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From: lawder@ohsu3b2.ohsu.EDU (Kathryn Lawder)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,misc.kids
Subject: Re: Other Goofy Songs (was Re: Worm song?)
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:09:24 GMT
Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University

In article <92097.112555ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET> ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:
>in response to johnnyb@ims.com (Johnny Battle):
>>
>>"One-eyed, One-horned, Flying Purple People-eater"
>>"Itsy-bitsy, Teeny weeny, Yellow, Polka-dot Bikini" 
>>"Ahab the A-Rab," 
>>"Does Your Chewing Gum Loose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight," 
>>"Tie Me Kangaroo Down" 
>Does the SPEARMINT Lose its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight 
>Yucka-Puck, 
>Movin' On 
>(my favorite) I've Got Tears in my Ears, Lyin' on my Back, Cryin' on my Pillow
>Over You.
>"Beep, Beep" 
>"Tan Shoes, Pink Shoe Laces"

Okay, I remember it as tears in my ears, lying on my back in my bed while
I cry over you (at least that's the way my band director used to sing it
in music lessons).

Here's my additions to the list:

1) Little Boxes (on the hillside made of ticky tacky)
2) Maresy Dotes
3) No Matter How Young a Prune May Be He's Always Getting Wrinkled

-- 
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Ask Marilyn?  Not if you want the right answer!
Organization: Hewlett-Parkard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 00:17:15 GMT

: >faster than sound in many cases, and I guarantee you that no falling
: >object will break the sound barrier on it's own.  ...
: 
: The "earthquake bombs" dropped by 617 Squadron (RAF) during World War II
: reputedly broke the sound barrier on the way down.  These were extremely
: streamlined 10-ton bombs of hardened steel, designed to penetrate the
: ground and detonate under the target.  They were dropped from as far up
: as the British could get them.  The Germans lost a lot of U-Boat pens and
: other hardened facilities this way.

Reputed is the correct term. We know more about the dynamics of near
supersonic speads now. A freely falling object will not exceed the
speed of sound. They could not even get a prop driven airplane to break
the sound barrier - even in a full dive and at full throttle.

The earthquake or tunnelbuster bombs were effective when dropped from a
few thousand feet. Any more was unnecessary. They may have even worked
correctly from lower altitudes, I will try to remember to check my WWII
references. Don't forget that they still had to hit the target - a near
miss was not good enough.

Bill
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From: wjeuerle@athena.mit.edu (William J Euerle)
Subject: Re: Ask Marilyn Again
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 00:39:58 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.183122.8170@e2big.mko.dec.com>, moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com () writes:
|> 
|> In article <1992Apr09.144705.1393@rose.uucp>, david.lloyd-jones@rose.uucp (david lloyd-jones) writes:
|> 
|> |>Seems to me it's this way: In the opening position there are three
|> |>unknown doors.  The chance that you have chosen the prize is 1/3, no
|> |>matter which one you choose.
|> 
|> Correct.
|> 
|> |>You make a choice.  No matter which choice you make, Monty has a
|> |>goat-door available.  He opens it, or one of them.  He does not move the
|> |>prize and his fingers never leave his hands.
|> |>
|> |>You now have two unknown doors.  The one you have chosen has a 50%
|> |>chance of hiding the prize.  The other one has a 50% chance of hiding
|> |>the prize.  It does not matter whether you switch or not, but if you
|> |>miss the prize either way it is going to bug the hell out of you for
|> |>quite a while.
|> 
|> If the odds were initially 1/3 that you were correct and revealing the goat
|> reveals no new information, how could the odds jump to 1/2 that you were
|> correct?  Either revealing the goat reveals some information about the
|> other 2 doors, or the odds you guessed correctly initially remain at 1/3,
|> in which case the chance the prize is behind the other unopened door is 2/3
|> and therefore, you should switch.
|> 
|> -Mike

Well, look at the situation.  You now have 2 doors.  One of which has the car
behind it.  (you explicitly stated that you have no information to distinguish
the 2 doors)  What is the probility that door A has a car behind it?  It is 1/2. 
This is an example of conditional probability.  Giving you information where it
is not does give you information about where it is.  Why, by choosing a door,
should the probability of the unchosen (by you or monty) door double in
probability?
From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: We are not amused.
Keywords: Say anything here they never check eat all day for free
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:53:51 GMT
Organization: Gerbils R Us.
NNTP-Posting-Host: positive

Someone (name forgotten) alleged that Winston was the illegitimate
son of the King of England, in that his mother had boffed the King while
her husband Lord Randolph was slowly degenerating from syphilis.

Great theory!   Alas, when the mighty Church-baby became PM in 1940 he
was 65.  Which means he was born around 1875.  And who was on the throne
then?   Queen Victoria, that's who, from 1837 till 1901.

And of course, since Victoria got the crown as a female, her spouse couldn't
be king.  Instead "beloved Bertie" was a Prince consort.   Hence "the king"
could not have impregnated Mrs Church*ll.

Bzzzt!   But thanks for playing!

Peter "don't get me started on Q. Victoria stories!" vdL.


--
Peter van der Linden    linden@eng.sun.com
Hola!  Villains foiled, bugs executed daily, strong coffee brewed.
From: steinar@faust.solan.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Flute tuning (Re: Radio UL)
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:43:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: faust.STEINAR.92Apr9194309
	<1992Apr8.203105.16262@polaris.utu.fi>
Organization: Flodnak, Inc., Trondheim, Norway

Esa-Pekka P{lvim{ki writes:
>In article <1992Apr8.004651.6300@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bi\ll nelson) writes:
>>
>>And just what do they do with the fixed span instruments, such as flutes and
>>the woodwinds? The idea would work fine for the string instruments, and such
>>instruments as the trumpets which have a tuneable section. Why do you think
>>that the instrument that is often used as a tuning reference is a flute? It
>>is because the span between notes is fixed and cannot be tampered with.
>
>Sure you can tune a flute, just by changing the length of it slightly.

Actually, all woodwind instruments can be tuned this way.  On instruments
that have a mouthpiece, the mouthpiece can be adjusted by pushing it
in slightly or pulling it out slightly - and as it turns out slightly is
enough.  I'm not exactly sure what happens to double-reeded instruments,
like the oboe, which do not have a mouthpiece, but i do know they are 
tuneable. 

It's a good thing, too.  Musical instruments, particularly the better
quality ones, always differ slightly from other instruments of the same
type.  If you couldn't tune a flute, the flute section would be out of tune
with itself, and potentially with the rest of the orchestra or band.  This
would be a nightmare for anyone not completely tone deaf.  

Also, i'm not so sure i'd say the flute is "often" a tuning reference.
I've played in concert bands, orchestras, and a jazz band, and we almost 
never used the flute....it's just too quiet to be heard clearly unless 
the ensemble is quite small.

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway
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From: chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov (Chuck Adams)
Subject: Re: Falling Bullets
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:06:52 GMT

In article <12095@tamsun.tamu.edu> glp7584@tamuts.tamu.edu (Gordon Lee 
Powell Jr) writes:
> In article <1992Apr8.134711.28085@sunova.ssc.gov> 
chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov (Chuck Adams) writes:
> >In article <1992Apr6.204125.3576@fivegl.co.nz> derek@fivegl.co.nz 
(Derek 
> >Tearne) writes:
> 
> >Much talk of Space Shuttle/speed of sound/falling objects etc. deleted
> >> 2) The speed of sound in air varies depending on exactly how much 
> >> air there is and is much higher at higher altitudes. Therefore 
Terminal
> >> velocity is greater at higher altitudes.
> 
> >Reading this paragraph would indicate that you believe that Terminal 
> >Velocity (tm) is somehow related to the speed of sound in air.  It is 
not. 
> > Terminal Velocity (tm) would be higher at higher altitudes only 
because 
> >the density of air is less.  The speed of sound at higher altitudes is 
> >also higher, also due to the fact that the density of air at the higher 
> >altitude is less, but the two are not directly related.
> 
> 
> Reading this paragraph would indicate that you believe that the speed of 
> sound is somehow related to the density of the air.  It is not.
> The speed of sound in air is only dependant on the temperature of the 
> air.  If you wanted to get technical, though, you could also take into
> account that the force of gravity is less at high altitude.

The speed of sound in _any_ medium is determined by the density of that 
medium.  The density of a particular medium may be affected by its 
temperature, but that is not the primary cause of the speed of sound in 
the medium.
> 
> Density is what concerns us here.  Nothing more, and nothing less

Absolutely!  I couldn't agree more.........

               Chuck Adams,  WB5WRR   (The Chuckster)
                Internet:  chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov
   Disclaimer:  Not an official document of DOE, SSCL, URA or EG&G
                   "Curses!  Flamed Again"  - me
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From: dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright)
Subject: Re: Worm song?
Organization: unisys
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 92 18:07:58 GMT

: mwheeler@wpi.WPI.EDU (Michael J. "Landshark" Wheeler) asks:
: 
: Anyone know all the words to this song?
: 
:         Nobody likes me
:         Everybody hates me
:         Think I'll eat some wo-o-orms

The way I learned it in summer camp:

     Nobody likes me, everybody hates me,
     I'm gonna eat some worms!
     
     Long slim slimy ones, short fat juicy ones,
     itsy bitsy fuzzy wuzzy worms!
     
     Down goes the first one, down goes the second one,
     Ooo how they wiggle and squirm!!
     
     Long slim slimy ones, short fat juicy ones,
     itsy bitsy fuzzy wuzzy worms!

Dan Wright                | Internet: dw@unislc.slc.unisys.com
Salt Lake City, Utah      |     UUCP: ...!{sun, uplherc}!unislc!dw
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A trumpet is an instrument when it's not an elephant sound.
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From: djohnson@gamma.is.tcu.edu (Darryl (The Other Brother) Johnson)
Subject: Re: CATV monitoring, Tempest screening (was Re: FCC Call letters)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas Christian University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 22:43:00 GMT

In article <1992Apr4.204833.1572@lsl.co.uk>, robin@lsl.co.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes...
>officer.  Yes, Robin, they say, we _really do_ need (incredibly 
>expensive) Tempest screening.  So a USSR spy can _obviously_ watch your 
>TV without even paying for a license... ;-)
> 
I can get my computer monitor screen on my TV on Channel 3.
They are in different rooms, about 30-40 feet apart.
Granted, it is very difficult to read (kind of like a WordPerfect
"view document" screen), but then, I'm sure the Russians could do
better than a small black and white TV (maybe not anymore!).

I still see a difference between detecting a television that is
turned on, and detecting the use of shielded cable (coax) TV.
The whole IDEA of cable TV was minimal loss of signal.
That and as someone pointed out, there's the legal question.  If
you DON'T have a legal cable subscription, they have no legal basis
for entering your home to check your TV.  POSSIBLY a law enforcement
agent could do so, but he'd STILL be better off with a warrant.  I
wouldn't consider the cable guy a law enforcement agent.

Jeeves, release the hounds!  We have an unwanted "guest".

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.religion.kibology
From: bediger@isis.cs.du.edu (bruce allen ediger)
Subject: Re: Tomato Flavor Chewing Gum
Summary: In dept stores, no one can hear you scream
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.
Keywords: twanger, tomato, watermelon
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 92 18:13:44 GMT


His Most Exalted Post-bozocity writes:
>[]
>	About twenty years ago, as I recall, there was a vending machine
>in my local Woolworth's which had tomato-flavored (allegedly) chewing
>gum

[...]

>	Can anyone reassure me that tomato gum was available in the
>early seventies, and tell me what YOU think it tasted like?
>

Oh, Your Highness, it was most definitely available in the early 70s.
To me, it was a bit like the alleged "watermelon" flavored gum also
available: kind of ickky, and only bearing a faint resemblance taste-wise
to the fruit in question.

Who gets to designate the correspondence between some artificial flavor and
a real-life fruit/meat/seasoning?  I mean, "grape" koolaid (tm, i presume)
doesn't even taste faintly like real grapes.  And Jello(tm) brand gelatin:
do _any_ of the designated "flavors" resemble in _any_ way the real tastes
of cherries, limes, lemons, stawberries or hamburgers?  Who decided that
"Bac-O's" taste anything like bacon?  And vienna sausages: could someone
who has been to Vienna tell us if it tastes like vienna sausages?
And what about "otter-pops"?  I haven't seem them since the early seventies,
but they were little polyethylene tubes filled with colored, "flavored" water
that you would freeze, then have an adult snip the end off.  Voila'!  Instant
pseudo-popsicle in a handy, disposable packet.  none of that messy spittle
popsicle mixture leaking off the otter-pop onto your grimy little mitt.
Anyway, my favorite otter-pop "flavor" was "blue".  It had no correspondence
with a real flavor, not even one one the package like "kool-aid".
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dsc@gemini.tmc.edu (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892)
Subject: Re: Flip-Tops for Kidney Dialysis UL (?)
Organization: NASA GSFC CDP VLBI
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:41:57 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.194619.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu> axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu writes:
>hand in one area that a charity actually decided to set up just such a
>program.  Now you collect the tops, turn them in, and the charity sells
>them for scrap and gives the $ to some medical facility, a local hospital
>I think.  Which leads to the question, "Why just collect the tabs when
>a) these days they're much more annoying to remove, and b) the whole
>can is worth more?"  The answer: the local people LIKED doing it; it
>became a hobby for some people.  These people need some USENET links
>immediately, so they can waste their times in a more amusing fashion.
>:-) 
>-- 
The Washington (D.C.) Post ran a story about two years ago about some local
organisation which did just this.  It should be emphacised, however, that they
preferred to receive the entire can, as it was worth more.  Moreover, cans with
flip tops that are easily removable (they used to be called pull tabs because
they pulled all the way off) are illegal.  The tabs were a serious litter 
problem.  At one time, something like 80% od the dead fish found in lake
Erie were found to have died from swallowing pull tabs.  So, if you know of any
organisation which is advocating the removal of the tabs from the cans, please
ask them to come up with a more enviromentally friendly sceme.
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From: chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov (Chuck Adams)
Subject: Re: Falling Bullets
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 13:47:11 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.204125.3576@fivegl.co.nz> derek@fivegl.co.nz (Derek 
Tearne) writes:

Much talk of Space Shuttle/speed of sound/falling objects etc. deleted

> 2) The speed of sound in air varies depending on exactly how much 
> air there is and is much higher at higher altitudes. Therefore Terminal
> velocity is greater at higher altitudes.

Reading this paragraph would indicate that you believe that Terminal 
Velocity (tm) is somehow related to the speed of sound in air.  It is not. 
 Terminal Velocity (tm) would be higher at higher altitudes only because 
the density of air is less.  The speed of sound at higher altitudes is 
also higher, also due to the fact that the density of air at the higher 
altitude is less, but the two are not directly related.

               Chuck Adams,  WB5WRR   (The Puhpxfgre)
                Internet:  chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov
   Disclaimer:  Not an official document of DOE, SSCL, URA or EG&G
                   "Curses!  Flamed Again"  - me
From: gmcquary@Ingres.COM (George F. McQuary)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Goats and Cars: The mathematical solution
Keywords: Would Prof. Ash be proud?
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:44:50 GMT
Reply-To: gmcquary@Ingres.COM (George F. McQuary)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501

Goats and cars, a mathematical solution.

The problem:
------------

Monty Hall is going to give away a car. You are given a choice of doors,
one of which contains a car, the rest containing goats. After you choose,
Monty shows you that all the doors except one (and the one you picked) had goats
behind them. He now gives you a choice of switching doors... should you?

For n doors, you have a 1/n chance of picking correctly the first time.
Assuming n>=3, Monty then shows you goats behind n-2 doors.
The car must be present. The chances therefore of the car appearing behind the
door he allows you to switch to are now 1-(1/n) or (n-1)/n.

So if Monty shows you 100 doors, the chance of picking the car on your first
pick is 1/100, or 1%. Monty now trots out a herd of 98 goats and gives you
a choice of keeping your pick or exchanging it for the unseen remaining
door. You know one of the two doors must have a car. The car is now
99% likely to be gotten if you switch. You should switch.

Likewise, if there are three doors, you are 1/3 or around 33% likely to
get the car on the first pick. Monty trots out a goat and leaves the other
door still undisclosed, but offers you a switch. The car is 2/3 or approximately
67% likely to be gotten if you switch. You should switch.

Of course, Monty Hall in real life has stated that he does not always
offer the choice to switch, and may stick you with your first pick or
not as he feels like it that day.

--
George F. McQuary 
"He is mad, bad and dangerous to know." -Lady Caroline Lamb
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
Subject: Warning: Illegal TVs! (was: FCC Call letters)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 18:06:51 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <1992Apr9.162555.4618@e2big.mko.dec.com> moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com () writes:
>
>|>Side question: what is the current status of the highest of the UHF channels
>|>from 83 down to something like 69-70?
>
>Channels 70-83 are reallocated to cellular telephone services.
>
Yes, to which it is now AGAINST THE LAW to listen! The Communications Act
of 1987 has now, for the first time, made it a criminal act to listen
in to something you can simply and easily pick up on a receiver in
the privacy of your own home.
 
Most people don't realize the danger they're in! Folks, you could be
accidentally playing with the remote control on your TV, and inadverdently
tune into channel 82 or whatever, and accidentally overhear somebody's
cellular discussion of their sex life, or where some snuff films are
going to be shown, or whatever. And this is *true*, not just some 
silly Urban Legend. A friend of mine once turned HIS TV set to channel
83, and listened in to some cellular callers; of course, I would never
do that (honest, officer!), but I couldn't help overhearing what the
foxy lady was saying when my friend tuned in.   
 
Folks, this is dangerous. DON'T EVER listen in to other peoples'
cellular phone conversations on your TV set, or on a pre-1987 scanner
that has not had the cellular frequencies blocked out of it! 
You might go to JAIL for this! You might even end up in the SAME
jail cell as Jim Baker and Lyndon Larouche! 

Don't say you haven't been warned!
-- 
  
        Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
  
 Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!

     "In the 1970's the world will undergo famines - hundreds of millions
     of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs 
     embarked upon now ... in 1985, when it is calculated [under the most
     optimistic scenario] that the major die-back will be over, ..."
       
                       Dr. Paul Ehrlich, "The Population Bomb," 1968

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From: mblum@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Cerebus)
Subject: Re: MIT's "Infinite Corridor"
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 04:28:14 GMT

thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:

>In article <1992Apr08.211713.14988@sdd.hp.com> tmm@sdd.hp.com (Tim McDonough) writes:
>>I'm also quite sure the long corridor in the IBM Rochester Plant is longer than
>>a quarter mile.  It goes all the way from the Lab through Manufacturing, and
>>then out to the wherehouses.  

>Damn, IBM has wherehouses?!?  I thought the things were immortal!  I hope
>they have some sort of health procedure to keep people from getting
>venerable diseases.

No, no, wherehouses, not whorehouses.  Wherehouses is used in dialogue
such as:
	"Wherehouses?"
	"Therehouses!"

And whorehouses are not immortal.  They can be demolished, or boarded
up, which is pretty much "dead" for a building.

-- Matt
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