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From: fielden@spot.Colorado.EDU (j.a. fielden)
Subject: Re: Red Cross (Was Re: Price gouging in Florida and Guam)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:59:14 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.172739.25599@athena.cs.uga.edu> wells@athena.cs.uga.edu (Scott Wells) writes:
>
>In article <1992Sep1.161532.12348@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown) writes:
>
>>And not to get off the subject, I believe the story of the Red Cross charging
>>soldiers is true.  I meet someone who was there.
>and
>>of these people.  Instances of Red Cross denying aid or charging when groups
>>like the Salvation Army was giving stuff away.  My mothers family was hit by
>
>But I really don't want to talk about Nazis: I've got my own ancedote.
>My father was shipped off to Viet Nam on 28 June 1969, leaving behind
>my pregnant mother, due to deliver on 30 June. (Yes..It was me..but
>mark your calenders for 2 July if you want to send me presents ;)) Dad
>got a telegram from the RC telling him that "mother and child" were
>well, without giving my sex or name. He kept the telegram and he's
>still boiled over the RC because of it. Minor stupidity, I admit.

Hm,  my dad was on Fire Island when my sister was born in 1967.
They had picture with all relevant info on the back to him within 36 hours.


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From: lindaj@solbourne.com (Linda Weygant)
Subject: price gouginh after hurrican andrew
Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc., Longmont, CO
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:55:31 GMT

 Somebody out there couldn't believe that humna beings would take advantage of
a bad situation???  Saw on the news last night (KUSA Channel 9-Denver, CO)
 the reporter was interviewing this guy that had driven up to the Tallahassee
area of Florida (in the northern part of the state) and bought gas powered
generators for $250-$350 each and was selling them in Homestead FL for $1800!!
My faith in human nature is revived!!
lindaj@Solbourne.com

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From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Re: Counterfeiting (Was: You are humble and loveable)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:20:30 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

   About 100 to 125 years ago the five dollar coin and the nickle
were very similar.  They both simply had a large V on one side, but
the nickle had a ridged edge much like a quarter does.  As the story
goes, an enterprising gentleman shaved the edges off some nickels,
went into stores, bought $.05 items, paid for them with the altered
nickels, and accepted the $4.95 in change!  I believe that he may also
have plated the nickels with gold, but I'm not sure.  Don't flame, 
this is from memory.  I'll look it up when I get home.

Jared Dahl

ObUL:  Dan Quayle was once found with a quart of semen in his stomach!
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From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Flat Earth Society???
Date: 29 Aug 92 00:06:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Aug28.193256.17843@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>There is also a Discordian Society (they even have their own "bible", or so
>my friend claims)
>

_Principia Discordia_, currently in print by Loompanics. And, for
that matter, in print by some _other_ publisher. Find it. Read it.
Learn it. Live it. Love it. Tattoo it on your face.

>
>Incidentally, the only reference to the Discordian Society that I know of is 
>in the card game "Illuminati". Is there any other?

_Illuminatus!_ has already been mentioned, but I'll just point out
that the bibliography for Illuminati (the fine board/card game by
Steve Jackson Games) actually includes both the Illuminatus trilogy
and Principia Discordia.

 -Paul "Monty" Ashley
   (In fact, Steve Jackson Games is thinking about coming out with
yet _another_ Principia Discordia. They're all alike, of course, but
that's no excuse for not owning them all.)
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From: comp_oper@darwin.ntu.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Spaghetti trees
Date: 27 Aug 92 11:00:07 +0900

In article <87098@netnews.upenn.edu>, crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu
   (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
> All this talk about parents giving us bum information (screaming peaches)
> and Chef Boy-Ar-Dee has brought back memories of my mom and dad telling us
> about spaghetti trees.
> 
> Apparently, back when TV was first becoming popular, some wise-acre ran
> a "documentary" on where spaghetti comes from.  It showed all these happy
> Italian farmers, using their pitchforks to harvest spaghetti from the
> spaghetti trees.  My folks saw this; my mom believed it.  I have no idea
> what my dad thought; he's not saying.  
> 
> Anybody else ever see this gem?  Or know anything about it?  Wonder if
> it's still around anywhere ...

This is just one of the "classic" April fools day jokes played by TV networks.
I vaguely remember watching similar scenes on Melbourne (Australia) TV way back
during the early 70's.  Shown on the TV news or Current Affairs programs, it
showed migrant Italian workers with their new spaghetti farms and harvesting the
first "crops" for the local market.
Years later, the reporters were talking about how that particular trick was
done.  Huge amounts of spaghetti were boiled in the usual manner and when cooled
enough were draped over some trees.  Film was taken of Italians workers picking
this spaghetti off from the trees and putting it into baskets.  A piece of
string was threaded into a hollowed piece of spaghetti and a worker was filmed
pulling out a "spaghetti worm" while talking about this "parasite" that could
destroy the Australian spaghetti industry before it had a chance to start.

Another "classic" I remember was during the early 80's. The Director of the
museum here in Darwin displayed a horse's skull which had a single sharp horn
in the middle just above the eyes.  He was proudly showing off the recent and
nearby discovery of the Unicorn "proving" the existance of the animal and its
relationship with Australian ancient history.  The following day, an entire
busload of tourists stopped by especially to see the skull!

-- 
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Northern Territory University
Darwin, Northern Territory,
Australia, World, Universe, etc...
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From: sut@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Secure Unix Team KID01)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Date: 26 Aug 92 10:31:20 GMT
Organization: ICL Bracknell, UK

In article <BtKFFE.5sE@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>In article <25736@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>>
>>Terry "How about 'posh'?" Chan
>
>It was a contemptuous term used by the staffs of British ocean liners to
>refer to First Class, where the passengers were rude and the tips scanty.
>
>It stood for "Portly Old Sod's Heaven".
>
>Like snafu, this has spurious transliterations as well.
>

What, you mean like "Port Out Starboard Home"?

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From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: DoD mistake (Was: Flat Earth Society)
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 00:18:38 GMT

dolf@echo.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer) writes:

>During the cold war the Americans looked only at the regular maps and decided
>that if the Russians should start attacking the US they would come either
>via the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific, so the early warning systems in the

Not bloody likely - even in the days of sail navigators knew about "great
circle" routes.  (A Great Circle route is the shortest distance between two
points on the globe - on many map projections, such as Mercator (the one
that makes Greenland look huge), the great circle route appears as an arc.)

A great circle from just about any point in the USSR (as was) to the US will
go over Canada.

I'm not a geographer, but I've been working on Geographic Information
Systems for the last 5 years, and I took an air navigation course 15 years
ago.

-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com or {uunet,revcan}!geovision!pt
(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
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From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
Subject: Re: So, what IS the shelf life of Twinkies?
Organization: Rescorla for himself.
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:33:06 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.170157.6066@javelin.sim.es.com> pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com (Pete Ashdown) writes:
>Actually this was part of a discussion I was having with a friend the other
>night.  She read a quote recently that stated that Twinkies do not have a
>shelf-life, they have a half-life.  There were a couple of other foods that
>have half-lifes as well, but I can't remember any of them at the moment.
Does anyone have any leads on the validity of the rumor that Twinkies
are in fact not baked but somehow chemically solidified by a reaction
initiated by the injection of the "cream"?
-Ekr

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From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
Subject: Re: The Flat Earth Society???
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:43:26 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

Bob Elliot: If the earth is round, why don't people fall off the
other side?

Ray Goulding: That's a common misconception, Bob. Actually, people
are falling off all the time.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.drugs
From: phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel)
Subject: Re: Cannibaderm, anyone?
Organization: Cadence Design Systems
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:07:59 GMT

In article <BtMoMs.1oM@egsner.cirr.com> datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
>
>>	1) Dope + alcohol will get the drinker/smoker more hammered 
>>than either one alone.
>
>It can also get the user totally killed.  Me, I'll probably just use a gun.

Dope (meaning marijuana) + alcohol will not kill a person any faster than
alcohol alone.  It may make you feel like you want to die, though, as in my
experience if you drink enough to feel sick, smoking pot will intensify the
sick feelings and make it seem like it lasts 4 eternities, instead of just 1.

Note that I rarely drink enough alcohol anymore to feel sick (I learned my
lessons about drinking quite a few years ago) and I currently do not smoke
marijuana (or ingest it in any manner).  Should marijuana be legalized (hope,
hope), that last statement will quickly become untrue.

-Pete Zakel
 (phz@cadence.com or ..!uunet!cadence!phz)

It's too bad that we can't translate "Bad cop, no donut" to "Bad government,
no taxes" and really get away with it.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: Kimberly Dunning, or "Whatcha talking about?"
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:20:17 GMT

In article <UeaxKom00j_jQHk6RQ@cs.cmu.edu> Dale.James@cs.cmu.edu writes:
>
>Dana Plato.  She did a nude layout in Playboy shortly thereafter.  The older
>son (what the hell was his name?  The character was "Willis".) was also in
>jail for attempted murder, or some serious drug offense, or something.

He, however, did not appear in Playboy.
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From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:27:51 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <1992Aug26.022308.13448@panix.com> eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler) writes:
>In <1992Aug25.181531.25673@sunova.ssc.gov>, chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov sez:
>>I'm looking for mnemonics for stuff like "FUBAR" (f**ked up beyond all
>>recognition).  Is "SNAFU" a real word, or more of the same?  (It may stand for
>>screwed 'n all f**ked up, or then again it might be Strange, Nerdy
>>A.F.U'ers).............       ;-)
>
>Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary has an extensive list under "snafu".  My
>favorite is "janfu", for Joint Army-Navy Fuckup.

But the ultimate in Vietnam action was the Clusterfuck.  Nothing
compared with that...  took most all of the forces and no noncoms to
get to that level of screwup.


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From: michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Flat Earth Society???
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:07:20 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

In article <550@texbell.sbc.com> lm8637@tnessd.sbc.com (Lou Montgomery (214+464-1049)) writes:
>In article <chan.715238738@s1.elec.uq.oz.au> chan@elec.uq.oz.au (Chuen Wen Chan) writes:
>>Just wondering, why hasn't anyone formed a flat moon society.  After
>>all, we only see one side of it, why can't it be a flat disc?
>>
>     Not a bad guess, my friend.  There IS a rural legend that our
>    half dollars were modeled after the moon.  Some even believe that
>    when the originator
>
John Sladek, in his book _The New Apocrapha_, a sort of British "Fads and 
Fallacies in the Name of Science_, had a brief item on the Flat Earthers.
He said that if we ever established a colony on Mars, we would know it was
going great when someone forms a "Flat Mars Society".

A great book if you can find it.

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From: pirinen@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Death by sneezing
Summary: whimsy
Keywords: flight, Cindy
Date: 27 Aug 92 23:53:11 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In article <1992Aug27.180751.14468@bert.eecs.uic.edu>,
artn@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Ellyn Sandor) writes:
> When taking off, breathe in, landing breathe out.
> (hmmm... could be a mnemonic there... I always forget which is which
> [...] Help!  Find me a good mnemonic!!!!!

   "When up in the sky, a blow-out will get you down."

Although this mnemonic might not actually encourage her to fly...
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           people used to have them.  See it while it lasts!

PS. Happy birthday, Cindy!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: MOVE (was Re: Eating Dogs)
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 05:45:01 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <9208312117.AA29895@aplpy.jhuapl.edu> levene@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Robert A. Levene) writes:
>A few UL's surround the MOVE incident, so stay tuned.
>
>In article <1992Aug31.153420.15895@hubcap.clemson.edu> 'tis written:
>
>> I remember when I lived in Philadelphia back in High School.  There was
>> this cult group called MOVE.  They had something like 30 people living
>> in a small row home. ...
>
>(FYI, 'MOVE' is not an acronym, although the spelling is MOVE)
>
>> Essentially, the city moved MOVE.
>


I recently saw a small article in the paper talking about Ramona Africa,
a MOVE member who had escaped from the fire, was put on trial, and sent to
jail.  She has been released on parole, and has gone back to Philadelphia
to live with the MOVE people who are still there.

They didn't move very far.

-- 

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: FURRJK@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
Subject: First To The North Pole
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 07:56:04 GMT

Amundsen and Nobile in their dirigible notwithstanding, the very first
human being to reach the North Pole by a GROUND route (surface route?)
as opposed to icebreaker, submarine, plane, dirigible, or flying saucer
was Ralph Plaisted, a Minnesota insurance salesman, who led a snowmobile
expedition to the Pole in 1968.
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Why crescent moons? (was Re: You are humble and loveable. CHOMP!)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Date: 26 Aug 1992 22:09:16 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <BtM1My.CHy@acsu.buffalo.edu> ptyaxel@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu 
(Seymour Axelrod) writes:

>Backwards?  Aren't waxing crescents concave to the left, and waning ones 
>concave to the right?  

Not in the western part of the country.  You're thinking of another 
phenomenon, known as the Eastern Moon.  It's the reverse out here.
You're not taking latitude and polar precession into account.


>Or is the point that "crescent" literally means "growing", i.e., waxing? 
>Or what?

Good point!  Actually, I hadn't given the matter much thought in a long time.
Maybe he was talking about the "new" or waxing moon, but that would imply a
slightly different shape for a waning moon, not simply a reversal of the 
shape, and that doesn't sound quite right.  I'll dig out my textbook and see
what I can find.  This guy wrote the thing, so the anecdote might even be in 
there. 



Geoff


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Subject: Re: Counterfeiting
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 31 Aug 92 20:59:22 GMT

dolf@echo.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer) writes:

>Another 'well' known technique is to take 10 banknotes and remove a small
>strip from each note (from a different spot on the note) and use these 10
>slices to create a 'new' 11th note. The gain is 1/10 of the original note
>(excluding the cost of cellophane tape :-)

Standard disclaimer:  Don't do what I am about to describe. 

A better (though still pretty crude) way of getting the same gain
is to just make a single cut in each note in the spot where, in
your method, you'd cut out the strip.  This separates each note into 
a left part and a right part.  Now tape the right part of each note
to the left part of the note in which the cut is a little further to
the left.  Now you've got 11 slightly shorter notes, and they all
have at most one cut; none has that embarrassing shredded look.

I remember hearing that some kid got caught doing this shortly
after Martin Gardner described it in a column.  Reinforcement of
standard disclaimer:  It's well known to the authorities.
-- 
Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 
From: mort@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jeff Mortensen)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:37:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Russian dog-mines in WWII
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

In alt.folklore.urban, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:

> 
> Sounds suspiciously like the bat-explosives the United States tried
> during World War II.
	
	Did anybody see the special on the bat attack on Japan a few
	months ago.  The army really did have a plan set up which would
	drop thousands of bats which had flammable explosives strapped
	to them.  They tried it out on an army base in the desert, and 
	the plan backfired.  It worked too good.  The bats went for all
	the major structures on the base, and it burnt down over 80% of
	the base.  If the atomic bomb had not worked, this plan would 
	have been used, and Japan most probably would have been burned
	to the ground.  A different ending, but the result would have
	been the same.  

Morty 
            
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From: wfs5572@rigel.tamu.edu (SMITH, WILLIAM FRANK, IV)
Subject: Re: You are humble and loveable.  CHOMP!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:47:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.082009.3633@tigger.jvnc.net>, keithd@bigguy.timeplex.com 
(Keith Dickinson) writes...

>In article <l9ku3jINN7ge@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>>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?
> 
>The US printed STEEL change during 1943 but the public opinion of it was
>so negative that they returned to copper and silver.

Well, the US minted zinc-plated steel cents (no other denominations) in 1943.
They rusted very quickly, especially if the zinc plating was scratched, so
from 1944 to 1946 they used recovered shell casings to make cents.  From
1942 to 1945 "nickels" were made out of a copper-silver-manganese alloy to
free up nickel supplies for the war effort.  There were no changes in any
other denomination.

Bill "Spike" Smith, grad. student, numismatist, lump of matter (not in that 
order)
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From: einhorn_d@apsicc.aps.edu (E. Drew Einhorn)
Subject: Monty Python's 3-sided ?
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 00:03:00 GMT
Organization: Albuquerque Public Schools - Career Enrichment Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

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.
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