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From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
Subject: Re: Counterfeiting
Organization: Open Software Foundation
	<BtKrK6.AFE@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
	<1992Aug28.012336.26921@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:11:06

In article <1992Aug28.012336.26921@midway.uchicago.edu>
thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:

| I'm under the understanding that nothing smaller than $20 bills gets
| counterfeited because it simply doesn't pay.

Last week, on the commuter rail train I go on (Boston - Fitchburg
line), the conductor had been given a phony $1 (it didn't have the
small serial numbers and some other marks), and he passed it around.
Nobody on the train could believe that somebody would be smart enough
to be able to produce a reasonable conterfeit bill, but would be dumb
enough to make one's.

--
Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142

You are in a twisty little passage of standards, all conflicting.
From: bakker@cs.uq.oz.au (Paultje Bakker)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Imponderables - Toilet Designs
Date: 23 Aug 92 22:11:22 GMT
Reply-To: bakker@cs.uq.oz.au
Organization: Depts. of Computer Science & Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

In article <l9atthINNiae@west.west.sun.com> flloyd@L1-A.West.Sun.COM (Fred Lloyd [Phoenix SE]) writes:
>
>The main problem with the "ledge" is that it contains no water.  It's
[..]
>social faux pas.  To control this, nearly every german toilet, both at
>home and in public, includes a small toilet brush at the side to
>alleviate this "problem".  Even the little german childern are
>tought not not to leave "skid marks" when visiting other peoples
>homes (or in their own, for that matter).

Are you telling me that American toilets DON'T usually have a toilet
brush in the immediate vicinity? How do you remove skid marks then -
by plunging in with your bare hands?

>The only thing good about the damned things is that you never
>have to worry about the dreaded "splash back" when you let a
>heavy one go.  Other than that, they have no saving grace.

This one feature makes them hygenically far superior to the Anglo-Saxon
commode. If you are forced to utilize a filthy public convenience, then the
dreaded "splash back" will inject untold numbers of germs and strange crunchy
bits into your rear passage. Not to mention cigarette butts.

paultje


--
(paul) bakker@cs.uq.oz.au     >  "Although the Australian accent does
computer science/ psychology  >   not lend itself as a pointer to
university of qld 4072        >   intellect, ... "
terra australis               >   The (British) Sunday Telegraph, 1992
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: me@csri.toronto.edu (Daniel R. Simon)
Subject: Re: You are humble and loveable.  CHOMP!
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 26 Aug 92 18:57:02 GMT

In article <l9ku3jINN7ge@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>In article 12825@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu, me@csri.toronto.edu (Daniel R. Simon) writes:
>> I find this explanation quite implausible.  Gold coins haven't been in
>> common circulation for a very long time (if they ever were),
>
>Indeed, but have you ever seen a person bite into a coin?  It seems to
>me that it's one of those bits of cultural luggage that long outlives
>its applicability, but still gets lugged along -- like outhouses having
>crescent moons cut into the doors.

Quite possibly, but such cultural icons do, after all, tend to die out 
eventually; hence the more recent the supposed source, the more likely it 
is to be correct, other factors being equal.  I surmise that silvered wooden 
(or perhaps lead, as others have suggested) coins have been in common use 
more recently than gold ones.

>> The idea is similar to that of "silvered pennies", meant to be mistaken
>> for dimes, of which I have actually seen an example in my lifetime.
>
>I'm pretty sure that there were a series of chrome pennies (or cents)
>minted in Canada (or the US) around 1943, due to copper shortages.  Are
>you sure it wasn't one of these you saw?

Gee, I dunno....did those wartime pennies sometimes show copper-coloured 
patches, as if a silver-coloured coating had worn through?

Disclaimer:  I have three weeks till my defense, and I'll do *anything*
	     to avoid working on my thesis.


"There *is* confusion worse than death"		Daniel R. Simon
			     -Tennyson		(me@theory.toronto.edu)
From: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER)
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Reply-To: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:27:46 GMT

de@moscom.UUCP (David Esan) writes:

>MASER - Microwave Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation

didn't they change that recently to Molecular  Amplification by the 
Stimulated Emission of Radiation?
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From: jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost)
Subject: Re: FD&C (was: Misapplied Physics in Advertising)
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:41:30 GMT

vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (vance kochenderfer) writes:
>ObUL: If you eat a lot of red M&M's, you will feel very full.

Probably true.  On the other hand, if you eat a lot of any color M&M's
you will feel very full.

And sick, later.

jim frost
jimf@centerline.com
From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Death by sneezing
Date: 26 Aug 92 14:03:30 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK

In article <BtLDuC.D84@news.larc.nasa.gov> ray@nmsb.larc.nasa.gov writes:
>In article <fwlpb8d5@csv.warwick.ac.uk> csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug24.104848.425@ecc.tased.edu.au> ecc_jim@ecc.tased.edu.au writes:
>>>This was from my mother who is a nurse. Some people (women seem to be the main
>>>offenders) hold their sneezes back when they occur, that is they block the
>>>actual flow of air with their hands/mouth/throat.
>>>
>>>My mum told me of a women who did this with a quintuple-sneeze (five in a row)
>>>and died of a brain haemorrhage.
>
>>
>>Well, it's called the Valsalva manoeuvre, and is sometimes used to slow the
>>heart (in SVTs etc.). Basically what you do is to exhale forcefully against a
>>closed glottis, so no air comes out. The result is considerably raised
>>intra-thoracic pressure with diminished venous return and increased
>>arterial blood pressure, particularly in the head.
>>
>
>I've always heard of the Valsalva maneuver being used to equalize
>middle ear pressure.  This was brought up during both my SCUBA
>classes and pilot training.
>
 Good point. I knew I'd heard of it somewhere else, but couldn't remember
where!  Of course, I never did any ENT...   ;-)

Later,

The Wisp.
-- 
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     Chris Williams <csuah@uk.ac.warwick.csv> aka <csuah@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
"Tony Greig in the slips, legs apart, waiting for a tickle"
                                      Brian Johnson (thanks to A. Simha 8^>)
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From: dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright)
Subject: Re: QWERTY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 02:21:51 GMT

~WISP at CU~ (csuah@warwick.ac.uk) wrote:
: simultaneously, but only when the two keys are close together (or the two
: slugs are close together, to be more accurate). So the reason for the
: QWERTY arrangement was to minimize the possibility that two letters next to
: one another would be struck in sequence

Why didn't they rearrange the slugs rather than the keys?

  -- Dan Wright
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER)
Subject: Re: You are humble and loveable.  CHOMP!
Reply-To: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:10:28 GMT

 Re: biting coins.

Back in the good old days when coins were made from gold, a chomp could 
prove a lot, especially if you had practice. (remember, gold is *real soft*)
From: gfritz@sage.cc.purdue.edu ("Happy Fun Ball")
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Abandoned/Booby Trapped Aircraft hangars
Date: 1 Sep 92 23:09:26 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <1992Sep1.070432.24356@echo.philips.nl>
dolf@echo.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer) writes:
>bobk@ESD.3Com.COM (Bob Konigsberg) writes:
>
>>It finally struck me last night of something that MAY be another urban
>>legend, or since I heard it in the service, a military legend...
>
>>Anyhow, when I was in the service, I was stationed at Coleman Army
>>Airfield in Mannheim in West Germany (at the time).  It was a common 
>>tale there that underneath the airfield
>>that we all worked on, was a maze of aircraft hangars left over from
>>World War II.  The U.S. Army, had lost several people to booby traps
>>when trying to investigate these hangars, that they finally flooded
>>them, and sealed off the entrance.
>
>Although I cannot say whether this particular story is true or not, it
>does not sound impossible. I have never heard stories of booby trapping
>on purpose such an object. On the other hand even nowadays we still
>'suffer' from the bombing during WWII. A special part of our Dutch army,
>called the EOD (Explosieven Opruimings Dienst), has a full daytime work
>of taking care of unexploded bombs from WWII. The amazing thing is that
>even 48 years after WWII stopped, the number of bombs they find and clear
>is *in*creasing each year.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is interesting.  My senior year in high school 89/90 I lived in
Stuttgart.  I was attending Alexander M. Patch High (anyone else out there
ever gone there?) on a military base of the same name.  There was construction
going on right next to the main building, and the workers (German) uncovered a
smouldering phosphorous bomb.  Everyone was evacuated and we missed school that
day -- pretty cool.

Geoff
--
 ==============================================================================
 || "Maybe its imaginary, I'd like to know. ||            sage.cc.purdue.edu ||
 ||  What's the world coming to, and where  || gfritz @--(       or          ||
 ||    will it go?" -- Kirsty MacColl       ||            mn.ecn.purdue.edu  ||
 ==============================================================================
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: classic commericals, was: Chef Boy-Ar-Dee
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 09:13:05 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.200332.20346@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> dheisler@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Dave Heisler) writes:
>
> how 'bout the norelco one with santa riding a shaver
> up and down the hills.
>
> i new i wasn't REALLY christmas until i saw that commerical

NOELCO.

cjl
From: klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: 3 small legands
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:56:54 GMT
Organization: Duke University, Nuclear Medicine

In article <1992Sep1.211650.4187@bnlux1.bnl.gov> reay@bnlls1.nsls.bnl.gov (Robert Reay) writes:
>
>
>    Three small quick little urban legands.
>
>    And third.  A lady in California calls the police.  It seems she has locked
>her keys in her car.  The police say that they'll send someone over soon and
>are about to hangup.  Before they can she asks if they can hurry.  The 
>top is down and it looks like it is about to rain. 
>    I've also heard this slightly mangled as a joke about politicians.

>			-Rob

  An alternate way that I have heard it is that the lady can't wait any
longer and breaks a window out to get in.


-- 
Kim L. Greer                       
Duke University Medical Center		 klg@orion.mc.duke.edu
Div. Nuclear Medicine  POB 3949		 voice: 919-681-5894
Durham, NC 27710  		         fax: 919-681-5636
From: mort@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jeff Mortensen)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:51:39 GMT
Subject: Re: organlegging/stolen organs
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

In alt.folklore.urban, bogart@sabre.larc.nasa.gov (Ed Bogart) writes:

>  Yikes!  Here I posted something about stolen organs yesterday after
> not seeing anything on this thread for months and today I find that
> Scott Cromar posted on the same subject!!!  How's that for 
> synchronisity?
> 
> ObUL;  This guy that a friend of mine knows sais that he calculated the 
> probability of things like this, and he sais that is one in a milion.
> 
> 
> Ed "you can't argue with statistics" Bogart
> 
	Sorry Ed, but you can argue statistics.  There are several books
	out which explain coincidence and how it does not always follow
	any statistics that might be figured.  Forgive my brain loss on
	the name of the books, but the one story which comes to mind is
	a fellow who owned a very rare 1933 bi-plane of which only 5 existed.
	Well, he was flying it home one day and broke a main strut on his
	left wing.  He had to land the plane in what appeared to be a old
        air field.  He landed, and jumped out of the plane to inspect the 
	lost strut.  He thought to himself that this is just great, where in
	hell am I going to get this part, I'll have to have someone make a
	copy of one later, but what am I going to do with the plane now.

	About the same time he had jumped out of the plane, an old guy who
	owned the air field, and the hanger up the strip came over to talk
	the the plane owner.  He said "nice plane ya got there, whats the 
	problem?".  Hell, I broke a main wing strut, and I'm stuck out here.

	The old guy looked at the plane for a second and said "I'll be right
	back", and turned and walked off to his hanger.  He came back with 
	the exact strut for that plane.  The owner of the plane almost had a
	heart attack when he saw this.  Turns out this guy had a spare plane
	with lots of parts in the hanger, making it the 6th plane in existance.

	He sold the part to the guy cheap, and the pilot flew off happy as shit.
	
	The book said that there was no way of figuring the odds, or stats for
	this kind of occurance.  Yet if you where to look at your own life I 
	bet things like this happen all the time.  

	So, can you fight statistics?  Bond used to say after being asked 
	"Mr. Bond, the odds are against you", "thats only if you play the
	odds".  So, true!!!

Morty 
		
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (macphil)
Subject: Re: Re: Pencil in Priorities
Organization: IUPUI
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 01:20:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug29.232107.28132@tamsun.tamu.edu>
daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. Daugherity) writes:
 
>extremes.  Also, things containing petroleum distillates should not be
>regurgitated due to the danger of inhaling them.
 
not just petroleum distillates as any aspirated vomitus is a good
candidate for causing pneumonia, hence a desire to keep someone on
their abdomen or side when they are doing the heaving...
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Just One Calorie...?
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:38:38 GMT

In article <BtpsuD.32o@mail.boi.hp.com> ahill@boi.hp.com writes:
>dternes@duke.cdc.com (David Ternes) writes:
>> Did Tab bite it during the days when mice mainlined saccharin?
>> 
>As far as I know, Tab is still around (albeit in a very mutant form).
>Just hasn't been the same since the FDA outlawed cyclamates.  BTW, are
>cyclamates still legal in the Great White North?  There used to be a
>thriving cross-border trade in "classic" Tab.

>
><Sheesh> Showin' my age...

I thought Cyclamates are again legal in the US, but that they are largely
ignored because of Nutrisweet's acceptance.

In the late '60's, when Cyclamates were banned, a famous drug half-way house
wound up with tons of the stuff, because it was believed to satisfy the
sweet cravings of recovering addicts.  Anyone got the name of said facility?
(please post same, not the dumb "yes" answer!)

The famous diet Dr. Atkins is associated with a cheesecake recipe developed
by one of his patients.  It depends on cyclamates, and can't be made from
Aspartame, presumably because of heating problems.  Dr. Atkins advocated
going to Canada to acquire some due to the US stand against it at the time
(in the '70's).  Dr. Atkins was one of the concerned scientists demanding
additional testing to confirm the alleged badness of cyclamates, which were
placed under the skin of rats to cause cancer.  The study was funded by the
sugar industry to destroy cyclamates as the express goal.  They were told to
use unlimited quantities of the stuff just to get results.  I heard the
equivalent human doseage would be 10,000 bottles of soda everyday from birth.
Given that doseage, let's ban salt, aspirin, and milk, etc.

When the government attempted to ban Saccharin as well, there was a major
complaint fromthe public, because there wasn't anything available at the
time, because the sugar industry caused the 13 year delay in the introduction
of Aspartame, which I remember being announced in 1971.  The ban was first
put on an 18-month hold, then forgotten about.

Then, when Aspartame got popular, the sugar industry financed commercials that
go back to our thread on misapplied science in advertising, claiming that
"who would want to sweeten food with something that wasn't "natural" like
good old sugar.  (Considering processed sugar's state, I wouldn't be so quick
to call it "natural" whatever that means anyway!)

cjl (never got mailed any Nutrisweet gumballs; why don't you all send me
some Craig-style, so I can set the new world's record.

Charles Lasner is a young usenet reader who is dying of a broken heart because
he never received any Nutrisweet gumballs, and wants to get a large number of
them to get into the Guiness book of world records.  Please send your balls
to him c/o Craig S. whose address isn't a water closet (WC).

ObSportsfact:  Martina Natrilova wants to play Jimmy Connors, so she can hit
his balls.


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
Subject: Re: Monty Python's 3-sided ?
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:07:10 GMT

In article <31AUG199217031756@apsicc.aps.edu> einhorn_d@apsicc.aps.edu (E. Drew Einhorn) writes:
>In article <Btv7M2.9vD@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:
>
>>Didn't Monty Python once make a $20 bill with three sides?
>
>I heard it was a 3-sided record.  One side had a norm spiral groove with the
>audio signal pressed into the vinyl.  The other side had two intertwined
>grooves.  When you put the needle down you had a 50-50 chance of getting one
>groove or the other.  So the second time you listened to the second side you
>might hear a different second side.  Never saw or heard the album.
>
>Wonder if it's a true story.  Would have required a special lathe to cut the
>master disk.

It's definitely a true story: I've got the album. It's called "Matching Tie
and Hankerchief", and if you play one side, you get one of two different
tracks, depending on where you put the needle down.

ObUL: I heard Elvis had *four* sides...

The Wisp. [what goes around comes around...]
-- 
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     Chris Williams <csuah@uk.ac.warwick.csv> aka <csuah@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
"Tony Greig in the slips, legs apart, waiting for a tickle"
                                      Brian Johnson (thanks to A. Simha 8^>)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Spaghetti trees
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:36:34 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.071411.7213@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>confused with the character of the same name in the Beverly Hillbillies, also
>in the same era (not to be confused with Beverly Hills Cop I or II, or Down
>and Out in Beverly Hills).

Don't you mean Beverly Hills 90210?

Ted "expressio unius est exclusio alterius" Frank
-- 
           .........................................................
          ted frank | thf2@midway.uchicago.edu | standard disclaimers
         the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
         here i sit looking for a warming smile in a house of cold wit
From: klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Sinking libraries
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:31:23 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Duke University, Nuclear Medicine

In article <BtvAs3.JJ4@news.cso.uiuc.edu> lafollet@romulus (Paul Lafollete) writes:
>In <2485@israel.nysernet.org> warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein) writes:
>
>>Isn't that the famous three-sided library?
>
>Wow... a three-sided library... That might be a record!

No.  It is a library.

k "Book'em Danno.  Snuff 1" g


-- 
Kim L. Greer                       
Duke University Medical Center		 klg@orion.mc.duke.edu
Div. Nuclear Medicine  POB 3949		 voice: 919-681-5894
Durham, NC 27710  		         fax: 919-681-5636
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Clio Awards
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:27:12 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <BtMDCw.53s@news.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
>doctor1@cbnewse.cb.att.com (patrick.b.hailey) writes:
>>So, I wonder if anybody makes and sells tapes of great old commercials?
>*----
>The Clio Awards honor the best commercials every year, and make an
>annual collection available.

Wasn't there some sort of huge scandal with the Clios last year?  Like
it completely fell apart, the MC didn't show, and all of the advertising
executives suddenly went for a mad rush for the podium to grab the
trophies or something?

Or was that something else?
-- 
             ......................................................
             ted frank | thf2@midway.uchicago.edu | std disclaimers
             the university of chicago law skool, chicago, illinois
             it's log!  log!  log!  it's big, it's heavy, it's wood
From: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Co-ed Dorms!
Date: 25 Aug 92 15:55:47 GMT
Reply-To: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

here at brandeis, we have freshman co-ed dorms. They, like all freshman
dorms, are messy, noisy & irresponsible. It is amazing how much people
mature after living away from home for a year.
From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Quayle-isms
Keywords: open mouth, insert foot
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:19:35 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Aug27.163726.9583@natinst.com> scott@natinst.com (Scott A. Taylor) writes:
OK.  You quoted Quayle as saying:
>
>Hawaii has always played a pivotal role in the Pacific.  It is an island
>that is in the Pacific that is here. -- J. Danforth Quayle, on geography

My sources list him saying:

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific.  It is IN the
Pacific.  It is a part of the United States that is an island that is
right here.     -- J. Danforth Quayle, Hawaii, 1989

Heaven knows we don't want to misquote the vice president.  Anybody out
there got the scoop on this?


-- 
Lauren Crawford  //  crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
            -- J. Danforth Quayle  
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