HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov (Chuck Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:04:41 GMT
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory

In article <4730@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:
>In article <1992Aug13.205836.13295@sunova.ssc.gov>, chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov
(Chuck Adams) writes:
>
>> WHO set this as the "official" criteria for snuff films?
>
>I set the criteria.  It's in the charter of the group:
>
>                               AFU CHARTER
>                        Paragraph 32/Article 214
>        "Woody get's to decide what's a snuff and what's not.  So there."
>
>        
>Seriously, the very first time I heard about the concept of a "snuff film"
>was when I was in college getting my MS in CS.  My friend Blaise told me
>about these people that a friend of a friend knew who when to this theater
>late at night to view these films where actors were actually killed!
>
>They paid big bucks to see these films because:  The murders were real!
>They were sick puppies who got their jollies seeing real murders.
>
>Note that there was no mention of any sex (or drugs or rock-n-roll) so I've
>never thought about Snuff as being involved with porno.
>
>> Is there a "Snuff Film Qualifying Criteria Review Board?"
>
>Yea, they give "S" ratings to the films that qualify as Snuff. ;-)
>
>Terry "The Woodster" Wood

Please finish this little ditty:

Terry, Terry
Quite Contrary
Where did the snuff films go?



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From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Semen, NOT sailors!
Date: 23 Aug 92 00:50:42 GMT

In article <78154@ut-emx.uucp>, llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
> putting aside for the moment the (really silly) idea of sperm
> poisoning, think about the sheer numbers of men required to get a full
> quart of semen. cecil adams' _the straight dope_ gives the volume of
> the average male ejaculate as about 5 ccs. even if all the guys were
> given to premature ejaculation, she'd need several hours and a couple
> of hundred men to accumulate that much semen.

This reminds me of an incident that happened way back in my college
days.  A similar story was circulating on campus, about someone named
``Suzy'' who'd supposed taken on the entire Dartmouth football team.
(In reaction, the next time Dartmouth came to play here, the Columbia
marching band, which bills itself as ``The Cleverest Marching Band
in the World'', marched down field in a wiggling-sperm formation, with
the lead marcher rhythmically squirting a fire extinguisher, and the
band playing ``If You Knew Suzy''.  Or so I've heard -- a sure tipoff.
But the band definitely could have done it -- they had the right mindset.)

Anyway, one fine evening, a prospective student was visting campus.
Since he seemed to be overly uptight and straight, naturally talk turned
to Suzy.  A friend of a quantitative bent started going through the
same calculations -- what was the volume of an ejaculation, how many
players on the team, etc.  Then someone decided it was necessary to
visualize it, so he whipped out a beaker and a measuring spoon, turned
on the sink, and started counting out ejaculations.  When he finished,
he turned back to the prospective student, who had by this time turned
quite green -- and my friend *chugged* the beaker.  That was too much
for the visitor; he bolted...
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Eskimo words for snow (was: Re: Faces of death)
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:48:23 GMT

smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:

[on the subject of what constitutes a single word in a language]

>Consider Russian, where any adjective can have
>36 possible endings, for 6 cases, 3 genders, and 2 numbers.  I suppose
>that that's 36 ways to score in Russian Scrabble games, but if I'm trying
>to understand their mindset I'd count it as one *concept* word.

Or consider German, where all kinds of words for anything can be
constructed by sticking modifiers onto the noun.  How many
words for snow are there in German?  Consider also that some
of those different Eskimo "words for snow" also correspond to
different words in English, like "snowflake."  Saying
that the Eskimos have all these words that subdivide the concept
we lump under the term "snow" is exaggerated at best. 
 
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From: tad@ssc.wa.com (Tad Cook)
Subject: Re: Tom Lehrer (was Re: Mnemonics)
Organization: very little
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 17:52:53 GMT
Keywords: Genuflect ^ 3

In article <1992Aug9.005323.29922@tamsun.tamu.edu> daugher@cs.tamu.edu writes:
>In article <1992Aug8.225316.5210@zip.eecs.umich.edu> stame@emunix.emich.edu  
>(Stewart Tame) writes:
>[lines deleted]
>| Gee, as long as we're talking cumbersome mnemonics a good way to remember
>| the names of the first 102 elements (not in order) is to memorize Tom
>| Lehrer's song "The Elements."  
>
>Great parodist and great performer!  Here's a possible UL:  When I was in
>graduate school at Harvard, it was said that Tom Lehrer had been enrolled
>in a graduate degree program at Harvard several times but his booking agent  
>kept coming up with extended tours which prevented him from finishing enough  
>courses to graduate.   Anybody know for sure?


I thought Tom TAUGHT at Harvard.  Math, I believe.



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From: keithh@tplrd.tpl.oz.au (Keith Harwood)
Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
Originator: keithh@sydrd14
Organization: Telectronics Pacing Systems
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 02:29:43 GMT


In article <1992Aug13.200613.23247@bnlux1.bnl.gov>, schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
> In article <1992Aug12.193416.25072@pony.Ingres.COM> reb@Ingres.COM (Phydeaux) writes:
> 
> >A housemate in college used this technique to 'drink' liquid nitrogen.
> >He put  it  *into*  his  mouth and  as  it started down his  throat it
> >expanded  and vapor  came  gushing out of his  nose  and mouth!  Quite
> >an impressive trick for parties!
> >					reb
> 
> Working with LN2 myself on a daily basis, I'm forced to wonder "how did
> he avoid suffering frostbite on his tongue, etc.?"  While most of the
> liquid will go gaseous, some must first come in contact with exposed
> oral flesh.
> 

One of my lecturers had a trick with liquid air. He would have a bowl on
the bench, slowly evapourating, so that it turned into more or less pure
liquid oxygen. He would then light a cigarette, put a spoonful of the LOX
onto his tongue and blow through the cigarette. This produced a six-foot
flame. Very impressive. According to him, the ice which formed under the
LOX insulated his tongue. The biggest danger was if the spoon (which was
metal) ever touched his teeth.

Keith Harwood.
From: ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Semen, NOT sailors!
Keywords: A quart?!
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:08:34 GMT
Organization: NC Microproducts, Inc.

In article <Bt7uC5.9Gr@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes:
}In article <harris.714187329@drvax3> harris@drvax3.msfc.nasa.gov (Mitch Harris) writes:
}>Alright, folks, I think this has all the markings of an UL, but an
}>acquaintance swears it's true. Supposedly some girl was found dead at a
}>rock concert in Philadelphia with a QUART of semen in her stomach, back
}>in the 70s. (GROSS!) The acquaintance claims to have read it in the
}>papers. Any comments? (Oh, so I hope!)
}
}Anyhow, I heard the same story about an anonymous Dean's daughter at
}an apocryphal fraternity party many years ago.  She only needed to
}have her stomach pumped, though.
}
}I've also heard that the average male orgasm was quite digestible, high
}in protein, and possessed of only 26 wriggling calories.

Well, normally, that would be correct....but recently, I heard from a
Friend in a Position to Know (FPK) that Acidheads have a high concentration
of Strychnine in their semen...it apparently slowly builds up in their
Vital Juices(tm) from the long term use of LSD, but doesn't affect them
because of the small amounts in each dose spread over a long period.

Did the rumor mention whether this was a Grateful Dead concert?  That
could explain it!


Lance
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From: johana!tsw@apple.com (Tom Watson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Driving tests
Date: 14 Aug 92 23:58:44 GMT
Organization: FBN/GRQ Ink.

In article <8167.3199@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM>, jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman) writes:
> 
> Amazingly enough, you can indeed fail a California driving
> test.  I knew one woman who failed it *five times.*  When they
> finally passed her, some of us theorized that it was because
> the testers were too terrified to ride with her again, and
> decided to get her out of their office.
>
Yes, it is true, you can FAIL a California test.  Back many moons ago,
(about 330 moons to be exact), I failed the California test 3 times.  They
only let you take the test 3 times on a lerners permit, so I had to pay
another fee (and then take another written test as well).  The fourth time
I took the test they didn't have any evidence of my failing it before,
so then I passed.
Fast forward to 1986.  I'm married, and the step-son takes HIS driving
test.  He fails.  I don't feel so bad.  I console him that its really not
that bad either.  He passes on his second try.  They don't have parallel
parking any more (its dumb three way turns).
Go more forward.  I get divorced, insurance rates go down (quite a bit)
I feel free, I get into contact with usenet, the rest is history.

You see some things are not FOAF driven...
------
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Johana!tsw@apple.com
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From: tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks)
Subject: Re: Imponderables - Toilet Designs
Organization: Automata Design, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:27:58 GMT

Perry Clarke (perry@Unify.Com) wrote:
: 
: I don't suppose there are any toilet design consultants on the net who
: could shed some light on this?
: 
In my recent travels around northern Europe (Norway, Denmark and
Sweden seem to favour the 'button in the middle of the top') I
was able to verify Norman Mailer's observation in "Harlot's
Ghost" that German toilets are built with a sort of internal
ledge so that you may inspect your product before flushing it
away. Any thoughts? What can we say about the cultural implications
of this?

Terry "How many words do the Germans have for crap?" Monks
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From: bogart@sabre.larc.nasa.gov (Ed Bogart)
Subject: Oh No! organ theft again!
Reply-To: bogart@sabre.larc.nasa.gov (Ed Bogart)
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:32:19 GMT

Since nobody has posted anything about stolen organs for ever so long,
I thought that it was my duty to revive that golden oldy thread.

On a recent flight to Europe, I listened to the comedy audio channel
that contained material going all the way back to Abbot and Costello
doing "Who's on first?"  Mixed in with all the other stuff was an old
bit of George Carlin that I would place as more than 20 years old.

It went something like this;
"Last night, the 166th heart transplant was performed in NewYork City.
What was unusual about it was that it was done in Central Park at
midnight, and the doner's family was not consulted."

If some of you Carlin fans have his old records from the 60's and 70's
you should be able to check my guess of when this bit was done.


Ed "I think putting this in your name is stupid" Bogart
From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Help me identify this Mcdonaldland character
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:03:05 GMT
Reply-To: lawson@aldia.UUCP (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA

In article <1244445@harvee.billerica.ma.us> scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator) writes:
>
>In article <medic.713819984@milton> medic@milton.u.washington.edu
>(Travis Lauricella) writes:
>
>> So what is Grimace?  My best guess (since he seems to be the milkshake
>> pusher of the group) is that he is the lump of milkshake after the melted
>> shake is drained off.  

>i remember that when he first appeared he was called "evil grimace".


I don't remember that, but I DO remember that a lot of the characters
originated as things that steal your food.

The "fry guys" originally came on in a Halloween ad campaign as the
gobble-ins -- they would "gobble" your fries.

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From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: apples to teachers - idea why
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 01:04:17 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.131946.16238@adimail.uucp> tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks) writes:
>: 
>: Or perhaps the whole thing is just an urban legend.  Does anyone out
>: there *actually know* (or even have a FOAF) of a student who gave an
>: apple to a teacher or a teacher receiving an apple from a student?
>: 
>My wife - a teacher - has received as gifts many forms of apples,
>mainly wooden, but I don't think she has ever received a real one.

I always gave peaches, mainly because that's the type of fruit that grew
on the peach tree in my backyard...
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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Organization: Just put everything on the floor; I can find it.
Date: 16 AUG 92 22:19:29    


In article <BsvJvw.818@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, 
  jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (doc) writes...

>Faces of Death has real death scenes in it.  Period.

 Uh-huh.  The last refuge of those who lack facts to back up their side of
 the debate: a bald-faced assertion of the "truth".  

>...but that doesnt make you right, it just makes you a poor debater who takes
>shots at his opponent rather than arguing the facts. 

 Facts?  If you had any facts, you'd be disappointed. 

 - snopes

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Subject: Re: Faces of death
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 02:16:15 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <713607587snx@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz> frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz (Bruce Clement) writes:
 
>Bruce "Setting the cat amongst the pigeons ... pictures at 10" Clement    

GIF GIF GIF


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Subject: Re: UL sighting
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:28:15 GMT
Keywords: Alligators, sewers

de@moscom.UUCP (David Esan) writes:

>I was a watching a tape of the Tom Hanks film "The Man with One Red Shoe"
>(which is a poor remake of the original French film "The Tall Blonde Man
>with One Red Shoe"), when I noticed a UL.  The CIA agent in the film is
>being sent into the sewers.  As he is being lowered into the manhole he 
>is informed that "all the alligator holes are marked. So be careful."

This movie is also a wonderful source of garbled Washington geography,
from the supposed "Dulles Airport" at the beginning to the chase
through some other city's subway near the end.

-- 
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From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Re: Cannibaderm, anyone?
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:39:23 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

In article <Bt5EuF.1Fq@unx.sas.com>, sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:
|> 
|> In article <Aug.17.17.15.38.1992.21217@math.rutgers.edu>, cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:
|> >I know that there is a marijuana extract (called Marinol) which is
|>                                                   
|> New UL (you heard it here first):  Marinol is named for Marin County,
|> California (which reputedly has a high per-capita consumption of
|> marijuana).

  Or it could be for Cheech Marin, of "Cheech & Chong" fame.


ObUL:  Kibo once had the leading role in a "snuff" film.
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From: t88swa@tdb.uu.se (Sven Wallman)
Subject: Re: Eskimo words for snow
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 11:40:04 GMT

barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards) writes:
: It's sort of like saying that Europeans have X number of words for "one:"
: one, un, une, uno, eine, odin, jedna, etc.  They are all related words that
: mean the same thing.     ^^^^^
: 
: 

Odin? What language is that?
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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Political ULs
Organization: Just put everything on the floor; I can find it.
Date: 17 AUG 92 21:26:41    


In article <1992Aug16.080002.11650@news.columbia.edu>, 
  lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes...

>Why would anyone donate their eyes to Dan Quayle?

 Why not?  The potatoe didn't need them any more.

>cjl (beat snopes to this)

  Be my guest.

 - snopes

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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Videotaped Wedding
Supersedes: <1992Aug13.020957.23985@midway.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 02:14:16 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.134844.2573@meaddata.com> bobj@meaddata.com (Robert Jones)
 writes:
>The last two weekends I have been a groomsman in weddings, one in New
>Jersey and one in Indiana.  I heard the same story at both of them.
>At the one in New Jersey it was related as "my Mom's friend's son
>videotapes weddings..."  At the one in Indiana it was just "I heard that ..."
>
>Anyway, the story goes that at the end of a wedding the bride's father
>goes to pay the band and finds his wallet missing.  He has to
>shamefacedly take up a collection to pay them.  A few weeks later they
>are watching a videotape of the wedding and reception and captured on
>tape is the groom's father lifting the bride's father's wallet.
>
>Has anyone else heard this gem?

Yes.  It was in either a Dear Abby or an Ann Landers column some time in
the last twelve months.  The letter-writer claimed they had just gotten
the videotape and are wondering what to do about it.  I vaguely recall that
in this version, it was the groom who lifted the wallet, but I could be
remembering wrong.  A search on A Major Newspaper Database should turn
up the actual letter.

Ted "Does the Whig-Standard get Dear Abby?" Frank
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From: amlsmith@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Andrew Smith)
Subject: Re: Help me identify this Mcdonaldland character
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 00:21:45 GMT

In article <medic.713819984@milton> medic@milton.u.washington.edu (Travis Lauricella) writes:
>Ronald, the Hamburglar, and the Filet-o-Fish sailor guy, are (apparently)
>human.  Birdie is a bird.  The fry guys are little pre-pacman ghost monsters.
>So what is Grimace?  My best guess (since he seems to be the milkshake
>pusher of the group) is that he is the lump of milkshake after the melted
>shake is drained off.  
>
>Any other ideas?

A Barbaboppa gone bad.    (Clickity-click.... Barba trick But what the
			   hell does that _mean_?)

Andrew
amlsmith@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
From: cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Peanut Butter and Ketchup Sandwich? (was FAQ)
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:15:47 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:

> Tb.Tomatoes are not vegetables, they're berries.  

That would mean that ketchup is a kind of berry jam, wouldn't it?

> F. Ethnic eateries (Chinese/East Indian/Italian) use cat/dog/human meat in place
>    of beef/pork as expected. 
>    ["The Eaten Pets" and "Further Ethnic Stereotype Legends" in TMP]


> Tb.Unification Church (i.e. Moonies) owns a fish processing plant in Gloucester,
>    Massachusetts.