HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Counterfeiting
Date: 30 Aug 92 19:10:02 GMT
Organization: Duke University, Nuclear Medicine

In article <2357@unet.UUCP> jrs@zippy.unet.com (John Switzer Frame 3.0) writes:
>In article <25849@dog.ee.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov writes:
>>>> I'm under the understanding that nothing smaller than $20 bills gets
>>>> counterfeited because it simply doesn't pay.

  Two days ago I was in my bank filling out some forms for a CD and the
teller said "Have you ever seen one of these?", or something like that.  She
handed me a "bill" that was about 90 percent one-dollar bill, except that
the left and right hand sides had been cut off, just inside where the large
"1"'s would be in the corners.  Only on the right hand side there had
(badly) cellophane taped the corresponding strips of the side "20"'s from a
20-dollar bill.  (The entire left side was still missing.)  So, for 2
one-dollar bills and a 20 dollar bill (total of $22 investment), the crook
gets $40 worth of buying power, provided they don't get caught.  She said
they get these a lot from 7-11 type stores where they are in a hurry, and
the employee is sometimes of foreign enough origin not to notice the
difference.

  I post this not as a instruction book in how to cheat others, but as a
warning to readers not to get stung by this chisely little scheme.  I don't
even want to know what the penalty for doing this would be.
-- 
Kim L. Greer                       
Duke University Medical Center		 klg@orion.mc.duke.edu
Div. Nuclear Medicine  POB 3949		 voice: 919-681-5894
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Subject: Re: Colour perception (was: Death by sneezing)
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
Date: 4 Sep 92 19:57:47

Although color terminology is really _not_ my area, it's not
often that i get a chance to chatter on about linguistics before
a captive (?) audience, so...

A few months ago, i was in the kitchen cooking something.  I suddenly
realized i needed another bowl, but my hands were dirty and i didn't
want to be rooting around in the cupboards like that.  So i called
husband Steinar out to help me:

C: Could you get the orange bowl out of the cupboard for me?
S: (opens cupboard and looks):  There's no orange bowl in here.
C: There should be.  On the second shelf up, the little one with
the handle.
S: I see a red bowl with a handle.  (holds it out)
C: That's the one i mean.  Thanks.  But it's orange.
S: Maybe to you, to me it's red.

An informal survey among friends shows that all but one of the
Norwegians asked identified the bowl as red.  The one who
disagreed said it was "on the border" between red and orange.
All the Americans, on the other hand, said it was orange.

Two cultures don't even have to be that different to divide the
spectrum differently.  

Incidentally, the Norwegian terms "oransje" seems to cover a much
smaller area than the English term "orange", and it is shortened
both on the side towards red and on the side towards yellow.  
Similarly, "lilla" or "purpur", both of which translate as "purple",
do not extend as far into blue as the English equivalent does.  
The dark colored grapes are blue here.  They were called purple where
i come from.  On the other hand, the blue/green distinction seems to
fall in about the same place in both languages, unlike the Japanese.

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway

You can't get to heaven on the Frankford El.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (vance kochenderfer)
Subject: FD&C (was: Misapplied Physics in Advertising)
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: Thu, 27 Aug 92 01:55:22 GMT

  Food Dye and Coloring, I believe.

ObUL: If you eat a lot of red M&M's, you will feel very full.

Vance Kochenderfer
vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu
A .sig, a .sig, my kingdom for a .sig!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Peter? What Peter?
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:58:41 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.062733.27202@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>In article <25531@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>>
>>OFFICIAL PETER OF AFU
>>  - Peter van der Linden
> 
>This is all well and good but....  Where is he these days.  Surely he's
>not lurking with all them Terries.  It's just I haven't seen any posts
>from PvdL for sooo long and I was wondering if this portends the 'imminent
>death of the Net'.

PvdL has chosen to absent himself from a.f.u for the nonce, probably because
the high recycling rate got to him, and partly because he's writing yet
another book.

He did take the time to snipe at hsr4 last week, so there's still hope.

Phil "How long is a nonce, anyway?" Gustafson
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From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Survey Ranking College Men and Women
Date: 27 Aug 92 11:12:29 MDT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.college
Organization: United Order of Non-joiners

In article <Aug.26.11.03.09.1992.26362@math.rutgers.edu>,
cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:
> I heard a similar story about Brigham Young University (which is owned
> by the Mormon church and has a no alcoholic beverages policy).  In the
> version I heard, the school president wrote a letter to the Playboy
> editor-in-chief thanking him for his kind words.

     This probably refers to the November 1982 issue, wherein they
rated college campuses for sexual temperature.  BYU hit the bottom of
the list, of course.  "Hottest Place in Town" was any plane leaving
Provo.

     Of course, I know nothing about the letter you mention, but this
is probably the issue in question.
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From: weisberg@ee.rochester.edu (Jeff Weisberg)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Survey Ranking College Men and Women
Keywords: Marriageability Survey
Date: 26 Aug 92 13:12:56 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.college
Organization: Univ of Rochester, College of Engineering and Applied Science


In article <1992Aug25.183130.21264@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
/* 
/* My guess is urban legend.  Similar stories arose at Brandeis about
/* apocryphal Playboy surveys ranking B-deis women as among the ugliest

This must be the same article in which the men here at the UR ranked
14th, and the women 436th beating out only Air-Force Academy.
(or so the story goes)

-jeff
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Strangest Professors
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 13:11:42 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester


     I had a friend who took a test in his philosophy and had
studied very hard for it for about a week.  It was very difficult 
and no one finished early.  As everyone was leaving, they observed
the professor walk toward the steps and toss all the tests into the
air.  He then pointed at the tests that landed on the top step and 
proclaimed loudly "These are the A's".

     Has anybody else had run-in's with these weirdo's from
another dimension, or is the University of North Dakota got
the monopoly on them?

Jared "The only way I ever got an A" Dahl
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: Bill.Mcdevitt@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bill Mcdevitt)
Subject: Tunnels on campus
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 09:47:48 GMT

Ok, I know this is about four months late, (but didn't get write priv's
till now)       A while back, the group was chatting about tunnels on campus,
and I as a university employee did have a thought on this little topic *above*

The maintenance men often make the rounds of the one main tunnel connecting
the library, one science building, the administration bldg. and a girls' dorm
all together (it's a steam pipe tunnel)    anyway, I have neard *numerous
reports that even though all doors to the tunnel *which starts where *I* work
at the campus police, are supposted to be locked,  these maintenance men find
many a condom on the girls dorm side/section of the tunnel  :)      

-talk about STEAM!!!!!         -Me
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From: jtbell@acsu.buffalo.edu (___Red Devil___)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: graduating virgins legend
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:56:05 GMT
Organization: EC Productions

>In article <92244.092633F13@psuvm.psu.edu>, Kevin <F13@psuvm.psu.edu> writes...)
> 
>    Here at Penn State University, the legend is that if a virgin ever
>walks past a stone obelisk in the center of campus, it will crumble to dust.
>The thing has been standing for about 100 years now, so you can draw your
>own conclusions.

	A friend of mine told me about a similar legend at SUNY Geneseo...
If a virgin graduates from Geneseo, the bear on the pole in the middle of the
town will jump down off the pole and run away.

				-Jonny B.
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  ....It's the one with a stuffed up node.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban
From: jrnf@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Jeffrey R.N. Forbes)
Subject: Survey Ranking College Men and Women
Summary: "Marriageability Survey" for College Men and Women
Keywords: Marriageability Surver
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:35:09 GMT

Here at Stanford, I have repeatedly heard legends of some
"Marriageability Survey" ranking college men and women at
different schools in terms of whom makes the best spouses.
The criteria for deciding this "Marriageability" is unknown,
and is supposedly determined just by common personal
preferences.  

The legend is that this survey was printed in some major
magazine some time ago and Stanford Men were ranked 2nd
behind UCLA (???) while Stanford women were ranked
200-something far behind U of Texas.  This survey has been
used as part of the reasoning behind the other legend (much
more factual) of the lack of dating at Stanford.  This
survey has been quoted by many people in varying years, but
no copy has ever been posted to my knowledge or has a
true reference to the specific magazine and article ever
been made.

So far I have heard of it being in Playboy, Rolling Stone
and Cosmopolitan but no article was found in those
magazines.  If anyone has heard of this survey, and has some
evidence for and against it I'd like to hear you input.  

Feel free to reply to me or post.

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From: wells@athena.cs.uga.edu (Scott Wells)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: graduating virgins legend
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:18:21 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <1992Aug31.152436.2663@ichips.intel.com> smintz@sedona.intel.com (Stephen Mintz exp 11/92~) writes:
>
>At ASU there are many legends of what happens when a virgin grads,
but the on [about the trees]

   	At the University of Georgia there is a bronze statue of a
bulldog (the University's mascot) in the middle of campus. (We tell
freshmen,"Follow the dog's ass to get to Registration.") Legend says
that every time a virgin walks by the bulldog, it barks, and if a
virgin should ever graduate, the dog will walk away.
	Note: The Free Speech Platform, next to the bulldog stautue,
is where "Brother Jed" Smock preaches when he comes here. He must be
right about all the FORN-uh-CAY-shun, because I've never heard a peep
from the bulldog.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: smintz@sedona.intel.com (Stephen Mintz exp 11/92~)
Subject: Re: graduating virgins legend
Originator: smintz@alamo
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:24:36 GMT


At ASU there are many legends of what happens when a virgin grads, but the one in
the electrical, Sci, is a palm tree dies for every one..and we had to replace
quite a few....gees! poor trees...:)
From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Survey Ranking College Men and Women
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:18:28 GMT
Reply-To: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Richardson, TX

Ted Frank writes:
>
>A variant has Brandeis ranked as the country's worst party school.

Ever notice that university students often complain about how their
school is really dead and they wish they attended a happenin' party
type o' place?  And examples of other such schools are always at hand.
At those other schools students do the same bit of moaning, citing the
first university as an example of *real* party school.

Interesting twist:  After attending the University of North Texas for
two years I discovered that it had a reputation in the southern half
of the state for having 10 female students for every male.  In reality
it is either 1-1 or pretty darn close.

--
James Hague   
exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: dfaught@scs.unt.edu (Danny Faught (HURM 4109))
Subject: Re: Survey Ranking College Men and Women
Organization: School of Community Service, UNT
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:04:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.151828.22404@exu.ericsson.se> exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague) writes:
>Interesting twist:  After attending the University of North Texas for
>two years I discovered that it had a reputation in the southern half
>of the state for having 10 female students for every male.  In reality
>it is either 1-1 or pretty darn close.
>
Well, it's not 10-1, but there are at least a few thousand more males than 
females.  In my "co-ed fraternity," the females outnumber the males about
3-1.  That's where I met the woman I would marry, actually.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
Subject: Re: Floor tag (was Re: graduating virgins legend)
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:08:07 GMT

andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard) writes:

>Sick, wasn't it?  Diabetics, please inject now.
                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Huh?


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: mds@iastate.edu (Mark D. Smucker)
Subject: Re: Survey Ranking College Men and Women
Keywords: Marriageability Surver
Organization: Iowa State University of Censorship and Repression
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:42:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.183130.21264@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>A variant has Brandeis ranked as the country's worst party school.  One
>version of the rumor even named the issue of Playboy that had the alleged
>survey, but a friend of mine researched the question and found it false.

I know without a doubt that playboy has done in the past a listing of
the top party schools.  I saw the Playboy and the list
probably over 7 years ago...  I remember the University of Iowa being
18th or something.

But I do not have the desire to go looking for this one page list in
library. 

Mark D. Smucker   ----  mds@iastate.edu
From: rz02+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rudolph R. Zung)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Info line
Date: 29 Aug 92 21:12:25 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

This is as good a place to post this.

Someone I work with here mentioned that some (midwest) university had some
leftover grant money to burn, so they set up an 800 number for folks to
call and they would dig up the answer to whatever question that the caller
wanted to ask if the research time to find the answer was less than five or
so minutes. 

Anyone know what this number is?

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From: pzs@ficus.webo.dg.com (Peter Z. Simpson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: graduating virgins legend
Date: 2 Sep 92 11:31:55 GMT
Organization: Data General Corp., Westboro, MA

>>>>> On Sun, 30 Aug 1992 13:53:32 -0400 , David O Hunt <dh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu> said:

> At my alma mater (University of Massachusetts) there is a statue of an
> indian (forget the name).  

    Metawampe

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: studboy@eng.umd.edu (David A. Singh)
Subject: Test
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 19:12:14 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: md
Originator: studboy@coke.eng.umd.edu

This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.
This is only a test.


Newsgroups: iu.general,alt.folklore.college
From: hughes@logos.ucs.indiana.edu (larry hughes)
Subject: Re: graduating virgins legend
Organization: University Computing Services News
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:01:00 GMT

At Ball State, the bronze statue titled "Beneficence" (but
affectionately called Benny), which kinda looks like an angel,
is rumored to flap his wings if you kiss a virgin in front 
of him.

But who'd be looking during the kiss?  :-)

-Larry
From: andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Floor tag (was Re: graduating virgins legend)
Summary: I can't believe I'm explaining this.
Date: 4 Sep 92 03:51:59 GMT
Organization: Attack of the Quayle Potatoes

mds@iastate.edu (Mark D. Smucker) writes:
>andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard) writes:
>>   (their idea of carnal pleasures was playing "floor tag" in a 14-story
>>   dorm -- if you want details, please, don't ask),
>
>Floor tag? 

Yup.

>We need details.   I can see the incoming freshmen, ``Did ya hear?
>Now that we are in college we can play FLOOR TAG!''

Well *sigh* you roped me into it.

The idea of the game is How Not to be Seen, without the explosives.

Essentially, said guy and SO would run up and down the dorm stairwells and
halls, trying to sneak a peek of the other one.  When the person who was
currently "it" saw the person who wasn't, he's yell "TAG!!" down the hall
then run like blazes.  The only reason (thankfully) I know of this game's
existence is because the SO of record bowled me over on her way to "tagging"
her man.

Sick, wasn't it?  Diabetics, please inject now.

-- 
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 side by side we are united,
 we will never be divided...."
                                                  Au revoir, *ma* cherie.
                                                  (Sorry, kiddo.)
From: andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: graduating virgins legend
Date: 31 Aug 92 08:13:26 GMT
Organization: Attack of the Quayle Potatoes

Thus said fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton):
>Every college has some legend about "when a {virgin|non-virgin} graduates
>from {university} {event-X} happens."  At Indiana, when a virgin graduates,
>a fish disappears from Showalter Fountain.

At UT, several things may or may not happen, depending on who you ask.

-- The horses in Littlefield Fountain, on the south edge of campus, gallop
   out of the fountain and away. (No, they aren't real horses.  Are the
   fish real? :-) ) Pretty much everyone agrees on this one.

-- The statues on the South Mall will walk off their pedestals, shake hands
   in the center of the Mall, and go back to their pedestals.  Depending on
   whom you ask, this is either a virgin legend or a "takes place in the
   dark of night when no one walks the South Mall" legend.  Obviously, either
   way it's never occurred. ;-)

-- My favorite (since I made it up) is that every fourth year, if a virgin
   graduates from UT, a Democrat is elected President.  Since I happen to
   know for a fact that a certain Bible-thumpin' acquaintance graduated
   this past spring, and since there's no way he and his SO did the deed
   (their idea of carnal pleasures was playing "floor tag" in a 14-story
   dorm -- if you want details, please, don't ask), I'm hopeful. (Actually,
   however, I'm beginning to think he graduated in '91...quick, someone,
   tell me I'm wrong.)

-- 
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 side by side we are united,
 we will never be divided...."

                                                  Au revoir, mon cherie.
From: F13@psuvm.psu.edu (Kevin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: graduating virgins legend
Date: 31 Aug 92 13:26:33 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

In article <fulton.715024856@silver>, fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton)
says:

>Every college has some legend about "when a {virgin|non-virgin} graduates
>from {university} {event-X} happens."  At Indiana, when a virgin graduates,
>a fish disappears from Showalter Fountain.

    Here at Penn State University, the legend is that if a virgin ever
walks past a stone obelisk in the center of campus, it will crumble to dust.
The thing has been standing for about 100 years now, so you can draw your
own conclusions.

Kevin Furrow (f13@psuvm.psu.edu)
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From: cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Survey Ranking College Men and Women
Keywords: Marriageability Surver
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:03:09 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.college
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
> A
> variant has Brandeis ranked as the country's worst party school.  One
> version of the rumor even named the issue of Playboy that had the alleged
> survey, but a friend of mine researched the question and found it false.

I heard a similar story about Brigham Young University (which is owned
by the Mormon church and has a no alcoholic beverages policy).  In the
version I heard, the school president wrote a letter to the Playboy
editor-in-chief thanking him for his kind words.

--Scott "they have some wild red-punch-and-cookie parties, though" Cromar