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From: ALI00BAW@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU
Subject: Re: Norman Travels??
Organization: UNC Charlotte
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:13:26 GMT

It is my understanding that "Norman" means "Vikings settled in Latin
country."  The two most well-known such groups were in northern France
(later the British Isles) and Sicily; I do not think that the two groups
were related beyond that.
In article <rhamilt.726445888@husc.harvard.edu>
rhamilt@husc10.harvard.edu (Rowan Hamilton) writes:
 
>
>I recently heard someone claim that the Normans (of 1066 fame), before
>arriving in northern France, were in fact for awhile based in Sicily. The
>claim was that they based themselves in Sicily while marauding in the
>Mediterranean, and then moved to France when they found better pickings
>in the North. Can anyone out there confirm/deny this?
>
>
>--
>Rowan T. Hamilton                         "To dig this is to groove on
>hamilton@huhepl.harvard.edu                   hella shit."
>hamilton@fnald.fnal.gov                   - casey@wackenhut.com
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Doggone (was: Ring in the New Year with Some FAQs
Date: 7 Jan 1993 19:44:40 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell) writes:
  +(About the "mine dogs" story)
  +>
  +>I remember reading this story years ago, but I forget the source.
  +>I do recall that the Russians had supposedly trained dogs to run under
  +>German tanks and stay there until the explosives went off.  Unfortunately
  +>the dogs never did learn to distinguish between German and Russian tanks
  +>so the experiment was called off.  So went the story i read.  Not sure I
  +>believe it.

No, the plan failed because the German tanks kept clear water bottles
on the outside of their tanks, hence keeping the dogs away.

Terry "Well, it COULD have happened" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Yeah, right.
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From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Pygmy in zoo.
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:02:07 GMT

std_fleming@hg.uleth.ca (John Fleming) writes:

[Re-formatted to less than 1 googol characters per line]

> Today in a Psych lecture (the course is Human Sexuality),
>my professor told  us that in 1904 an expedition to Africa
>captured a Pygmy tribesman.  This unfortunate individual
>was brought to America, where he was exhibited in a cage
>in the Primate House of ...[  my editor cuts off after 256 char.]

His name was Otta Benga (sp), and a book was recently
written about this episode of his life.  Don't know about
the 'captured' part.  He stayed in Bronx Zoo, and was also
exhibited prior to that at an expo held in conjuction with
the St. Louis Olympics (tm).

Anybody save info. from the last time this went around? (October?)

ObUL: No Pygmys are in New Zeeland, even in the zoos.

Jon "Zoos are in syzygy during an eclipse" Papai
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper)
Subject: Re: Peter Norton, son of Betty Crocker
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:58:15 GMT

In article <62350002@hpcss01.cup.hp.com>, twv@hpcss01.cup.hp.com (Terry
Von Gease) writes:

>I have it on good authority that Peter Norton, PC weenie extraordinaire,
>is really a fictitious persona much like that of Betty Crocker.
>Purporte photographs of the Bjarnum of Binary are, in fact, fradulent.
>Either clever renderings or retouched photos of lesser beings.  That his
>handlers have caused him to age over the last few years is a nice
>touch. Much like the faint wisps of grey that have appeared in dear old
>Betty's do over time.

Didn't Betty Crocker redesign that face in the 80's to make her look
like a Yuppie career woman? Even if they didn't, the face has been
changed over the decades.

Tep
-- 
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I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home.   | me chastity... 
I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life.   |    but not yet.
Go ahead with your own life, leave me alone. --B. Joel| --St. Augustine
From: Tom.Rettie@p828.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Tom Rettie)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Man pays for college with pinball
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:02:21 -0500

Suddenly, as if by the hand of God Himself, a message from Phillip Rzewski
blazed across the sky: 

  PR> FOAF was in college when pinball cost $0.10 to play. The game he
  PR> played gave away free games every so often. It also turns out that the
  PR> place where he played had the following policy: if, when they closed,
  PR> you had credits built up on a pinball machine, they would give you a
  PR> dime per credit (since they had to kick you off).
  PR> 
  PR> By exploiting this, the guy could supposively make more money than he
  PR> was making at his regular job he was using to pay for college, so
  PR> instead he just played pinball this way and hence paid his way through
  PR> college with it.

Reality check please.  Even assuming the mathematics of this worked out, do you
really believe that a college town establishment (or any other) is going to
shell
out sufficent funds to put some guy through college before they just unplugged
the bloody machine?  Paid for a few pizzas, I'd believe.  

Tom "Apply today for your Pinball Wizard scholarship" Rettie
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: Rush!Rush!Rush!
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:56:14 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.114853.350@csghsg5a.bitnet> 92636828s@csghsg5a.bitnet 
writes:
>Any Rush fans around?????

Rush the rock group, Rush the Limbaugh, or Rush the awful and totally 
forgettable movie?
-- 
John Switzer               | "What we have here is a failure to 
                           | masticate."
Compuserve: 74076,1250     | -- MST3K's Dr. Clayton "Firebrand" Forrester, 
Internet: jrs@netcom.com   | after TV's Frank is unable to eat his 13th turkey.
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From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: General Hooker and whores (FAQ)
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:51:35 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.223420.15308@netcom.com>, jmoody@netcom.com (Jim Moody) writes:
>Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>>>FAQ writes:
>>>>Tb.US Civil War Gen. Hooker is the source for a common term for streetwalkers.
>
>>Probably F, unless you have a citation.  The Oxford English Dictionary
>>has a quotation from 1845 using the term.  Not-yet-general Hooker would...
>
>Is it possible that this stems from a famous incident in the civil war
>when, I believe it was Hooker, was so outraged at the behavior of
>Southern women in the occupied cities toward Union Officers and troops
>that he issued an order stating that any woman who insulted a Union
>officer was to be treated as a lady of the town, or a lady of the streets?
>

	That incident happened in New Orleans.  Probably would
have been 'lady of the boulevards'.

ObUL: Caption below AP photo, Jan. 6,1993.
"The police thought Frank Morales hanging upside down in a
chimney in an Oceanside, Calif., home was hilarious and took
pictures before arresting him on burglary charges.  Homeowner
Margie Beavers, 62, laughed as well- after the police got
there Monday.

-J.
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Wednesday, 6 Jan 1993 08:24:37 EST
From: <MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Bugger it
Distribution: world

I have heard of a dedicated computer system manufactured by Digital that
is tied into most large city's telephone systems. It is a digital waveform/
fourier analyzer that is programmed to trigger when certain words are
recognized, such as "bomb, assasination, stinky presidential underwear,"
etc.. It then begins recording the conversation. It is controlled by the
NSA.
     In order to screw this system up I make sure to include these words
in my conversation with girlfriend, relatives and friends. I figure if
everyone triggered the thing all the time it wont be able to record all
of the zillions of conversations about picking up pizza on the way home
from work. This will allow chaos to ensue as all of the stinky presidential
underwear mongerers run rampant, lending a Mad Max ambience to our otherwise
boring lives.

                           Rick Yukon, the Oblivious Neurotic.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.sport.baseball
From: cscdc@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Dan Carpenter)
Subject: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:29:11 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.001923.15230@athena.mit.edu> cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.212029.14746@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>Now, indeed, there was the infamous Reggie bar.
>
>infamous? why? did it taste bad? :^)
>
>>But what candy bar is Holtzman thinking of wrt Ruth?  Is he thoughtlessly
>>assuming that the Baby Ruth bar is named for the baseball player, rather
>>than the daughter of the president?  Or is this one of those strange
>>urban legends about urban legends, and the Baby Ruth bar really *is*
>>named for Babe Ruth?
>>
>>My vote is that Jerome Holtzman's just plain stupid.
>
>i believe you have chosen wisely.

Wrong!

>i am pretty sure that the bar is indeed not named for George Herman.
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hello.  HELLO! Is any one at home?!  

	George Herman "Babe" Ruth.   

Do you have it now?

Dan


>i heard this somewhere in the media not long ago, but i forget the source.

Clean your ears.

>


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: gtoal@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Documented mass cannibalism?
Organization: The IBM PC User Group On-line services
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 12:56:09 GMT


Say, wasn't it one of the tenets of this group that there was no
documentation on the mass practice of cannibalism? ... 

Interesting story on page 10 of The Observer, sun 10th.

"Enemies of Mao were fed to Party cannibals"

They're talking about thousands of people taking part, of kids eating
their school Principals, and of *official documents*.

They say one of the docs was reproduced in the NYT last week.
Anyone see it?

G
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 21:50:58 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1993Jan6.065013.11838@Princeton.EDU> datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.033253.26045@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>,
>derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>
>>Douglas Adams Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster <tm> was a very good try ( I
>>have drunk one and it was indeed nice)
>
>And here I thought PGGB's (not to be confused with GGGB's, a net.legend
>over on rec.humor, but I digress...) were _cocktails_, not teas --
>and fictional ones at that. If such a drink exists, how do I get or
>make it? 

Unfortunately they were only available for a limited time and only to those
people who went to see the stage prodution of HHGTTG way back in the early 
1980's.  I don't know where you could get an official one now.  Mine was
a sort of layered drink but they wouldn't let on what was in it.  There was
an open bottle on the shelf labelled 'Ol' Janx Spirit' though...

At the premier of the stage production a friend of mine got purple sugar 
crystals around the rim and it bubbled and frothed.  I think the bottle of 
Ol' Janx had gome flat by the time I got there.

Incidentally this friend also had a towel purchased at the same Marks and 
Spencers shop where Ford Prefect bought his.  He always carried it with him
in his back so he could always tell you where it is.

Hey you sass that hoopy "Derek Tearne" there's a frood who really knows 
where his towel is.


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From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: Re: Computer theft
Organization: NYSERNet, Inc.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:06:26 GMT

I heard that the Line Eater (TM) was a plot to shave off pennies from
the hundreds if not thousands of dollars that each article costs the
Net.
-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Upside-down burglar
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:04:14 GMT

jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:
>which is why trumpet players are worth so much more than piano players.
>Remember that next time you have a choice between dating a mere pianist
>and the more god-like trumpet player (or if you can't find one, the 
>very acceptable trombone player).

Of course we French Horn players have the habit that everytime we kiss a
girl, we stuff our right hands up their dress.

-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@compass.gvc.com
(This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
"I need that trephination stuff like I need another hole in the head"
    --  Kim L. Greer in alt.folklore.urban
From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: The revivification of Cindy
Date: 9 Jan 1993 23:35:41 GMT
Organization: We tap and bug everything, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: positive

Folks!   It's a miracle!

Plucky little Cindy Kandolf survived the microwave accident!
She has conclusively proved it, by correctly answering the
quiz questions.

But... did snopes survive with you Cindy, too?   Or did he survive
the microwave catastrophe, only to be garroted later by Stein 
in a passionate jealous rage?

Keep sending those postcards -- they'll probably be in hospital
for some time to come...

--
I have to live in SF all year round; can somebody tell *me* what to do?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: nolan@twg.com (Nero Wolfe)
Subject: Re: Net Gender - was AFU person of the year?
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Acme Detective Agency
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:59:50 GMT


In article <28362@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
[nonrelevant testimony excised from the record]
|>Terry "So, who gets stabbed with the scissors?" Chan

Terry did it in the closet with the superconducting magnet.
--

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ilaine@panix.com (Liz Stokes)
Subject: Re: Why care what percentage?  (was: Gay Likelihood)
Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:15:13 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.174701.8468@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dsegard@nyx.cs.du.edu (Daniel Segard) writes:
>
> > Anyone who still thinks AIDS only happens to 'bad' people and
> > 'good' people are safe hasn't been paying attention to public
> > service broadcasts.
> 
>       I guess I haven't been paying attention to the public service
>broadcasts....   Please explain how those of us who don't fool around with
>anyone and don't do drugs, etc are going to contract AIDS?  Or has there
>been a news release that I missed announcing that AIDS is carried by
>misquito bits or something?

	Hemophiliacs for instance, and people undergoing surgery who need
transfusions. Care to explain how someone needing a coronary bypass is a
'bad' person?
	Liz




-- 
Liz Stokes         | 	Ilaine's E-Z Garb Workshop
Ilaine de Cameron  | 	We're going to try an experiment now. Instead of using
                   | 	a loom, we're going to wind all the yarn into balls
ilaine@panix.com   |    and adopt an infinite number of kittens...
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: tomj@monster.apd.saic.com (Tom Johnson)
Subject: Re: google??
Organization: SAIC, Reston, VA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:05:56 GMT

PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:

>davew@willow03.cray.com (Dave Wagner) writes:
>>I remember hearing once that a 'google' is 10^100 or something like that.  Is
>>this for real?  If so, says who?  If not, has anyone else heard this?  Does
>>it have any mathematical use?

>1) yes
>2) generally accepted
>3) lots of people
>4) Expressing big numbers, such as ((2*5)^2^5)^2^5. Had trends continued,
>it would have been a useful number for price of bread in Weimar Germany.

>ObUL: The Mexican Peso is being revalued by a factor of 1000.  Now about
>pi Pesos/US$.

>Jon "Makes runs for the border." Papai

And, for what it's worth, I once heard that there are estimated
to be around 10^85 particles of anything in the universe.  Makes
a googol a pretty useful number!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za (Steve Hayes)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 08:16:08 GMT
Organization: University of South Africa

In article <C0EI4G.1zx@math.uwaterloo.ca> alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz) writes:

>But the original posting was refering to major cities of the WORLD,
>and every american knows that the world has 51 states, speaks english,
>and eats hamburgers.

What have I missed?

On a long drive through the arid semi-desert of Namibia my boredom was 
relieved by two kids singing about "Fifty nifty United States from thirteen 
original colonies". I thought at the time it was a nice instructive song, 
teaching history and georgraphy. Have I been fooled all this time, or has 
the world changed?

Steve Hayes, Department of Missiology & Editorial Department
Univ. of South Africa, P.O. Box 392, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa
Internet: hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za
          steve.hayes@f20.n7101.z5.fidonet.org
From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: kpix SCREWS UP (was Re:    Skyscraper FALLS DOWN.)
Date: 7 Jan 93 03:24:37 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <726360869.AA00304@csource.oz.au> Terry.Smith@f870.n800.z3.fidonet.org (Terry Smith) writes:
>     I'll duck 'coz I can't give citations, but I believe the book was
>originally titled '1948', but the publishers wanted it changed.

I hadn't heard that, but I had heard that Orwell's original title for
_1984_ was _The Last Man in Europe_, which doesn't have the right ring
to it at all, and is doubly un-PC to boot.

Bruce "ignorance is strength" Tindall

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: eradm@wbst845e.xerox.com (Erik Radmall)
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or produ
Reply-To: eradm@wbst845e.xerox.com
Organization: Xerox Corporation
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:20:51 GMT

In article 14833@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu, PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
> Babak sehari writes:
> > automatically posted to all unix wide bbs'
> 
> Sounds like he left his terminal unattended.
> 
> ObUL: Was Babak the name of the elephant king?

I think it was Jim Morrison's nickname.

> 
> -J.




Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:32545 rec.arts.startrek.misc:13236
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Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Fronti
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 03:00:56 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <PTeXwB3w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
>Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>
>> >Ted "it's not libel if it's satire" Frank
>>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> You sure got *that* right!  :-)
>
>It is in New Zealand. Poor old Hamish Keith didn't like Beamish Teeth
>being portrayed as paying exorbitant unjustifiable prices for mediocre works 
>of art (paid for by the government), which he HAD done but successfully
>sued for defamation over the off-hand comment "oh, but that doesn't include
>my commission" ie. suggesting he also got an enormous commission personally
>(it was only a large commission). 

In this case I think it is significant that the original news report implying
corruption had been proved false _and_ a retraction had been made 
_before_ the show went to air.  So in this case it _was_ defamation of 
character.  

If the original report had been upheld then Hamish would be in prison now.  
Otherwise he would have taken the _newspaper_ to court for defamation.  
In either case the Issues program would have been in the clear.


>Although successful, he was only awarded costs.

Quite large costs which Television New Zealand (Big Nasty State TV) then 
intended to recover from Isambard Productions (small independant production 
house run on a shoestring budget using borrowed equipment from TV3 ( also 
independant ) and producing better quality programs than TVNZ not that TVNZ 
were jealous or anything or the fact that the program in question was dropped 
by TVNZ, taken up by TV3 to improved ratings had anything to do with TVNZ's 
stand on this issue which incidentally was the name of the TV program ( when 
pluralised ) ).

>So in New Zealand, all satire must be based on truth. Doesn't that make it
>caricature?

Only if it involves really long noses.

>-- 
>  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
>  This .sig unintentionally left blank.

Mmmmm...

>Hello! I'm a .SIG Virus. Copy me and spread the fun.

Think 1990's Wayne - we're almost a third of the way in now.


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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:32:16 GMT

In article <J631wB1w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
>andrewb@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Andrew Bevin) writes:
>
>> Actually the single Light My Fire has the guitar and keyboard solo's combined
>> where as the LP has the solos separated.
>
>I believe that Kibo is an expert at playing two solos combined.

You'd buy that for a dollar, eh?

>Would that be a Dulo?

I call it a "Duplo".

Feel that interlock!
						-- K.
From: axl@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Andrew Long)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Epileptics and computer games
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:12:10 GMT
Reply-To: axl@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Andy Long)
Organization: Edinburgh Uni

In article <1993Jan8.185444.7206@nntp.nta.no> styri@nta.no writes:
>Some time ago there was a thread where epilectic sezures caused by
>tv monitors was discussed (among a zillion other things). Scanning
>the usual pile of papers in search of useful information I found a
>story about Nintendo games. The story comes from Britain, and some
>minister of consumer affairs, Lady Denton, has requested a report.
>Daily Mail seems to have published a story about several incidents
>in the UK.
>

'The Sun' (dire UK tabloid read by 4 million) ran a massive front
page banner headline

'NINTENDO KILLED MY SON'

followed by a few details of the poor kid who finished playing the
game, walked out the door and keeled over dead.  He had a history
of blacking out and fits.

Wonder what Nintendo's lawyers made of it?



Andy "not that I normally read The Sun, honest" Long

ObIrony: The same day, they printed a four page video games section.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college