HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: psychic naughty bits
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:22:05 GMT
Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie

boyd@acsu.buffalo.edu (Daniel F Boyd) wrote:
[sending up something I missed]
>                           Questionnaire
> 11.  Do you know of any instances where people believe that a
>      penis has been affected by the weather?

This was the explanation my father gave me once as to why mine changed in
size sometimes.  I am not making this up...  Anyone else out there get a
comparably bizarre fob-off for a facts-of-life question?


> 20.  Have you ever heard someone claim that they used a penis
>      to foretell an event?

No, but last week's Sport (UK equivalent of the Weekly World News) had a
headline that went MY PSYCHIC KNOCKERS FORETELL THE FUTURE, with a large
colour picture of the channels concerned...

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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Disco "Snuff" Recording?
Date: 16 Oct 92 23:58:02 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Oct16.193451.26540@bcrka451.bnr.ca> seanna@bnr.ca (Seanna Watson) writes:
>In article <1992Oct14.001124.12546@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>
>>There have been double-episodes of Starlost packaged as movies (titles?) with
>>so much processing that you can't tell that it was video-taped, rather it looks
>>like a badly lit movie reprint.
>
>Actually, as I recall, they looked like that when first shown on TV.

No, but they did have that overly-lit look that some video-tape can have, 
but not as bad as the current prints would lead you to believe.

cjl
From: klaus@diku.dk (Klaus Ole Kristiansen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mink boners
Date: 16 Oct 92 09:16:23 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen


It is common for hunters to keep a fox's penis bone as a trophy.

Klaus O K
From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: 50 words for "Chevy Nova"
Date: 8 Oct 92 23:06:50 GMT
Organization: Rescorla for himself.

In article <39188@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes:
>This seems very strange. I can list 9 number of _white_ colors, for
>heaven's sake! Did they poll people that owned Crayola 500-crayon
>sets?
Or X programmers?
Navajo White, Blanched Almond, Floral White, WhiteSmoke, Old Lace, linen,
Antique White, ivory, white....
-Ekr

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From: v222p9ns@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (A PFC, AND DAMNED PROUD TO BE)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Feets too big
Date: 12 Oct 92 06:25:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Oct12.033828.1707@u.washington.edu>, starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes...
>The way I heard it, if you wear shoes that are too big for you, your feet
>will *grow and spread to fill your shoes,* thus increasing your shoe size
>*permanently* to the over-large size you were so carelessly wearing.  This

	My feet *definitely* got bigger this summer in Army boot camp. My boots
weren't too big, but they are worn larger than you usually wear street shoes. 
My feet got big and wide and ugly over the course of just two months. But they
seem to also be getting a little bit more normal, now that I am back to 
wearing regular shoes. 

	ObUL: Someone just the other day told me the story about the kid who,
when he turned in his test late and was told he would get a zero, asked the 
teacher if he knew who he was, and shoved the paper into the stack of papers.
I set the person straight. ;-)

						-Jeff

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: 7-Up
Keywords: Kibo was not involved in this coloboration
Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 06:28:47 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.201711.21659@infonode.ingr.com> palmermg@infonode.ingr.com (Michael G. Palmer) writes:
> Keywords: Kibo was not involved in this coloboration

NOW I am!
							-- K.
From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Is the electric chair an Edison publicity stunt?
Date: 9 Oct 92 11:23:29 MDT
Organization: Omega:  The Final Solution

>>In article <Bvrw57.Fxu@hatch.socal.com>, richg@hatch.socal.com (Rich
>>Greenberg) writes:
>>> to the packing plant.  An air-operated hammer.

To which I responded:
>>     And according to a friend who used to skin the ex-cattle, it
>>doesn't always work the first time.  Because of that, he preferred the
>>bloodier work on the finally-dead animals.  Not as humane as it
>>sounds at first.
 
In article <1992Oct9.144510.14244@midway.uchicago.edu>,
thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell) writes:
> All of this doesn't sound quite kosher.

     Hey, I never said it was.  I'm not even Jewish, so far as I can
trace my ancestry, anyway.  Btw, said meat company (I won't mention E.
A. Miller by name) recently refused entrance to government inspectors. 
It's within company rights, but no one ever does it, so it made the
news.

Patrick "not a cow, either" Clark
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From: phil@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Metrication and "normal usage"
Date: 13 Oct 92 07:50:24 GMT
Reply-To: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au
Organization: Psychology Department, University of Adelaide
NNTP-Posting-Host: iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au


In article <1992Oct6.233218.27479@unislc.uucp>, dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright) writes:
> I believe North American pronunciation is influenced by words such as:
> barometer, chronometer, dynamometer, geometer, hydrometer, micrometer,
> odometer, photometer, radiometer, speedometer, tachometer, and (last but
> not least with respect to "normal" body temperature), thermometer.

And in each of these cases it is correct pronounciation because, for example
the roots of "thermometer" are:

    therm    temperature
    ometer   measuring device

It is the same with every other word in your list.  They all represent
measuring devices.

On the other hand, kilometer has the roots:

    kilo     1000
    meter    unit of measurement

and so should be pronounced KILL-o-meter.

As I continually point out, KILL-ometer clearly represents a measuring
device for deaths - maybe like notches on a gun?   :-)


Regards,
Phil.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Women in groups
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 21:02:31 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <13OCT199210412445@jane.uh.edu> vpaf5@jane.uh.edu (Kal) writes:
>Well, there is a drug that is on the verge of being approved for birth control
>called Depo-provera, that *does* stop menstration most of the time. Depo
>provera has been used for *years* in most countries outside the US. Studies
>here have shown it to cause ovarian (I think, maybe breast) cancer in beagle
>dogs (and only in beagle dogs, the enclosed literature implies). 

Wait there is something wrong here.  Why were these whacky scientists testing
female birth control drugs on dogs and how come these dogs have breasts to 
get cancerous?  Probably explains why they didn't menstruate    . 

ObUL: There is a special invisible stealth smiley in the previous line.  These
      have been specially designed by american scientists for use in posts
      to A.F.U.

Derek "Life's a Bitch" Tearne

 
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Some of the more aware dinosaurs were worried about the environmental
consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.  
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Trelford Pinkerton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: About "Old Stovepipe Hat"
Date: 12 Oct 92 03:28:50 GMT
Organization: Beans & Rice Brigade
NNTP-Posting-Host: positive

Funnily enough, that reminds me of another Lincoln story.
One spring day in 1864, Lincoln was chatting to Francis B. Carpenter,
the renowned portrait painter.  Carpenter commented on "the penalty
attached to high positions in a democratic government" -- namely the
duty of serving a notoriously ill-educated and fickle public.

Lincoln then observed that there were different notions about what
constituted a great man.  And that in turn reminded him of Daniel Webster's
only visit to Springfield, twenty seven years before.  As Webster
arrived in town, and the welcoming processional band moved down the street,
a barefoot boy pulled at the sleeve of one of the citizens and asked what
all the excitement was about.

"Why Jack," was the reply "one of the greatest men in American politics 
is coming."   Jack ran up the street to see the visitor, then came back
and informed the solid citizen, "I disagree with the Senator's position 
on the Compromise of 1850, and I think his role in it has been greatly
exaggerated -- but I bet he and Lincoln are talking about some
extrordinarily interesting things!"

Does any know any other Lincoln stories?

ObUL: Diana Spencer was medically examined on the eve of her wedding by 
      George Pinker, the Queen's gynaecologist, and pronounced a virgin.
      For the NZer who wondered about this -- it's true.  Write to the
      Palace if you seek confirmation.

      However in a break with a 400 year old tradition, the Home Secretary
      (Sec. of State) did not attend the birth of the royal heir.  This
      tradition of watching the kid pop out was instituted to prevent
      nursery substitutions.  I guess DNA testing has done away with the need.



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Donner Party, your table for 24 -- uh, 23 -- uh 22, is ready.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.women
From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Subject: Re: Women in groups
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 00:50:59 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

In article <1992Oct9.003931.6772@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>, andrewb@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Andrew Bevin) writes:
> I have heard that if woman live in group's that their menstrual cycles
> start to sync with each other.

The usual explanation is pheromones.  There is experimental evidence
for pheromones emitted in synchrony with the menstrual cycle.  I recall
reading in Science News (a very reputable science digest publication)
of a study where men who wore masks smeared with vaginal secretions
were asked to rate the attractiveness of various women.  (They were told
that the masks were so that the women wouldn't respond to their own
facial expresssion.)  Anyway, those men wearing masks annointed with
secretions from ovulating women tended to rate all of the women as
more attractive.
From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Is that a boom mike in Madonna's butt?
Date: 16 Oct 92 00:03:35 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <1992Oct13.140054.25288@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, 
wvhorn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William VanHorne) writes:
> Please try to use the word paradigm in every post.
> Thank you.

Brother, can you paradigm?

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 09:06:41 GMT

In article <1992Oct06.212413.25001@rose.com> bill.dehaan@rose.com (bill dehaan) writes:
>
>JS>At my high school we had a set of female triplets whose last name
>JS>was Tracey.  And (you guessed it), they were all named "Tracy."  Their
>JS>full names were:  "Tracy Traci Tracey", "Tracy Lee Tracey" and "Tracy
>JS>Leann Tracey".  Mom must have still been on the Thalidomide when she
>JS>came up with those.

There is a current TV commercial with George Foreman which points out
that he calles his sons George Jr.  (which there is some precedent for) and
George II, George III, etc. (which chore should be left to his son, not him,
again by convention).

cj "what about the boy named Sue?" l
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: maynard@groo.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 06:12:09 GMT

In article <CINDY.92Oct11160003@solan10.solan.unit.no>,
cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf) writes:
>One of my classmates way back in elementary school was named Krista
>May.  Her older sister was named Apryle (pronounced "April").
>
>Their mother swore she hadn't thought about the combination "Apryle
>May" until it was "too late".  This seems to me to be a bit, well,
>unlikely.  
>
>Personally, i sometimes wonder if names like that aren't mothers'
>ways of getting revenge for labor pains.
>

My sister had a friend at school called Candise Floss. Now if that was not
brain-dead parents, what is?

Maynard Handley
From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Bumper Sticker
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Date: 14 Oct 1992 14:28 PST
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.198
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

>I've read on the net that there exists a bumper sticker that says:
>Picard/Riker in '92 : Make it so!

A Picard-only version exists in Berkeley (I saw it, a bit ominously,
on a car parked in front of the local Moonie command post).  Don't
know where you can get one, though.  Maybe at an SF con or something.

My favorite, though, was a professional-looking yard sign that read,
"Cthulhu for President: why settle for the lesser evil?"

ObTrek:  The Ferengi are a parody of Phil Donahue. Fact or folklore?

Joe "Stop babbling!" Chew
From: PCT601%SIRIUS.UKC.AC.UK@ib.rl.ac.uk (Robryche)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Yeast
Date: 16 Oct 1992 07:22:41 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt) writes;
>In a prev. art. smcneil@metro (Shannon McNeil), asks;
>>From article by dignan@husc10.harvard.edu (Thomas Dignan):
>>>       Can one use yeast from a vaginal yeast infection to raise bread
>>> or to ferment beer? It was recently suggested to me that there is a
>>> distinct marketing possiblity behind products made this way.
>
>>I think you have the wrong group.  Shouldn't this be in alt.tasteless?
>
>Actually, I think alt.tastes.funny would be more appropriate.

How about alt.tastes.like.chicken ?

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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Canadian pennies
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:27:50 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA

phil@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick) writes:
: 
: To the best of my knowledge this is not a rumour - at least, not in
: Australia.  Recently the government stopped issuing 1c and 2c pieces because
: it was costing them more to produce them than their face value.
: 
: Now our minimum unit of portable currency is 5c (by this I mean that you can
: still write a cheque for $10.01 but you cannot give someone $10.01 in cash).
: Legislation has been passed requiring vendors to round final prices to the
: nearest 5c multiple.

Why don't people just start cutting the coins into wedges, like they used to
do with coins here?  Cut the coin into fifths and you have "bits" worth a
penny each.  

So what if it might be illegal. If enough people do so, there is nothing the
government could do about it. Of course, the banks would not have to accept
any of these "bits", but I doubt if that would be any real problem.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Hollywood Misspellings
Summary: Movies and TV are filled with name mistakes too
Keywords:  Kant spel tuu gud
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 08:33:04 GMT

Movies and TV use credits with an amazing amount of implied detail.  You
get to see the names of everyone and anyone connected in the remotest way
with the production, etc.  Since there are continuity experts, etc., one
would assume that the credits themselves are spell-checked, at least for
the major actors' names.  Here are a few known mistakes:

ST:TOS: Assignment Earth.  The Gary Seven episode where there is no credit
given for the human female briefly seen as Mr Seven's cat.  Roberta Lincoln
is played by Teri Garr, *not* Terri Garr as in the credits.

THX:1138, the famous George Lucas film whose initials he still uses for
various purposes, featured a bald (like all the others) David Ogden Stiers,
not David Ogden Steers (or possibly Steirs) as was given in the credits.

On another subject: why are some movies cropped so poorly that you can see
the boom mikes at the top of the screen, even on the TV version which is
cropped for aspect ration purposes (unless letter-boxed or anti-CinemaScope
distorted).

obUL: all spelling mistakes in TV and movie credits have at least a remote
connection to StarTrek.  Besides various LucasFilm interests in ST:TNG, David
Ogden Stiers has been a guest star there as well.

obUL2: William Shatner doesn't get made-up creature names right all that
often, referring to the gomatu as the mogatu.  This is why he has to resort
to telling Bones or Spock that there's a "thing out there" instead of an
adequate explanation.  This is consistent with his mathematical dialogue
about raising something by a factor of 1 to the 4th power.

cj "Another subject involving a Teri" l

When do we get to Deep Space Nine: the Next Generation?

Is bartended Guinan related to the famous "Texas" Guinan?

How many actors have appeared in ST:TOS, ST:TNG?  How many have appeared in
ST:TOS, ST:TNG, All You Need Is Cash (about the Rutles)?  How many have
appeared in ST:TOS, ST:TNG, AYNIC, All in the Family?
From: schwab@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Paul Schwab)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:38:56 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

In article <6yTasB2w165w@halcyon.com> Buck Godot <bgodot@halcyon.com> writes:
>rdale@cstp.umkc.edu writes:
>
>> >>  What I'd like to know is why the artificial gravity never gives out.  The
>> >>engines fail, the life support fails, but the gravity never fails.
>> > 
>> >  Perhaps gravity has highest priority, because without it, the crew wouldn'
>> > able to function at %100, and thus couldn't fix the other systems.
>> 
>> 	It's hard to simulate the "zero gravity" or "vacuum" (how come that
>> never looks right?  vaccum, vacuum) of space when you're on a planet with
>> a gravity and an atmosphere.  That's why we see scenes of astronauts
>> exploding (or not) when thrust out of the ship in their skivvies.
>> 
>
> 
>   I always wondered what NASA kept covered up...
>

NASA isn't covering anything up. Everybody knows that even if gravity
fails, the well future space traveler can always rely on his or her:


			HEAVY BOOTS!!!

Paul "12 EEE" Schwab
 

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: davew@willow03.cray.com (Dave Wagner)
Subject: Re: Accuracy/Precision, just a simple correction
Originator: davew@willow03
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:18:57 CDT


In article <1992Oct14.220654.23229@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>, hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson) writes:
> In article <1992Oct12.105348.14903@hemlock.cray.com> davew@willow03.cray.com (Dave Wagner) writes:
> >No, you will get a more precise measuement.  The best way I know of to think
> >of this is imagine a piece of wood 110 centementers long, but marked off in
> >1000 sections of all exactly the same size.  This is a very precise measuring
> >instrament, but not very accurate.
> 
> But you told us to imagine a 110 centementer (sic) ruler, so we know exactly
> its length.  It is no less accurate just because it measures in units of
> .11 centementer.  What we really need to know are the conversions between
> centementers, centimenters, and centimeters.
Ok, ok, I agree.  I meant imagine a 110 centimeter ruler that someone was
trying to use as a meter-stick.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund)
Subject: Re: 666 Cable TV
Summary: An obscure historical reference included 
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 21:36:33 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.100242.18458@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> spg@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Stephen P. Guthrie) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.172112.22739@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>>: 2) The original theological question deals with angles and the number of
>>: which may dance on the head of a pin.
>>Depends on how acute they are.
>No, I think the same rules would apply to ugly angels.
>
	Not Angles but Angels:	Pope Gregory

Larry "And quoted by Churchill in HESP to boot" Headlund

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