HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:06:44 GMT
Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
In-reply-to: matt@cray.com (Matthew Marchese)

In article <1992Jul21.050353.16352@walter.cray.com>, matt@cray (Matthew Marchese) writes:
>While scanning through my copy of "Warts and All" by the Friedman Brothers
>I came across a piece titled, "Stooge's Wives". In it one of Curly's wives
>is portrayed in an interview

Could you tell us which wife?  It makes a difference regarding credibility
and timing of the origin of woo-woo.

>			      as claiming that Curly's trademark cry of,
>"WooWoo" originated during the sex-act as the aforementioned Stooge
>acheived orgasm. Now, i'm not one to take the work of the Friedmans as
>gospel but this had just enough of the ring of truth to make me wonder.

On the one hand, Curly had a bad memory, and kept forgetting his lines.
His famous little dances, gestures, and woo-woos, etc, were all coverups
for this according to the various Stooge material I've read, so it seems
a different explanation is unnecessary.  One the other hand, Curly was
also terribly insecure and unlucky with women, and the three Stooges in
general did not turn off their comedy off-stage, so it seems quite plausible
that Curly would coverup his forgetting his lines during intercourse too.
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Jimmy the Greek
Date: 29 Jul 92 11:26:21 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK

In article <1992Jul29.013426.25975@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:

[Jimmy the Greek deleted...]

>In the New York area, we have had at least two similar incidents:
>
>There was a local weatherman who was a quick-drawing artist called Tex
>Antoine for many years.  He is alleged to have said something like "if
>rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it" as some parable relating to some
>impending bad weather.  He got a chance to appear on the air again and
>give a public apology, but was subsequently fired.
>
Dumb thing to say, but didn't Confucius once say it?

>A local DJ named Bob Dayton used some patter referring to that day being
>the Nth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and then saying "Happy
>Birthday, Hiroshima" and then playing Happy Birthday Baby by the Tune Weavers.
>He was removed immediately with no opportunity to retract or apologize.

Hard to feel much sympathy here. Making a neutral comment on an unpleasant
episode of history (as Jimmy the Greek did) is one thing, but making it a
joke and rubbing it in is quite another. It's a bit like the Queen Mother
unveiling a monument to Air Marshall Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris this year, on
the anniversary of the 'Battle of Dresden' in 1945. (Three days and nights of
bombing left somewhere between 100,000 and 250,000 dead, mostly refugees from
the rapidly approaching fighting on the Russian front). Of course, she
won't get fired for that...

Later,

The Wisp.
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"Tony Greig in the slips, legs apart, waiting for a tickle"
                                      Brian Johnson (thanks to A. Simha 8^>)
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From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: ME-163 Komet
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:49:40 GMT

csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~) writes:


>All fine, except for the designation. All the history programmes I saw, and
>books I read said that the Komet was a Heinkel, not a Messerschmidt(sp?),
>so it was He 163. ME (i'm not going to try THAT spelling again! ;-> )
>certainly made the ME-262, that twin-engined jet thingy that Hitler held up

Sorry squire, you're hallucinating.  Heinkel made the He162 Salamader(?), a
plywood jet, but Messerschmidt made the Me163B Komet.

And the fuels were as noted by the previous poster.  I believe the german
designations were 'T-Stoff' and 'C-Stoff' (I thing Stoff just meant
'stuff').

-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com or {uunet,revcan}!geovision!pt
(This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
"I just posted from babbage.museum.london.uk, and BOY ARE MY ARMS TIRED!!"
   - Rolf Wilson in alt.folklore.computers
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From: brett@sr.hp.com (Brett K. Carver)
Subject: Re: Man Shot In Head Survives!
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara Division
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1scd1 PL4
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:28:40 GMT

dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong) writes:
: I heard several people last month (who didn't know each other) say
: that some guy got shot in the head with a crossbow and lived through it
: 
: He could see the point of the arrow pushing on the skin of the
: inside of his forehead, supposedly.
: 
: It sounds too bizarre to be true, but if it was in the paper, several
: people saw it and believed it.

I also read the article (which had a picture) in the local newspaper.
I guess that makes it as 'true' and anything reported in the paper.

Related to the original post, +-15 years ago I read an article of a man who
survived multiple (5-7) .22 cal gun shots in the head.  He had been beaten
(perhaps unconscious) and then shot to 'finish him off'.  The bullets were
discovered later (the next day?) in the x-rays.  As I remember only one or
two shots actually penetrated the skull.  The rest were just in the surface
tissue.  As I remember he was unaware he had been shot and just thought he
had been beaten bad enough to go to the hospital.

Perhaps others remember the story and can fill in more details.

							Brett Carver
							(707) 577-4344
							brett@sr.hp.com
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From: jmethot@vicorp.com (John Methot)
Subject: Re: N times more
Reply-To: jmethot@vicorp.com
Organization: V. I. Corporation, Northampton, Massachusetts
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:18:43 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.232745.23523@news.columbia.edu>,
lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
> Or the fact that there's a difference between "N times as much" and
> "N times more".  Anybody got any more "off by one" or "one vital
> contingency slopped over" examples?

In today's (July 28, 1992) edition of the Springfield (MA) Union-News is
an article about the horse virus that is currently ravaging the loved ones
of alt.sex.bestiality types here in New England.  It states that "133 horses
at Suffolk Downs [have been stricken], nearly a quarter of the 500 horses
that race at the track."
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: Re: queen
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:51:44 GMT

In <1992Jul26.012228.11128@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:

>ObUL: They have fertility festivals in Japan.  They carry large
>papier-mache (sp?) penises down the street during these events.

And they place condoms over the handles (made out of broomsticks) to
avoid splinters.
-- 
/|/-\/-\       In real life, the Vice President chastises Murphey Brown
 |__/__/_/     for her morals.  Bill Clinton plays the sax on "Arsenio
 |warren@      Hall."  Though "Batman Returns" is fiction, it's not too
/ nysernet.org much stranger than truth - Caryn James, The New York Times
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: generic drugs
Date: 30 Jul 92 08:59:30 GMT
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Version: Rodney's UUCP modules 02/11/90 V1.18

In article <RGM.92Jul29150138@cory.Berkeley.EDU> rgm@cory.Berkeley.EDU
(Rob Menke) writes:
> In article <3336102@harvee.billerica.ma.us> scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
> (S. Mudgett aka little gator) writes:
> 
>    after surgery i was given an rx for tylenol and codeine.  i took it
>    once, found that it didn't work as well as a small dose of
>    ibuprofen(advil, nuprin, etc), and took advil instead.  when i told
>    my doctor this he was appalled, though he didn't say why. i suspect
>    he just wanted me do do it his way instead of mine.
> 
> If I remember correctly from my doctor's instructions after my face
> got slashed up, I was supposed to avoid both asprin and ibuprofen, as
> they interfered with the clotting process, therefore lengthening the
> time it would take to heal.  Or maybe it was blood pressure.  I was
> pretty dazed at the time.  In either case, tylenol did not have this
> side effect, therefore it was OK.
he said there was no reason not to use advil as i was.  what appalled him was
 my telling him that tylenol and codeine didn't help me any.  the surgery was
a diagnostic laparoscopy, which left twp tiny incisions which healed quickly.

i think he can't stand to see a patient without prescribing something.  he
 admitted that the multiple small pills would be just as good for me(smaller
doses more frequently control pain better (for me anyway), and advil never 
upsets my stomach, though aspirin always does.  he stopped objecting(and had
never given a reason) when i started taking birth control pills.  it seemed that
this filled his need to write me soemthing.


--
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Time Zones (was Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising)
Keywords: Does anybody really know what time it is
Date: 30 Jul 92 01:52:10 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <mcirvin.711817304@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:
>I know that the New Mexico part of the reservation contains most of
>the fascinatingly numbered Route 666.  One of the Lodges (small houses
>which are part of student housing) at William and Mary once had a
>US 666 route marker on the front door.  At the time I didn't know
>such a highway actually existed.

State road 666 goes from Gallup in the south to Shiprock/Farmington in
the north, both noted places for alcohol purchases.  666 also is noted
for having the highest death rate of any state road in New Mexico,
itself noted for having one of the highest road fatality rates in the
US.

All showing that lots of empty spaces occasionally filled with cars
can be fatal to the late night road walker (one of the most frequent
deaths is a drunk being run over by a car/truck).

-- 
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From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: Stupidity (was Re: that'd be in the butt, bob)
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 18:32:10 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.203709.24253@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, Stephen P. Guthrie writes:
>
>- Farmer claims that daylight saving causes cows to get confused and produce
>  less milk.

When we introduced daylight savings time a few years ago in Norway there was
a similar argument. Turned out that the farmers didn't like to adjust their
working hours, i.e. ignoring the DST. The real problem turned out to be that
all these farmers were used to listening to the news on national radio, and
the problem was apparently solved by adding another newscast. (However, there
were also arguments about the cows that were used to listening to certain
programs and would be upset if the schedule changed... sheesh!)

---
YuNoHoo
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 02:15:04 GMT

In article <Bs2Kq8.Dv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Doc) writes:
>billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>
>>Also note - They do not say that the dentists ONLY recommend Trident gum. 
>>They could just as easily recommend some other brand of sugarless gum
>
>Actually I believe the ad says that 4 out .... recommend sugarless gum for
>their patients who chew gum, not Trident in particular.  

Virtually every toothpaste company has run an ad at one time or another using
language pointing out that their brand has been recognized by the American
Dental Association .....

The problem is that the language is attempting to imply uniqueness.  Virtually
all brands achieve equal recognition by the agency.  To use another abused
word, they are *all* "unsurpassed".

cjl

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bugs002@bugs.mty.itesm.mx (Ing. Andrew Stevens)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: A bit of Basil, baste him and he's done (was Re: Marmite)
Date: 29 Jul 92 21:09:00 GMT

st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER) writes:

>lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes
>>Wasn't there a Twilight Zone episode about some aliens who come to Earth
>>because they want to "serve man" in precisely the way brought up here?

>I read a short story like that long ago- I think it was by George R R Martin

"To Serve Man", by Damon Knight.

Andrew

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: Unexplained events
Summary: Silly remark made plausible
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 22:23:50 GMT

> It was snooker.  "He's going for the brown, and for those of you watching
> in black and white, that's the one behind the blue" or something like that.

In snooker, there is one ball each of yellow, green, brown, blue, pink,
and black, and each one has its own starting spot.  During a game it's
quite common for most of these balls to still (or again) be on their spots.

Now suppose that, for example, the green and brown balls had both been
moved off their spots, but the blue ball had not.  Then the alleged
remark *would* be informative to someone watching in black and white;
any snooker fan could be expected to know which is the spot for the
blue ball.

Of course, it might have happened, so it must not have happened, right?
-- 
Mark Brader			"... we still feel that color is hard
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto		 on the eyes for so long a picture ..."
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com	 -- N.Y. Times review of GONE WITH THE WIND

This article is in the public domain.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.electronics
From: adams@chuck.dallas.sgi.com (Chuck Adams)
Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:15:09 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.152007.250153@locus.com>, dwight@locus.com (Dwight Tovey) writes:
|> I was an Electronics Communications Technician in the Coast Guard.  One
|> day shortly after my ship pulled into port after a cruise, I needed to go
|> out and do some work on the main transmitter antenna.  Basically, this
|> antenna was just a steel cable strung the length of the ship.  I went
|> in to the radio room, tagged out the 1000W transmitter, and proceeded to
|> do my work on the antenna.  Meanwhile one of the radiomen came in and,
|> ignoring my tag, turned on the transmitter.  He keyed the mic. while I
|> was holding onto the antenna.  I've had electrical shocks before,
|> but they were nothing compared to the RF burn I got that day.  I couldn't
|> close my hand for a couple of weeks because of the swelling.
|> 	/dwight
|> -- 
|> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|>   Dwight Tovey				| I didn't claw my way to the top of
|>   Locus Computing Corp.			| the food chain to eat vegetables.
|>   (213)337-5978				|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dwight in the above story was lucky that he did get the shock at the time.
Not too be construed as a joke, but this warned him that it was on and
he took immediate action to get away from the antenna.

I remember a story about a similar incident that occurred early in the
construction and testing of the large radar sights for the DEW line
(DEW - Distant Early Warning).  this was a line of radar sites in northern
Canada that were pointed over the north pole towards, then, Russia.

a technician went out front of one of the antennas to do some work.
someone came in and turned on the transmitter (in the MegaWatt power range).
this technician was in front for some time period, unfortunately too long
and as a result he later died from being internally heated from the
radiation, not unlike being in a microwave oven.

anyone else remember this story??  i don't think it's something someone
would make up.  i don't think the national enquirer was around then.  :-)
NOT to imply that there are untrue stories published in same.

-- 

   Chuck Adams, Southern Education Center
   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
   15280 Addison Road, Suite 100
   Dallas, TX  75248

   (214) 788-0957 (fax)
   (214) 788-4122 (voice)
   
   K5FO @ 65wpm cw ---  adams@sgi.com

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Heisenberg may have been here.  *
From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:29:40 GMT
Organization: Templi Resurgentes Equites Synarchici

In article <1992Jul22.220827.6164@dscomsf.desy.de> hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes:
>Speed of light is 3E10,

3x10^8 m/s

>10 MHz is 1E7 So in each clock period light goes 3E3 m.

30m.

>However electrons are going to move rather slower

Yeah, < 1 mm/s.

-- Richard
-- 
Richard Tobin,
AI Applications Institute,                                R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk
Edinburgh University.
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From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Orange Julius (Re: Moxie, submarines)
Reply-To: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:43:40 GMT

In article <1992Jul20.171402.1190@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>In article <14b25cINNs9p@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> carolo@cse.ucsc.edu (Carol Osterbrock) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul17.175713.12754@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>>I think that's Orange Julius you're thinking of.  What's in their little
>>>powdery ingredient that's added to the orange juice and ice?
>>
>>Malt powder, I think.  I think there's milk in there too.
>>
>>-carol "mall walker" o

>All Juliuses I have been to don't use milk.  Just OJ, Ice, and the mystery
>powder, all blended together.

>cjl (No, O-Julius doesn't taste like chicken)

In the 70's, at least in Virginia, you could also pay extra and get
them with egg.  I noticed recently that that is no longer available.  I
never did get the nerve to try it.

-- 
Drew Lawson                      If you're not part of the solution,
lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: NetNews/CD - USENET News Available
Keywords: locksmith door
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 19:27:35 GMT

In article <BrvEqH.C2F@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes:

>
>Anyway, the cost of making new CD's is now less than the cost of making
>new records.  I haven't seen many CD's in the $1.99 cutout bins, though.

Can anyone explain the mechanism regarding the so-called "cutout" applied
now to CD's that apparently originated with vinyl.

(Thanks to anyone giving useful info and not just the prankish "yes".)

cjl
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From: grimjack@milton.u.washington.edu (Leslie Basel)
Subject: Re: "Eat the rich"
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 04:48:31 GMT


I believe the title of the movie in question is _Eating Raoul_
I remember seeing it on videotape around 1984-1985.

Leslie "Ed Begley Jr. was the first victim" Basel
From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Sanity
Date: 31 Jul 92 11:17:19 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK

In article <1992Jul30.212843.7775@rose.com> bill.dehaan@rose.com (bill dehaan) writes:
>
>Date Entered: 07-30-92 00:05
>Larry M Headlund writes:
>
>LMH>This sounds sufficiently like the "blind people have acute sense of
>LMH>smell/hearing/touch" story but I'm willing to listen to facts.
>
>Actually, I can vouch (a bit) for the "blind people have acute..." part.
>
>I lost the sight in  my left eye when I  was 5, and spent 6  months with
>both eyes  taped over  after the  surgery. I  found after  a bit  that I
>actually _could_ compensate for the  total loss of sight with  smell and
>hearing, although nowhere  near as much  as the UL  has it. It's  not so
>much  that  the  senses  change  (they  don't),  but  you pay a lot more
>attention to them. You learn  to recognize people just by  their walking
>patterns, etc. I  got to the  point where I  could recognize all  of the
>nurses by perfume, and all of  the doctors just by the sounds  they made
>moving (shuffle, stomp, etc). After  I got my right eye  operational, it
>all went downhill from there.
>
>I  imagine  that  anyone  can  do  this,  it's  just that sight tends to
>overwhelm all of the other senses, so you don't notice it as much.  What
>I'm trying to say is that the UL about other senses becoming more  acute
>is false.  However, since  a blind  person concentrates  so much more on
>their  hearing/smell,  they  will  notice  more  with  it than a sighted
>person.
>

There's an important distinction to make here. The "blind people have
acute..." story is both true AND false in that it depends when you go
blind. People like Bill, who have lived with normal(?) or at least functional
vision for the formative years (up to 5-7 years) will have developed normal
directional hearing, and can compensate for later loss of vision by increased
acuity of their normal hearing. People blind from birth, on the other hand,
never develop normal directional hearing, they always end up with limited and
usually incorrect ability to judge the direction from which sounds come.

Just my $0.02...

The Wisp. [complete with glasses and deaf in one ear...]
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"Tony Greig in the slips, legs apart, waiting for a tickle"
                                      Brian Johnson (thanks to A. Simha 8^>)
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From: johnl@n3dmc.svr.md.us (John Limpert)
Subject: Re: Modem tax back
Organization: N3DMC, Silver Spring, Maryland
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 07:47:42 GMT

scott@nv10.uswnvg.com (Scott Eckelman) writes:
>Modems change the usage picture a lot.  When I use a modem, it's almost
>always for far longer than if I were using the phone to call a friend.
>If you have lots of customers using modems where they used to 
>use only the phone, the phone company has to purchase more of that
>expensive equipment to insure that _all_ customers continue to receive
>their expected levels of service.  So, more expensive equipment,
>higher tariffs for service.  But why should a customer who only
>uses the phone 10 minutes a day subsidize other customers who are
>using their modem 2 hours a night?

So why don't we have a teenager tax?  There are plenty of people who
talk for hours at a time.  Let's tax lonely old people who can't get
out of the house.

The regional phone companies have pushed measured service because
it increases profits, not because switch or trunk capacity is
inadequate.

The best solution to the "modem tax" is to remove all the subsidies
for the regional phone companies so that the artificially high
access charges are repriced at reasonable levels.

-- 
John A. Limpert
johnl@n3dmc.svr.md.us
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