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From: tjw@vm2.cis.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: One more RADAR lover, err JAMMER, gone!
Date: 16 Apr 92 21:31:36 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Apr16.012622.5172@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:

> : "Radar Jammers" (the ones I saw) were not being sold as "Radar Jammers".
> : They were being sold as "Ham Radio Transmitters", for the police shared
> : a Ham Band on a secondary allocation.  If you were a Ham (Technician class
> : at least) then the use of the device was legal from the FCC's viewpoint.

> Yes and no. The Ham license does not give the right to cause malicious
> interferance with another signal. That is what the Ham would be doing
> and, as such, would be using the device illegally.

Allow me to counter with the definitive: "That depends".  If I'm in a QSO
on 10 GHz (or where-ever) and this nasty cop fires his Radar Gun at me
(without listening first, I might add) then the cop is the one interfering.

Besides, I believe that HAMS are primary and the cops secondary on the band.

Of course, when you're standing before the judge who doesn't know the
difference between CB/HAM/and FM broadcast, this makes very little difference.

These devices were sold as HAM transmitters during the time when HAM equipment
did not need type acceptance.  That's how they managed to get these little
gems on the market.

> Bill "Working on 20 wpm" Nelson

Terry "UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED (with apologies to Ralph Nadar)" Wood
From: tjc50@ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: idiomatically speaking... (Was: Re: other fun mistranslations)
Date: 10 Apr 92 23:51:29 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <0hejayz@Unify.Com> ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan) writes:
>In article <1992Apr8.203628.1508@aus.intel.com> robin@aus.intel.com (robin rosenbaum) writes:
>>When, where, and how did this one get started:
>>
>>     "If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a locomotive!"
>>
>>(Meaning, Don't waste your time in should-have's and if-only's.)
>
>Sounds like an update to
>	"if wishes were horses, beggars would ride".

"If pigs could fly, we'd all carry umbrellas."
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From: ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan)
Subject: Re: Digits in the Driver's license number
Keywords: licence
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organization
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 16:41:11 GMT

In article <1992Apr3.192521.5569@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n8742883@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Perry Pederson) writes:
>	Do the three digits in an american driver's license mean
>anything?  I have the digits 327, while my fiance has the digits 312.
>Do they indicate a regional licensing district, or some other more
>arcane knowledge?

The Federal driver's license hasn't exactly been around long, has it?  I 
think interstate truck drivers were required to have them starting only this
past April 1, or was it March 1?  You and your fiance (btw, Perry is an unu-
sual nickname for a woman, what's it stand for?) might be the only interstate
truck drivers on a.f.u.  Why don't you find out and tell us?


Carrie		ceb@dbrus.unify.com	x6244
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Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Monday, 6 Apr 1992 11:40:55 MST
From: <ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Cow Tippin'
Distribution: usa
 <4APR199223260066@gamma.is.tcu.edu>

In article <4APR199223260066@gamma.is.tcu.edu>, djohnson@gamma.is.tcu.edu
(Darryl Johnson) says:
>
>I didn't grow up on a diary farm, but I thought bulls had horns,
>and cows didn't.
>
Or any other farm, apparently.  Cows definitely have horns.  And are quite
willing to use them.
Loyd Means
Phoenix AZ
From: slb3y@paradise.enet.dec.com (869683 Clark Patrick S)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Chocolate ice cream (was Re: Tomato Flavor Chewing Gum)
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:06:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: cc.1992Apr8.120653.54300
 <MJD.92Apr6113532@saul.cis.upenn.edu> <1725@israel.nysernet.org>
Reply-To: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Unterhund)
Organization: United Order of Non-Joiners

In article <1725@israel.nysernet.org>, warren@nysernet.org (Warren
Burstein) writes:
>
>In <MJD.92Apr6113532@saul.cis.upenn.edu> mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu (The
>Special Case) writes:
>
>>    You left out my favorite example, which is that chocolate ice
>>>cream never tastes anything like chocolate.
>
>Of course not, because it is reprocessed ice cream of other flavors,
>sent back to the plant from the supermarket and reflavored. (This
>was
>discussed on rec.food.cooking a while back, no documentation that I
>recall, so I guess it's not FAQ-ready)
>
>
     Not Bluebird Ice Cream, at least a couple of years ago.  When I
worked there, we used real Hershey's Cocoa to flavor the chocolate
variety.  I can't speak for other companies, of course, but I doubt
it's cost-effective to ship the unsold stuff back.

ObFact:  Some grocery stores allow employees to eat products that have
gone past the "pull date."

Patrick "no chicken-flavored ice cream at Bluebird" Clark
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From: chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov (Chuck Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Falling bullets on Marilyn's Parade
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:31:15 GMT
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory

In article <mnfjmjn@Unify.Com> ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan) 
writes:
> In article <3447@moscom.UUCP> 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.  
> 
> One or two years ago a correspondent asked her how she got her 
appropriate
> surname.  She said that it was actually her husband's, that he was a 
Dutch
> businessman.

I didn't know that Dr. Jarvik was a Dutch business man.

How come it is the "famed" Jarvis heart?  Everyone of his patients died.

               Chuck Adams,  WB5WRR   (The Puhpxfgre)
                Internet:  chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov
   Disclaimer:  Not an official document of DOE, SSCL, URA or EG&G
                   "Curses!  Flamed Again"  - me
From: AAFEG@ASUACAD.BITNET
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Whacky Flakey License plates
Date: 16 Apr 92 05:19:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: ASUACAD.92106.221901AAFEG
 <1992Apr15.015005.29416@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Apr15.192704.29980@uwm.edu>
 <1992Apr16.000709.14746@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Arizona State University

Amazingly enough the great state of Georgia (pronounced jaw-ja) has ventured
in the opposite direction on the issue of free speach and car bumpers.  When
I was in grad school in Atlanta, a guy was prosecuted in Cobb county Georgia
for having a bumper sticker which proudly proclaimed that "_ _ IT HAPPENS".
It seems that the cops in Cobb County found it necessary to protect the tax
paying citizens of that great state from suffering the fate of having to
follow this gentleman's car in traffic.  (Heaven forbid!)  In the meantime,
the murder rate in the city of Atlanta was skyrocketing as well as car theft.
Of course, it is far more important to control those "lewd" bumper stickers
so that when someone is shot or their car is stolen, they will not have been
tortured by this horrible criminal with no respect for the law.

BTW, this is the same state in which an 85 year old woman was arrested and
taken off to jail for not appearing in court for a leash law violation.  The
police decided that she may strike again at any time.  This is also the only
possible reason for the arrest of another suburban mother for not returning
library books to the county library.  Once this young woman was taken into
custody, the librarians could all sleep better at night knowing that she was
not out loose and armed with a deadly library card.

Frederick E. Garrett, Jr. PhD.
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ  85287
ethernet: garrett@enuxha.eas.asu.edu

My opinions are mine, mine alone and I like it that way.
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From: s082@brems.ii.uib.no (Ketil Malde)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Cable TV cheater spotters (was Re: FCC Call letters)
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:33:44 GMT
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway

In article <22499@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW) writes:
   [..]
 ; There would probably be all kinds of interesting illegal-search
 ; questions that could be raised if someone wanted to get prickly
 ; about active investigation by a cable company.  They probably count 
 ; more on technological ignorance, combined with people's fear of
 ; embarrassment at being exposed as a penny-ante thief.  However,
 ; even in a TV-addicted society where it can probably be assumed
 ; that most people watch cable whether they pay for it or not, the 
 ; burden of proof is still on the accuser.  Or so I hope.

I've noticed that people say it is relatively simple to tap the
radiation off someones computer screen, and see what they're seeing
on your TV across the street.  Couldn't the same be done within a van?

And while we're at it, I always had this dream of jamming the police
'radars' to show, say 300km/h while you're driving along at 30 :-)
Could this be done?

(I assume the radars work by emmitting sound, and measuring the frequency
it is returned with, so you'd probably need a source of high volume, high
frequency sound...would this work?)

    ; Ketil Malde,           In real life: s082@ii.uib.no +
    ; ISO-8859-1 rules         Honk if you love unicorns! +
From: morris@anasaz (Bob Morris)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Falling Bullets and tuning musical instruments
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:48:42 GMT
Organization: Anasazi, Inc.  Phoenix, Az

Rich Isaacman writes:
>
>..which confirms that a less tense string ...
>has a slower sound speed that leads to a lower 
>pitch.
>
Is this why Barney Fife's voice goes up an octave or so when he's
within two feet of a woman?

Bob "squeek" 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: 16 Apr 92 01:19:25 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <BMrwF7.Dp9@world.std.com>, kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:

>>>> IN TEN YEARS, this will become availible to YOU from the PHONE COMPANY
>>>> as a service that by dialing *647351845###646412* will INSTANTLY
>>>> transport any HARRASSING caller to your FRONT DOOR.

>>A pitty it only works on harrassing callers though, or can you
>>include polite people, friends and family at some additional cost ?

> And what if I dial the number, do I meet myself?

Cascading Kibos?  Not a pretty thought.

Terry "And then there were 2" Wood
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Polio immunizations
From: derek@fivegl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 22:57:35 GMT
Reply-To: derek@fivegl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Organization: Task Management Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand

In article <1992Apr10.205944.3429@anasaz> morris@anasaz (Bob Morris) writes:
>I had a conversation yesterday wherein I repeated a "fact" I had heard,
>but when questioned, had to admit I had no reliable source.  I told
>the questioner I would get the truth from a.f.u, so here goes:
>
>I heard that the Sabin oral polio vaccine was a live virus and as such
>was contagious.  The Sabin vaccine is the one administered on sugar
>cubes.  If enough people in an area received the vaccine orally
>(75-80%?), they would pass it to the others so everyone would be
>vaccinated.

I was told, by my Doctor that there have been cases where unvaccinated
adults have caught the disease from the live virus passed out by their 
children into nappies etc. Pretty sure it was polio - certainly it was 
a live oral vaccine.

That is probably the reason why everyone is vaccinated at the same time.

Derek Tearne.
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From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Brownie recipe in HOT SHOTS credits
Date: 7 Apr 92 04:37:59 GMT
Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au

thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:

>warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>>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.

Well.  That was frank.


What was it then?  Okay, so maybe this topic has throbbed here before,
but I WASN'T HERE then.  Emain would be very nice.


Warwick
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Subject: Re: Why did the chicken cross the road?
From: slb3y@millville.enet.dec.com (869683 Clark Patrick S)
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:25:41 MDT
Reply-To: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Unterhund)
Distribution: world
Organization: United Order of Non-Joiners
Keywords: turkey chicken

In article <1992Apr14.184436.24315@beaver.cs.washington.edu>,
mckenzie@cs.washington.edu (Neil McKenzie) writes:
>Here are two ULs I have just heard from a friend.  They are not in
>the
>FAQ list (my copy, at least).
>
>1.  Turkeys, when left to themselves in a rainstorm, will drown.
>2. [deleted because I have no idea]
>
     I know someone who has an aunt who claims to have actually
witnessed this phenomenon.  I accept my friend's word unquestioningly
that her aunt has actually made this claim.

Patrick "as for the rest . . ." Clark
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From: unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu (The Unknown Matt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Cornflakes & hairy palms/blindness (heh)
Keywords: sorry if this iws a repeat posting
Date: 7 Apr 92 08:25:29 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing


In article <1992Apr3.021754.29694@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil
Gustafson) writes:
>Well, gator, you're right about graham but not about Kellogg's.  KCF
>were invented in 1894 by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, director of the

        So what about Frosted Flakes? When did they realized they'd have
to soak 'em in sugar to get kids to buy 'em.

        [Yeah, I know they're not literally soaked in sugar... And, possibly
another UL, but I've heard that often these 'sugared' cereals have less sugar
in them than if the kid put sugar on top of an unsweetened cereal.  At least
with Frosted Flakes, which I like by the way, it kind of makes sense..
Since the sugar is on the *outside* rather than mixed in, it gets to the
taste buds more concentrated..  Just like why Fritos taste salty but have
less salt than in two slices of bread or whatever stupid comparison they
advertize on the bag]
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From: scm@harvee.UUCP (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Subject: Re: Mairzey Doats
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Date: 10 Apr 92 09:36:22 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: gators 'r us
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In article <9204080537.AA15227@mail.cis.ohio-state.edu> FURRJK@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
(Joel Furr) writes:
> 
> Wups, we appear to have had a misquote there of the Mairzey Doats song.
my mom taught me another verse when i was a kid:

(spelled correctly cause i have no idea how its supposed to be spelled)

monks eat herbs and skunks eat herbs and little clams eat oysters, but
a monk'll eat oysters too, wouldn't you?



little"do houseflies taste like chicken?" gator

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From: mikkelson@breakr.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Trademarks
Organization: Still waiting for the snuff films . . .
Date:  7 APR 92 22:05:34    


In article <rt0bqINNctr@agate.berkeley.edu>, 
  shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff) writes...

>ObUL: The tobacco companies have a bunch of trademarks for marijuana
>cigarettes, in case marijuana is legalized.  (False; you can't have a
>trademark unless you're actively selling the product.)

Not according to my source (A Practical Guide to Copyrights & Trademarks):

     "The 1988 Trademark Act introduced into the Lanham Act, which provides for
federal protection of trademarks, a significant alternative to the traditional
practice of establishing rights by use.  The Lanham Act continues to permit
applications for federal registration of marks based on actual use, but it is
now possible to apply for federal registration of a trademark or service mark
on the basis of a bona fide intention to use.  While for unregistered marks the
traditional first-use priority will continue to apply, it is now possible to
acquire trademark rights under the Lanham act without use of the mark."

     It is also possible to retain rights to a trademark that is no longer
used, but not indefinitely.

- snopes

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From: mikkelson@breakr.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Marilyn Really Doesn't Have to be too Goddam Smart to Keep Her Job
Organization: Still waiting for the snuff films . . .
Date: 16 APR 92 10:16:28    


In article <1992Apr16.002341.7848@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, 
  phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes...

>  You pour one cup of 100% bran cereal in a bowl.  Then you pour one cup
>  of 40% bran cereal on top of it.  What percent bran cereal do you now
>  have in the bowl?  My wife says 140%, and my brother-in-law says 60%.
>  I say it depends on whether you pour the 100% bran cereal or the 40%
>  bran cereal in the bowl first [!? -- ed] -- that is, whether you want to
>  dilute or add.  Who's right?

Um, once you pick a bowl of bran, does the wife _always_ reveal the empty
bowl before offering to let you switch bran percentages?

- snopes

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From: jeremiah@yang.earlham.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Cat meat marketed as Tuna Fish
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:10:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: yang.1992Apr7.191031.16803
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

Was cat really put in tunafish cans???  I can't believe it.  This can't be 
true.  Was the cat trying to eat some of the fish, and got sucked in, to 
whatever machine does the fish packing?  I wonder...
-- 
Jeremiah Wilton    "jeremiah@yang.earlham.edu"    "jeremiah@earlham.bitnet"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: sfshaw@descartes.waterloo.edu (Steve Shaw (Flipper))
Subject: Re: "Cute" animals vs. Food animals was Re: Cat food marketed as Tuna
Summary: Cows...your cute and edible friends
Keywords: cute cows Spinal Tap
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 02:17:07 GMT

Cindy Kandolf writes:
>
>We've recently been through the whole bit about eating dogs and cats,
>so i really don't want to start that up again.  I'm just basically
>wondering out into the ether (well, sorta).... where do we draw the line
>between what's edible and what's "cute", ergo taboo? 
>

I personally find cows to be among the cutest animals ever to evolve. 
Something about the way they just graze in the fields make them appear 
so wise. Anyway, several hometown friends and I have formed an 
unofficial "Cow Appreciation Society", taking field trips to different
farms and visiting the cows and the whole bit. Our collections of 
"Cow Art" (about cows, not by them...) are getting quite extensive,
even if you exclude Larson's extensive work.

To get to the point, about the only thing I like better than a moo cow
is a steak. Or a hamburger. Anything with cow in it.

-Steve "cute and tasty too" Shaw

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From: tjw@vm2.cis.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Iron in blood setting off metal detectors
Date: 16 Apr 92 22:06:47 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <STEINAR.92Apr16134238@faust.solan.unit.no>, steinar@faust.solan.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf) writes:

> a vacation and come down to earth, he designs costumes for Let's Make a
> Deal contestants.  And all the unclaimed goats left outside the LMAD
> studio after experiments to show whether you should switch doors or not
> are snapped up by teenage Satanists, who have lately taken to using
> whisperized helicopters to avoid detection.

> What do i win?

A two-week, you pay all expenses date with SNOPES or Peter.  Your choice.

Terry "You Lucky, Lucky gal" Wood
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