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From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: Price is Right T & A?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 05:22:25 GMT

jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth) writes:

>In article <1992Jul19.130735.2966@desire.wright.edu> thayes@desire.wright.edu writes:
>>
>>I am told that other game shows have had there share of problems.
>>For example, one excited contestant on "Price is Right" managed to
>>extricate one of breasts accidently from beneath her tube top while
>>she was "comin' on down!".  Or so I'm told...?

>Well, I had seen a tape of that show on one of those Bloopers shows.  I couldn't
>tell for sure if anything did happen, since it looked like someone took
>a magic marker and drew a bar on the screen.  But, I would assume that this did
>, in fact, occur (unless Dick Clark invented the tape).

I personally saw one show a few years back where a lady announced
when she got down there, as she held her hands over her chest, that
she had broken her bra when she jumped up.  No exposure, but
somewhat the same effect.
-- 
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From: hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker)
Subject: Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising
Reply-To: hallam@zeus02.desy.de
Organization: DESY ZEUS Central Data Acquisition
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:53:13 GMT

In article <CINDY.92Jul21215848@solan10.solan.unit.no>,
cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf) writes:

|>>>Or all meat products commercials that say "is 93% fat free" which
|>merely means
|>>>that the rest is totally fat
|>
|>>That one struck me long ago, but most of the numbers actually still
|>don't
|>>work out that bad -- 7% fat isn't all that bad compared to some
|>things,
|>>like 'hot dogs' (shudder) or good, hot Italian sausage (sigh).
|>
|>Even worse are the products that advertise they have "30% less fat
|>than our regular product" or something similar - without mentioning
|>how much fat is in them.  It's usually a lot.

How about `low tar cigarettes', ie they are going to mess your
cardiovascular system up precisely as much (same CO production) but
possibly have a lower chance of making you die horribly from Cancer?


|>Another case in point:  "Light" or "Lite" potato chips.  They're still
|>something that should be eaten in moderation, but how many people use
|>the fact that they are called "light" as an excuse to pig out?

When I was young I had an ambition to be an opera tenor like Pavarotti.
After dedicated Potatoe chip eating I finaly got to the 20 stone minimum
weight requirement. then I discovered that it helped to be able to sing
before getting fat. Sheesh you think they would tell you. Took me almost
a year to get back to a reasonable size.

Don't like potatoe crisps much anymore either.


Phill Hallam-Baker
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: wfs5572@zeus.tamu.edu (SMITH, WILLIAM FRANK, IV)
Subject: Re: Craig Shergold GIF
Summary:  hose the house
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords:  hose craig gif
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:01:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.231634.7220@dscomsf.desy.de>, hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes...
>Please help
> 
>Craig Shergold is a 7 year old boy who is dying of a brain tumour.
> 
>He wants to get into the Guiness book of Records by collecting the
>largest number of pornographic gifs. He figures that since he isn't
>going to get a chance to use his twinkie he might as well look at pictures
>of other people using theirs. He prefers studies of lesbian sex and
>troilism but any pictures incorporating naked genitalia are acceptable.
> 
>Send your pictures to:
> 
>David Mellor MP
>Hose of Commons
 ^^^^
Sure, it was a typo...

>Westminster
>London SW1
>England.

					spike
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From: jdecarlo@mitre.org (John DeCarlo)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.sf.misc,rec.humor
Subject: Re: Agnostics and Athiests
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:36:53 GMT
Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean  VA


Well, personally I think of "atheist" as "a-" "theist", where a theist 
believes in and cares about the existence of a deity or deities.  Therefore, 
an a-theist is someone who either actively doesn't so believe, or someone 
who simply doesn't care.

John "Who cares if deities exist?" DeCarlo

John DeCarlo, MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA--My views are my own
Fidonet:  1:109/131  Internet:  jdecarlo@mitre.org
From: ken@uk.ac.glasgow.tcrystal (Kenneth Shankland)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Blue Room
Date: 23 Jul 92 10:12:33 GMT
Reply-To: ken@uk.ac.glasgow.tcrystal
Organization: Glasgow University


Following the big success of The Orb's "Blue Room" here
in the UK, can anyone shed any more light on the Blue
Room at the Wright-Patterson airforce base ?  

I got to thinking that if (as alleged) it does contain
specimens of alien lifeforms recovered by the Government,
perhaps it holds some other well known 'missing' items.
Such as Bob Crane's legendary massive stash of hard-core ?



Yours in dub,

The Vicar
From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising
Date: 24 Jul 92 02:37:51 GMT
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor

In article <1992Jul23.202908.27187@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
 [references mangled]
>: >10 MHz is 1E7 So in each clock period light goes 3E3 m.
>: 
>: >However electrons are going to move rather slower
>: 
>: Yeah, < 1 mm/s.
>
>It is really that slow? In coax, the propogation rate is usually greater
>than .6. --  30 x .6 is 18 m/cycle.  I don't think the propogation rate
>in even micro-traces gets below about .3.

In a coax or on a backplane the _signal_ moves at about 0.6 C, as Bill
says.  But the signal is a disturbance among the electrons, not a
motion of the electrons themselves.

It's extremely fortunate for all of us that we can get electricity from
one place to another without dealing with electrons moving at nearly the
speed of light.

Phil


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From: 10726446@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (LAU WAI KUEN)
Subject: Re: Agnostics and Athiests
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 07:53:07 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.120250.970@gvl.unisys.com> rafem@gvlf7-e.gvl.unisys.com (Ralph Marrone) writes:
>From: rafem@gvlf7-e.gvl.unisys.com (Ralph Marrone)
>Subject: Re: Agnostics and Athiests
>Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 12:02:50 GMT

>In article <1992Jul24.073550.9101@clarinet.com> brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
>>In article <CB.92Jul23171934@tamarack13.timbuk> cb@tamarack13.timbuk (Chris Brewster) writes:
>>
>>In all their behavior they are MUCH closer to athiests, even the
>>Objectivist kind, then they are to believers.
>>
>>I would call myself an athiest.  I have no belief in god and have
>>good confidence in that belief.  I'm open to new evidence at all times,
>>but I've spent a lot of time examining the evidence (and my dad has
>>a Doctor of Divinity, was a very famous preacher and is now an agnostic,
>>so I've had this evidence from early on in life) and what I've seen
>>lead me to declare with confidence that I see no reason for belief in god.
>>
>>But you see, to me "I see no reason for belief in" leads inexorably to
>>"I do not believe in."   To me they are the same, and that is why an
>>agnostic and athiest are no different.   An agnostic also sees no reason
>>for belief in god.   She's much farther from the faithful than from me.
>>-- 
>>Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366

>Agnosticism is the Schrodinger's Cat of theism.  Believers/Atheists 
>already know that the cat is alive/dead (or dead/alive if you prefer);
>they've perceived enough evidence to support their positions.  For 
>agnostics, the Cat is in a live/dead state; i.e., the evidence does not 
>support either position.  I think this is called healthy skepticism.

>Oh, by the way, I'm agnostic.


>Regards,

>rafem

   Puh-lease!  Don't label yourself with the name the religious nuts give 
you!  Anyone who decides to be undecided about religion is a FREETHINKER!

(Personally I prefer this because it's a sideways insult to the religious 
nuts. (Hi god!).  Implies their thinking isn't.)

Halcyon

"It is a sin to believe evil of others; but seldom a mistake."
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From: robcruic@intacc.uucp (Robert Cruickshank)
Subject: Canadian Government Prostitutes
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:01:15 GMT
Organization: Inter/Access' Matrix BBS


With the non-smoking laws here in Canada, it is quite common to see groups of
people on their coffee breaks standing outside their workplace, having a smoke
since in many places there is no place indoors where smoking is permitted.
This is particularly true of government buildings, which are all designated
non-smoking. (This includes businesses which fall under government regulation,
like the TV station where I work). There was a story circulating a few months
back of a dignitary from some eastern European country who was being shown the
Parliament buildings in Ottawa, and was very impressed, although he was amazed
that the government would allow prostitutes to ply their trade outside the
government buildings. You see, he had noticed groups of women, wearing skirts,
and all smoking cigarettes huddled around all the doorways, despite the cold
weather. Anyone know if this is true? Or was it just started by some
disgruntled smoker? I noticed it in two slightly different versions within a
couple of days in the same newspaper. BTW, since prostitution is legal here, I
suppose prostitutes *could* work the Parliament buildings, but I'm sure the
Mounties would find some excuse to make them go away...


---rob
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From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 03:02:22 GMT

matt@cray.com (Matthew Marchese) writes:

>	"He was insecure because of his weight. I think he compensated
>	 because of that. He was very loving in the bedroom. The only
>	 odd thing was--at the moment of climax, he'd throw his head
>	 back and go "Woo! Woo! Woo!" I think that's where he got it
>	 for the act. He was real good in the garden, too."

Yes, but did he go 'Woo! Woo! Woo!' when he climaxed in the garden?

(Sorry, somebody had to ask)
-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com or {uunet,revcan}!geovision!pt
(This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
"I just posted from babbage.museum.london.uk, and BOY ARE MY ARMS TIRED!!"
   - Rolf Wilson in alt.folklore.computers
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From: ssnyder@sunai.er.usgs.gov (Steve Snyder)
Subject: Re: Cat colouration (was Re: Egg Creams)
Organization: Why?
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:51:14 GMT

In article <QePSa0200VogFF_mgA@andrew.cmu.edu> Mary Rose Campbell <mc3d+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>ObUL: All 'calico' cats are female

>[stuff about cat coloration]
>Occasionally, you will see a male calico due to some sort of mutation.
>

ObFact: A male calico is an XXY and is sterile.

Steve
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From: wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke)
Subject: Re: Modem tax back
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 04:02:16 GMT
Organization: Netcom
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

scott@nv10.uswnvg.com (Scott Eckelman) writes:
: OK, I can hardly pass myself off as a disinterested bystander (US West = 
: regional phone company), but it seems that most people don't understand
: the economics of the telephone network.
: 
: Telephone switches, to which your phone and modem are connected, are
: _expensive_, both to buy and maintain.  In any switch, indeed in almost
: any component of the network, there is not enough hardware to provide
: simultaneous service to all subscribers.

Let me ask you some simple questions, so we can understand the econonomics
of regional phone carriers somewhat better:

What is the cost of a switch, and did it decrease as did most computer 
equipment in the last few years?

What incentive is there for your company to purchase a switch for $50,000
instead of $100,000 when your profit is calculated as percentage of cost?


: Many tariffs are flat-rate service:  you pay $20 per month and
: you can make all of the (local) calls you want.  
: 
: Modems change the usage picture a lot.  When I use a modem, it's almost
: always for far longer than if I were using the phone to call a friend.

How many of the estimated 10,000,000 modem users in the US have obtained
a second telephone line mainly due to the fact that they can use the modem?

How much revenue is generated from these additional lines for the regional 
phone companies?

What is the per minute connect charge, which the long distance carriers
have to pay your company for connection into your network?

Do you have any suggestions how one might increase the efficiency of your
company so it will be as efficient as a long distance carrier?


Thank you.


-- 
   _________________________________________________________________________
   Wolfgang Henke        wolfgang@henke.sf-bay.org       wolfgang@netcom.com
From: swk004@muvms3.bitnet (CONNIE LEINEN, SWK004@MARSHALL, HUNTINGTON, WV)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Cat colouration (was Re: Egg Creams)
Date: 21 Jul 92 12:55:15 GMT
Organization: Marshall University

In article <1992Jul17.132934.2858@geovision.gvc.com>, pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin) writes:
> arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva) writes:


> ObUL: All 'calico' cats are female
> ObObservation: Tortoiseshell is hard to spell.  Calico is not.
> -- 
> Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com or {uunet,cognos,revcan}!geovision!pt
> (This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
> Ever seen a Delorean with "dealer" plates?


I read in a novel that all tortoiseshell cats have an identical twin 
born in the same litter.  Besides which I thought tortoiseshell was a
cat that was predominantly dark whereas calico (or calicoat) referred 
to a cat with a significant amount of white.

Connie
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From: ahill@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill)
Subject: Re: that'd be in the butt, bob
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:42:37 GMT
Reply-To: ahill@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com
Organization: Hewlett-Packard
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

artn@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Ellyn Sandor) writes:
> OK, cutting through the noise of what constitutes "proof" or not,
> A friend of mine whose truth and memory I trust claim to have seen the
> episode.  He estimates the date between 1986 and 1988, not a rerun, and
> the wording was a little different from what has transpired in this
> discussion: (I just spoke to him about this last night, but I am not sure
> of the wording)
> 
> 	Where is your favorite place to make whoopie?
> 
> 	That'd be in the butt, bob.
> 
If so, then this is a case of life imitating UL, since I heard the Newlywed
Game "in the butt" story long before the 86-88 timeframe (like, during the
late 70's), and it probably started l-o-o-o-n-g before that.

Andy
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From: jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Doc)
Subject: Spikes of death (Was: catching bullets with the teeth
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:39:54 GMT

stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame) writes:

>Hmmmmm . . . the bullet catch is a standard of magic.  Quite a number
>of magicians have died from things going wrong with 

This reminds me of the "Spikes of Death" act.  A magician lays face up on a 
bench with an 85 pound weight suspended over his face.  To the weight are 
attached about 6-7 6" spikes.  He is also bound in a straightjacket.  His
assistant lights a candle which burns the rope suspending the spikes, and
he has about 15 seconds to escape from the straightjacket before the rope
burns thru and the spike comes crashing down.  There is a safety device
which the magician can flip with his foot if he realizes he's not going
to make it.  Better to be humiliated than dead, I suppose.  
Well, I saw an act where the magician wasn't successful in getting out
of the jacket in time, and when he tried to flip the swicth, it broke.
The spikes fell and drove right thru his face deep into his brain.  He
died instantly, thank god, but it was just about the most horrifying
thing Ive ever seen.
From: de@moscom.UUCP (David Esan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Green Death" Beer
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:11:20 GMT
Reply-To: de@moscom.UUCP (David Esan)
Distribution: na
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY

In article <l6lo4rINNi41@male.EBay.Sun.COM> jimj@cleanplate.EBay.Sun.COM (James D. Jones) writes:
>Anyway, apparently there are/were several regional beers with the nickname
>"Green Death."  Heffenreffer's, a Rhode Island beer, also went by that
>nickname.  Does anybody know any others? 


Rochester, NY.

Gennesee Cream Ale, sold in green cans, is called Green Death.
Gennesee Beer, sold in white cans, is called White Death.
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Subject: Re: Banks + Short Term Car Loans = Scam?
From: CDRESSER@eagle.wesleyan.edu (CLAYTON J. DRESSER)
Date: 29 Jul 92 23:29:27 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Wesleyan University
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In <1992Jul22.225009.6891@dscomsf.desy.de> hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes:

> I do know of a quite frequent fraud that estate agents tend to pull.
> Little old lady dies, Relatives put house on market, have no real idea
> of value. Estate agents give low estimate and con seller into selling to
> some front man who then promptly resells at the true price. But it is
> the individuals who run it, not the agency.

By the way, purchasing property such as this (what they tend to call
"distressed property") is the basis for a large number of the get-rich-quick
real estate schemes that you see on late-night paid commercials (including I
beleive, Tom Vu's).  So, there's the secret, if you want to make your money off
of other people's hardships, you can now do it without even paying the $299.

Clay
 
> 
> Phill Hallam-Baker
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: matt@cray.com (Matthew Marchese)
Subject: Re: Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 23 Jul 92 09:21:14 CDT

In article <1992Jul23.114209.15951@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Jul23.033449.11766@walter.cray.com> matt@cray.com (Matthew Marchese) writes:
>>Somebody, a few posts back in this thread asked for the name of the wife
>>quoted in the piece. It was Elaine. In the interest of completeness here
>>is the whole quote from "Stooge Women":
>>
>>	"He was insecure because of his weight. I think he compensated
>>	 because of that. He was very loving in the bedroom. The only
>>	 odd thing was--at the moment of climax, he'd throw his head
>>	 back and go "Woo! Woo! Woo!" I think that's where he got it
>>	 for the act. He was real good in the garden, too."
>
>But did he say "Woo! Woo! Woo!" in the garden?
>-- 
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From: kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: Kilroy
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 04:08:11 GMT

 The actual origin of the phrase "Kilroy Was Here" dates back a lot farther
than anyone here has suggested. The original Kilroy was "Killer Roy" Harkins,
a hunter and frontiersman of the early days of American expansion (back when
Tennessee was considered the "Wild West"). Harkins was most famous as a 
jackalope hunter, and folklore claims that he was single-handedly responsible
for the extinction of jackalopes east of the Mississippi by 1820. While these
tales are undoubtedly somewhat exaggerated, there is no doubt that Harkins'
"rope-and-washboard" technique, widely adopted by other hunters, greatly
accelerated the hunting of this animal in the forested hills west of the 
Appalachians. 
 
 Harkins, like many semi-literate frontiersmen of the day, wrote "Killer Roy"
as "Kilroy", and after a successful jackalope kill, he would leave the 
washboard and the jackalopes' antlers under a tree, with "Kilroy Was Here" 
carved in the tree as a public display of his prowess. Other frontiersmen
adopted this motto, at first as a joke on Harkins' misspelling, and later 
simply out of respect for tradition. In the brief years between the widespread
adoption of Harkins' technique and the disappearance of the eastern (Arboreal)
jackalope, the word "kilroy" became synonymous with "jackalope hunter".
 
 The rope-and-washboard method was ineffective against the jackalopes of 
the mountain states because of the lack of suitable trees in those regions, 
and this fact is probably the major reason for the jackalope's continued 
survival between the Rockies and the West Coast ranges. 
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From: Mother Nature <gaea@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Neighbor's rabbit
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 23:13:41 GMT

csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~) writes:
>As for dead rabbits don't bleed - you don't take your steaks rare, do you? ;-)

Dead animals do not bleed. If you've ever assisted in a surgery, you'll find
that unless it's very very superficial (ie, removing skin warts) you'll be
mopping up a lot of blood. However, you don't have this problem when doing
autopsies, even as soon as an hour after death. There is no flow of blood.
It makes for a much cleaner autopsy. Now... if it weren't for other bodily
fluids... :)  

Gaea
gaea@zooid.guild.org