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From: tom@ulysses.att.com (Tom Smith)
Subject: Re: Ex-presidents
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:10:22 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

In article <jberger.35.0@novell.com> jberger@novell.com (John Berger) writes:

>However, does anyone know when we hav had this many living ex-VICE-
>presidents?  We have:  Nixon, Ford, Mondale, Bush, & Quayle. 

How about Rockefeller? 

Tom "not very good at the Dead or Alive game" Smith.
tom@ulysses.att.com
From: jpi@uk.ac.bham.cs (Jon Iles)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Urinal and electrical NO NO's
Date: 11 Nov 92 08:24:27 GMT
Reply-To: jpi@uk.ac.bham.cs
Organization: University of Birmingham

I've heard a story (UL ?) about a body being discovered on a platform at a
London Unerground station. Cause of death ? Going home drunk one evening and 
deciding to take a piss... pity about that live rail.

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From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATM's for $$$$
Date: 11 Nov 1992 22:01:33 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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In article <1992Nov10.231926.28157@u.washington.edu> starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:
>khoover@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (kent.d.hoover) writes:
>
>>In article <1does6INNlgf@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes:
>>>
>>By the way, what does the middle initial 'T' in ATM stand for?
>
>"Terry," I think.  That, or "teller."  I think it's the first one.
>
"Teller", named for Edward Teller, of course.
-- 
haynes@cats.ucsc.edu
haynes@cats.bitnet

"Ya can argue all ya wanna, but it's dif'rent than it was!"
"No it aint!  But ya gotta know the territory!"
        Meredith Willson: "The Music Man"

From: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:23:37 GMT
Subject: Re: dishwasher trick
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

> Put some clean plates in your dishwasher before your start it.
> You will see that the rest of your dishes get cleaner than usual.

Well, duh.

Try putting fewer plates in your dishwasher before you start it.
You will see that the dishes get cleaner than usual.

Same principle.


Regards
Ray Depew
Integrated Circuits Business Division
Hewlett Packard Co, Fort Collins, Colorado
rrd@hpfiqa.fc.hp.com
(sorry about the scholarly expletive)
From: jt29+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Thomas)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Pleasant Dreams
Date: 6 Nov 92 05:44:40 GMT
Organization: Doctoral student, History, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I recently heard a story that over the counter sleeping pills
impede R.E.M. sleep (Rapid Eye Movement dream stage of sleep, not
the band).  These pills normally contain "Doxylamine Succinate"---
in dosages of 25mg.  If this is true, then taking sleeping pills
would cause you to experience less restful sleep.  Is this true or
do we have a new UL?

john thomas
(signature still out celebrating the end of the Reagan/Bush era)
From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: AFU???? ( was Re: furrfu??)
Date: 5 Nov 92 11:35:03 MDT
Organization: Omega:  The Final Solution

In article <1992Nov5.174244.9057@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
bslavens@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Bradley E Slavens) writes:
>Some others write:
>>>What the heck does 'furrfu' mean?  Is it an acronym for something?  I just
>>>can't figure it out.
>>
>>Sheesh!
>>
> Yeah, and while we're at it, does   "AFU"   mean   "all fucked up"   ?
> 
> Just checking.

     No, you have that confused with "furrfu," wherein each "r" stands for
"really."

ObUL:  Mae Roberts information is still forthcoming, but none is in the FAQ.

Patrick "Capitol Steps Friday night!  Maybe JHB will be there" Clark
-- 
Patrick S. Clark | "Well!  Peanut butter! . . . or so it seems."
Email is life!   | --Calvin 
Utah State University doesn't care what I put here . . . I hope.
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ex-presidents
Date: 7 Nov 92 18:14:10 GMT
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

TS = tom@ulysses.att.com (Tom Smith)
JB = jberger@novell.com (John Berger)

JB: However, does anyone know when we hav had this many living ex-VICE-
JB: presidents?  We have:  Nixon, Ford, Mondale, Bush, & Quayle.

TS: How about Rockefeller?

FAQ: T. Nelson Rockefeller died of cardiac arrest while porking the help.
-- 
/|/-\/-\       In real life, the Vice President chastises Murphey Brown
 |__/__/_/     for her morals.  Bill Clinton plays the sax on "Arsenio
 |warren@      Hall."  Though "Batman Returns" is fiction, it's not too
/ nysernet.org much stranger than truth - Caryn James, The New York Times
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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.nude
Subject: Re: Driving without shoes
Date: 13 Nov 92 02:42:10 GMT
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

dechc00@tohi.DMI.USherb.Ca (CHRISTIAN DECHAMPLAIN) writes:

  [Christian's description of his sleeping and driving problem deleted]

  +Remove your shoes and drive bare foot.  You will have more sensations on
  +the pedal and will never sleep again while driving.
  
  +I tried it and it worked, so I shared my experience with other drivers having
  +the same problem, until someone told me that it is illegal.

Is it illegal where you are?  Try this.  Wear a shoe on your right
foot and go barefoot on the other.  The mix of sensations oughta
perk you right up.  Or, get a pair of shoes, and cut the soles off.

  +Now what should I do?  Take a chance for a stupid ticket or choose the
  +accident (which may involve other people because I'm a very dangerous
  +driver when I sleep).

You're not the only one.


Terry "Have you tried drugs?" Chan
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Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe Per Diem
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ketil@ii.uib.no (Ketil M. Malde)
Subject: Re: Philadelphia Experiment
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Reply-To: ketil@ii.uib.no
Organization: student of numerical analysis at the University of Bergen, Norway
	<1992Nov10.000237.9127@sequent.com> <6865@news.duke.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 92 15:16:13


I have heard of a project to make ships "invisible" by letting them
emit light the same color/intensity that the background has.

I don't know if this has anything to do with Eldridge or Philadelphia
or even the Truth :-), but at least it sounds more reasonable in
accordance with war-time technology (lousy radars)

Somebody might be able to elaborate on this?

-ketil
--
 = Ketil Malde                     In real life:  ketil@ii.uib.no =
 = Nuke the whales!                    Honk if you love unicorns! =
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From: jlowrey@skat.usc.edu (John 'Fritz' Lowrey)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATM's for $$$$
Date: 10 Nov 1992 15:39:02 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu

In article <1992Nov10.184730.3578@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> khoover@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (kent.d.hoover) writes:
>In article <1does6INNlgf@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes:
>>
>>One of my friends (in the UK) asked an ATM machine for #200. It hummed & 
>
>By the way, what does the middle initial 'T' in ATM stand for?
>
>Kent "I'm banking on you all for the answer" Hoover

T = "Time"

As in:

ATM  = "Any Time Money"

(Well, makes sense to me anyway. |-}).

					Fritz


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         to stack cat food..."                 | Internet: jlowrey@usc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: srn@cs.su.oz.au (Stephen Robert Norris)
Subject: Re: Courgettes (was Re: doggy style)
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 06:31:57 GMT

bpb9204@tamsun.tamu.edu (Brent) writes:

>rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt) writes:
>|
>|Please add to the list, from MRI cases I have seen ;
>| 
>|9/16" Crescent Wrench
>|Plastic Film Cannister
>|1 peeled potato (already sprouting)

[Stuff about babies and wire deleted.]

>From what I've read, doesn't the MRI technology rely on very high
>magnetic fields?  Aren't the high magnetic fields the basis for
>resonating the molecules (water?) in the tissue being imaged?

>Have you ever seen an aluminum or otherwise non-magnetic wrench?
>Fact:  all wrenches are mostly steel for strength reasons.

	Here is the rub - NMR imaging does rely on very strong magnetic
fields, and even if the wrench wasn't ferro magnetic, it would have a nice
big current induced in it....  Nice and warm :)

> 
>Conclusion:  I smell a fib or an honest mistake.

>Feel free to correct me anywhere I'm wrong, but be sure that the
>MRI image of a wrench was indeed an MRI, and not an X-Ray.

>ObUrbanLegend:  My friend (the new father) was told by a nurse at the
>hospital that, "Some construction workers get small metal flakes behind
>their eyes.  [The flakes just get in their eyes, then work themselves
>to the back.]  The flakes do not cause problems unless they try 
>MRI, then the flakes are pulled forward, causing severe damage to the eye,
>and severe pain to the worker."  T or F?

	This is apparently true - my father is a chemist here at sydney uni,
and they have strict rules about the NMR machines (btw NMR = Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance - which is what medical people call MRI - why I don't know - does 
anyone - I gues it's cause they think the word nuclear will make people think
they are going to be irradiated :) ).  These rules include banning welders
from the machines since they get small particles of metal behind there eyes.

>-Brent
>-- 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Brent P. Burton, N5VMG
>bpb9204@tamsun.tamu.edu

--
Stephen Norris - CS4.  srn@minnie.cs.su.oz.au
                       steven@extro.ucc.su.oz.au
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
From: kabreuer@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Klaus Breuer)
Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATM's for $$$$
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:01:10 GMT

>In article <1992Nov8.103101.166@gems.vcu.edu> hleaves@gems.vcu.edu writes:
>>I was reading an article in an "anarchist" magazine (I can't remember which
>>one) that was talking about ATM (teller machine) "jackpotting". "Jackpotting"
>...
>Such a simple, elegant solution, is it not?
I heard a MUCH simplier and elegant solution. Find two ATMs set into a wall
next to each other. Take a forklift (at NIGHT), ram it under the ATMs and lift
them out. Place on a truck and _scram_...

Ciao,
Klaus
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Klaus Breuer, Rudelsweiher Str. 6b, 8520 Erlangen, Germany
** "Geez, I need a _reason_ for everything?" --Calvin 
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: markm@bigfoot.sps.mot.com (Mark Monninger)
Subject: Re: Oxygenated fuel harmful?
Reply-To: rapw20@email.sps.mot.com
Organization: SPS
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:44:30 GMT

We've had oxygenated fuel here in the Phoenix area (Maricopa county) for  
several winters now. When it first started, there was a lot of concern  
about what it would do to cars. After a lot of pissin and moanin the first  
winter, there is hardly anything said about it now. The only way I notice  
when it happens (Oct 1 to April 1, I think) is that the fuel stinks when  
you fill up your car. The ethanol isn't too bad but the MBTE is really  
rank. Supposedly the fumes can trigger problems in people prone to  
respiratory problems. As for cars, the biggest problem is that the ethanol  
is a good solvent to some of the gunk that builds up in a fuel system and  
so can cause clogged fuel filters for the first couple tankfuls. I haven't  
had any problems with any of my cars but I do notice about a 10% drop in  
gas mileage and a slight drop in power with the oxygenated fuel. Here,  
there is up to 10% ethanol in the gas...I don't remember the percentage of
MBTE. Other places may use different blends and so might notice different  
effects. It does seem to help with the CO levels. It's required here only  
during the winter because that's when the inversions are common. Anyway,  
it doesn't seem to be a big deal except for the drop in mileage and the  
increase in price.

Oops...just realized I've posted some semi-factual material here. 
Sorry about that...


Mark
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: WW11 over, News at eleven (was forpost-WWll Japanese..)
From: C.K.Black@massey.ac.nz (C.K. Black)
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 20:43:14 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Keywords: it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
Summary: We lost???
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c

G'day,
In  Message-ID: <Nov.7.23.21.20.1992.9042@math.rutgers.edu>, Scott Cromar
is looking for a FAQ on....

> Soliders hiding out in caves 20 years after the war was over.

Well Scott, this FAQ is for you.  There were a few of them coming in right
up through the 60's,  mostly guys that were too afraid/ashamed to admit defeat
but the winner as far as I can see is  2nd.Lt. Hiroo Onoda who surrendered
in the Philippines in March, 1974,  30 years after his island was taken by
the Americans.  What made him different (and a BIG hero when he got back home)
is that his last orders in 1944 were to hold out until he got reinforcements.
Boy, talk about waiting for a slow boat from China !  Numerous efforts were
made every decade or so to convince him that the war was over,  but the papers
and magazines that they dropped on him were dismissed as typical Yankee
imperialist propoganda.  Finally,  a college student named Suzuki located him
and convinced him that it was time to put away the 'ole bayonnet.

Reference: No Surrender, my thirty-year war.  By Hiroo Onoda, trans. by
C.S.Terry . Kodansha Int'l 1976 ,  ISBN 0-87011-240-6.

Conrad 'orders is orders Sir' Black
-- 
Conrad Black 

Email... C.K.Black@massey.ac.nz
Snail... Massey U., Plant Sc. Dept., Palmerston North, New Zealand
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: The Star Lost (was some other thread)
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:52:35 GMT

In article <92Nov09.224151.24189@acs.ucalgary.ca> pye@enel.ucalgary.ca (Steven Pye) writes:
>In article <1992Nov7.051633.12487@u.washington.edu> grimjack@milton.u.washington.edu (Leslie Basel) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov4.060127.28792@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>>In article <1992Nov3.192304.8511@bcrka451.bnr.ca> seanna@bnr.ca (Seanna Watson) writes:
>>>>In article <1992Nov3.072552.29895@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>>>>Two men and a woman (one is called Garth, the women is Rachel, one of the
>>>>>men is Keir Dullea) are the recurring trio attempting to located the
>>>>>bridge.  
>>>>
>>>>Keir Dullea's character is Devon.
>>>
>>>Yes, Devon, Garth, and Rachel.  Can you name the other two actors?
>>>
>>>cjl
>>
>>
>>Nope, can't name another but the writer's name is listed as 
>>Cordwainer Bird -- this is the name Harlan Ellison puts on the 
>>scripts of his that have been trashed beyond recognition.
>>
>>Rodger
>>
>
>Keir Dullea played Dave in 2001 and its followup 2010.  He's almost unrecognis-
>able with long hair and mustache, but its him in this series.  The guy
>who played Devon, is now a weatherman on CFTO, a CTV affiliate in toronto.

Isn't Keir Dullea playing Devon, and Robin Ward playing Garth?

Also, it was packaged as a movie called The Beginning, 1973.

>
>The series was can-con (canadian content) for CTV in the early 70's, along
>with another series called Swiss family Robinson.  The women who played
>Rachel dropped of the face of the earth as far as I can tell, but
>she may have been a french canadian, and just returned to french language
>TV.  All of the guests were canadian, including walter koeing, and the
>guy who played Dr. Daestrom (sp?) in the guy who brought the computer
>on board the enterprise, that then went nuts.  For its time it wasn't too
>bad.

That's Koenig, as in either Walter (Chekov) or Commander (Space 1999)

And William Marshall, star of Blacula, and also Scream, Blacula, Scream
played Dr. Daystrom (M5, the Ultimate Computer).

>
>later
>ed bourne,
>elbourne@descartes.uwaterloo.ca
>ed_bournn@rom.tcpl.ucalgary.ca
>

cj "May I be of assistance?" l
From: diverson@phys.ksu.edu (David Iverson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Gender denoting pictograms on restroom doors
Date: 11 Nov 1992 18:58:17 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: pauli.phys.ksu.edu

In <1992Nov11.144230.12584@udel.edu> rapp@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Brian Rapp) writes:

>In article <1992Nov9.222632.22946@mdd.comm.mot.com> rudoff@mdd.comm.mot.com (Doug Rudoff) writes:
>>
>>
>>When I returned to the U.S. I began to notice (and still notice) that
>>often, the plaque with the pictogram on restroom doors would have the
>>same shapes I saw in Poland; triangular for the womens' room and
>>circular for the mens' room.
>>
>>

>The "Triangle = Male, Circle = Female" scheme is commonly used in
>genealogical charts and such.

>Some twisted individuals believe it has to do with certain
>"pointy-thing, hole-like-thing" connotations.

>Not to doubt your voracity [sic], but are you sure the symbols weren't
>reversed?

No, I've seen male=circle; female=triangle and also noted the inconsistency
with geneolgy.  But the answer is obvious.  Whatever group controls these
things is obviously out to publicly humiliate geneologists. Perhaps because
it is the geneologists who are best equipt to uncover the conspiracy against
humanity that spans generations.

David "Warning: I'm starting to post sarcasm without adaquate tip-off,
please read all posts with a grain of salt.  This is your only warning."
Iverson



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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: wisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wisp)
Subject: Re: Scratchy CDs & Stealth (was Re: pets & lab animals...)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 10:59:56 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.020047.2688@msc.cornell.edu> maynard@sarah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley) writes:
[CDs etc. deleted...]
>
>Is this stuff about Stealths being curved actually true? I was under the
>impression (but I'm no conoisseur of military hardware) that this was due
>to bogus artist's impressions and that real Stealth planes (both the bomber
>and the fighter) looked VERY angular with sharp edges everywhere.
>

The curved stealth stuff *is* bogus. The idea behind all the flat/angular
surfaces is to avoid scattering the energy not absorbed, but rather to
reflect it in specific directions (ok, lobes for you radio buffs...). If
you happen to be at the right spot, you get a good return, otherwise you
get zip. Radii result in diffuse scattering, so wwherever you are you get a
decent return. Of course, you don't get that decent a return, because of
all the absorbent material on the plane, but that's the basic idea behind the
angular/linear nature of the stealth planes.

The Wisp. [not a buff, just an interested amateur...]
From: ingraham@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (James Ingraham)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: College Coed Murder UL
Date: 6 Nov 92 06:36:03 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Yes, the "Aren't you glad you didn't turn on the light?" in blood on the
mirror is indeed a UL.  I've heard it about high school boarding schools,
the University of Texas, Lamar University, and in general with no school
mentioned.  To boot, any person opening the door and letting in enough 
light to see if their room mate was sleeping would certainly see that something
was amiss.  (Maybe.  It's possible I suppose, but come on, a killing violent
enough to have blood-written messages would probably cause a lot of commotion,
and DEFINATELY make a mess.)  So don't worry.  It's not real.  Neither is the 
Cloroforming of room mates for the purpose of anal sex.  The worst thing I
ever heard about room mates was a friend (not a FOAF) told me that one day he
came in, opened the window, and sat down at his desk opposite his room mate
and began to study.  That night, my friend awoke with his room mate standing
over my friend's bed, holding a chair high, screaming, "OPEN THE WINDOW
WILL YOU?!?!?!" and began beating my friend with the chair.  Needless to say,
my friend switched rooms.  (Slept with the RA that night.)  Despite that this
person is a good friend, I have SOME doubt to the credibility of this tale,
and was wondering if anyone else had heard it.  (This guy's told some tall
ones in his day, so I'm not convinced, but he went to Williams, is a smart,
nice guy, and isn't a pathological liar, so I'm not convinced it's not true,
either.)

-James
University of Pennsylvania
ingraham@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: another UL
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 23:58:29 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <marx.01ud@meltdown.chi.il.us> marx@meltdown.chi.il.us (Marx Xram) writes:
>in the Chicago Tribune today
>nov. 10, 1992, there is an
>article about the ugly rumor
>(or "rumour", for our Canadian
      ^^^^^^           
>friends...[obnoxious smiley character deleted]

Amazing, who would ever have thought that a French word would be spelt
_exactly_ the same way as the English equivalent.

Derek "Gosh, I knew Canada was big but I didn't realise it was THAT big" Tearne


-- 
Derek Tearne.   --   derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz   --    Fujitsu New Zealand   -- 
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: harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter) 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Courgettes (was Re: d
Date: 12 Nov 92 11:34:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Ed Hopper's BBS - Berkeley Lake, GA - 404-446-9462
Reply-To: harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter) 

>however, one photographer wanted to have a picture and returned with his
>camera. The result was a broken camera and a lot of upset techs.
>
>Guess the bunch of pro. MRI people reading this group are able to tell if
>this is just a legend or a true story.

I've been subjected to an MRI, and beforehand walked all around it,
fully dressed.  I was escorted to another room for undressing, so my
keys, glasses, money, etc, were elsewhere.  I imagine having a camera
in the vicinity of an *operating* MRI machine may be a different story.

Did you know they (at least the GE machines) use liquid helium as a
coolant?  I was concerned about being in that thing and a cooling line
breaking.....  I'd shatter......
                                                          
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