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From: eradm@brahms.Berkeley.EDU (Erik Radmall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: 666 Cable TV
Date: 2 Oct 92 13:12:27 GMT
Reply-To: eradm@brahms.Berkeley.EDU (Erik Radmall)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Xerox

In article <5348@balrog.ctron.com>, smith@ctron.com (Larry Smith) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep25.135427.5512@sei.cmu.edu>, kh@sei.cmu.edu (Kurt Haverstock) writes:
|> >It occurs to me that we might as soon debate on the number of faeries
|> >that can dance on the head of a pin.
|> 
|> I think it's "ten".

You are obviously not accounting for the dance style. The tango requires more
space, hence fewer faeries. The waltz, on the other hand, allows up to 13o
of the critters.

|> 
|> >:D
|> 
|> Larry Smith (smith@ctron.com)  No, I don't speak for Cabletron.  Need you ask?
|> -
|> How about we all do something reasonable?  I bet that'll confuse 'em!

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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Green Cheese
Date: 27 Sep 1992 07:26:16 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

dolf@echo.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer) writes:
  +>I don't know whether it is a real myth, I only have heard of a green cheese
  +>moon in some sort of a logical proof (obviously fake proof :-)
  +>I have forgotten the real 'proof' but it is something like:
  +>
  +>Theorem: the moon is made of green cheese
  +>Proof  : there are two possibilities:
  +>         1. the moon is made of green cheese
  +>         2. the moon is not made of green cheese
  +>         Now we now that the moon is moon is made of green cheese (see
  +>         the Theorem, why would we want to try to proof a false Theorem :-)
  +>         so possibility 2 is not true, leaving only possibility 1 which
  +>         clearly states that the moon is made of green cheese.
thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
  +>
  +>Is this the reference you were looking for ? Is this a Dutch joke only ?
  +
  +Do the Dutch like Jerry Lewis also?
  +
  +Ted "shouldn't this be cross-posted to rec.humor.funny?" Frank

Maybe rec.humor.d.


Terry "Is there REALLY someone named Brad Templeton?" Chan
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From: william@cs.arizona.edu (William E. Hertling)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Date: 3 Oct 92 00:27:47 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

>>Question: When the enterprise is hit by enemy fire, you always see the bridge
>>pitching from side to side and the crew stumbling from side to side according
>>ro the direction of list. But if there is no gravity, why do they 'fall' like
>>this?

there is gravity generated by the ship. that's what keeps them on the floor.

>What do you mean, no gravity?  If there was no gravity, they would float
>away even when not under fire.  Oh, I see what you mean, artificial gravity
>should be perpendicular to the floor.  Does an artifical gravity field
>have inertia?

the Big-E has what's called an Inertia Dampening System. However, there is
a big of a delay in the system. Under normal maneuvers for instance,
the system is able to keep pace with the changing course of the ship
When the ship is hit by a blast, grabbed by a tractor beam, or ram into
something, the Inertia Dampening system can't compensate in time, so people
get jarred a bit. However, the actual amount that they get jarred is 
still lessened. After all, if a ship that is moving at .5c suddenly
stops dead, everyone would fly foward and smash into the first thing
they hit, and be instantly dead.

>  What I'd like to know is why the artificial gravity never gives out.  The
>engines fail, the life support fails, but the gravity never fails.

The real reason, of course, is that the special effects for the illusion
of zero-gravity would be far too expensive. What technical reason we
might give, I don't know...

After all, when there is a critical limitation on power, for whatever reason,
it would seem logical to cut down on the gravity generators before cutting
down life support. Even having just half gravity would allow people to 
function and still save power.
From: jmorris@spider.co.uk (John Morris)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Floor numbering
Date: 30 Sep 92 09:32:55 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.

One UK university (I think Surrey) numbers floors according to height
above some mean level. As it is built on a hill this gives some novel
results - level 1 can be anything from a cellar to an attic.

As I recall (I may be wrong in the details, as I have not been there
for some time) the "unit of floorness" was 2 metres. Since the average
distance between levels was somewhat greater than this, there were 
occasional gaps in the numbers.

Surprisingly, it acutally seemed to work quite well, once the initial
confusion had worn off...

John.

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From: cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Date: 28 Sep 92 02:56:50 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf) writes:
> In Japanese, [r] and [l] are two allophones of the same phoneme.
> This means that in Japanese they are essentially the same sound,
> with variations in pronunciation depending on the sounds they
> are surrounded by.

When I lived in Guatemala, I had a Nicaraguan friend who was learning
English.  One day he asked me why we used the same word for the golden
part of an egg and a funny story.  He couldn't hear the difference
between "joke" and "yolk."

(In many Spanish dialects, the "y" or "ll" is pronounced with a sound
about halfway between a soft "j" and a hard "y.")

--Scott
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From: edcrwfrd@unlv.edu (Edward Crawford)
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Organization: UNLV
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 01:43:43 GMT

>who cares if 'lost in space' was better, in light of the fact that star trek
>is pure lame.  there are so many inconsistencies in the show and the whole
>premise is absurd.  mr. bradbury didn't have much imagination.  much of the
>show resembles current day technology, science, society, whathaveyou with just
>a few teasers of 'what the future might hold'.  and most of these are just
>plain stupid.  for instance, mortality is still a factor in 25th (or whatever
>the hell number they picked) century in light of being able to travel
>impossible distances in mere hours.  why don't they (crew dweebs) just
>teleport old brains into newly grown young bodies?  why does the enterprise
>even have engines; why doesn't it just teleport itself through space?  why is
>there only one language spoken in the galaxy -- 20th century english?

Well i would guess that transporters convert people to particles and
then send them as energy, hence only light speed, or close to it...
much slower than warppping... the use of English could be explained
by computer translaters in many cases, except of course when they
actually go visit the planet...

Of course star trek is full of inconsitencies... my favorite is:
In the Old one they always sent the captain down with their transport
teams, in the New one they only sent the Second Highest ranking down
and called it a breakthrough.... 

There are hundereds of these inconsitencies in the show, but hey
its only a TV show...






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From: death@buhub.bradley.edu (Dustin Slater)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Organization: Bradley University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 20:10:15 GMT

I admittedly haven't been following this string to closely, so i am
wonderin if you have mentioned the Nova (car). It didn't sell well in
Mexico because in spanish no va means (literally) "no go". not a great name
for a car.


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From: saxe@chopin.cs.unc.edu (Eddie Saxe)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Flavored Condoms
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:46:20 GMT
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In article <1687011DAF.MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU> MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice) writes:

>Where does the word posh come from?

It's an acronym of Perfectly Ordinary September Happenings, in reference to
the number of people who are new to the AFU and don't read the FAQ list.
They then fail to recognize when they are being set up, and unknowingly post
a response.

ObUL:  The third printing of Webster's Ninth Edition, due to a printer's
       error, left out the definition for "gullible".

Eddie "The ability to explode upon eating Alka-Seltzer" Saxe
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From: kkr42091@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (QUEEN ZENOBIA!)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 01:25:18 GMT

thanks to cindy for the linguistics .....
Hindi has the difference between unaspirated and aspirated.  A good place to
see these is in the bilabial stops... b and p.

here are some examples from hindi.

		bilabial

voiceless        pal meaning moment 
  unaspirated


voiceless       phal meaning fruit
  aspirated

voiced		baag meaning rein
  unaspirated

voiced  	bhaag meaning run
  aspirated 


the h after p and b means the aspirated portion.

on top of them having differences between aspirated and unaspirated, the sound
of bh is uncommon to native english speakers and they often have a difficult
time pronouncing it.  it often comes out kinda like mmmm-ph.  and that is not
ph as in phone where it is /f/ but as in /p^h/ where the h is a superscript.

Anyone wanting to get into weird discussions of phonetics with me is more
than welcome to contact me through email....

Also i do not know Hindi to a great extent.... these were examples given to me
by a Hindi speaker.

thanks
-kimberli roan
From: DSTEPHEN@cmsa.gmr.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Oranjelo and the severed dog's head
Date: 1 Oct 92 17:02:03 GMT
Organization: GM Research Labs

In article <1992Oct1.023820.16210@athena.cs.uga.edu>
wells@athena.cs.uga.edu (Scott Wells) writes:
>Now, the case where a mother named her twin daughters Syphillis and
>Gonarheea (pronounced: Sih-PHIL-is and Gon-NERE-ee-ah) may be.

H. L. Mencken covers the subject of fanciful names--real or legendary--in
his book The American Language.  My favorite was a gentlman from Chicago
names Positive Wasserman Smith.



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From: pinette@fraser.sfu.ca (Gandolf the 23rd)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 17:10:03 GMT

I have to agree with the 'if they were both in there prime it would
be  a draw' idea.  In fact, I will go further, I will say that Picard
will win.  Kirk is completely wreckless and if you don't believe me
ask anyone on the ship who wore a read shirt...you can't because Kirk
got them all killed! Anyway, If anyone out there thinks that Picard
never had a wreckless day in his life, lets not forget about the 
fact that he was once court marshalled for losing an entire ship.
As a final note, I would like it stated that no matter who won, one
thing is certain, Kirk would do a shoulder role, his shirt woulg gety
ripped and Bones would just stand there and say 'Dam it Jim be careful!'

------------Gandolf...nothing fancy just me.
From: brnt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Brent E. Dyer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mrs. Field's Cookies Recipes
Date: 6 Oct 92 11:51:00 CDT
Organization: Academic Computing Services

In article <26000@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, jacobs@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Henry Jacobs) writes:
> Over the weekend, I wandered into the local mall bookstores. There is
> now a cookbook titled "Mrs. Field's Recipes" and has all sorts of cookies
> and other goodies recipes.
> But...are they the REAL recipes...
> It's almost (but not quite) sad to see an Urban Legend overtaken by
> events. But as with Craig Shergold, who cares, the Legend will go on.

	Yeah, I saw it to, with a price tag that simply had "two fifty" written
on it.
-- 
Brent "Somebody had to say it, it might as well have been me" Dyer
Administrative Assistant
University of Kansas Computing Services
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 11:24:49 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.123712.23674@geovision.gvc.com> pt@geovision.gvc.com writes:
>
>(Or maybe it was Gladstone and the Disraelites)

No, Desmond Dekker and the Aces.

cj "I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde" l

obQues:  Can someone explain the connection between the Israelites and
Bonnie n' Clyde?
From: rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Laboratory Construction (was Re: The weight of the water)
Date: 4 Oct 1992 19:58:04 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


In many previous postings, several authors state,
> ... ( chem lab emergency showers don't have drains ) ...

In a similar vein, I remember a classic research lab FU UL,,

It was supposed to have happened back around 1986, at the med. school research
building at CWRU. It seems that the research program had gotten larger, and the
number of labs had increased to the extent where new air pumps had to be ins
installed on the roof in order to suck air into the laboratory hoods, and 
then out through a set of scrubbers. The purpose of the scrubbers being to 
filter out noxious fumes, especially airborne radio-isotopes.

Well, the HVAC techs got the DC motor in place and hooked up and tested, then
cranked it up and left for the weekend.

Yup, it was a DC motor, and depending on which wire is hooked to ground the
fan will either suck or blow. By Monday morning, a major radiation safety
hazard was present in every lab with a hood, as not only the contents of the 
hood, but everything in the filters and the air shafts were back-blown into
several dozen research labs.

Anyway, this was the story I got on Monday morning after deciding not to 
spend the weekend in the lab.

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Dept. Radiology MetroHealth Hosp.      |   '90% of everything is crap'
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From: cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Floppy Disk Labels
Date: 30 Sep 92 15:56:53 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
> Can you provide information about when and where this happened? Did you
> personally observe this? I'd like to find out if this has more than urban
> legend status...

I've seen neophyte computer users do this trick (use magnets to hang
floppies).  I suspect that most people who have worked as teachers or
TAs in computer labs have seen this at least once.

As for the specifics, I'll withhold the name in order to protect the
perpetrator's ego.  Approximate date would be December, 1987, and the
disk in question was a disk holding Wordperfect files.  It was hung on
a refrigerator with a refrigerator magnet, and most of the files were
retrievable (I guess it was a weak magnet--I didn't examine the magnet
in question).

--Scott
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From: tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks)
Subject: Re: Radar Cars (was: stupid cop tricks & t)
Organization: Automata Design, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:32:09 GMT

Phil Kernick (phil@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au) wrote:
: 
: The Radar Cameras here are set to photograph the rear number plate of the
: car, because the privacy legislation makes it illegal to pinpoint the exact
: location of someone without their permission.
: 
Is this provacy legislation known as Heisenberg's Law?


Teery "Just asking..." Monks
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Subject: Re: Studies have shown...
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 03:48:04 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand
Keywords: Alcohol, Eskimos, Native Americans, College Students

>In article <rydzewjh.717878099@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, rydzewjh@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (John H. Rydzewski) writes:
>>
>>I am looking for information concerning the following recent
>>studies:
>>
>>       College Students With Lower Grades Drink More

Than who?  Teetotallers?  Other College students with chronic liver complains?
Non-Students?  Eskimos?

>>       Native Americans/Eskimos 3x [more] Likely to Die in Auto Accidents

Than who?  The Masaai?  Old-Age pensioners?  Men over 6 foot?
Children under 3? Chickens?

By what measure?  Per capita?  Per Miles travelled?  Not absolute numbers
surely.

>>       Any information concerning these studies is very welcome...

Mmmmmm....

>>I'm trying to put together an article on research and would like
>>to use these findings as examples.

And you're posting to A.F.U!  Furrfu!!!!

"You can blind some of the people with Science some of the time...."
                                   W. Churchill (or was it Disraeli).

Derek "95% of all statistics quoted are made up on the fly" Tearne


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"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
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Subject: Re: Turd-slinging primates...
From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Date: 29 Sep 92 11:34:17 EDT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Ted "I scream..." Frank writes:

>In article <H.&SWSC69STfQ@harvee.billerica.ma.us> scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us writes:
>>when someone gave one part of an
>>ice cream cone, she put on a show hanging by her feet from the ceiling bars
>>and making loud noises.
>
>Really?  I thought they only did that at Herrell's.
>
>Ted "Herrell's is way cooler than Steve's even if I don't know how to
>     spell it" Frank

S'truth!  Those folks at Herrell's, such loons.  And you're right, the ice 
cream is better.  You spelled the name right, btw...

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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: "U.S. has 70 % of the world's lawyers." -Dan Quayle
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 00:56:57 GMT


I thought it was 70% of the world's lawyers are on retainer to Apple.
(And the other 30% own the company.)

cj "the answer: professional courtesy (what's the question?)" l
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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 14:25:33 GMT

In article <Sep.27.22.56.50.1992.19914@math.rutgers.edu> cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:

>
>When I lived in Guatemala, I had a Nicaraguan friend who was learning
>English.  One day he asked me why we used the same word for the golden
>part of an egg and a funny story.  He couldn't hear the difference
>between "joke" and "yolk."
>
>(In many Spanish dialects, the "y" or "ll" is pronounced with a sound
>about halfway between a soft "j" and a hard "y.")

Actually, in Columbia, the ll is a pretty hard 'j' sound.

E.g., "Como se llama?" rhymes with pajamma.

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From: markm@bigfoot.sps.mot.com (Mark Monninger)
Subject: Re: "Normal" body temperature
Reply-To: rapw20@email.sps.mot.com
Organization: SPS
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:45:09 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.114715.4526@nntp.nta.no> styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)  
writes:
> 
> I guess this is the right place in this thread to insert the view that
> Fahrenheit is more accurate that Celcius.  :-)
> 
I doubt it. More precise, perhaps, but not necessarily more accurate.

Mark
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From: jlysagh@hubcap.clemson.edu (james joseph lysaght)
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:09:57 GMT

derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:

>In article <1992Sep30.010604.5451@javelin.sim.es.com> tpehrson@javelin.sim.es.com writes:
>>premise is absurd.  mr. bradbury didn't have much imagination.  much of the
>>show resembles current day technology, science, society, whathaveyou with just
>>a few teasers of 'what the future might hold'.
This is because the makers of Star Trek actually consult with NASA
regarding the plausibility of theories expressed so that there is some
miniscule basis in relaity to make the show interesting.

>>impossible distances in mere hours.  why don't they (crew dweebs) just
>>teleport old brains into newly grown young bodies? 

It wouldn't sell as a TV show, people would have problems with that
concept.  Besides, what do you do with the young brains in the young
bodies? 

>> why is
>>there only one language spoken in the galaxy -- 20th century english?
Actually all the aliens speak their own languages, we hear everything in
english because the crew carry universal translators so that everyone
can understand each other so that they do not have to learn new
languages.  There are scenes where you see aliens speaking an alien
language such as klingon and are given subtitels whenever there is no
one with a universal translator around to do the translating.

Sorry to be trekie dweeb but I like the show.

Jim
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From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: gary larson committed
Keywords: the far side
Organization: Where the wolf has slept by the silver stream
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 03:34:15 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.020552.9802@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes:
>one evening he informed me that Gary Larson had been committed
>to an insane asylum.

I have it on good authority that Gary Larson is at least as sane as
Jonathan Winters.


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