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Subject: Re: Presidential UL's
From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Date: 25 Sep 92 23:53:32 MST
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
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In article <1992Sep25.225805.12783@news.columbia.edu>, egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:
> Now that there's serious danger of not having a single debate this season,
> has there been any Presidential election in which the candidates did not
> debate?

Your memory must be going faster than mine.  In 1972 there were no
Nixon-McGovern debates, and 1964 and 1968 were debate-free.  Before
1960 I am unsure, but certainly there wasn't any expectation that there
SHOULD be a debate.

ObPresUL: In a weak moment Nixon cried on Kissinger's shoulder.

ObPresUL #2: Churchill wanted to become U.S. President after retiring from
the British Prime Ministership for good, and actually ran the U.S. Govern-
ment for a time in the late 1950s when Eisenhower fell ill.

ObPresUL #3: Disraeli was his VP.
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f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu               Dan: "R-O-L-A-I-D-S-E."

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	-- Richard Ben Cramer, author of _What It Takes_
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From: lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund)
Subject: Exploding TV's (was Re: 666 Cable TV
Summary:  Details of exploding TV's
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:48:41 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.070443.28509@ulysses.att.com> smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
>In article <BvGtyy.Ly1@world.std.com>, lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund) writes:
>> 	The topic was cable TV and pirating extra TV's inside your home off
>> a socket.  I was "informed" that
>> 	a) The cable company can test electrically for the number of live
>> 	   connections.
>> 	b) When they discover a site is cheating they send a powerful electric
>> 	   current thrugh the cable and destroy (explode?) all the TV's in the
>> 	   offenders' house.
>> 
>> Before you hit followup I am aware that a) is possible and b) is a howl.
>
>Except that it happened, more or less....
>
>Seriously, some cable company in New York became convinced that lots
>of consumers in their area were stealing service, though I think the
>issue was illicit taps into the line, and a particular kind of gray-market
>converter.  They sent some signal that caused the converter to burn out.
>When folks complained (ok, so maybe your scenario was correct), they
>were told to pay up or face prosecution for theft of service.
>
>This was covered in the NY Times; for those who prefer their news online,
>see back issues of RISKS Digest.
>
	I see I should of been more graphic in my description of Cable 
Revenge.  As you and another poster pointed out,  you could destroy the
converter chip this way,  but as it was described to me we had a scene of
glass and and plastic scattered over the livingroom (and bedroom and den)
floor with the offendor pondering the Error Of His Ways.
	However,  the chip destroyed events are probably the source of
this UL,  with the more dramatic color being added along the line.

Larry "Now we can go back to name dropping, Star Trek and Rape Videos" 
		Headlund



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From: pgdeboes@iastate.edu (Philip G Deboest)
Subject: Re: Turd-slinging primates...
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 03:32:18 GMT

In <1015@cybaswan.UUCP> eeopensh@cybaswan.UUCP (j p openshaw) writes:

>I've heard tales of Gorillas in captivity becoming so bored, they've
>turned turd-throwing into an accomplished skill. Apparently, while
>crowds are cooing around their cage, they pick out a target 
>and pelt them in an accurate fashion with their (or anyone else's)
>dung, straight between the bars.

>Anyone seen this feat performed live?

>John (nice work if you can get it) Openshaw

Three years ago last summer, I was in Venezuela at a drive-through zoo.  Some
of the younger or sick animals were kept in cages at the entrance.  A gorilla
in one cage did manage to pelt another guy on the trip pretty well, but it was
after the bus drivers were harassing him for awhile.

              I was there--I saw it happen!

But the story goes on...

A few minutes later, a tiger in another cage somehow managed to urinate on him,
too.  Just wasn't his day--he was wearing white, too!

      -Phil

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From: bill.dehaan@rose.com (bill dehaan)
Subject: Severed dog's heads
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:34:39 GMT
X-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)


Date Entered: 10-02-92 10:30
In message <1992Sep30.175346.1@ducvax.auburn.edu>,
bwaid@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:

bw>My (ex) wife and two of her friends say they heard that if a dog bit
bw>someone and was believed to be rabid that its head (the dog's for the
bw>parsing impaired) had to be cut off and sent to a lab for testing. They recal
bw>this from their childhood and all grew up in different places so they are
bw>sure it was true. I'm not buying it. This wasn't on the FAQ list either.

Well, according to last night's rerun episode of Night Court, a dog that
bit Dan Fielding had to be destroyed, as the vets required a brain
tissue scan to determine if it was rabid or not (prompting the reponse
"won't that hurt?"). However, in real life, taking of blood from the dog
is more than sufficient (at least it was both times that _I_ was bitten
by a dog that could have been rabid). I think that the dog's head bit is
performed after rabies is confirmed; the dog is destroyed and the
progress of the disease is checked by brain scan.

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From: schwab@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Paul Schwab)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:44:50 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

In article <1992Oct03.144232.3407@rose.com> bill.dehaan@rose.com (bill dehaan) writes:
>
>Date Entered: 10-03-92 10:38
>In message <BvIIIw.4F9@unx.sas.com>, sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce
>Tindall) writes:
>
>BT>I heard of a couple of parents who named their infant son "Bruce".
>BT>This cruel act supposedly happened in Louisiana in 1956.  But I
>BT>can't imagine anyone being so unfeeling, so it must be a UL.
>
>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.
>
My sister, a nurse, comes home with some weird ones occasionally:

How about "Placenta", or "Yellowjello (sp)"? ...she insists these two
are true...on the other hand, there's the one about the woman
who was going to name the baby Regina if it was a girl, so when she
had twin girls, she named them Regina and.......Vagina!

-Paul

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From: pjswan@engin.umich.edu (Peter Swanson)
Subject: Re: the weight of the water
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 13:36:32 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <Yly-jdB@engin.umich.edu> ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering) writes:
>Actually, I've never seen an emergency shower with a drain.  My father's
>lab at Hopkins has a shower but no drain, and the setup is the same in all
>the other labs in his building.  Same with the chem lab where I went to
>high school.
>
>Maybe the idea is that the shower should only be used for, um, emergencies.
>

Maybe the idea is that if something is so dangerous that you have to
get it off you that fast, you shouldn't be draining it down the sewer
anyway.  This could apply to acids/bases, oxidants, corrosives,
biohazards, radioactives, etc.  Containing the problem (presumably on
the lab floor, but I've seen the showers in hallways too) will make it easier
to clean up, and minimize hazards to downstream people/animals/etc.

just a thot (not worthy of the full spelling)

Peter "I must be in deep thot" Swanson



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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: u8802356@cs.uow.edu.au (Stephen Lance Rogan)
Subject: Re: Chicken Cannon- Photograph sighting!
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 23:58:39 GMT

robcruic@intacc.uucp (Robert Cruickshank) writes:


>Remember the thread about testing aircraft windows by firing chickens at them?
>I was looking through the May 1943 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, and ther, on
>page 39 is a photograph of the cannon in action! It is shown firing an
>obviously un-plucked chicken through a window mounted on a steel frame. A
>second photo shows a shattered window with, yes, chicken feet hanging out of
>it!. (There is also a really bad cartoon to illustrate the concept). The
>cannon itself, owned by Westinghouse was 20 feet long, and could propel a
>chicken at 400 mph. 

All together now...

GIF GIF GIF GIF GIF GIF GIF GIF GIF GIF

Elephant.
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From: mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser)
Subject: Re: Mrs. Field's Cookies Recipes
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:38:14 GMT
Organization: a stone mountain of Kudzu

In <1992Oct6.160545.27198@ulysses.att.com> smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:

>In article <26000@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, jacobs@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Henry Jacobs) writes:
>> Over the weekend, I wandered into the local mall bookstores. There is
>> now a cookbook titled "Mrs. Field's Recipes" and has all sorts of cookies
>> and other goodies recipes.
>> But...are they the REAL recipes...

>Umm -- you've forgotten an important detail.  What did the book cost?
>Not two fifty, I hope....

Nope.  I saw her on the "TODAY" show last Friday morning.  This is _NOT_
a UL, but the real article.


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From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 12:24:00 GMT

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


>> 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.

And for proof of that, look any non-speech-written remarks by Ronald Reagan
when he was prez.

"Trees cause more pollution than people"
"We start bombing in five minutes"
etc.

-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com
(This is not an official opinion/statement of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
"AIX: It'll remind you of UNIX" - Geoff Collyer.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: swaim@owlnet.rice.edu (Michael Parks Swaim)
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was CLEARLY better
Organization: Rice University
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:35:42 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.005727.27318@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>Does anyone else know someone famous who went to their college, or know
>someone who does?

  Steve Jackson of SJGames was a member of Wiess College here at Rice. Also,
supposedly George Grenias (Houston city controller) once brought Kathy
Whitmire (Now ex mayor of Houston) to a party at Rice and she was "Ceiling
ubangeed."

Mike "TEAM WIESS" Swaim




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Subject: Re: ATM fraud
From: system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 92 22:18:25 NZDST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10-155, Auckland, New Zealand

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

> 
> In article <gregn.716784724@coombs>, 
>   gregn@coombs.anu.edu.au (Gregory Newton) writes...
> 
> >An UL back in my home city australia/nsw/gosford concerned a bloke who
> >entered a piece of foil from a chocalate wrapper into an ATM and was able to
> >withdraw money when the machine went beserk.
> 
> Sheesh!  What was it, a wrapper from a chocolate laxative?
> 
>  - snopes

In NZ there was an "issue" over the security of ATM machines. A current 
affairs programme (B-D) interviewed some street kids, who demonstrated 
how they deposited a Jaffa packet and entering a value of $1,000,000 and 
a few days later was able to withdraw funds on the proceeds. Further 
investigations, reported in the NZ Herald indicated that
a) it had happened once before to the value of $10,000
b) the street kid in question admitted that they were surprised that it 
worked. It had been tried many many times, but with this once previous 
success. It just happened to work for the TV.
c) it just came down to human error where an overworked and harassed 
clerk had punched the validate (yopu know how it goes validate, validate, 
validate....30 times...its nearly aways right) key (the default option) 
in error. It was picked up by internal audit, but a day late, permitting 
the $300 NZ daily limit of withdrawals for the benefit of TV cameras.

As a sideline note that the deposit capability has been removed from 
EVERY ATM for EVERY bank in New Zealand.


Cheers,

Wayne McDougall
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From: tpehrson@javelin.sim.es.com (tim clinkenpeel)
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Reply-To: tpehrson@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:30:24 GMT

byarlay@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Wayne Byarlay) writes:

>Don't even bother replying to people like tpehrson@javelin.sim.es.com;
>it's quite obvious they have NO imagination whatsoever and cannot enjoy
>anything without tons of rules. 

oh phooey on that, but then again i can't say i'm upset over the fact that i'm
not receiving mail from you or people that actually listen to you.  i do have
this to say to you:  'relax'.  don't get so uptight over the fact that some
people's 'imagination' in limited to using reality as a role model, unless
otherwise stated.  some of us can't just gloss over the inconsistencies and
fallacies with a "just because" or some wild conjecture with workings like
that of a rube goldberg machine.

"oh woe is me who has defiled the great god 'star trek'"

p.s. what a whacky coincidence it is that the gravity on all the planets the
enterprise happens upon is indiscernably similar to that of ol' mother earth.
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Subject: Junk e-mail
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 23:17:59 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

This morning,  joy of joys,  I got my first ever piece of junk e-mail.

We have previously had discussions of how to counter junk snail mail,
junk faxes, junk telemarketing (I can't wait the next one phones me!).

So what is the electronic equivalent of a brick in the mail?
If it was a local call I would just mail them /usr/dict/words but it is 
not.

Ah. I've got it.  

The staff of Abacus Global Support, Inc. are 7 years old and suffering from 
an incurable and unpronouncable disease called PC for short.  It is their 
dieing wish to get into the Guiness book of records for receiving the largest 
number of used condom^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H copies of /usr/dict/words.  

Please send your copy - or someone elses business card to.

    Internet: abacus@global.gwinnett.com
    Miami, FL  33178                    Compuserv: 71201,1201
    (800) 848 - 9192                    BBS: (800) 643 - 3606


Derek "That should do the trick" Tearne


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From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "U.S. has 70 % of the world's lawyers." -Dan Quayle
Date: 27 Sep 92 01:17:51 GMT
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Sep27.005657.5565@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>
>I thought it was 70% of the world's lawyers are on retainer to Apple.
>(And the other 30% own the company.)
>
>cj "the answer: professional courtesy (what's the question?)" l

Then who represented Microsoft? ;-)

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From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: severed dog's head
Date: 6 Oct 92 20:42:51 GMT
Organization: AT&T


In article <e0oq02E824SW01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
>In article <1992Oct1.165526.1707@seanews.akita.com>, 
>billmcc@seanews.akita.com (Bill McCormick) writes:
>> I've actually sent a dog's head in to be examined.  I was bitten by a
>> rescue (from the pound) dog which had no provocation.  Since I had to
>> put the dog down because of his instability I didn't subject him to
>> 10 days in isolation.  Instead I had him put down immediately and sent
>> the head in for examination.
>
>Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "You need to have your head 
>examined."

This seems like as good a time as any to mention that one of my favorite
bands is Severed Heads, purveyors of tape loop madness from down under.

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From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Hot (superheated) tea?
Date: 30 Sep 92 00:18:16 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

>I just tried an experiment in the tea room.  I filled my
>(vitreous china) mug from a nearly boiling urn, then put it
>in the microwave for 30 seconds on high.  It still did not
>boil.  Adding a teabag caused it to boil, splattering over
>the bench.
>
>This result was repeatable.  Try it yourself (be careful,
>though).  It is quite easy to superheat water in the
>microwave.  [At least one paper has been published on this.
>I read a newspaper article about it, some chemists decided
>that studying water in the microwave was more interesting
>that what ever they were being paid to study]
>
>joan

I would be more inclined to accept this if you had stuck a
thermometer in it, rather than a tea bag.  Adding the tea bag
will lower the boiling point of water, which will no longer be
pure H2O at that point.  This is a fun trick that chemistry
students love.  Heat water to one degree below boiling, then
see how much salt/sugar/other it takes to lower the boiling
point enough to get bubbles, a similar experiment to
performing a titration.  The boiling point of water can, of
course, be increased by heating it in a pressure chamber (or
possibly taking it to the Dead Sea) but in an open container at sea 
level will boil at the standard 212 (100 degrees C).  Of
course, in Denver Colorado, due to the decreased atmospheric
pressure, it will boil at closer to 185 degrees.

Of course, plain old 211 degree water (one degree below
boiling) is quite sufficient to burn you very badly.  So will
many lower temperatures, especially with prolonged contact,
such as spilling it on fabric.  A friend of mine had a
burn-blister the size of a hen's egg on his leg, from spilling
hot chocolate when the car he was riding in hit a bump.  (And
was the hit of the local medical staff, who called all their
friends to come see it.)  The fabric of his pants retained the
heat of the around-200-degree water long enough to create a
severe second-degree burn.  It's not the heat, it's the
duration of contact.  You can cook yourself alive in 120
degree water, if you sit in it long enough.


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From: jordan@castor (USENET's Chuck)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: nail in Coca-Cola
Date: 7 Oct 92 01:37:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Georgia

In article <1992Oct7.000000.21267@u.washington.edu> medic@hardy.u.washington.edu (Travis Lauricella) writes:
>In first grade, when Mr. Pelander was teaching us about the importance of
>brushing one's teeth on a daily basis, he opened a bottle of Coke...

[schematic drawing deleted]

>Result, after one week: A heavily disolved nail.  Still intact, but not in
>the best of shape.  Big chunks had been corroded out of the sides, leaving
>"cavities."

I have heard, but not seen, of an experiment where an egg is put into a
frying pan (over no heat), a little bit of coke is poured on top of the
egg, and in less than 24 hours, the entire egg is the consistency of a fried
egg.  Like so:

1.      () <- egg    ____________
   \________________/               <- frying pan
		<- here's the thing: NO HEAT!! 

2.          /  ==()=()   <- coke bottle 
           \/ 
                     ____________ 
    \___----------__/

3.  I  O--I-----<      <- go to sleep, dreaming of the super cool  
    ITTTTTTTTTTTTT        experiment that's taking place in your kitchen.

4.                   _____________
    \___---====---__/  <-  a FRIED EGG!
		<- AND STILL NO HEAT!

The idea, I guess, was to make me stop drinking Cokes, but I'm from Atlanta. 
Fat chance, Mr Wizard!

Chuck "Have a Coke and a Urinary Infection!" Jordan


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