HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: WANTED: Distance between telephone poles.
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:26:32 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <9204051344.AA02865@ictpsun8.ictp.trieste.it>, subrat@itsictp.bitnet (Kar Subrat) writes...
>How many telephones poles are in each mile/km ? What is the separation
>between each telephone pole and what does the number (x/y) on each pole
>signify ? For instance, 12/1894 - does it indicate the 12th pole in the
>1894th km on that route ? I am interested 'cos if there are a fixed 
>number of poles in a mile, it would be a nifty way of calculating the 
>speed if I'm travelling by train (number of poles / time taken).

I think the distance would vary according to conditions.  The poles in front of
my house are about 150 feet apart.

The numbering scheme is possibly different for every power company, but one
scheme I know (because of my father's survey work) is, well, sequential
for a "main" run, a "side" run will use the number of the main pole it
branches from, a horizontal line below the number, then sequential numbers
starting with 1 from the first pole from the branch.  A very short (1 or 2
pole) side branch from this might use the number from the main pole followed by
an A, B etc.  S is used for a pole whose only purpose is to support another
pole (via guy wires).  Thus, pole 8/5 A is a one pole side branch from the
fifth pole of a branch line from pole 8 of the main line.

This is what Niagara Mohawk did in upstate NY.  Your pole numbers may vary.

The telephone company, when they share a pole, usually adds their own numbers
(usually, but not always the same as the power company's)

-Mike
From: tjw@vm2.cis.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: FCC Call letters
Date: 6 Apr 92 22:18:47 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Apr6.202820.17055@njitgw.njit.edu>, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

> I believe the Channel-1 band is now being used for the 40 channels of
> Citizen's Band (CB) radio.

The CB band is in what used to be the 11-meter Amateur band.  Channel 1
would have taken up what is now the 6-meter Amateur band (and then some
TV Channels are at least 5 MHz wide).

Terry
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: mikkelson@thewav.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Iron in blood setting off metal detectors
Organization: Fight Dyslexia Help!
Date: 15 APR 92 08:13:43    


In article <1992Apr15.023602.8348@sleepy.UUCP>, 
  chris@sleepy.UUCP (Chris Mills) writes...

>Trivia: One of the tabloids I saw today at the 7-11 was declaring that they
>	had found a solution to all the "mysteries" (Big Foot, UFO's,
>	Loch Ness monster, etc.).  I guess they won't have much to write
>	about anymore...

Ah, the infamous "Unified Tabloid Theory".  Journalists have been trying to
come up with such a unifying theory -- one that relates UFOs, Elvis, Bigfoot,
Nessie, microwaved poodles, and Satan -- for years, but with little success.

- snopes

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From: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Miss Savant and Monty
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:36:21 GMT
Reply-To: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
In-reply-to: PCT601%sirius.ukc.ac.uk@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (Robryche)

In article <9204091141.AA21239@cs.utexas.edu>, PCT601%sirius (Robryche) writes:
>But look at it this way. Forget about the first choice anyway. At the second
>choice, one goat having been removed, there will be two doors, one with a goat
>and one with a car, you will be standing in front of one of them. Since you
>dont know what's behind the doors, there's a fifty percent chance that you're
>standing in front of the one with the car.

Oh wow.  One of the gullible people, who believe all choices between
two things are 50-50.  Not so.

You know you guessed correctly the first time with 33% chance of being
right.  And that's the bottom line.  No amount of teasing by Monty Hall
is going to change it.

Suppose Monty said: if you switch, you get the now-revealed goat as an
extra.  Prizewise and oddswise, this is the same if he offered you your
initial door, or both of the others.  The smart money says switch in
either case.
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Wanted: Favorite College/Dorm Practical Jokes
Organization: Hewlett-Parkard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 23:31:33 GMT

derek@fivegl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
: >
: >A little hard to do unless you made everyone elses key a master-key. That
: >is, unless everyone on the floor was on a sub-master system. But then, you
: >would have to recut all the other keys to the new submaster cut. It could
: >be possible that all the other keys on the floor, except for the victim,
: >had a common cut - but unlikely.
: >
: >Sorry - doesn't wash. And yes, I am a certified master locksmith - among my
: >many other dubious talents.
: >
: The 'flat' ( half a floor ) comprised eight rooms on some form of sub master 
: system. I can't remember why the lock needed fixing but I was elected Mr 
: Fix-it ( one of my dubious talents ). In the course of this, and having never 
: taken one apart before, I dropped a couple of the tumbler bits and got them 
: transposed.  The effect of this was that the correct key didn't open the lock 
: but some ( Not all ) the other room keys _would_. I eventually got that door 
: to work correctly and we tried the same operation on someone elses room with
: v. similar effects. Whether it washes or not I actually did it - honest!
: Perhaps it was only a fluke that by transposing two tumblers some of the 
: other keys also opened the door but thats what happened. I suspect that 
: the keys where actually quite similar. 

Ah, but that is not what you originally stated. You posted that it would work
for all except the correct key. What you post above is totally possible, even
though it is (as you suspect) a fluke that it worked. I suspect that, if you
had had access to the master key, you would have found that it also did not
work any longer.

From your description, what you would have is a maximum of two other keys
working the lock. 

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: anderson@surfsp.enet.dec.com (B. Anderson)
Subject: Re: Rocky Mountain Oysters
Organization: Why?
Date: 15 APR 92 19:56:07    


In article <1992Apr15.173650.17387@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, 
  hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes...

>And please remember to mark your own with the "(ANAL)" heading.

Oh, you've decided not to renew your trademark, then?

BA

.sig recalled

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pdt@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Peter David THOMPSON)
Subject: Re: Falling bullets on Marilyn's Parade
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 05:51:44 GMT

de@moscom.UUCP (David Esan) writes:

>In article <14795@optima.cs.arizona.edu> tzf@cs.arizona.edu (Theron Friedman) writes:
>>[Personally I believe MvS is really a pseudonym Isaac Asimov, who needed an
>>outlet so he could write & publish more,more,more. It wouldn't be beyond his
>>sense of humor to dream her up.]

>Well MvS did marry Dr. Jarvik of the famed "Jarvik" heart.  Of course, this
>does not preclude the possibility that MvS is still a blonde bimbo with no
>brains that publishes Asimov's articles under her name.  Or maybe she is
>really a genius and Asimov, now tired and run down, publishes her articles
>under his name.  Or maybe both of them are made up, and the articles are
>really written by the invalid JFK who still lives on Aristotle Onasis's
>island in the Aegen Sea. Or ...
> -->     David Esan      de@moscom.com  
  Easy. check if the quality of MvS's responese changes sharply now that
Asimov's dead.

* These opinions belong to pdt@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU unless otherwise specified.
"Such energies correspond to velocities at almost 95% of the speed of light,
far faster than the speed of sound." - Scientific American, Nov. 1991.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Brownie recipe in HOT SHOTS credits
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 05:12:52 GMT

(Peter, please ignore use of Chevron signs.)

In article <7455@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
>>warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes (regarding credits for "Hot Shots"):
>>>And a recipe scrolled by.  Is this the same as that Urban Legend with
>>>the $2.50 becomes $250 mastercard fee for a recipe?
>>No.
>What was it then?  

It was what in common parlance is known as "a joke."  The humor lies
behind the juxtaposition of an inappropriate list of ingredients with
the traditional list of cast and crew members of the movie.

-- Ted "Like a lemur, it dies when you dissect it" Frank
-- 
Ted Frank          + "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it
1307 E 60 St, #109 +  is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in
U o' C Law Skool   +  color and content according to the circumstances and
Chi, IL 60637      +  the time in which it is used."  --  Holmes
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov (Chuck Adams)
Subject: Re: PepsiCo UL
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:33:23 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.000749.18365@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> 21329KAD@MSU (Kim 
Dyer) writes:

> I *can* tell you from personal experience that caffine addiction is
> insidious.  And withdrawl is NOT pretty.

Tell us more......maybe I have caffine add-dd-dd-dd-iction......

What's the sssssigns.......what's the withddddrawl symptoms?

Is it a p-p-p-p-physical or emotional addiction?

               Chuck Adams,  WB5WRR   (The Chuckster)
                Internet:  chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov
   Disclaimer:  Not an official document of DOE, SSCL, URA or EG&G
                   "Curses!  Flamed Again"  - me
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.canada
Subject: Re: Canadian call letters (was Re: FCC call letters)
Date: 10 Apr 92 01:25:02 GMT
Organization: Hydro-Quebec

CBC and Call Letters.

In 1933 (about), CNR begins a network of radio stations including
something like CNRM in Montreal, CNRT in Toronto, etc.  
In 1936 (about), CBC was created and they changed letter to the CB series.
There was an agreement with Chile about that, no idea of the terms.

Among older stations and meaning:

CBA-Atlantic (Moncton)
CBC-CHarlottetown (after TV)
CBE-East (Windsor)
CBF-Francais (Montreal)
CBG-Gander
CBH-Halifax
CBJ-Jonquiere
CBL-No idea why!  in Toronto
CBM-Montreal
CBN-Newfoundland (was VOCN before 1949)
CBO-Ottawa
CBR-Regine
CBS-Saskatoon
CBU-Uancouver (joke: CBV was used before...)
CBV-Ville de Quebec (CBQ was not used.  Q is spelled CUL in French, =ASS)
CBW-Winnipeg

Not that old: CBG, CBJ, CBN, CBC, CBS, CBR.

Older calling letters probably XWA, now CFCF.  Some letters
are meaningful, other are not.  Then, CJMS-Canada Je Me Souviens,
CFLP-La Patrie, CFCF-Canada First^2, CJAD-J.A. Dupont (or something like
that), etc.

First US station with call letters was KDKA.  It was the current rank
for the whole series given to boat (thus, KDJZ and KDKB were boats).
They made the series independant soon after that.

Australian stations drop the 2 letters identifying the country.
Then, 4QD would be something like VH4QD, a station received on
East coast in the 1930's.  Was from Queensland, Australia.


-- 
    Denis Beauregard       _ _ _ _  Collecting Beauregard/Jarret/Jarest/Vincent
beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca | * | * | Promoting use of QC as Quebec Postal Code
  Andre Jarret, sieur de  |===|===| Mes opinions?  Oui, oui, les miennes!
   Beauregard 1642-1992   |_*_|_*_| My opinions?  Yes, yes, mine!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler)
Subject: Re: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 13:59:39 GMT
Organization: The Witherspoon Excludables

In <92105.134525ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET>, ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET stated:
>  Ben Franklin wanted the turkey to be our national bird.  Wouldn't that
>change Thanksgiving!

Why?  We'd just be shoving the popcorn up a bald eagle's nether
orifice instead.

-- 
		  For a Big Lie, call 1-800-424-9090

	Mark Eckenwiler    eck@panix.com    ...!cmcl2!panix!eck
From: clinard@cs.utk.edu (Michelle Clinard)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Perfume and whale vomit
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:23:22 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - CS Department



Hmmm...when the folks and I spent a week in Belize (Central American
country)) we stayed in the town of San Pedro on Ambergris (sp?) Caye.
They told us it meant "whale vomit".  A beautiful place to stay, even so.
The snorkelling is fantastic, the food equally so.  

-Michelle
From: russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Philadelphia Experiment (?)
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:36:46 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Albuquerque NM

In article <1992Apr9.005700.1@vm2.cis.pitt.edu> tjw@vm2.cis.pitt.edu writes:
>In article <1992Apr8.171236.21201@midway.uchicago.edu>, djb6@ellis.uchicago.edu (dennis joseph brennan) writes:
>> The ship was manned at the time.  The experiment failed and 
>> to this day there are insane sailors wandering around Philadelphia turning
>> invisible and psychotic at random.
>
>You should see what it did to the SEAGULLs that were nearby.

With you around, I'm sure that "*were* nearby" is the operative phrase.

>Terry "Hand me the Alkaseltzer" Wood

Yep - there it is.  "Alkaseltzer, when you absolutely, positively have
to blow up a bird".

Russ "kaboom" Kepler

-- 
Russ Kepler, Basis International Ltd. russ@bbx.basis.com  phone: 505-345-5232
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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.mcdonalds
Subject: McMouse!
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:06:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: cancun.rdippold.702842801
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA

Just heard on the news that some guy is suing McDonalds... claims that
instead of a McBurger he got a McMouse.  Says it didn't taste good so
he opened it up and saw the hind legs.


Now I want to know a) how someone could fry a mouse and put it on a
bun and not notice, and b) why he didn't hear any bones crunch as he
crushed it's little head and body.

I also note that the one doing the talking was a lawyer, who by
definition is incapable of telling the truth.  But there could be a
great UL in the making here.
-- 
Narcolepulacy:  The contagious action of yawning.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Subject: Re: Falling bullets on Marilyn's Parade
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 20:56:22 GMT

In article <9209815.7472@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> pdt@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Peter David THOMPSON) writes:

>  Easy. check if the quality of MvS's responese changes sharply now that
>Asimov's dead.

But L. Ron Hubbard kept on going LONG after he was dead.



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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Bakker and LaRouche
Date: 10 Apr 92 22:38:08 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <y_tjz-k.sheaffer@netcom.com> sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
>You might go to JAIL for this! You might even end up in the SAME
>jail cell as Jim Baker and Lyndon Larouche! 

Ah, if only Jim Baker *was* in prison.  Unfortunately, it's just Bakker.

Now, is there any truth to the UL started by _The Nation_ that Bakker
and LaRouche *are* sharing the same cell?  What does LaRouche think of
Dershowitz defending Bakker?  Has anyone smuggled in a lemur to them?
-- 
Ted Frank          + "He wanted to be the car rather than the thimble or the
1307 E 60 St, #109 +  hat."  -- District attorney explaining Marc Cienkowski's
U o' C Law Skool   +  murder with bow and arrow of Michael Klucznik in
Chi, IL 60637      +  Doylestown Borough, PA over a game of Monopoly.
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: What Pepsi Means in Chinese (Was RE:  What Co
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:36:24 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Apr7.190650.16802@yang.earlham.edu> jeremiah@yang.earlham.edu writes:
>Huh...   Ted, you seem to be a little confused here...  
>  Furthermore, wasn't it JFK, who said "Ich bin ein berliner", when he 
>meant to say, "Ich bin Berliner", during a speech in Berlin, where 
>"ein berliner" is a kind of pastry, and Berliner  is a Berliner...????

No, no, you're thinking of Isaac Berliner, a famous song-writer of the
early '30's who wrote songs about chewing gum and bedposts.  He was one
of the premier chess-players of that era.
-- 
Ted Frank          + "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it
1307 E 60 St, #109 +  is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in
U o' C Law Skool   +  color and content according to the circumstances and
Chi, IL 60637      +  the time in which it is used."  --  Holmes
From: morris@anasaz (Bob Morris)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Flat Pop (aka soda)
Keywords: how about them 49r's
Date: 14 Apr 92 20:50:15 GMT
Organization: Anasazi, Inc.  Phoenix, Az

Peter van der Linden writes:
>
>ObUL:  Can anyone knowledgeable confirm or refute the theory that
>squeezing the sides of a partly-consumed soda bottle to expel the air
>before screwing the cap back, does not in fact keep the remaining
>soda from going flat, if anything it speeds the process.

Yes.  Anyone can.  Try it.

This UL appeared in the Games section of Penthouse Magazine (by Scot Morris,
no relation) 10 years ago or so.  A reader wrote in that it would keep the
pop from going flat, but I didn't believe it.  The dissolved carbon dioxide
comes out of solution until it establishes an equilibrium pressure with the
atmosphere in the bottle.  Since you can't believe me just because I'm me,
I'll run the experiment and let you know the results.

Bob "see Mom, I *do* read the articles" Morris
aka morris@anasazi.com  (new address)
anasaz!morris@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (old address still works)
My opinions only, of course...
From: tjw@vm2.cis.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Philadelphia Experiment (?)
Date: 9 Apr 92 05:57:00 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Apr8.171236.21201@midway.uchicago.edu>, djb6@ellis.uchicago.edu (dennis joseph brennan) writes:

> The ship was manned at the time.  The experiment failed and 
> to this day there are insane sailors wandering around Philadelphia turning
> invisible and psychotic at random.

You should see what it did to the SEAGULLs that were nearby.

Terry "Hand me the Alkaseltzer" Wood
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Philadelphia Experiment (?)
Date: 14 Apr 92 08:51:26 GMT
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway

In <1992Apr11.232623.1@vm2.cis.pitt.edu> tjw@vm2.cis.pitt.edu writes:

>Terry "HE NEVER POSTED ANOTHER ARTICLE AGAIN" Wood

That's not TrUe, he POSTs all of the ARTIcLES with ZER0 LInES IN THEM.

WARREN "NOT YET INVISIBLE" ...
-- 
/|/-\/-\          The entire kitchen is		Jerusalem
 |__/__/_/        still full of strange hamantaschen
 |warren@         And the custodian
/ nysernet.org    is starting to get worried.
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From: steinar@faust.solan.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.mcdonalds
Subject: Re: McMouse!
Date: 12 Apr 92 10:31:10 GMT
	<1992Apr10.122830.407@cs.yale.edu>
	<STEINAR.92Apr11140304@faust.solan.unit.no>
	<1992Apr11.172717.18776@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Flodnak, Inc., Trondheim, Norway

Ted Frank writes:
>In article <STEINAR.92Apr11140304@faust.solan.unit.no> steinar@faust.solan.unit\.no (Cindy Kandolf) writes:
>>And then there's the time i slipped and fell in the refrigerator and had
>>ketchup all over me, but i think that's enough fun for one day.
>
>Was it a causal relationship or were they independent events?

Um, it depends....  i mean, i wouldn't have spilled ketchup all over me if
i hadn't slipped, but if i had simply slipped i wouldn't have had ketchup
all over me either.  The cause was the fact that i slipped while carrying
two large tubs of ketchup with only plastic wrap on top to seal them.

The effect was frightening the hell out of a couple people who couldn't
tell ketchup from blood, plus a concussion, bruises, and eye irritation.

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway
From: gsteckel@vergil.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Steckel - Sun BOS Hardware CONTRACTOR)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Run out of town on a rail
Date: 6 Apr 92 16:43:50 GMT
Reply-To: gsteckel@east.sun.com (Geoff Steckel - Sun BOS Hardware CONTRACTOR)
Organization: Omnivore Technology, Newton, Mass. (617)332-9252
NNTP-Posting-Host: vergil.east.sun.com

In article ktuhtvINNgdk@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM,
linden@ella.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:
>> This week's phrase is "run out of town on a rail".

Well, according to Mark Twain, the procedure was:
(2 & 3 are optional)
  1) assemble mob
  2) dip victim in tar
  3) roll victim in feathers
  4) place victim astride a fence rail
  5) tie victim to rail
  6) take two vicious horses
  7) place rail between horses
  8) run to edge of town
  9) drop victim in ditch

Local custom, of course, dictated variations.
	geoff steckel (gwes@wjh12.harvard.EDU)
			(...!husc6!wjh12!omnivore!gws)
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Sun Microsystems, despite the From: line.
This posting is entirely the author's responsibility.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: mcwg9235@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Marsha Cook Woodbury)
Subject: Re: The wacky, flaky State
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 04:58:29 GMT

If Santa Cruz is the "California" of California, then what
is Marin County?  The Hubble Telescope of California?
-- 
Marsha Woodbury    marsha-w@uiuc.edu
"A simile is like a metaphor"
Home of the University of Illinois--yes, Urbana-Champaign
From: idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Pleonasm
Keywords: I don't read headings very carefully
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:43:07 GMT
Organization: Eris's Restaurant

In article <Apr.9.00.53.23.1992.2130@gandalf.rutgers.edu> rarosenb@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Robert Rosenberg) writes:
>How about a tumorous cancer--a pleonastic neoplasm.

Aaarghhh... or a rat with such: a wee cowering tumorous beastie...


					Kay
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