Ipecac.  Before she does, she tells her
friend (the older sister of the sick child) that Ipecac is an
expectorant.  Now I know that Ipecac has a powerful effect on the
body, but I've never heard anywhere else that it is an expectorant. 
My nursing drug guide lists no such effects.

Could this be a previously held belief that people had about this
drug?-- 
                 
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From: wells@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (John Wells)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:25:56 GMT
Subject: Re: was Cellular Frequencies
Organization: Zanzor of the CLOUDS
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

Cell-freeks:

Fer watts it worth.....

[Last modified 4-May-92]

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

1.705	49.67		old cordless phone (Ch 1)
1.735	49.845		old cordless phone (Ch 2)
1.765	49.86		old cordless phone (Ch 3)
1.795	49.77		old cordless phone (Ch 4)
1.825	49.875		old cordless phone (Ch 5)

46.61	49.67	FCC 	Cordless phone Ch 1
46.63	49.845	FCC 	Cordless phone Ch 2
46.67	49.86	FCC 	Cordless phone Ch 3
46.71	49.77	FCC 	Cordless phone Ch 4
46.73	49.875	FCC 	Cordless phone Ch 5
46.77	49.83	FCC 	Cordless phone Ch 6
46.83	49.89	FCC 	Cordless phone Ch 7
46.87	49.93	FCC 	Cordless phone Ch 8
46.93	49.99	FCC 	Cordless phone Ch 9
46.97	49.97	FCC 	Cordless phone Ch 10


470.0	890.0		UHF TV (Ch14 to Ch83)

475.75	471.25		TV Ch 14 
481.75	477.25		TV Ch 15
 {etc}

613.75	609.25		TV Ch 37 (reserved)
608.0	614.0		radio astronomy
619.75	615.25		TV Ch 38

721.75	717.25		TV Ch 55
725.0	780.0		Ly band
727.75	723.25		TV Ch 56
733.75	729.25		TV Ch 57

775.75	771.25		TV Ch 64
780.0	900.0		Lt band
781.75	777.25		TV Ch 65

805.75	801.25		TV Ch 69
806.0	810.0		Business 
810.0	816.0		Public Safety (input)

----------------------------------------------------------------

OMNI(tm) Cellular Phone Band A (Data Channel is usually Channel 1)
There are 21 Cells, each has at most 16 Channels

Cell # 1
--------------------------------------------------

Channel 1	(333)	Tx 879.990	Rx 834.990
Channel 2	(312)	Tx 879.360	Rx 834.360
Channel 3	(291)	Tx 878.730	Rx 833.730

  {etc}

Channel 14	(627)	Tx 888.810	Rx 843.810
Channel 15	(648)	Tx 889.440	Rx 844.440

----------------------------------------------------------------

811.75	807.25		TV Ch 70 (old)
816.0	821.0		Business Band (input)
817.75	813.25		TV Ch 71 (old)
821.0	825.0		Land Mobile Satellite (uplink)
823.75	819.25		TV Ch 72 (old)
825.0	835.0		Cellular phone (Mobile Input)
825.03	834.99		band A Cells every 30 Khz
829.75	825.25		TV Ch 73 (old)
835.0	845.0		Cellular phone (Mobile Input)
835.65	844.98		band B Cells every 30 Khz
835.75	831.25		TV Ch 74 (old)
841.75	837.25		TV Ch 75 (old)
845.0	850.0		Cellular phone (expansion)
847.75	843.25		TV Ch 76 (old)
849.	851,		Airphone plane SSB (Ch spacing 6 Khz)
851.0	855.0		Business (Output)
853.75	849.25		TV Ch 77 (old)
855.0	861.0		Public Safety (Output)
859.75	855.25		TV Ch 78 (old)
861.0	866.0		Business (Output)
865.75	861.25		TV Ch 79 (old)
866.0	870.0		Land Mobile Satellite (downlink)
870.0	880.0		Cellular phone (Base Output)
870.03	879.99		band A Cells every 30 Khz
871.75	867.25		TV Ch 80 (old)
877.75	873.25		TV Ch 81 (old)
880.0	890.0		Cellular phone (Base Output)
880.02	889.99		band B Cells every 30 Khz
883.75	879.25		TV Ch 82 (old)
883.77	838.77		band B Cell 21 Ch 6 459
889.75	885.25		TV Ch 83 (old)
890.0	895.0		Cellular phone (expansion)
894.	896.		Airphone base SSB (Ch spacing 6 Khz)
896.0	902.0		Land Mobile (Input)
900.0	950.0		Ls band

**************************************************************************

Hope that helps....   Just the FAX!

			John in the Fort
From: nick@sunpix.East.Sun.COM (Nick England - Sun NC Development Center)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Spaghetti trees
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:03:05 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Research Triangle Park, NC
NNTP-Posting-Host: trancjne.east.sun.com

In article <1992Aug27.075926.7496@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> rho@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Richard Ho) writes:
>This was done as an April Fools Joke by the BBC. I think it was on

In the US, Jack Paar first showed it in the late 50's.

Nick
From: eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Date: 26 Aug 92 02:23:08 GMT
Organization: Superseding Information, Inc.

In <1992Aug25.181531.25673@sunova.ssc.gov>, chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov sez:
>I'm looking for mnemonics for stuff like "FUBAR" (f**ked up beyond all
>recognition).  Is "SNAFU" a real word, or more of the same?  (It may stand for
>screwed 'n all f**ked up, or then again it might be Strange, Nerdy
>A.F.U'ers).............       ;-)

Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary has an extensive list under "snafu".  My
favorite is "janfu", for Joint Army-Navy Fuckup.

-- 
Morally and artistically, Henry Miller had MORE right to free speech than
Walt Disney and [Father] Coughlin because Miller was an honest man whereas
Disney and Coughlin were liars.   - Ed Nilges
	   Mark Eckenwiler    eck@panix.com     ...!cmcl2!panix!eck
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From: glitto@iastate.edu (Scott M Klabacha)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Kimberly Dunning, or "Whatcha talking about?"
Date: 25 Aug 92 23:55:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Aug25.235542.23148
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA

edcrwfrd@unlv.edu (Edward Crawford) writes:
>adw@cci632.cci.com (Allen Williams (co-op)) writes:
>>
>>Someone made the claim that the actress who played "Kimberly" in "Diff'rent
>>Strokes" was arrested for holding up a convenience store.
>>
>> What was this actresses name? What possesed her to hold up a convenience
>>store? Was she on drugs, or simply out of work after her resuidals ran
>>out? Was she convicted, and/or served time or was otherwised sentenced?
>>
>I know this answer, but her name escapes me at the moment...

Her real name is Dana Plato.

>Although she did not rob a convenience store, rather a video store.
>
 (cool stuff about Kimberly Drummond's drug problems deleted)
>
>Hmm.. if you are intersted i can look this up in the newspaper
>here and double check the info (for some reason an Al Philips
>dry cleaning shop keeps popping in my mind)

The dry cleaning shop keeps popping into your mind because that's
where she worked/works.

***gLITTOfERN*** glitto@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (macphil)
Subject: Re: Please help a dying young boy...
Organization: IUPUI
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:38:55 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.231225.16668@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
gfm@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (George Francis McBay) writes:
 
>one goal in life is to be entered in the Guiness Book of World Records.
>He would like to do this as 'The Person who has collected the most 5 dollar
>bills.'  If you would like to help his cause, send a genuine five dollar
>(US) bill to:
 
George, I'd like to help, but rather than money, I'm doing something
much, much better for you:  information.  I'm enrolling you as a
subscriber for five copies (each) of Time, Newsweek, Scientific American,
Discover, and Readers Digest.  I'm also checking the "Bill Me" box since
you were kind enough to include your snail-mail address.
 
Not-OBUL:  Bob Greene ran a story last year about a college student who
wanted everyone to send him a penny to help pay for college.  Never
mind these poor saps would spend a factor of many times more just on
postage.
 
In a follow-up story, the guy received so much money he started a
scholarship /c the leftovers.
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Highest Channel
Date: 31 Aug 92 20:54:40 GMT
 <1992Aug28.184014.21827@news.iastate.edu> <1992Aug31.125642.1@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>

zimm@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Laurie Zimmerman, HHMI, Univ. of Pa.) writes:

>well, glitto, in good ol' lancaster county, pa  (home of the pa dutch amish and
>mennonites)  we used to get (not all that clearly) a channel *69* which as i
>recall dealt with christian topics... 

This isn't quite as good, but in the DC area there was and maybe still
is a channel 66 catering to the same clientele.  If only the numbers
had three digits.

-- 
Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 
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