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From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 13:31:39 GMT

In article <5998@pdxgate.UUCP> jprice@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (James Price) writes:
>In article <1992Aug10.031648.995@PA.dec.com> snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
>>
>>In article <Bsq0pM.EtB@news.cso.uiuc.edu>,
>>  jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (doc) writes...
>>
>>>Well, FoD shows several murders/executions, so "snuff films" most
>>>certainly do exist then.  In FoD II at the very end, a 3rd world govt
>>>was overthrown and its officer tied to poles and executed en masse by a
>>>firing squad.  No one will convince me that the scene was faked either.
>>
>> Even if the scene were real, it's unlikely that the officer was executed
>> solely for the purpose of filming his death, so it's not a snuff film.  I
>> suspect they had political reasons for shooting him, not merely cinematic
>> ones.
>> - snopes
>>|  David P. Mikkelson   Digital Equipment Corporation   Culver City, CA  USA
>
>  assume a war was waged with smartweapons, with the purpose of accumulating
>yardage of snuffshots, precious seconds of carnage for TV....
>
> and those who directed the shots did so solely for their viewing pleasure....
>
> and losses measured in cameras sacrificed, video eyes for sharks with computer
>brains that relentlessly closed and killed; for their viewing pleasure....
>
> seems to meet the definition anyway....
>

Hey, it's been done! Why do you think we got all that dinky footage from
the Gulf War...

The Wisp. [sated, thanks...]
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From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: S n u f f: the proof at last.
Organization: Between a rock and a type specimen sheet, Boston.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 03:08:36 GMT

In article <l8t9t5INNojo@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:
>     Not believe in snuff film!  You might as well not believe in Ann Landers!

I actually saw a snuff cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera.

								-- K.

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From: cranston@ayn.cadence.com (W. Scott Cranston)
Subject: Re: Useful quips
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Lowell MA, United States of America
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1992 02:03:59 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.002334.27055@gagme.chi.il.us> pv@gagme.chi.il.us(Paul Vader) writes:

> 
> I learned this so long ago (probably about 10 years ago in Isaac Asimov's
> Science Fiction Magazine), that I had a hard time reconstructing the
> mnemonic. Amaze your friends and rattle out 14 digits of pi:
> 3.14159265358979. Count the letters of each word in the following sentence:
> 
> 
>      How I want a drink? Alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters
>      involving quantum mechanics.

How I wish I could determine, of circle round, the exact relation
Archimedes found.


ObUL: The value of pi is increasing slightly due to the expansion of
the universe.  That's why they had to release a second edition of that
book of mathematical constants.

Scott "and maybe that's why our ditties don't agree" Cranston



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From: johnh@macadammq.edu.au (John Haddy)
Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
Organization: Macquarie University, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 07:55:17 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.130839.7907@nntp.nta.no>, styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug9.114705.5110@news.iastate.edu>, Anthony Clifton writes:
|> >[stuff deleted]
|> >
|> >Essentially, it works this way:  when you have a liquid in contact with ahot
|> >surface (above a certain temperature) the layer of liquid closest to the 
|> >surface will vaporize.  This vapor-layer is a very poor conductor of heat
|> >so the liquid farther away from the surface doesn't heat up as much.
|> 
This is a similar effect (albeit the other way around) to putting your hand in
a stream of liquid nitrogen (LN2). For short durations, the rapid boiling of the
LN2 prevents any liquid from actually touching your skin - it is kept "pushed"
away by the "steam" of N2 gas.

Be warned though: LN2 will quite happily adsorb into clothing. A woolen sweater
at -210C is no joke, and will burn you without mercy.
|> 
|> Followups should probably go somewhere else.

... Probably, but some here may come into contact with LN2 in the future (e.g.
cryogenically cooled amplifiers for satellite comms), and it's always
wise to know the limits of what you can get away with.

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From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Imponderables - Toilet Designs
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:35:27 GMT

matt@cray.com (Matthew Marchese) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.132758.16302@adimail.uucp> tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks) writes:
>>Terry "How many words do the Germans have for crap?" Monks
>>-- 
>At least two: "Scheisse" and "Fiat"

Don't forget "Trabant".

-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com (Not an official spokesman, blah, blah...)
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From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 13:49:38 GMT

In article <7S8IOYI@taronga.com>, Stephanie da Silva writes:
>
>    [stuff deleted]   He would
> dip his entire hand in some sort of hot melted metal substance.  Very
> quickly, of course, and after he had thoroughly soaked his hand
> in water first.

Melted metal, er - was it mercury?  (Probably dangerous, but less painful.)

---
YuNoHoo
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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Videotaped Wedding
Date: 15 Aug 92 22:20:27 GMT

bobj@meaddata.com (Robert Jones) writes:
>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.

Heard this one in 1989 while preparing for our own wedding.  But I also read it
somewhere documenting it as folklore a few months ago.  I think it was probably
in one of the Brunvand books, if it wasn't here.
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Driving tests
Date: 16 Aug 1992 08:34:35 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

johana!tsw@apple.com (Tom Watson) writes:

  +>Tom Watson
  +^^^^^^^^^^^^

jwp@panix.com (JongWoo Park) writes:

  +Are you that famous golfer?

And retired IBM Chairman.


Terry "retarded, retired, whatever" Chan
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"A few months ago, I was watching 'Friday Night Videos' and I saw three
 groups in a row with one member who is a client of mine."
                                               -- Sy Sperling
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From: dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright)
Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:09:14 GMT

LUCIFER (st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu) wrote:
: I have read somwhere that there is a maximum distance that it is possible
: to walk on hot coals before all the moister between them and your feet 
: vaporizes. I think it was 3 steps weith each foot.

The small amount of moisture on your feet provides only very limited
protection.  The main reason you may walk on hot coals is that coals are
poor conductors of heat.

Do you understand why you can touch the loaf of bread baking in the oven
but can't touch the pan or the oven rack without burning yourself?
Metal conducts heat better than bread basically because metal is more
dense.

Coals are mostly air.  You could walk on them all night if it weren't
for the fact that they radiate heat.  You'll eventually get burned not
from touching the surface but from being exposed to the heat radiation.

"Walking on coals" does mean walking.  If you stand in one place the
contact points on your feet will start to burn in about 2 and a half
seconds (count: a-thousand-one-a-thousand-two-a-th-OUCH!).

You may reach into the campfire and take out a coal-chunk, and juggle it
quickly between your hands for as long as you like without getting
burned.  It's fun to play catch with a glowing coal at night.  You can
see the thing some distance away dancing in your friend's hands, then
suddenly it comes sailing right at you looking like a meteor and you've
got to think fast and catch it very lightly without grasping it.

  -- Dan Wright
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Co-ed Dorms!
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:14:18 GMT
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article <1992Aug18.172049.1899@news.columbia.edu>, egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:
> There are WOMEN there????????????  :-)

In article 15642@fid.morgan.com, sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart) replies:
> No, just Tech coeds.

Didja Ever Notice(tm) how the female contingent of the co-educational
system has co-opted the name "co-ed", even though "co-ed" corresponds
to cooperative cohabitation in college?  Correctly considered, the
males are coequally "co-eds".

I've tried to coerce my cohorts to use the more cohesive, collective
sense of "co-ed", but it hasn't cot on.

Brian "Coincidence?" Scearce
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From: larry@abby.chem.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Eskimo words for snow (was: Re: Faces of death)
Date: 16 Aug 92 20:22:20 GMT
Reply-To: larry@abby.chem.ucla.edu
Organization: Department of Chemistry, UCLA


 mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:
>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.
 
I think this argument sells short the people who are in favor 
of the 30 word interpretation of Eskimo Snow(tm).  In the Russian
example each of the 36 words conveys exactly the same information,
with the differences being only grammatical requirements.  In the
Eskimo Snow(tm) case, each word conveys a slightly different
meaning.
>
>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. 

This argument may hold more snow (water for the frozen impaired),
but my German is rather rusty so I am not familiar with
snow in German.  
One aspect of this argument that I have not yet seen in this
thread (if I just missed it, my apologies) is the idea of
why the Eskimos have all of their words for snow.  I remember
when I first heard about the Eskimo Snow(tm) 30-word theory,
it was in connection with the idea that the Eskimos had many
words to describe the conditions for snow because they dealt 
with snow so often and it was important in their life.  English
does not hold this subtlety as native English speakers usually 
do not worry about what kind of snow is on the ground, only
if there is some or not.  

-Lec "As a linguist, I can only do snow jobs" Luthor
 Criminal Genius Extraordinaire

  
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From: artn@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Ellyn Sandor)
Subject: Re: Microwaved People (was Re: SHOCKING STORIES)
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:34:54 GMT


	I remember hearing that sometime in the 50s or 60s, there was a
company selling microwave people-heaters for homes.  The idea would be
to install them in the entryway, so that you would get warmed up quickly
as soon as you walked in the house.
	Probably not true, but it sounded cool.
	
			Stephan
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From: larry@abby.chem.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: TV news and UL's
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:17:23 GMT
Reply-To: larry@abby.chem.ucla.edu
Organization: Department of Chemistry, UCLA


  In its unending service to the community, the channel 4 news
in L.A., CA carried a story last night on victims of brown recluse
spider bites.  The story detailed how people who were bitten might
suffer a variety of tragedies, including possible death, loss of 
hands and feet, too weak to walk for days, etc.  The news reporter
then encouraged people who thought that they had been bitten by
a spider and were worried to kill the spider so they could show
it to a doctor if complications developed.
  After the reporter finished his story, one of the anchors asked the 
reporter if this was a typical reaction to the brown recluse bite 
or if these people were actually allergic to the poison.  The reporter 
then admitted that yes Virginia, these people were the extreme cases 
and that the average person was not dramatically affected by the
bite.  However, if you weren't paying attention to the end of the 
story, it would have been easy to infer that the brown recluse 
bite had disastrous effects on anyone who was bitten.

ObUL:  The Boston Red Sox sold the rights to Babe Ruth to the
       Yankees so that the Red Sox owner could sponsor a production
       "No No, Nanette."
ObfollowuptoObUL:  And as all good Sox fans know, the Sox haven't
                   won the World Series since.

Lec "But the Brown Recluse bite IS deadly,
        I saw it on the news" Luthor
Criminal Genius Extraordinaire

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From: jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth)
Subject: Re: What's the right way to shave?
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 01:20:11 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

I might not be up to speed, yet, but isn't the right way to shave:
WITH A RAZOR ??
From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Eskimo words for snow
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:48:27 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.114004.10566@tdb.uu.se> t88swa@tdb.uu.se (Sven Wallman)  
writes:
> Odin? What language is that?

Nadsat.

Allen B (Your Humble Narrator)
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From: beowulf@wam.umd.edu (amealuh)
Subject: don't go back to rock-viiiiii-iile...
Organization: Phish N Tackle Shop
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:24:06 GMT

hey. i live near an area called Rockville, but there's towns and
cities of "Rockville" all over the place.

does anyone know for sure which "rockville" Michael Stipes is talking
about in the song, Don't Go Back To Rockville?

rumours around here claim it was a girl from Rockville, MD, but i
would tend to think that EVERYONE in a town called Rockvill has heard
something about "Oh, it was a girl from..."

?


-- 
		I don't love you anymore since you ate my dog.
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From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Screaming Peaches and Terrified Eggs
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:33:30 GMT
Reply-To: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
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When I was a kid, my mom told me about an experiment performed at 
Columbia University in which the agonized "scream" of a peach was 
detected somehow with sensitive instruments as someody bit into it.
Even as a kid, I thought the very idea was absurd to the point of being 
hilarious, but my mother insisted that she'd either heard or read about 
it somewhere.  Looking back on it, it's rather interesting that a
specific location for the research (Columbia) was specified.

Later, when I was in high school, one of my teachers (not of science)
mentioned an experiment in which eleven of the eggs in a carton were
connected to electrodes, and a definite electrical pulse was recorded
as the eggs "freaked" (as he put it) when the twelfth one was cracked
open.

Has anybody else heard versions of these stories?



Geoff "AIEEEE!" Miller


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From: aklick@ra.cs.umb.edu (Andrew Klickstein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Do the Hokey-Pokey
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:40:29 GMT
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In article <1992Aug5.032347.2505@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>In article <1992Aug4.092344.28474@pony.Ingres.COM> sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney) writes:
>
>>"hokey-pokey - n. hocus-pocus: a kind of ice-cream sold on the streets."
>
>Wasn't Hocus Pocus a song by the group called Focus in the '70's ?  (Had lotsa
>yodeling-type singing in it)
>
>cjl

 Sure was, on their lp Hamburger Concerto .  Raised yodeling to new heights,
if you ask me.

ak
From: phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Screaming Peaches and Terrified Eggs
Date: 22 Aug 92 18:11:30 GMT
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In-reply-to: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM's message of 21 Aug 92 00:33:30 GMT

There are some stories like this in "The Secret Life of Plants".
Supposedly plants get scared when you even THINK about hurting them.
From: soley@localhost.enet.dec.com (Norm Soley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: KFC
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:37:39 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment of Canada

It's no secret that there was no love lost between the Colonel and the
people he sold out to (I can't remember if he sold directly to PepsiCo
or if they're a subsequent owner). Sometime in the last couple years I
read an article written by a guy who had done several cross Canada tours
with him and he mentioned that the Colonel still liked the way the
Canadian operation was run then (they were, and for a little while yet will
remain, a separate corporation) but hated what had happened in the US.
-- 
    Norman Soley, Specialist, Digital Integrations Services,  ITC District
    Digital Equipment of Canada                   soley@trooa.enet.dec.com
    Opinions expressed are mine alone  and do not reflect those of Digital 
    Equipment Corporation or my cat Marge.
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From: peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
Date: 18 Aug 92 08:49:01 GMT
Organization: Public News & Mailserver, Commodore Germany PM UNIX, Frankfurt

aduell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Tony Duell) writes:

>A trick I often do is to wipe the solder off the end of my iron with my
>fingertip. Very easy, and not at all painful if you just flick the tip
>with your finger. But a lot of people won't beleive it's possible.

Hmm, a former colleague used to hold the soldering iron under his nose
to smell whether it was already hot enough after plugging it in.
Well, until one day he got irritated through something and stuffed this
thing way up into his nose... I heard it was very painful.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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From: matt@cray.com (Matthew Marchese)
Subject: Re: Imponderables - Toilet Designs
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 21 Aug 92 07:27:22 CDT

In article <1992Aug20.132758.16302@adimail.uucp> tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks) writes:
>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?
>
It's useful for finding your girlfriends earrings again after you swallowed
them the night before whilst nibbling her earlobes under the influence of
7 liters of Massbier at the Hofbraeuhaus.

Only about 50% percent of German toilets are constructed this way. The 
remainder have the "Deep Splash" feature in which the water level is
located about 18 inches below the rim. This causes the "Bidet-like"  
effect of washing your rear-end *as* you defecate! Truly an advanced
country...

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>Terry "How many words do the Germans have for crap?" Monks
>-- 
At least two: "Scheisse" and "Fiat"
>
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