HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rboudrie@chpc.org (Rob Boudrie)
Subject: Re: Sinking libraries
Organization: Center For High Perf. Computing of WPI; Marlboro Ma
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:56:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.132339.9018@bsu-ucs.uucp> 00tdspence@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:
>
>
>Hi.
>
>I'm a student at Ball State U. in Muncie, IN
>and I work at the U library.
>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 know this is an urban myth.
>Could anyone please verify that it is so I can convince the guy I work
>with that he shouldn't beleive everything he hears???
>

This must be a very common problem.  Refer to an exceprt from the RPI
unofficial student handbook (ftp site: mts.rpi.edu file: acm5/not.handbook)

0          The Folsom Library
0               There  were  two  blunders  made when the Folsom Library was
           built. First, the  building  was  originally  designed  with  the
           floors  bowed  upwards,  with  the  intent that the weight of the
           books would bow the floors back to level, and slightly stress the
           walls.  The idea was that this would make the building as a whole
           more durable. Of course the construction crew  didn't  understand
           this concept, and the building was built with level floors, which
           are now bowed slightly downward with the weight of the books.
0               Next,  another  architect  calculated the necessary capacity
           for the foundation without realizing  that  the  building  was  a
           library. Because of this, no allowance was made for the weight of
           the books within the building. Books, as you probably  know  from
           carrying  them to and from class, are heavy, with the result that
           the entire building is on its way into Troy. The  land  formation
           which  the library was built on, however, is much more solid than


>Please respond by e-mail only.
>Thank you.
>
>Travis Spence
>00tdspence@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu


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From: pratta@rpi.edu (Anthony Edward Prattico)
Subject: Re: Sinking libraries
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:32:37 GMT

 

There is also a story about the Kodak Park rec center in Rochester, NY. Legend
has it that a pool was built on the second floor for employee use. Unfortunate-
ly, the pool was never filled. Can anybody guess why? I knew you could. Yes,
who ever designed it forgot to factor in the weight of the water.


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Subject: Re: Agnostics and Athiests
From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:40:16 MST
Followup-To: alt.cascade,alt.folklore.urban
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
Summary: warning: urban legend content -> 0
Nntp-Posting-User: f67700241

In article <1SEP199205213404@venus.tamu.edu>, mfc1493@venus.tamu.edu (Ratboy) writes:
>>>>>>}>>>>>>>IF THIS DOESN'T STOP, IM GOING TO START THE WORST CASCADE EVER.
>>>>>>}>>>>>>WHILE EATING THIS SLOP, I SEWED THE FIRST BROCADE BEAVER.
>>>>>>}>>>>>BILE FITTING RIG STOP, LIE SPEWED THIRST LIVER !!!!
>>>>>>}>>>>IF YOU MUST CONTRIBUTE, AT LEAST DELIVER...
>>>>>>}>>>WHO MAY I ATTRIBUTE TO THIS BEASTLY SLIVER?
>>>>>>}>>TO SPAY A LUTE IN A GREASY RIVER
>>>>>>}>DAMN CASCADERS THINK YOU'RE SO CLEVER
>>>>>>}I WILL NOT CASCADE; NOPE, NO, NEVER
>>>>>>WOULD YOU, COULD YOU, ON A TRAIN?
>>>>>WOULD YOU, COULD YOU, IN THE RAIN?
>>>>R2-D2 ON THE BRAIN?
>>>LOST TWO-FIFTY DOWN THE DRAIN.
>>AND THEN AN ALBINO ALLIGATOR GRABBED IT.
>WHO THEN HAD A WHINO REFRIGERATOR, DAMMIT?
WITH CHEF BOY-AR-DEE SPAGHETTIO'S, CAN IT. 
-- 
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin      Interviewer: "Sir, how do you spell relief?"
f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu               Dan: "R-O-L-A-I-D-S-E."
From: datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Abandoned/Booby Trapped Aircraft hangars
Date: 4 Sep 92 06:48:11 GMT
Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Dallas, Tx.

As I understand it, the Arizona is *still* leaking fuel | oil.
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From: twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 16:34:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.010638.26158@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

>Ted "what's Nova an acronym for?" Frank

Beats me.  What's Caribe an acronym for?

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / "I don't know how much support NAMBLA
\  / twpierce@amherst.edu      /  has in the gay community."
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /   -- Clayton Cramer, August 1992
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From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: North Pole (was: The Flat Earth Society???)
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 04:14:57 GMT

Much as I hate to followup to my own postings, I just remembered 
another point: U. S. submarines have for many years been reinforced
to allow them to bash upwards through ice.  My reference is not at
hand, but a few years after the Nautilus sailed under the Pole, the 
USS Skipjack bashed through, and the sailors had leave to wander about
on the ice.

So we have:

  First to fly over the Pole.
  First to dive under the Pole.
  First to walk on the Pole.
  First to perambulate to the Pole. 

The first party to reach 90 degrees North, and to be able to prove it
within reasonable historical doubt, was that led by Roald Amundsen in
the airship Norge on May 12th or so (strange time zones up there),
1926.

phil
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|play: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG; {ames|pyramid|vsi1}!zorch!phil                |
|work: (Under Construction)              | Phil Gustafson                   |
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Subject: Re: The Flat Earth Society???
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 29 Aug 92 14:59:00 GMT

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

>I'm sure there are hundreds of people reading this group, wanting to ask
>the question, but afraid to look a fool. I've *always* been a fool, so:

>        What *is* the latitude at the North Pole? I was always taught +90
>degrees (+ by convention, N is up on maps and so on), the angle that a radius
>of the imaginary sphere cutting the surface at the particular point
>makes with another radius at the same longitude cutting the equator...

That's what it is: 90 degrees north.  My point was that in math and physics,
when one describes positions with spherical coordinates, the usual convention
puts zero at what could be called a North Pole and has the coordinate
theta increasing from there.  In such applications you usually use radians,
so the South Pole would be pi radians.  People more accustomed to geography
would be expected to put the origin of latitude at the equator; people
more often exposed to math or physics textbooks might put it at the North
Pole.  For geographical latitude, though, what you were taught is correct.

-- 
Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
From: ecc_jim@ecc.tased.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Infertility!
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:45:50 +1000

Heard this from my teacher many years ago:

A couple were infertile for many years. Doctors couldn't find a reason and just
put it down to bad luck.

The couple decide to see a different doctor, and while he is examining her he
notices some dried semen in her belly button.

I think we'd all agree this is *possible*, but did it happen?


Jim Palfreyman

jim@r140.tased.edu.au
From: frankred@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Martin Redington)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Spaghetti trees
Date: 30 Aug 92 20:32:56 GMT
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK

In article <1992Aug30.122910.13813@ozrout.uucp> stirling@ozrout.uucp (Stirling Westrup) writes:
>crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes
>>Apparently, back when TV was first becoming popular, some wise-acre ran
>>a "documentary" on where spaghetti comes from.  It showed all these happy
>>Italian farmers, using their pitchforks to harvest spaghetti from the
>>spaghetti trees.  My folks saw this; my mom believed it.  I have no idea
>>what my dad thought; he's not saying.  
>
>Many years ago, a famous British Radio Announcer by the name of Richard
>Dimbleby (or was that Dimpleby?) did a radio documentary about the
>spaghetti plantations of the Po valley.

I've seen the clip, it is exactly as Stirling describes.
I can't remember if Dimbleby was involved, but some current affairs
program over here ran the clip as a story one April Fool's Day
(do you have that in the States). It was quite some time ago, as
it's in B+W). Every now and then (usually on April Fool's) the clip 
is replayed, and the tale recounted (`My, How we did laugh', `Millions
fell for it' etc.). April Fool`s programs, and news items  are quite a 
tradition in the UK. The best usually involve some story which is SO
unlikely that no-one falls for it, which is then revealed to be true.

I think what probably happened here is that Dimbleby did the story 
first on the radio, and then on TV some years later, or that it was a
simultaneous radio/TV broadcast.

                       cheers,
                                 Martin.
                                           
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From: honig@aster.ics.uci.edu (David A. Honig)
Subject: Re: Cannibaderm, anyone?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.drugs
Reply-To: honig@ics.uci.edu (David A. Honig)
Organization: UC Disneyland, in the Kingdom of Bren
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:42:17 GMT

 datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
>
>>	1) Dope + alcohol will get the drinker/smoker more hammered
>>than either one alone.
>
>It can also get the user totally killed.  Me, I'll probably just use a gun.

Only the ethanaol is toxic.  And if you want to kill yourself in a *car*,
why, just go without sleep for a day, its cheaper.


--
David "Dances with Motion Sensors" Honig

"Would you vote for a president who was too stupid to figure out how to
inhale?"
From: wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Spaghetti trees
Date: 29 Aug 92 15:38:28 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <87098@netnews.upenn.edu>, crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
> All this talk about parents giving us bum information (screaming peaches)
> and Chef Boy-Ar-Dee has brought back memories of my mom and dad telling us
> about spaghetti trees.
> 
> Apparently, back when TV was first becoming popular, some wise-acre ran
> a "documentary" on where spaghetti comes from.  It showed all these happy
> Italian farmers, using their pitchforks to harvest spaghetti from the
> spaghetti trees.  My folks saw this; my mom believed it.  I have no idea
> what my dad thought; he's not saying.  
> 
> Anybody else ever see this gem?  Or know anything about it?  Wonder if
> it's still around anywhere ...
> 
It was an April Fool's Day joke by "Nationwide", what used to be the BBC's
daily television current affairs programme. It must have appeared in the mid
70's, because when I first saw it, probably on a "Blue Peter" April 1st
special, it was already several years old. Of course other TV networks may have
made their own versions of it.

-- 

Stephen Wilcox             |   Remember what happened to the dinosaurs!
wilcox@maths.oxford.ac.uk  |    I did---and look what happened to me.
From: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:47:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Chef Boy-Ar-Dee commercial
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

And when *I* was a kid, we used to sing:

> We're having beef-a-roni,
> Made with macaroni,
> Beef-a-roni's good to eat.

Makes you puke up in the street.

> Beef-a-roni's fun to eat.
> Hurray!
> For beef-a-roni.

-- Ray
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From: geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 18:48:34 GMT
Organization: Roller Coaster fanatic with no hope for a cure
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Organization: Roller Coaster fanatic with no hope for a cure
Keywords: 

schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>>>Mary Ann      = Envy (???)
>
>>Mary Ann is always envious of Ginger's looks/attention from the men,
>>etc.
>
>>That's my theory, anyway.
>
>To the contrary, I always wanted Mary Anne.  Something about those
>wholesome farm girl looks of hers.

You and me both, but Gilligan and Skipper were too dumb to realize that.
They always fawned over Ginger and treated Mary Ann(e?) like their
little sister.  (Mr. Howell had Mrs. Howell, and Professor was the
ultimate nerd with no interest in *either* of them.)

So, on the show, Mary Ann had reason to envy Ginger, though we Real Men
(TM) know better.

Geoff ``Still waiting for the three-sided record of the Gilligan's
Island theme'' Allen

-- 
Geoff Allen          \  Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best---
uunet!pmafire!geoff   \   or worst, depending on what is posted on any
geoff@pmafire.inel.gov \   particular day.   --David Fiedler in _Byte_
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From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 13:25:37 GMT

IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (macphil) writes:

>In article <1992Aug26.233107.6408@rose.com>
>bill.dehaan@rose.com (bill dehaan) writes:
> 
>>people  who  worried  about  this  sort  of  thing should picket Adidas,
>>because Adidas is an acronym for "All Day I Dream About Sex".
> 
>And rare is the creature knowing how adidas really got its name...

I suppose it has nothing to do with the founder's name being Adi Dassler?

OBUL: The founder of Adidas and the founder of Puma are brothers, and
haven't talked since the war, because one accuses the other of collaborating
with the Nazis (or being one).

-- 
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
From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Cellular Frequencies
Date: 30 Aug 92 18:46:35 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <Aug.30.13.33.15.1992.11502@math.rutgers.edu> cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:
>carndt@zeus.calpoly.edu (Chris Arndt) writes:
>> Can't have been that long ago, either, that it changed. We have a remote
>> control 13" Sharp TV w/ electronic tuner that goes all the wat to 83, and
>> it's not more than 5 or 6 years old.
>
>I have a 2-year-old Radio Shack portable TV that goes all the way to
>83.  I haven't noticed any cellular chatter, though.  Do you need a
>descrambler or something?

No.  If you did, this whole flap would never have started.




-- 
+ Michael Covington - Artificial Intelligence Programs - U of Georgia - USA 
+ Unless otherwise noted, these are private opinions, not official statements.
+ VOTE NO GEORGIA LOTTERY - we need not imitate mistakes of other states.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte)
Subject: Re: The Flat Earth Society???
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:03:11 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.113121.14999@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>
>A friend tells me of a rumour that there exists an organization known as The
>Flat Earth Society, whose members "still" believe that the earth is actually
>flat, in the ancient tradition.
[deleted]
>be FOUR corners.  Or even more unbelievably, does anyone have any evidence for
>the existence of The Flat Earth Society?

Well, I was watching the news following the Voyager flight (you know,
that plane that went around the world, non stop?) and as sort of a human
interest angle, the newscaster mentioned that the flat earth society had
a press conference or something in which they revealed that the path was
really a big circle (oval? loop?).

Proof? maybe.

						-Dave
-- 
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: apples to teachers - idea why
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:16:06 GMT

mgfrank@avernus.com (Marc G. Frank) writes:
: In article <992Aug9.005056.274@bcrka45.bnr.ca> seanna@bnr.ca (Seanna Watson) writes:
: >Kids give apples to teachers because they start school in the fall
: >when apples are abundant.  They give flowers to teachers in the 
: >spring.
: 
: Or perhaps the whole thing is just an urban legend.  Does anyone out
: there *actually know* (or even have a FOAF) of a student who gave an
: apple to a teacher or a teacher receiving an apple from a student?

I took apples to my teachers, when I was in grade school. So, unless it
is based on my actions, it is not a legend.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson)
Subject: Price gouging in Florida and Guam
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: Mon, 31 Aug 92 20:21:37 GMT

I keep hearing on CNN that there is price gouging in the aftermaths
of Hurricane Andrew and Typhoon Omar for necessities like ice 
and food. Surely this is an urban legend like the Red Cross selling
donuts and coffee to soldiers in Europe. I went through Hurricane 
Camille in 1969 and did not encounter price gouging.

--
Bruce Watson  wats@nyx.cs.du.edu  Toy Cows, Toy Cows in Africa, Toy Cows
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
Subject: Re: What makes an urban legend work?
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 14:11:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.193831.17920@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>The there was the UL that for each can of Coors you buy, the company would
>purchase a bullet for the KKK.

Yeah, and the one about Marlboro being in league with the KKK. Something to do
with the colours on the packets, especially those dots (test colours, I always
thought) that are hidden until you break the packet up. The rumor went
round Cambridge (UK) in 1981-82, and it was amazing how many people bought it,
and stopped smoking Marlboro. Of course, they just switched to something
else...

Later,

The Wisp.
-- 
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                                      Brian Johnson (thanks to A. Simha 8^>)
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From: klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Flash pix
Date: 30 Aug 92 18:50:16 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Duke University, Nuclear Medicine

In article <l9sq7cINNijt@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM writes:

>If standard photo flashes emit that much UV, it explains why movie
>stars and politicians always have such nice tans.

 And that's why they have cataracts.  Or is that a Mercedes?

>Brian "My high-school PROM" Scearce

kg
-- 
Kim L. Greer                       
Duke University Medical Center		 klg@orion.mc.duke.edu
Div. Nuclear Medicine  POB 3949		 voice: 919-681-5894
Durham, NC 27710  		         fax: 919-681-5636
From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Co-ed Dorms!
Date: 26 Aug 92 07:40:58 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

joslin_paul@ae.ge.com writes:

: At Purdon't, the largest "co-ed" dorm consists of a men-only building
: and a women-only building which share a common dining hall.  Really. 
: 
: When I left in 1984, Purdue still had "visiting hours".  No visitors of
: the opposite sex after 10 PM weekdays, 2 AM weekends.  Really. 

when i was at baylor in 1981-82, there were curfews (11 pm weeknights,
1 am weekends for women, later for men) and no members of the opposite
sex were allowed past the lobby of any dorm except for a couple of
saturday afternoons during football season, when dorms were "open" for
a few hours. even then, anyone with an opposite-sex visitor had
to leave his/her door open. 

so it was amusing when a woman on my floor got thrown out because
she'd had a nonstudent, older male of a different race living in her
room for most of the semester.

--
sine nomine
debbie martinson
of course, this is at a school where groups wishing to have dances
must refer to them as "functions" and hold them off-campus
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler)
Subject: Re: 3 small legands
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:55:21 GMT

moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com (Mike Moroney) writes:

>I heard this as an ethnic joke.  I've heard many ethnic jokes retold as
>urban legends recently.  Do people really believe ethnic jokes happened?
>Or is it because ethnic jokes are extremely "politically incorrect" now,
>people tell them as urban legends instead?

>-Mike

No, they tell them as dumb blond jokes.

-Gary
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Blood on the Freeway
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 08:42:58 GMT

In article <25725@dog.ee.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov writes:
>>  Are those grotesque films they show in drivers education classes real?
>

When I took mine, it was mostly a tribute to the Smith system of defensive
driving (stale greens, etc.).

I was told that back in the "good old days" there was lotsa gore, and one
particular incident stands out:

The guy is stuck in the twisted wreck (and no, he doesn't say "tell Laura
I love her") and is begging for the cops to shoot him to end his agony.  He
pleads over and over as they stand there helpless (pre-Jaws of Life).

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Smallest denominations of paper money (was: Counterfeiting)
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 07:56:33 GMT

Can anyone please post their idea of the most *worthless* money being
currently printed/struck in any country.

I was in Mexico about 9 years ago, and the exchange rate was 148 pesos to
the dollar.  Yet, there was a recently minted coin for 20 Centavos which would
be 1/740th of a dollar.  I have heard that things have become much worse since
then; so what is the smallest denomination produced there currently?

cjl
From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Arguing with Statistics
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:58:55 GMT
Reply-To: lawson@aldia.UUCP (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA

In article <1992Aug28.011438.26520@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>Ted "what are the odds that eight separate people will note that Monty
>     Python is the only ones ever to make a three-sided record?" Frank

Weren't the three sides dedicated to material by Churchill, Disraeli and Gladstone?

Drew "Or was that in Mad?" Lawson
-- 
Drew Lawson                      If you're not part of the solution,
lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
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