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From: bill.dehaan@rose.com (bill dehaan)
Subject: Wipeout
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 04:06:14 GMT
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Date Entered: 09-26-92 23:00
In message <1992Sep25.042334.23917@news.columbia.edu>,
lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:

cjl>In article <15566@borg.cs.unc.edu> saxe@excalibur.cs.unc.edu (Eddie Saxe) wr
cjl>:
cjl>>
cjl>>ObEvilThreadStarter:  Hey, cjl, don't you agree that writing in C is much
cjl>>                     better than writing in silly assembler language?

cjl>I heard somewhere that there was an entire newsgroup that was wiped out
cjl>overnight because they believed that.

I know of a COMPANY that was wiped out because they believed that.

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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Kirk vs. Picard
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:09:22 GMT
Organization: Will work for food, but not for DEC.


In article <6639@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, 
  tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes...

>If Jean-Luc Picard got into a fight with Jim Kirk who would win?

Aw, c'mon -- they aren't even in the same weight class.

>Let's say that Kirk had to use the Jupiter II and Picard only had the
>Battle Star Galictica, then who would win?

Does Kirk only get to use black-and-white?

>What Star Trek be like if Jim Kirk had Will Robinson on HIS show?

They did that show.  It was called "T.J. Hooker".

 - snopes

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From: smith-jeff@CS.YALE.EDU (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Keywords: names
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 20:44:37 GMT

In article <Bvnv3z.BC@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser) writes:
>In <1992Oct03.144232.3407@rose.com> bill.dehaan@rose.com (bill dehaan) writes:
>
>>I went to school with a girl whose father was Darcy, and her mother was
>>Arleen. They named her Darcaleen. Needless to say, she was nicknamed
>>"gasoline" and "kerosene" everywhere she went. Yes, I can imagine
>>parents being that unfeeling. Or stupid.
>
>
>When I lived in Noertheast Florida 10 years ago, a city councilman in
>Jacksonville named Clanzel Brown passed away.  I cannot remember the names
>of all his children, but some were Clanzedric, Clanzanetta, Clanzeria,
>and (I think) Clanzanna.

At my high school we had a set of female triplets whose last name
was Tracey.  And (you guessed it), they were all named "Tracy."  Their
full names were:  "Tracy Traci Tracey", "Tracy Lee Tracey" and "Tracy
Leann Tracey".  Mom must have still been on the Thalidomide when she 
came up with those.

And then there was the girl named Andrea Fae Stern-Green.. 


				smith
From: DSTEPHEN@cmsa.gmr.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Creation of the World (was Re: Religion/Science )
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:01:43 GMT
Organization: GM Research Labs

In article <ralph.717540707@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
ralph@cs.stanford.edu (Ralph Melton) writes:
>
>I have checked this in the original source, Archbishop James Ussher's
>(1581-1656) book _Annals of the World Deduced from the Origin of Time
>and Continued to the Beginning of the Emperour Vespasians Reign_.
>
Usher used the Geneology of Jesus Given in Matthew ("Thus the total number
of generations from Abraham to David is fourteen generations; from David to
the Babylonian exile, fourteen generations; from the Babylonian exile to the
Messiah, fourteen generations." Mt 1:17 RSV), and thegeneology from Adam to
Abraham given in Genesis.  The ages of the various forefathers are give in
Genesis, but the extrapolation to JC requires an assumption about the average
duration of a generation.  Readers with a science background will recognize
a certain inprecision in the reasoning.
From: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:43:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

My brother spent a while in Japan, and he tells lots of funny stories about
Japan and automobiles.  Here are a few:

- In Japan, Honda cars have a reputation for being garbage -- and some of
  the domestic (non-exported) models live up to that reputation.  In the
  U.S., OTOH, Honda cars have a reputation for being quality machines 
  -- and the Accords, Civics and Preludes that I've driven live up to that
  reputation.
- Japanese cars have English/American words on the controls, instruments and
  nameplates, to give the cars a "cool," "high-tech" look.
- As a result, the Nissan "Fair Lady" sports car was a big hit in Japan.
  So big in fact, that they decided (after many years) to bring it to
  the U.S.  Their market research showed that "Fair Lady" was not cool
  or macho over here, so they renamed the export versions 240Z, 260Z, 280Z,
  etc.
- Mitsubishi also built a sports car.  They wanted to invoke visions of
  the (American) Old West.  So they named their car after that symbol of
  the rugged, impetuous American west:  the horse.  The name was successful
  in Japan, but it didn't go over so well in the U.S.  Hmm.  Must've been
  something in the translation.  I mean, evelyone knows that a "starion" is
  a holse, light?


Regards
Ray Depew
Hewlett Packard Co, Fort Collins, Colorado
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From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
Subject: Re: Floor numbering
Summary: The valiant flamer drags in an almost totally unrelated topic.
Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
Organization: Unusually Well-Read Nerds
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:23:15 GMT

And, of course, in _Always_Coming_Home_, Ursula K. LeGuin hypothesizes a
far-future society which, among other trivial details, numbers its floors from
the roof down.... (so the topmost floor is 1 regardless of how many floors the
building has)

Is this done anywhere in the real world?
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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: One, Two, Many revisited.
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:33:15 GMT
Organization: Just put everything on the floor; I can find it.


In article <24SEP199215513210@jane.uh.edu>, 
  vpaf5@jane.uh.edu (Kal) writes...

>I don't know about eskimos, but Arabic defenitely has the "one, two, many"
>structure. That is, there are two plurals for most (if not all) words:
>a plural for two, and another for three or more. 

Nice example, but I don't think that was the original point of the thread.
There's a difference between having distrinct plural forms for "two" and "more
than two" (which you demonstrate), and having only two words to describe
*numbers* greater than one (which was the original claim, I believe).

 - snopes

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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Subject: Re: Party at Kitty and Stud's
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 14:46:36 GMT

You're enjoying this, aren't you, Peter?

I always heard that Party at Kitty and Stud's was a porno movie
starring Henry Winkler.  As for the varacety of the source, this
is my *grandmother* you're talking about!

Ted "wondering why he sees Peter van der Linden renting the same porno
     every week at the video store" Frank
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From: pjd@unislc.uucp (Priscilla Davidson)
Subject: Re: Oranjelo 
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 18:59:23 GMT

From article <1992Sep30.175346.1@ducvax.auburn.edu>, by bwaid@ducvax.auburn.edu:
> 
> at an Indiana hospital gave birth to twins and named them Oranjelo and
> Lemonjelo (pron. or-rahn-juh-low and luh-mahn-juh-low) after, obviously,
> orange and lemon jello. It sounded like classic UL to me, but what clinched
> it was when I was visiting a friend in Atlanta the other week she told me
> that a friend told her that a black woman in Atlanta just the other day
> named her newborn Oranjelo. So has anyone heard this? I didn't see it on the
> FAQ list.

In 1974 I visited a friend at what was then called Boston Hospital for Women
(I think; I left Boston in 1979).  My friend had just had a baby girl. While
I was visiting, the person in charge of registering the baby's birth came
by to get the newborn's name, etc.  She proceeded to tell us that just a
few weeks earlier, a young woman had named her baby daughter Pebbles Bamm Bamm.
It's not Oranjelo, but it goes to show: never underestimate weirdness.



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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Subject: Re: Gross Stories (true?)
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 00:31:41 GMT

In article <13x-k9B@engin.umich.edu> ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering) writes:
>The "big city", by the way, was Baltimore, MD, where I grew up.  Can't
>say I've ever met John Waters, but a friend of mine, his girlfriend,
>and his father were all extras in "Polyester", a later John Waters film.
>
>Anybody else out there ever met, or been somewhere near, somebody famous?

My roommate was in a carpool once with Arthur Laffer's son.
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From: firestar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Lipton Ann Meredith)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 04:10:41 GMT

In article <1433@helena.edsr.eds.com> jle@helena.UUCP (Johnnie L. Eskue) writes:
>
>o.... Not to mention that last night Piccard almost lost hand-to-hand
>with Troi, as an old woman, no less ... 


Some of us haven't seen that yet ... thank you so much for letting us know.

Firestar
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From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: gary larson committed
Keywords: the far side
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:01:37 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Oct2.020552.9802@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes:

>What's the word?  Has anyone else heard the fate of poor G. Larson?
>I mean, it _could_ be true....


If it is, I'll join him.  He's the last sane person in this country.



-- 
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From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Turd-slinging primates...
Date: 28 Sep 92 11:59:32 GMT
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992

In <1992Sep24.135948.2394@HQ.Ileaf.COM>, Hal Wadleigh writes:
>
>Give them a little more room and the opportunity to go off for some privacy
>and they don't do things like that.
this might explain why the chimps at the southwick zoo in mendon, mass.,
weren't throwing things while i was there.  each of them had access to a
private room which the audience couldn't see.  they mostly sat around begging
for food.  the sign said they should only be given peanuts, monkey chow, or
fruit, which they clearly found boring.  when someone gave one part of an
ice cream cone, she put on a show hanging by her feet from the ceiling bars
and making loud noises.

they had several kinds of lemurs at the zoo, too. the baby ringtailed lemurs 
would squeeze between the cage bars and run around loose looking for food
(they like apples and so did the rat who lived under their cage).  they didn't
go far since their mommies coudln't get out.  a zookeeper told us they don't
have any cages a baby lemur can't get out of.

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From: cline@cs.scarolina.edu (Ernest Cline)
Subject: Counting on hands: (was: Possible UL alert)
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:09:09 GMT

In <1992Sep25.203226.9366@news.columbia.edu>, Charles Lasner writes:
>But for most of us, we have 8 fingers on both hands.  The rest is, as they
>say "all thumbs" so it's quite natural to use base 8.

scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator) wrote:
>when i was about 9, i figured out how to count on my fingers in base 5(one
>hands for ones, the other for fives.) i could get up to 30 that way.

and I get to say:
As for myself, when I was that age, I used (and still do) a Romanesque
method.
RightHand,Finger = 1
RightHand, Thumb = 5
Left Hand,Finger = 10
Left Hand, Thumb = 50
This let me count up to a hundred, and if I went barefoot there were a
myriad of things I could count. (Well almost.)
BELATED WARNING: There is really awful pun hidden here, although it is about
ten times as bright as anything Bush said in '88.
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From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
Subject: Re: Oh, No, William and Mary Won't Do
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 17:58:51 GMT
Organization: Right Bleedin' Church of Libertine Obfuscatology

In <mcirvin.718070020@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:

>The song mentions Annandale High School, too.  I spent my senior
>year of HS at Jefferson, not far from there.

No it doesn't.  It mentions Annadale, but as a place, not a school.

"I remember
The thirty-five sweet goodbyes
When you put me on the Wolverine up to Annadale
It was still September, when your daddy was quite surprised
To find you with the working girls in the county jail

I was smoking with the boys upstairs 
When I heard about the whole affair
I said "Whoa no!  William and Mary wont do
I did not think the girl could be so cruel
And I'm never going back to my old school"

Sounds like he broke up with he went to his first year of college up in
Annadale, leaving his high school sweety behind.  She was, er.. less than
faithful, and now there's no way in hell he is going back to visit his old
(high) school.

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From: richg@hatch.socal.com (Rich Greenberg)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Craig Shergold
Keywords: chuckle, rumors
Date: 4 Oct 92 22:24:15 GMT
Organization: Hatch Usenet and E-mail.  Playa del Rey, CA

The following appeared in rec.humor.funny, and is too good not to
pass on to a.f.u.  See ya all at AFU West 3.


In article <S478.1ecc@looking.on.ca> bscott@isis.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott) writes:
>This just in - FCC official Craig Shergold has announced new regulations
>to add a fee to phone lines used for telecommunication, including bulletin
>boards and public network services.  Critics say he is still bitter from
>a childhood experience during which he was buried underneath several tons
>of get-well cards, largely due to the well-meaning efforts of computer
>users all over the world, and this has sparked his current crackdown.
>
>Everyone reading this message would be affected by a tax on modem lines!
>It's vital that we make ourselves heard, and stop this FCC ruling.
>Please, forward this message to as many bulletin boards and services
>as you can, and encourage everyone you know to sign petitions against this
>plan.  Send them to Mr. Shergold at the FCC in Washington, DC.
>
>                                  (United Wire Services, July 2002)

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From: mclo@rtf.bt.co.uk (John McLoughlin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: UL Chippendales and crabs
Date: 29 Sep 92 10:48:19 GMT
Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK

I heard this one from a FOAFOAWAW ( A Friend Of A  Friend Of A Woman At Work !)
about a woman who went to her doctor with a lump under her eyelid.
The doctor questioned the woman as to what she'd been doing recently and she 
mentioned that she'd been to see the Chippendales. As part of their act, 
one of the 'dancers' took of his posing pouch and rubbed it in her face. When
he heard this the doctor nodded and lifted up the woman's eyelid to look at 
the lump, at which point a crab ( genital louse ) dropped / crawled out !
Yuck !!!
Is this a UL or what ?

John.
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From: medic@hardy.u.washington.edu (Travis Lauricella)
Subject: Re: nail in Coca-Cola
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 01:48:50 GMT

ahill@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill) writes:
>>
>In a similar experiment (sort of an extracurricular during high school
>chemistry), we placed a Gummi Bear in a beaker of hydrochloric acid.  After
>a week, no notable changes to the Gummi Bear.  Talk about roughage...

Gummi Bears are tough lil' critters.  I could tell you stories.  But just two,
for now.

1. You can stick a Gummi Bear to just about anything, and it will stay until
   you pull it off.  Just lick the back (with lots of slobber) and stick it!
   Works better than paper clips, 'cause you can eat it when you're done (if
   you dare.)  We stuck one to a tree out camping once, and it was there a week
   later.  Untouched by any of the forest creatures.  They know better.

2. I bought myself a sack of Gummi Bears out of the bulk foods section at the
   local grocery store a few summers ago, tossed it in the car, and drove
   from Seattle to Portland.  We (me and the other vehicles) stopped at a rest
   area about halfway there for around half an hour.  In a fit of ignorance,
   I accidentally left the bears on the seat in the locked car in 85 degree
   temperatures.  Result: A sticky, mushy, hard-to-remove Gummi Puddle.  The 
   best bet was to wait until it got cold, and remove the now Gummi Pancake
   from th seat.

OK, enough random rambling.  We now return to normalcy.
 
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From: roger@uvmark.uucp (Roger MacNicol)
Subject: Re: Superglue origin an UL?
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 18:46:49 GMT
Organization: Vmark Software, Inc.

In article <1992Sep28.173822.27881@colorado.edu> crosby@caesar.cs.colorado.edu (CROSBY MATTHEW JAME) writes:
>Ok, guys, heres another one.
>
>I have heard from *several people* that Cyanoacrylate (superglue) was originally
>invented by mountain climbers as a quick fix for wounds/cuts/gouges/etc.  Is
>this true?  It sounds very ULish....
>
>I have met at least one mountain climber who claims to use it for this purpose.
>Any comments?

I heard that it wasn't so much invented as that someone was annoyed that
moisture was ruining his organic chemistry experiments by making them set 
solid; he realized that could be useful and left his previous employment 
to market his discovery.  Not very Ulish at all unfortunately ...

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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Organization: Will work for food, but not for DEC.
Date:  5 OCT 92 07:27:20    


> why don't they (crew dweebs) just teleport old brains into newly grown young 
> bodies? 

Why?  If they haven't figured out a way to stop all the other organs in the
body from aging, what makes you think they'd have a way to stop the same thing
from happening to the brain?  Contrary to bad science fiction movies, brains
don't live forever -- they age and stop functioning, just like all the other
parts of your body.

 - snopes

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From: rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Date: 6 Oct 1992 23:57:14 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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I went to school with;
Mike Hunt

and also with;
Lief Forrest
who had a brother, Tree, and a sister, Rain

My father used to claim that the heir to the Lear Jet fortune was named Shonda.

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