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From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
Date: 14 Aug 92 00:21:33 GMT
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>On a similar principle, there is an old party trick of boiling
>water in a calling card held over a lit match.  You fold up
>the edges of the card, put a little water in it, and hold it
>over a flame.  

I've seen references that say that one can use a large leaf if stuck
Out In the Woods.  The idea is that the kindling temperature of these sorts
of materials is higher than the boiling point of the water.  As long as the
temperature gradient across the leaf/card/bra isn't too large, the water
will heat up until it reaches the boiling point.  The water will then begin
to vaporize, but it won't get any hotter -- the additional heat being
poured in will go into vaporization.  The gradient is the key here -- you
need to gently heat the container so that it can conduct the heat quickly
enough.  As such, you wouldn't want to set it directly in a flame, point a
laser at it, and so on.

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From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: Imponderables
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:53:35 GMT

In article <fmfyb7#@rpi.edu>, kasprj@jacob.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes...
>In article <1992Aug18.152428.28723@unislc.uucp>, dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright) writes:
> 
>|> Here are some questions which the book said it had no answer to:
>|> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>[among others...]
>|>   -- Why does looking at the sun cause some people to sneeze?
> 
> I've heard a reasonable explanation for this: bright light will cause 
>the tear ducts to release a little bit of moisture, as a protective
>measure. Some of the moisture from the eyes goes into the nasal sinuses,
>which irritates them and produces the sneeze. This also explains why
>I sneeze when I get a piece of dust on one of my contact lenses... 

I'm one of those people who tend to sneeze in the bright sun, and the 'tear'
theory is definitely not true.  First there is zero delay between light and
tendency to sneeze and zero delay from removal of light to removal of tendency
to sneeze, and second, if my eyes water for some other reason (dust or dirt or
something gets in there) there is no tendency for me to sneeze.  Also my eyes
don't seem to water just by being out in the bright light.

I've heard many times the reason is actually a neural "short circuit" between
the optic nerves and the "there's something irritating in my nose" nerves,
this makes sense to me since it corresponds to my experience.

-Mike
From: rgm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Menke)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Screaming Peaches and Terrified Eggs
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Date: 22 Aug 92 23:55:03
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In-reply-to: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM's message of 21 Aug 92 00:33:30 GMT

In article <l98eeqINN7d2@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:

   When I was a kid, my mom told me about an experiment performed at
   Columbia University in which the agonized "scream" of a peach was
   detected somehow with sensitive instruments as someody bit into it.

Screaming plants was the subject of a Roald Dahl short story titled
"The Sound Machine."  This guy makes a machine that shifts the
frequency of sound down one million times and suddenly realizes plants
are aware of injuries.  I vaguely remember it being made into an
episode for a "Twilight Zone" type of show...

Dahl stories seem to generate ULs a lot, don't they?  Remember the
fracas about "Lamb to the Slaughter" a year ago?
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From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: Political ULs(Seeing Dan)
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:26:58 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <1992Aug15.140309.11282@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, cldavies@nyx.cs.du.edu (cindy davies) writes:
>One of my co-workers, got her very own secret service agent at the speach...
>she was standing there muttering about morons and the deficit.
>All of sudden she had a shadow. 

See, "spook fodder" DOES work.  It's NOT just a U.L.  And the fodder
doesn't even have to be online!  These intelligence agencies are
even more efficient than we thought.

And by the way, those of you with spook-fodder .sig files should
probaby add the string "11176" to it.  This is a frequency (in kilo-
Hertz) on which you can hear coded military communications ("Alpha
Tango Kilo November Zulu Seven Four Three Four Eight" etc.) from
the Persian Gulf.  It's been mentioned quite a bit recently on
rec.radio.shortwave.  
-- 
Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Manager, SAS Institute Inc., Cary NC 27513
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: FAQ: Hijack Procedures
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Date: 18 Aug 1992 21:37:24 GMT
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In article <Bt6z7C.4Kt@news.larc.nasa.gov> dtice@avd23.larc.nasa.gov 
(David C. Tice) writes:

>In any case, an early 1970's counter-insurgency version of the Mustang
>was prototyped and called the Cavalier F-51D (Jane's All the World's 
>Aircraft, 1971/72 edition).  So an F-51D did exist at least then.


The plane you mention is the Cavalier Defender.  "F-51D" is the U.S.
military designation of a specific (piston-powered) version of the
North American Mustang; the Defender was based on the F-51D, but it
was highly modified.  Not only did it have a significantly taller
vertical stabilizer, but more important, it had a turboprop engine.
There were probably some structural changes we well.  The point is,
it's a different aircraft.



Geoff


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From: rgm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Menke)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Tom Lehrer (was Re: Mnemonics)
Date: 15 Aug 92 20:46:06
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In-reply-to: stame@emunix.emich.edu's message of 12 Aug 92 23:11:37 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.231137.3679@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame) writes:

   From what I hear, he gave up performing because he wanted to remain an
   amusing performer rather than an angry one...

Two other reasons I've heard:

   Duress from the family of Dr. Werner von Braun.

   Thought nothing could be funnier than Kissinger getting the Peace
   Prize.
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Help me identify this Mcdonaldland character
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:47:53 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Aug14.132849.1857@ra.msstate.edu> cee1@ra.msstate.edu (Charles Evans) writes:
>Someone previously said that the Hamburgler's name was Hamrobber.. NOT
>
>its definaties Hamburgler.
>
>-- 
>Charles E. Evans           /  o     / Whereforeseeingwealsoarecompassedabout
>cee1@ra.msstate.edu       / ./|\   / withsogreatacloudofwitnesses,letuslayaside
>		         /   /|'  / everyweight,andthesindothsoeasilybesetus,
>cee1@msstate.bitnet     /    , ' / andletusRUNwithpatiencetheracethatissetB4us.


And how do you spell Shergold?
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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Organization: Just put everything on the floor; I can find it.
Date: 17 AUG 92 22:08:02    


In article <1992Aug16.201524.4970@infopro.com>, 
  david@infopro.com (Dragon [David Fiedler]) writes...

>You people are sick.

>Where do you get a copy of this tape, anyway?

  I'll make you a copy for two-fifty . . .

 (C'mon guys -- AFU's in a sad state of affairs if *I* have to be the one to
  post the obligatory "two-fifty" snope.)

 - snopes

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Subject: Re: Right-Left
From: frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz (Bruce Clement)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 08:10:55 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Private System

lesley@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz writes in article
> All the examples I can think of are on roads like the Hutt Road, which
> although rather motorway-like, and everyone calls it a motorway, it
> actually isn't.

Ah ... that explains the kamakazi pushbikes. 
 

--
Bruce Clement    (frey@alfheim.welly.gen.nz   Waffle 1.64, 
                  frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz  SNEWS/2,  UUPC 1.11q)
From: gfritz@sage.cc.purdue.edu ("Happy Fun Ball")
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Co-ed Dorms!
Date: 18 Aug 92 05:23:56 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <9208171631.AA06068@crdgw1.ge.com> news_for@ae.ge.com (Paul R. Joslin) writes:
>
>ObUL:  At some schools, "co-ed dorm" means that men and women LIVE IN
>THE SAME BUILDING!
>
>Paul "Ask about Purdue's co-ed dorms..." Joslin	
>joslin@c0223.ae.ge.com

At Purdue, "co-ed" means that members of the opposite sex get to eat in the
same room together.

Belive it or not.
Geoff
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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Organization: Just put everything on the floor; I can find it.
Date: 16 AUG 92 22:11:14    


In article <4616@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, 
  tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes...

>> All I know is, you can go to your local video store and rent tape with
>> real murders on them.  Real people, realling dying, on film.  If that doesnt
>> fit your definition of snuff, so be it.  It fits mine.

>What's the name of the film?  Which video stores rent it?  

  It's called "Gimme Shelter".  It's a musical.  And it's in all the stores.

 - snopes

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From: ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan)
Subject: Re: Driving tests
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organization
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 18:26:26 GMT

In article <mcirvin.713733658@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:
>
> The driving test in the state of Virginia (US) ... When I took it, the
> behind-the-wheel test consisted of driving out of the parking lot, cross-
> ing a highway at a traffic light into a residential neighborhood, driving
> around one block in said neighborhood, crossing the highway again, and
> parking in the (nearly empty) lot.  There's no parallel parking or highway
> driving involved, and no situation involving many other cars.

One particularly stellar year I absent-mindedly allowed my license to expire,
necessitating my having to retake the test in WV.  The policeman had me drive
out of the parking lot, up the highway to a nearby shopping center (left hand
turn without traffic lights in rush-hour traffic), toodle around the mall for
a bit, then return.  He had planned another little jaunt between the shopping
center and the police station, but he said that after watching me do that
left-hand turn in rush-hour traffic while I talked a mile a minute, without
missing a breath, turn signal, or gap in traffic, it was clear to him that I
knew how to drive.  One point off for bumping the curb during parallel park-
ing (btw, the first time I'd ever come anywhere near success in p. pkg), and
the license was mine.  (He did allow as how the rush-hour traffic was not a
standard part of the test.)


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From: robcruic@intacc.uucp (Robert Cruickshank)
Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 07:53:12 GMT
Organization: Inter/Access' Matrix BBS

In article <1992Aug18.145232.22552@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk> adrian@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (A Johnstone) writes:
>Whilst I'm on the subject (probably this is not the place for it but here goes
>anyway) has anybody else noticed the way droplets of coffee often run around on
>top of the main volume of coffee in a filter machine? I wondered whether this
>was a related effect. The droplets must be in some equilibrium because they can
>exist for up to a couple of seconds before disintegrating.
>
>                          Adrian


Yes, I've noticed this- I timed one that went into a sort of "orbit" around
the coffee pot (inside, of course, kids)  for about 2 minutes. Technically
these are known as "globules" of liquid- they are, like water drops, held in a
round shape by thir surface tension, and for some reason do not become part of
the surface they are sliding on. The oil in the coffee seems to play a big
part in their formation- if I dump a cup of coffee into a sink which has a
driping faucet, gloubules will form after the coffee has run down the sink.
The only reference I know of hand is an article in Scientific
American,probably  10 years or so ago. If it helps to track it down, I think
the same issue had an article on Sterling Engines by a doctor Walker (not
Jearle, although I think he talks about globules in the Flying Circus of
Physics). Anyone else ever time a globules life in a coffee pot? if not, I
hereby claim the world record.

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From: harvey@indyvax.iupui.edu
Subject: Old Horse (was: Re: Eskimo words for snow)
Summary: Things you wouldn't want to eat at sea
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:00:19 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.213558.10387@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
> In article <25567@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>>
>>Ummmm...old Norse?
>
> But does it taste like chicken?
>
> Oh, I thought you said old Horse!

ObOHUL:

    "There is a story current among seamen that a beef-dealer was
     convicted, at Boston, of having sold an old horse for ship's
     stores, instead of beef, and had been sentenced to be confined
     to jail until he should eat the whole of it, and that he is
     now lying in Boston jail."

		-- Richard H. Dana, _Two Years Before the Mast_

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From: cee1@ra.msstate.edu (Charles Evans)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Help me identify this Mcdonaldland character
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:28:49 GMT
Organization: Mississippi State University

Someone previously said that the Hamburgler's name was Hamrobber.. NOT

its definaties Hamburgler.

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cee1@ra.msstate.edu       / ./|\   / withsogreatacloudofwitnesses,letuslayaside
		         /   /|'  / everyweight,andthesindothsoeasilybesetus,
cee1@msstate.bitnet     /    , ' / andletusRUNwithpatiencetheracethatissetB4us.
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From: jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (doc)
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:21:32 GMT

snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:

Faces of Death has real death scenes in it.  Period.  You can take all the
cheap shots and flames at me you want, like this one:

> (Doc appears to have gotten hold of Cindy Kandolf's old keyboard;
> the SHIFT key has been replaced, but they had to remove the apostrophe
> key to do it.)

..but that doesnt make you right, it just makes you a poor debater who takes
shots at his opponent rather than arguing the facts. Heres some apostrophes,
snopes: ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' 
They ought to make up for ones Ive missed.  Ill leave it to you to insert
them into the proper words. I didnt realize that you were another one of 
those net.english.cops.  Too bad.


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From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: That'd be In the Air, Phil
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:58:44 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK

In article <1992Aug18.150408.14634@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> kristyp@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson) writes:
>Standard disclaimer: Apologies if this has been discussed to death.
>

I've seen nothing on it before...

>I've been curious for awhile as to the "true" origin of the song
>"In The Air Tonight," by Phil Collins.  The various stories I've
>heard are:
>
>(1) Phil sees someone drowning, and someone close enough to help
>aforementioned drowning person.  But this person doesn't save the
>drowning person, and he/she dies.  Phil finds out who the person
>is, invites him to a concert, and sings the song directly at him.
>
>(2) Aforementioned drowning person is Phil's girlfriend.
>
>(3) Incident takes place on a boat, and Phil is on shore.
>
>Apparently someone drowned and Phil saw it, if this story has any
>factual basis whatsoever.  Any clues?

Isn't this an allegorical song, akin to "I wouldn't cross the street to
p*ss on you if you were on fire" sort of thing? That's certainly how the
lyrics sound to me...

Later,

The Wisp. [who burned his dick once...]
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From: jordan@castor.cs.uga.edu (Chuck Jordan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ginsu Knives
Date: 13 Aug 92 09:45:47 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <1992Aug12.233556.4903@zip.eecs.umich.edu> stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame) writes:
>>>So stab him.
>>
>>Excellent idea.  I wonder, what would be the best -- the most unusual --
>>place to stab him?
>>[ All together now... ]
>
>Let's get a camera and film it and make a snuff film so we can kill
>that damn thread once and for all.  Next person who asks about snuff
>films after that, we'll send them a copy . . . 

Didn't Monty Python make an album that had three sides?

Chuck "Sorry, I panicked" Jordan

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From: dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright)
Subject: Re: I Love Lucy Forever?
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:37:00 GMT

Jon Corelis (jon@lindy.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
:    For years now I have been periodically hearing or reading the
: statement that there is no moment of the day or night when Lucille Ball
: is not appearing somewhere in the world on a television screen playing I
: Love Lucy.  

There are so many cable and satellite channels today.  Isn't there one
(just one!) which plays nothing but Lucy?

Strictly speaking it would take two which were "out of phase", such that
one played Lucy when the other went to commercials, and vice versa ...
There's no business incentive for a broadcasting company to set up and run
two channels perfectly "out of phase" that way.

Despite the huge number of broadcasts in all the nations around the world
each day, I wager there are certain moments when Lucy briefly disappears.

Whether or not she always appears -- this is all conjecture in the first
place, along the lines of:  there are enough squid alive at any one time
that, if caught and laid out side by side, they could cover the entire
Mohave desert.  A fine trivial point to argue at garden parties.

  -- Dan Wright
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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: Driving tests
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:54:10 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.152447.23346@specialix.co.uk> martin@specialix.co.uk (Martin) writes:

>I had previously heard the story as the Egyptian driving test where you
>have to drive 9 yards forwards and 9 yards backwards.
>
>Which, if either, is true?

ObLetsResurrectAnOldUL: Is this the origin of the phrase "The whole 9 yards" ?

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