HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Anyone heard this one? New UL?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:32:25 GMT

gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler) writes:
: 
: I read a similar but not identical story that appeared in some
: obscure publication called the Worland Senior Center Newsletter.
: Actually I only have a photocopy of the article.  It is titled
: "Irons, zippers, and broken arms".  See if you think it's the
: same genre of UL:
: 
:      ...Our story is not complete without telling of a
:    man who could not give a convincing explanation about
:    his broken arm.  He kept muttering about trying to
:    stick his arm through the car window that he thought
:    was down.
:      That's the public version.  In private he confesses
:    that it happened when his wife brought some potted
:    plants inside that had been out on the patio all day.
:    A garter snake had hidden in one of the pots and later
:    slithered out across the floor where his wife had
:    spotted it.
:      "I was in the bathtub when I heard her scream" he
:    related.  "I thought she was being murdered, so I
:    jumped out to go help her and didn't even grab a towel.
:      "When I ran into the living room, she yelled that a
:    snake was under the couch.  I got down on my hands and
:    knees to look for it, and my dog came up behind me and
:    cold-nosed me.  I guess I though it was the snake, and
:    I fainted.
:      "My wife thought I'd had a heart attack and called for
:    an ambulance.  I was still groggy when it arrived, so
:    the medics lifted me onto a stretcher.
:      "When they were carrying me out, the snake came out
:    from under the couch and frightened one of the medics.
:    He dropped his end of the stretcher, and that's when I
:    broke my arm."
: 
: The pet surprising a naked man from behind seems to be the
: common thread between the two stories.  That's why I think
: they are of the same genre.  By the way, the other two
: stories in the article (the one about the iron and the one
: about the zipper) were classic documented UL's.  The one
: I quoted, I hadn't heard before but I figured it was a UL
: also.  Guilt by association you might say.

The bit about the ambulance attendants dropping the stretcher
and injuring the patient is also classic UL. It appears in
many forms in many stories.

bill "Don't snake up on my or I will pit my viper on you" Nelson

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: andrewb@lazy.demon.co.uk (Andrew Brown)
Subject: Re: Organ muggers
Distribution: world
Organization: Wherever it's at, like, er.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 10:40:30 +0000

I have somewhere a clip from the Reuter wire I took
at work a couple of years ago, describing a police operation
on the India/Bangladeshi border which liberated 240 children
who were going to be organlegged.

And it is fairly well accepted that criminals executed in
communis China are liable to be recycled for the benefit of
ailing capitalists in HK.

Andrew Brown  (don't know if the .sig file works).
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Right-Left
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 05:19:09 GMT

cn0m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Patrick Nelson) writes:
: 
: In Oregon you may make a left turn on red from a two-way street onto a
: one-way street.  Sounds strange to me too, but my friend (better 'n a
: FOAF) says he got this one wrong on his driving test because he said
: it had to be one-way to one-way.
: 
: I'll look it up personally in his driving manual when next I see him.

It is true, unless prohibited by a sign at the signal. It may also be
prohibited in some cities or counties.

The reasoning is that you are not making a turn across an active traffic
lane, so what does it matter if the street you are on is one-way or two-way?

Bill
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Subject: Re: Anyone heard this one? New UL?
From: frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz (Bruce Clement)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 05:27:50 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Private System

jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes in article <BrwF1J.3Hs@news.cso.uiuc.edu>:
.
> I have a rule of thumb that I live by in reading usenet articles.  When
> I am reading an article and the first page is lined with ">"s in column 1,
> I immediately hit the 'n' key (with rare exceptions) because this immediately
> tells me that the poster is an irresponsible quoted-text (ab)user. I
> suspect that I am not the only one who does so either. 

You're not. I do the same. Its more than just the irresponsible quoting, it
shows IMHO a mental attitude and irresponsibility which make it highly unlikely
that the quote abuser will have any rational arguments (or anything else for
that matter) which is worth wasting my time reading.

--
Bruce Clement    (frey@alfheim.welly.gen.nz   Waffle 1.64, 
                  frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz  SNEWS/2,  UUPC 1.11q)
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From: Mike.Hoffmann@sniap.mchp.sni.de (Mike Hoffmann)
Subject: Re: ME-163 Komet
Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG, AP 712
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 15:41:27 GMT

In article <6fdnbb4p@csv.warwick.ac.uk> 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! ;-> )

Hmmm. COuld you be mixing something up?

The Komet was definitely a Me-163 built by Messerschmitt (der Deutsche
schlaegt wieder zu!). Maybe you're thinking of the He-162 "Volksjaeger"?

Mike
-- 
Mike Hoffmann, Siemens-Nixdorf AG, SNI AP 712  
INTERNET: Mike.Hoffmann@sniap.mchp.sni.de
"Bosnia has no oil [as opposed to Kuwait]." (unknown citizen of Sarajevo)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.food.cocacola
From: cldavies@nyx.cs.du.edu (cindy davies)
Subject: Re: Moxie, submarines (was: Re: Prince Albert in a can?!?)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 02:34:43 GMT

In article <8rrxjq_@rpi.edu> kasprj@rpi.edu writes:
> 
> Well, I'll agree with you about the citrus. But what's so bad about warm 
>Coke? I keep a case or two in the closet and drink it at room-temperature,
>even if the room temperature is 95F. Straight out of the bottle or can, 
>warm Coke makes a nice drink. Besides, the ice cubes dilute it as they melt.
> 
> Mind you, I wouldn't try this with anything larger than a half-liter bottle
>(small enough to drink in one serving). Warm, _flat_ Coke is utter glop.
> 
I can drink coke warm (its better than no coke) but several of the places we
stayed seemed to have only Pepsi.  Now that had to have ice, and you had to
drink it quickly,  just get the caffine and bubbles into the system   then
eat some sauerkraute to kill the taste.

BTW I am the only person I know who make it through the "new" coke crisis
without running compleatly out of the good stuff.  (I was down to one can
a day) and trying to decide if I could switch to Pepsi, or if I should just
give up and go to a detox center.

--
Life among academics has taught me that a well-expressed opinion is
usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional
advancement goes.  --Gabaldon, Outlander.
cldavies@silver.sdsmt.edu        cldavies@nyx.cs.du.edu
From: ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Kilroy
Date: 24 Jul 92 16:45:59 GMT
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organization

In article <MePSc4a00VogJF_n9B@andrew.cmu.edu> Mary Rose Campbell <mc3d+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>ian@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk (Speed Freak) writes:
>
>>Does anybody know where the phrase 'Kilroy was here' originated ?  I have
>>been told that Kilroy was a dock worker who inspected crates at night at
>>some port in America.  He wrote KWH on them and because they then got shipped
>>all over the world he became a superstar!  Is this correct ?
>
>Actually, the phrase originated in 1983 when Styx released the album
>"Kilroy was Here."  

There are times when I can't tell whether the poster is being humorous or just
doesn't know about anything that happened before s/he was born.  "Kilroy was
here" has been around AT LEAST since during WWII.  Was it around during WWI?
And which came first, the doodle or the phrase?


Carrie		ceb@rechenau.unify.com	x6244   ------------------------------+
|   "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then there will be   |
|   peace."					-- Anon.		      |
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From: Mike.Hoffmann@sniap.mchp.sni.de (Mike Hoffmann)
Subject: Re: ME-163 Komet
Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG, AP 712
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 12:05:03 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.154940.813@geovision.gvc.com> pt@geovision.gvc.com writes:
>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').

That is basically correct. Except that in techno-scientific  usage the word
means more like "material", even "component", mostly referring to something
being used in chemical reactions.

For instance, Oxygen and Nitrogen are calles Sauerstoff and Stickstoff, resp.

BTW, one other fun design (i.e. even worse than the Me-163) was the Bachem
"Natter". Evidently more designed to spread the parts of Flying Officers
across the sky, than to battle an enemy warplane.

Mike
-- 
Mike Hoffmann, Siemens-Nixdorf AG, SNI AP 712  
INTERNET: Mike.Hoffmann@sniap.mchp.sni.de
"Bosnia has no oil [as opposed to Kuwait]." (unknown citizen of Sarajevo)
From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: From rec.aviation, a warning (was Re: Homebuilt plane crash in MT)
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:36:15 GMT
Reply-To: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.198
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4

>This makes the 7th light plane crash in the last 3 months here in Montana.
>Unfortunately, that's about average.  Please be careful out there...

ObUL:  In Alaska, light aircraft outnumber pilot's licenses
by something like 2.5 to 1.  Fact or folklore?

Joe "Don't know if they outnumber Terrys" Chew
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From: dwight@locus.com (Dwight Tovey)
Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:37:30 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.211509.29749@odin.corp.sgi.com> adams@chuck.dallas.sgi.com (Chuck Adams) writes:
>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.

Ah yes.  Radars.  The Coast Guard has a low budget, so I also got to take
care of the navigational equipment, including the ships radar.  Once while
we were out at sea, a minor problem developed in one of the antennas on
top of the mast.  Now climbing up to the top of the mast while out at sea
on a 210-ft cutter is an experience in itself (something like being on the
end of an inverted pendulum), so I didn't want any extra complications from
the radar.  Luckily Raytheon was smart in this regard and provided a switch
on the antenna mount to lock out the radar.  The bad part was I forgot to
switch off the other one (we had two antennas up there).  A new ensign came
on duty, noticed that the radar wasn't working with one antenna, and decided
to switched antennas.  I heard the antenna start up and realized what was 
happening in time to duck and hit the kill switch for this antenna.  In this
case I wasn't worried about radiation so much as having the rotating antenna
knock me off the mast.  I wasn't too interested in being the subject of a
real-life man-overboard drill.
	/dwight

PS:  If anybody has been trying to get email to me lately, I've been notified
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From: jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost)
Subject: Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:21:35 GMT

datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
>>they have "more milligrams".  Note that there is no clause after the milligrams
>>saying "of xxxx", just more milligrams, like that's an advantage in and of
>>itself.

>I haven't seen those, but I *have* seen plenty that boast that they
>contain a "full 1000 milligrams" of acetaminophen or whatever, "twice the
>medicine our competitor".  Duh.  I'll just take two of the competitor's,

Personally I find it pretty stupid that they bother having
prescription/nonprescription doses of many products.  Why would anyone
pay mucho bucks for prescription Motrin when they can by CVS brand
ibuprofen and just take six of them?  For that matter, what's the
point of regulating the doses in the first place?  I have a doctor who
sometimes says to "overdose" over-the-counter versions of drugs since
the copayment on prescription drugs is more than the cost of a whole
bottle of the generic over-the-counter version, and you don't have to
wait in line.

jim frost
jimf@centerline.com
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From: lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund)
Subject: Faith healer stories (was Re: help please, when did Isaac Asimov die?)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:06:53 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.164401.12564@cci632.cci.com> adw@cci632.cci.com (Allen Williams (co-op)) writes:
>In article <Brun1F.I7o@world.std.com> lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund) writes:
>>	So,  has anyone one had a FOAF healed by a faith healer?  Or has  
>>anyone had a FOAF die after throwing away their insulin after visting
>>a faith healer.
>
>
	(account of court case involving faith healing deleted)


	I must of been unclear.
	What I'm looking for is not newspaper accounts (or facts for that
matter) but legends and friend of a friend stories about faith healing.
Something like the Vanishing Hitchhiker story but related to faith healing.

-- 
Larry Headlund  lmh@world.std.com    Eikonal Systems (617) 482-3345 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Re: NetNews/CD - USENET News Available
Keywords: locksmith door
Reply-To: lawson@aldia.UUCP (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:47:18 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.192735.18501@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>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".)

Yes!

[Oh, why not]

The "cut out" LPs were usually slow movers or groups that didn't have
enough popularity to justify space in the normal racks.  They were
"reduced for clearance."  The "cut out" itself was a small cut in the
corner of the jacket, 1/2" to 1" deep usually.

The purpose for this was to prevent people from being too dishonest
with returns.  Cut outs were usually non returnable (unless blatantly
defective).  Without the cut, you could but a $2 album, strip off
enough of the pricetag to make the price uncertain and come back.  "I
got this as a birthday present and want to exchange it."  Then you grab
a $15 new release.

There were probably better solutions available, but it became part of
the culture.

I've seen this with CDs, too.  The dweebs cut the plastic case, even
though they were in long boxes (i.e. they could have cut the other
end).

-- 
Drew Lawson                      If you're not part of the solution,
lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
From: roy@harlqn.co.uk (Roy Badami)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: CD Pens was:Re: I Have a FAQing Headache
Date: 21 Jul 92 21:09:54 GMT
Organization: Harlequin Limited, Cambridge, England

>>>>> In article <TeosNB5w164w@dogbox.acme.gen.nz>, dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (dogbowl) writes:

  dogbowl> There was a scheme a while back when most machines had a
  dogbowl> single DAC to time correct the difference in time caused by
  dogbowl> processing first one channel then the other.  From memory
  dogbowl> the left channel was delayed 20 or 30 nanoseconds.  This
  dogbowl> sold quite well until manufacturers started using dual DACs
  dogbowl> in the machines.  What several electronics magazines
  dogbowl> pointed out was that the same effect was obtained by moving
  dogbowl> the left speaker *3millimetres* closer the the listener.
  dogbowl> There was a tongue-in-cheek referencr to putting a 3mm pad
  dogbowl> in the right earpiece for headphone usage. :-)

Ah, but it could be important if you want to derive a mono signal from
the player.  Even if the disc is in mono (ie old recording), the phase
shift will lose you a little high frequency response.  (Admitedly, in
the case of a mono recording you could avoid this by just using one
channel of the output.)  I doubt it would be significant in practice,
though.

It _is_ still true that the early single DAC players didn't sound as
good as the dual DAC ones, however, but _not_ because they only had
one DAC.  These were generally based on the first generation Sony
chipset, and generally weren't oversampled, whilst the competing
designs were Philips-based machines with 2 14-bit converters running
with x4 oversampling.  Also, I believe the early Philips DACS had
better linearity then the early Sony ones....
--
Roy Badami, Harlequin Ltd, Barrington Hall, Barrington, Cambridge,  U.K.
Internet: roy@harlqn.co.uk               UUCP: ..!mcsun!uknet!harlqn!roy

``Computers are not like telephones. Computers do not ring'' --Tanenbaum
From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: catching bullets with the teeth
Date: 30 Jul 92 11:29:48 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK

In article <1992Jul29.211347.2741@crd.ge.com> salantel@wsqtb9.crd.ge.com writes:
>I heard from coworkers, that on tv they showed a man who could
>catch a bullet fired from a gun with his teeth.  Supposedly the
>gun was statically mounted and carefully aimed, and the bullet
>would pass through things like a piece of paper or a glass pane
>to prove it was no sleight of hand.
>
>While I believe that these people saw this on tv, I can't believe
>that someone can really catch bullets with his teeth.  Anyone
>got the scoop on this?
>

There's nothing particularly impressive about catching bullets with your
teeth. Of course, if you can catch all your teeth before they hit the
ground, then you might be on to something...

Later,

The Wisp.
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                                      Brian Johnson (thanks to A. Simha 8^>)
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From: tlouie@athena.mit.edu (Tom Louie)
Subject: Craig Shergold gif?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:09:01 GMT

Is there a Craig Shergold gif/bitmap/ASCII image out there?  If so, I'd
like to have a copy.  Thanks.

ObUL: A friend of mine is doing a computer ray-traced animation of Craig
Shergold feeding Alka-Seltzer to sea gulls.

Tom "Boom" Louie
From: Marc.Fraioli@halluc.com (Marc Fraioli)
Sender: UUCP@halluc.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: modem tax back
Date: 27 Jul 92  20:49:00 EDT

-> >MEMBERS URGED TO FIGHT "MODEM FEE"
-> >
-> >  (16-Jul-92)
-> >  A commissioner with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission
-> (FCC) recentl
->              ^^^^^^^
->
-> Oh, the trouble that could be saved if people would bother to put
-> DATES in these things when they create them.  At least it makes it
-> easier to detect bad data.

This thing surfaced recently in a letter to the editor in COMPUTE magazine.  The
editor seemed to take it seriously, and urged everyone to write their
Congressperson.  That is precisely why the UL won't die...

(but maybe it's true this time! ;-)

Marc Fraioli  ------------------------   Marc.Fraioli@halluc.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:49:01 GMT
 <1992Jul20.215204.13458@unislc.uucp> <cbdm3=l@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Jul21.120217.23678@news.columbia.edu>

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:

>To help add a few facts, this was Spring 1983.  Daylight Savings Time rules
>for that time period for Utah and Arizona can be verified.  They are probably
>quite different now, considering we start DST earlier in the year now.  Back
>then most of the country was on DST, but Arizona and California were in the
>same time zone, while Utah was an hour later.

I don't know about 1983, but that was the situation in early June of
1992, when I visited the Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon; Utah was
on Mountain Daylight Time, California was on Pacific Daylight Time,
and Arizona (the part I was in, at least) was on Mountain Standard,
which is the same as Pacific Daylight.  Evidently Arizona sees no
need to save daylight; it's no wonder.

I think that there are Indian reservations in Arizona that do
recognize Daylight Saving Time, however.

-- 
Matt McIrvin, grad student, Dept. of Physics, Harvard University
mcirvin@husc.harvard.edu      mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble
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From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 03:23:41 GMT

jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost) writes:

>Personally I find it pretty stupid that they bother having
>prescription/nonprescription doses of many products.  Why would anyone
>pay mucho bucks for prescription Motrin when they can by CVS brand

Because they're on a drug plan that pays for perscription drugs?

(That's the case for me when I was taking enterophin for my knee - I could
buy it over the counter cheaper, but my drug plan wouldn't pay unless I
lined up and suffered the humiliation of perscription handouts.  "Right,
who's got piles?  Here you go.  Who's got the chest rash?" - from Monty
Python)

-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com or {uunet,revcan}!geovision!pt
(This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
"Beebelbrox, over here!" "No, Beebelbrox over here, who you?"
"A friend." "Anybody's friend in particular, or just well disposed to people?"
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