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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Bambi meets Godzilla.
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 23:14:46 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand - Software Development Center
Keywords: bambi cute roadkill

In article <1993Jan27.061049.7658@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>
>Bambi vs. Godzilla is a famous VT-100 file.  Should I post it directly to
>the net, since most of us are reading this on a VT-100 family terminal
>(in 7-bit mode to avoid net stripping).

Sounds good to me.  Assuming it's not toooo huge of course.  We don't want 
to rival alt.dirty.pictures for volume of postings in kbytes now do we.

Derek "GIF GIF GIF" Tearne


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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey)
Subject: Re: Okay, if you're so smart ...
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
Date: 26 Jan 1993 07:11:04 UTC

In article <4D1ZXB1w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> 
system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
>As for Jesus' existence - there is a Roman reference to his execution under
>Pontius Pilate for leasding a Jewish movement between AD 30 and AD 36. 
>Various other strands of evidence make a very strong case for the existence 
>of a historical person with that name at the time who was crucified. More
>evidence, in fact, than say, Julius Caesar ever existed.
>[Status FIRM.]

More evidence than Julius Caesar, now that is an UL. As for that famous
Roman reference you mention, it is known to be a clever forgery well after 
the fact. Face it, old Jesus is just yet another UL.
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Events (was The horse's butt -- err -- mouth)
Date: 28 Jan 1993 05:46:53 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

  [Nolan and Phil rave on about implements of torture to be
   used at AFU WEST V  (PS:  February 20, in Los Altos)]

billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
  +
  +Sounds like fun. Are you going to bring some to demonstrate? Who will be
  +allowed to volunteer as subjects?
  +
  +Bill "Whips and leather and chains! Oh! My!" Nelson

Well, Bill, why do you think you're the key speaker?

Terry "Innocent bystander" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Yeah, right.
From: rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Vegetarians and B vitamins
Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:40:50 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


cms2839@ultb.isc.rit.edu (a.stranger) writes:
>In article <727618402.5800@minster.york.ac.uk> stuart@minster.york.ac.uk
write:
>>Jonathan Papai (PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
>>: ObCarnivore: Vegetarians have to eat B vitamin supplements.
>>Marmite (vegemite?) is an excellent source of B vitamins... and since
>>its made from yeast extract is also vegetarian.
>
>       o  only vegans ( not all vegetarians ) need to watch this .
>       o  it's only vitamin B12 , not all B vitamins
>       o  plain old brewer's yeast is a natural , vegan supplement .


Umm. Since when has yeast been classified as a plant?

Randy 'Sterilizing his homebrew beer bottles with GynoLotrimin (tm)' Holt

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz)
Subject: Re: tuition refund ul?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:41:23 GMT

In article <93021.110334CSD108@psuvm.psu.edu>, <CSD108@psuvm.psu.edu>
writes:
> In article <1993Jan21.338.26781@execnet>, al.sorhaindo@execnet.com (al
> sorhaindo) says:
> >
> >Has anyone else heard this corollary to a popular college UL?
> >
> >
> >Not only did I hear their that there was an "official" rule printed
> >in the student handbook allowing students to leave if a professor
> >was more than 10 minutes late.


Well this is certainly the case in the National University of Mexico. Back
in my times in high school (yes high schools are part of the university in
Mexico), I was a student leader so I got a hold of the complete set of laws
and rules of the University. I read them carefully, and what it was my
surprise when I found the aforementioned rule.

Of course I inmediately gave copies of the paragraph to my classmates, and
professors seemed to be aware of it. So we would patiently wait 15 minutes
and then we would all go to the gates to have a cold pop.

I could retrieve the piece of legislation the next time I go home (sometime
in the summer).


Alex



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Department of Computer Science                      University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario                                                   Canada
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (John Howells)
Subject: Re: Bambi meets Godzilla.
Keywords: bambi cute roadkill
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr. Mtn Vw CA 94035
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:11:11 GMT

derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:

<The well known film 'Bambi meets Godzilla' just came up in conversation.

<You know, the one were Bambi just prances around pronking and saying hi to
<all the cute animals and then getting squashed underfoot by Godzilla.

<We were just wondering if it ever really existed.  Who were the producers
<etc. and how much did it gross (out?). 

It's available on Rhino Video. I own a copy. It also includes a number
of other memorable weird cartoons, one of which is a Max Fleischer Betty
Boop.

--
                                        John Howells
                                        howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov 
                                        howells@earth.arc.nasa.gov
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Abducted by UFOS or hard night on the town?
Keywords: UFO kidnapping scars
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:59:10 GMT
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited

In article <1993Jan20.020433.27836@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>, derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz
(Derek Tearne) writes:
> [...]
> 5. Have you ever found puzzling scars on your body?

Don't sasy it - the extraterrestials (sp?) went for the kidneys.

---
YuNoHoo  "but why?"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: rcnixon@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (russell.nixon)
Subject: Re: No US President Ever Survived an Energy Crisis
Summary: W
	 Welcome Back Snopes
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:08:04 GMT

In article <930112231210.1f1b@VAX.CSUN.EDU>, VBCSC03L@VAX.CSUN.EDU (snopes) writes:
> 
> In article <1993Jan8.221620.3281@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, 
>   PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
> 
> >ObUL: Richard, Otis, and Norm Nixon are unrelated.
> 
>   Russ, however, is related.
> 
>  - snopes
> 
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> +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> |                  Never mind the return address, I really live at:           |
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> +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Wow! I'm mentioned in a post by Snopes!  BTW, welcome back!  All I need now is
some e-mail from Kibo! 
Russ 'not the former manager of the Braves' Nixon
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Little Mermaid Video - where's the naughty bit?
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:53:58 GMT

In article <schumach.727669874@convex.convex.com> schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:
>Please don't. Disney probably would sue everyone within reach if 
>anyone were to do so. After all, these are the people who sue day 
>care centers for painting Disney characters on their walls.

Of course Disney would love the resultant publicity if a kid gets
sexually molested in a Disney-adorned child-care center that Disney
has no control over.

Ted "or if a boy got kidnapped to have his hair color changed" Frank 
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standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: kristaz@bcarh792.bnr.ca (Krista Zeidler)
Subject: Re: Bambi meets Godzilla.
Keywords: bambi cute roadkill
Reply-To: kristaz@bcarh792.bnr.ca (Krista Zeidler)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:33:34 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.015409.18825@netcom.com>, jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan25.220201.16899@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
|> >The well known film 'Bambi meets Godzilla' just came up in conversation.
|> >
|> >You know, the one were Bambi just prances around pronking and saying hi to
|> >all the cute animals and then getting squashed underfoot by Godzilla.
|> >
|> >We were just wondering if it ever really existed.  Who were the producers
|> >etc. and how much did it gross (out?). 
|> >

|> You bet - I've seen it many times. Basically the film is a one-man 
|> production and is mostly credits with the one guy listed for every 
|> possible job. Just as the last credit rolls off the screen, blamm! 
|> Down comes the foot, leaving Bambi's four legs sticking out under 
|> Godzilla's scaly claws. A great flick.


Of course, you must not forget the great sequel, Bambi's Revenge.  Same
producer (five minutes of credits with the same name and I can't remember
it).  It starts with the shot of Godzilla's foot with Bambi's legs sticking
out.  The legs then start to pry up the foot, and Bambi crawls out - can't
remember the end though - I have a feeling Bambi gets it again.

Krista (AFU.lurker)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.conspiracy
From: sasbmt@unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Hooker revisited
Date: 24 Jan 1993 13:09:42 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader has a compromise answer to the "hooker"
etymological puzzle that [motto alert] sounds plausible.  While
admitting that the word was used as slang for "whore" before the 
American Civil War (as the OED says), the association of whores with
General Joseph Hooker may have given the term more widespread
popularity.  Uncle John says people began referring to prostitutes
in Washington as "Hooker's Division."

Bruce "just a hunk o', hunk o' burning effigy" Tindall

ObFolkEtymology:  "effigy" is derived from the letters F-I-G, or
"GIF" spelled backwards.  "GIF" is a computer term for "picture",
as well as being the initials of the words in one of the 100 Eskimo
phrases meaning "To Insure Promptness" and/or "Kibo Paradigm CIA Fodder".
You can see how these connections made it take on the meaning of
"a picture or representation of someone to be burned in a restaurant."
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Jesus freaks and the return of the grand patriarch.
Keywords: jesus, 
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:29:27 GMT

In article <gkennedy.728166591@cunews> gkennedy@alfred.carleton.ca (Garry Kennedy) writes:
>Interestingly enough
>these modern day crusaders went on at great lengths to remind us all
>that Jesus himself has been reborn.  Living now as a young Indian boy
>in Brixton England, just outside of London, he is currently preparing
>to save all our lost souls upon his graduation.  If anyone can add to
>this i would appreciate it.  I would like to have a few words with the
>young lad myself.  Does anyone know if Jesus would have an e-mail
>account? It would be helpful as my hard-drive is running a little slow
>i could use some help from the big guy himself.  

Maybe we can get together and each send him a postcard or business card.

Ted "pastor of the First Church of Shergold" Frank
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standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker)
Subject: Re: Headlight Dimmer Switch
Originator: jlpicard@woofer.austin.ibm.com
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:16:48 GMT
Reply-To: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Object Technology Products


geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
> jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker) writes:
...
> >Don't know about that, but it reminds me of a story my Human Factors
> >prof told in class long ago about how, in the bad old days when auto-
> >mobile dashboards were made of metal and the switches for lights and
> >windshield wipers were pull-knobs mounted right next to each other,
> >there was a well-publicised incident of a woman driving with her 
> children at night on a twisty mountain road who went off a cliff.
> >Everyone in the car died, and (somehow) accident investigators
> >determined that it had begun to rain, and as she approached a sharp
> >curve she fumbled for the wipers, accidentally turned off the lights,
> >and thus departed this vale of tears.
> 
> That's interesting, considering the fact that in order to turn off the
> lights she'd have had to push the light-switch knob inward, but to 
> activate the windshield wipers she'd have had to pull that knob 
> *outward.*  The placement of switchgear varied quite a bit from car
> to car up until the early Sixties, but the pull-on/push-off convention
> was all but universal.

Yeah...the point was not so much the _kind_ of controls, but their
placement so close together (ie, it's not a real good idea to put
identical controls for "launch warhead" and "detonate warhead"
right next to each other). All I can figure is that she must have
reached in the general direction of the wipers, unintentionally pushed
in the light switch, and then the combination of a treacherous road,
a dark night, and screaming kids in the backseat...even the best of
us might not be able to recover quickly enough...

Craig
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From: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au (Bunweasel)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Kid impaled on grill, etc.
Date: 26 Jan 93 11:08:17 GMT
Reply-To: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au
Organization: Department of Computer Science, The University of Queensland

Don't know if this one gets a regular airing on AFU, but in Aus there
were a couple of kids that died in the Ickiest way.  There was a particular
type of swimming-pool filter that just happened to look just like one
brand of potty. Newly potty-trained kid sits in pool-filter and has intestines
sucked out and sliced into little bits.  Yeuch.

-michaeln

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Subject: Men in Cars Trailing Children
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:25:37 GMT


I heard a story/some news from a friend of the family, more of a word
of warning from her point of view. Some preliminaries:

Lexington buses kids from their middle and high schools to the 
elementary schools in their neighborhoods. From there they are expected
to walk home or get a ride from someone. Kids used to be bused to
a point close to home, but budget constraints have forced a cut
back in service.

I met our friend while I was waiting to pick up my son from his chess
club and since my daughter was arriving soon after, I was idling  
around waiting. Our friend  said that I should know that at some
time not long ago a man in a white truck had followed a girl from our
school into the neighborhood. She had started to return to the school
yard to get around more people, at which point the man in the truck 
had stopped his truck and had started to chase the girl on foot.
The girl had escaped, but everyone was concerned, and [she went on]
she just thought she'd let me know.

As a reader of this forum I was somewhat inclined to mark her words
with an "Fb" but as a parent, I've made sure to pick up my kids
rather than let them walk home. The elements that lead me to
believe it false: the almost cinematic image in the stalking element, 
the color of the truck, the fact that a small child was able to 
elude a man on foot. But, like I say, the parent in me keeps
slogging down to the school yard to pick 'em up.
-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.discordia,alt.slack
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Jesus' name (was Re: Late breaking potential UL!)
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:54:50 GMT

In article <1993Jan15.042910.17009@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kkoller@nyx.cs.du.edu (Capt. Sarcastic) writes:

>Mike Cooper worked with farm animals.  Stephen Foreman was a slave-holder.

Wouldn't Cooper mean he worked with barrels?

There was a woman in NY about 20 years back that petitioned the court
to have her last name Cooperman changed to Cooperperson.

cjl








Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: CBlack@massey.ac.nz (C.K. Black)
Subject: Re: Glitch at the Dog Track
Summary: pooch party tricks
Keywords: dog gone computors 
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 23:50:24 GMT

Computors down, down-under;

  In Message-ID: <JTCHEW-200193163754@b50-afrd5.lbl.gov>, Joe Chew says,
>No, not glitch in the Potrzebie Lexicon of Euphemism sense, but rather in
>the computer sense.  Check out COMP.RISKS Digest, Vol. 14, Issue 28,
>"Racetrack goes to the dogs as computer fails."  (There will surely be
>followups in future issues.)  It contains a third-hand tale, attributed to
>the BBC, about a dog track where a computer glitch allowed spectators to
>place bets after a race was over and the results were available...

This is straight from the dogs' rear end,  as reported in the Dominion,
Jan.15, it was right here at the Waikato Greyhound Club, NZ.  Two races
that had finished where still open on the board for three minutes.  One
sharp punter managed to place 36 trifectas' at $208 ea ($7488 ttl) and
you thought a 3 minute 'grocery grab' would be fun!  But hey,  at the
present rate of exchange $ NZ - US it's not real money anyway  :^(

>...and supposedly 139 people bet on losers anyway!

The 'Dom' says 153 backed the wrong pooch!  Get this,  while the club
is threatening to hunt down and sue the 'winners',  the 'losers' can
kiss their bets goodbye.  

>Joe "That dog won't hunt" Chew

Conrad ' looking for the next comp error' Black

-- 
Conrad Black 

Email... C.K.Black@massey.ac.nz
Snail... Massey U., Plant Sc. Dept., Palmerston North, New Zealand
From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Cuttin' the Rug
Date: 23 Jan 93 16:09:39 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

Factoid, fictionoid, or UL?  Islamic artists and artisans (including rug
makers, weavers, knotters, whatever) deliberately include an error in 
their product in recognition of the fact that only Allah is perfect.

If this is true, has some hair-splitting Islamic philosopher pointed out
that a deliberate error becomes part of the design, and thus is not an
error?  Or that the whole practice is rather blasphemously arrogant
because it assumes that the rug-maker would have made a perfect rug
if he hadn't introduced the deliberate error?

Bruce "will split hairs for fun and Prophet" Tindall
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     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: gkennedy@alfred.carleton.ca (Garry Kennedy)
Subject: Jesus freaks and the return of the grand patriarch.
Keywords: jesus, 
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:29:51 GMT

Upon his recent return from Costa Rica, a friend of mine recounted a
tale that i had heard repeated in Diane Keaton's documentary
Heaven.  Although not an uncommon sight while travelling, he ran into a
wide assortment of Jesus freaks, Mormons, Baptists, and every other
member of the great lost tribe(s) of Israel.  Interestingly enough
these modern day crusaders went on at great lengths to remind us all
that Jesus himself has been reborn.  Living now as a young Indian boy
in Brixton England, just outside of London, he is currently preparing
to save all our lost souls upon his graduation.  If anyone can add to
this i would appreciate it.  I would like to have a few words with the
young lad myself.  Does anyone know if Jesus would have an e-mail
account? It would be helpful as my hard-drive is running a little slow
i could use some help from the big guy himself.  

Gary Kennedy
gkennedy@ccs.carleton.ca
From: mycroft7@vesta.unm.edu (Cliff Coy)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Starting a car takes more gas...
Date: 25 Jan 1993 22:49:37 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: vesta.unm.edu

     The crossover point obviously depends on the car but it's
usually between 30sec to a minute.  It is also customary in Europe
to shut your engine off if you're the fifth or so person in line
at a stop light to conserve on gas, clear the air,etc.

     The wear and tear on the engine itself is negligible IMHO. 
The thing to consider is the starter.  As I recall from my
mechanical design class, most starters are only designed to run for
7 hours(Yipes!).

--Cliff
From: smith+@cs.cmu.edu (Sean Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: AFU EAST
Date: 22 Jan 93 14:44:01 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Distribution: na
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon



jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel Furr) writes:
>We're working on an AFU East in Pittsburgh and an AFU Southeast in
>Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina.  I'd like one to be held in February and
>one in March.  If you're interested, reply to this post and say so.
>                                     ^^^^^

Yup, I'm interested in an AFU gathering in Pittsburgh.  I'm not quite sure
if it should be called AFU East, though; I'm only a transplant here, 
but I think the natives actually believe they're in the midwest.


How about the Squirrel Hill Cafe, on the corner of Murray and Forbes?


--Sean ``how's that for momentum?'' Smith

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