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From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Date: 8 Oct 92 02:52:13 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Oct5.171003.20704@sfu.ca>, pinette@fraser.sfu.ca (Gandolf the 23rd) writes:
> Kirk is completely wreckless and if you don't believe me
> ask anyone on the ship who wore a read shirt...you can't because Kirk
> got them all killed! 

Picard, a RED SHIRT, is just lucky he wasn't an ACTING ENSIGN in Kirk's day.

Terry "Shut-up, acting ensign Picard!" Wood
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Subject: Re: Women in groups
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:08:41 GMT

rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt) writes:

>>But the pill doesnt prevent menstruation, (oh that it did). It does however
>>make it lighter and less painful. And since it goes for 21 days on the pill and
>>seven days off, it is obviously going to be more regular. Presuming the same
>>smell or pheremones or whatever are being sent out, this person had no choice
>>but to become more regular in step with the person taking the pill.
> 
>Hmm. An' I thought that it was because if one 'em got bitchy, then everybody
>else naturally wanted to join in.

Hilarious, Randall.  I'm sure you're a real hit with the ladies.  For anyone
who might have taken him seriously, the menstrucal cycle -> bitchiness, not
the other way around...just so we're all sure about that.  

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From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Re: End of Millenium Hysteria (was Re: Oct. 28: The Rapture)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:48:22 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

In article <1992Oct14.173504.23343@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, wvhorn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William VanHorne) writes:
|> >In <1992Oct13.204230.11241@rchland.ibm.com> jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
|> 
|> >    Didn't this exact same thing happen 1000 years ago?
|> >
|> 
|> Yes.  Many people thought that the world would end in 1000 A.D.  When
|> it didn't they went on with the more important things, like invading 
|> England.
|> 
|> >    I remember reading historical accounts of upheaval
|> >that occurred at the end of the 1st millenium.  
|> 
|> ???
|> Like what?
|> 
|> >I have
|> >even heard opinions that the Mayan civilization collapsed
|> >out of similar anxiety.  
|> 
|> Well, not quite.  The Mayans believed in cyclical time.  In other words,
|> they believed historical events would recur.  This made it easy for an 
|> upstart city-state to grab power if they timed it right! 
|> 
|> OBTW, the Mayan civilization didn't ever really "collapse", though many
|> city-states rose and fell in influence and power.  The Mayans fought
|> the Spanish for over 50 years before they were finally conquered.

I may be way off base (right field) but didn't the Mayan civilization 
dissapear before the rise of the Aztecs?

Jared "Huh?" Dahl
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Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:25398 soc.women:17586
From: marty@world.std.com (Marty M HaleEvans)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.women
Subject: Re: Women in groups
Date: 11 Oct 92 21:01:24 GMT
Organization: Cicely Public Access UNIX, Cicely, AK

andrewb@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Andrew Bevin) writes:

>I have heard that if woman live in group's that their menstrual cycles
>start to sync with each other.

>Anyone care to expand or refute this.

I've read about that, too. Apparently, this has definitely been recorded as a
phenomenon, but there is some reasearch going on about what might cause it. 
The best guess so far (and which, I think, has been backed up with research
results) is that it's due to subtle changes in women's pheromone chemistry
during different stages of their cycles. Other women will unconsciously pick
up the scent and the brain will use it to synchronize the group's cycles. Some
women will be late and some will be early over a few months, until everyone
is together. This even seems to happen to women who are exposed on a regular
but not so constant basis, such as women who work in the same office.

The interesting thing is that the research is also showing that somehow one of
the women is identified as the leader, and the other cycles shift to match
hers. How and why this woman is selected from the group is still unknown, I 
think. Anyone have any newer info?

Marty


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From: diverson@phys.ksu.edu (David Iverson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Angels and Pinheads
Date: 11 Oct 1992 03:46:42 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: bohr.phys.ksu.edu

> 
> First of all, the debate about how many angels could dance on the head of
>a pin was not a debate over a certain number of angels, e.g. 42 versus 469
>or whatever. The question was a metaphor for whether angels were physical 
>or strictly spiritual beings. If they had some sort of physical existence, 
>then only a finite number of them could fit on the head of a pin. Doesn't 


Wait a second! So you're saying that the debate was over whether Angels
behave as Bosons or Fermions?!?!

-diversion

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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Collected Musical Factoids
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:36:24 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Oct8.145851.28760@PA.dec.com> snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
>
>No, I don't think so.  George Harrison didn't record with them until the
>"Straight Up" album, a few years after "Come and Get It".

I think he did, but was uncredited, just as Billy Preston is uncredited on 
Let It Be and Eric Clapton is on While My Guitar Gently Weeps.  

In any case, the point is that the Badfingers, while not actually the Beatles,
have been associated in some reasonable way with at least 3/4 of the group,
not including all the other people associated with the Beatles.

cj "No, it's not BeatleMania, it's an incredible simulation, it's
BeatleMania-Mania" l

What ever happened to Tony Sheridan?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh)
Subject: cwm (was Re: Eskimo words for 'snow')
Summary: odd words
Reply-To: hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh)
Organization: Interleaf, Inc.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 14:28:08 GMT

Don't forget that a water-filled cwm is a tarn.
From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: don't spook the horse?
Date: 15 Oct 92 12:41:55 GMT
Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie

stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve X. Portigal) wrote:
>  What the hell is this from? I see it all over the place...some people
> have it in the .sigs, I've seen it on Neil Young's last album and so on.
> What does it mean? Where does it come from?

I suspect it ultimately derives from a quote attributed to Mrs Patrick
Campbell (who?) about the legalization/prohibition of homosexuality in
England: it dates from early this century.  "I don't care what they do
so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses".  Any
dictionary of quotations should have it.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: moore@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Hall Moore)
Subject: Re: Computer Lab Security (Moroons!)
Organization: University of North Carolina
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:35:21 GMT

In article <LEE.92Oct5141944@ace.npac.syr.edu> lee@ace.npac.syr.edu (Lee C. Brink) writes:
>
>  You think it's bad there with Security not meandering at all.  You
>can set your watch to ours!  Security goes through the Center for
>Science & Technology at the same time every day.  The custodial staff knows
>when it's running behind in its duties by listening for Security.
>  Makes me wonder which is worse: If security will ever show up, or knowing
>exactly when security will show up.
>
>     Lee
>
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I was a chem major in college.  When I was a senior, I had to do a senior
research project (how appropriate).  Since I like late hours and had an
easy going advisor, I got keys to the labs I used and permission to be in
them 24 hours a day.  Great setup all in all.  However, when security came
around at 6:00 and 11:00 PM they locked all the labs.  No matter what.  It
didn't matter on the evenings when I was there working and had several labs
open, they locked them all.  I explained to the various guards that I had
keys and permission to be in the labs and that I was just going to unlock
the door right away, but it made no difference.  By mid semester, we had
developed a little ritual.  As soon as I heard the guard du jour coming
down the hall, I stopped what I was doing and went out to meet him.  We
then paraded around the floor...  guard: turns lights off, locks door,
me: unlocks door, turns lights on, proceed to next door.  It was a real
pain in the ass, but better than waiting until I wanted to go in the other
labs (usually with my hands full) to unlock the doors.  By the end of the
semester, we had dispensed with the light on/off part of the routine, but
every door had to be locked; even if only for 2 seconds.  Go figure.
From: ardai@zax.eda.teradyne.com (Michael Ardai)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: New logos (was Re: Iowa State University Towers)
Date: 12 Oct 92 14:06:41 GMT
Organization: Teradyne, Inc. Boston MA

In article <1992Oct11.191222.10373@news.columbia.edu> gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:
-In article <1992Oct11.173222.18869@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> vcf1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Victoria C Fike) writes:
-
---  Also, the building I'm currently living in seems to have a floor
---missing...the floors are numbered 1, MZ, 4.
--
--My theory is, they took it out and put it in Carman, which goes 1, MZ, 2, 3,
--etc...
-
-But how'd they get the floor out of Jay without all the residents there
-noticing a big THUMP?

They did it during one of the many false fire alarms :-)  And we all thought
it was because they put hte smoke detectors over the toasters...
/mike
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From: st911117@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Elisha Fara Landman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Naming Hallowed Institutions-to-be
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:20:01 GMT
Reply-To: st911117@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

Well, here at Brandeis, the science quad is named "Gerstenzang" and it is know by G-zang, we also have a coffee house named "Chomondleys" anit Chumley's. we also have other building with such "odd" names..... :)
elisha "st911117@pip.cc.brandeis.edu"
hey, why not try out the new "Hotel" Prism BBS - (telnet bbs.fdu.edu)
From: kjc7435@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.J. Cater)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: how to identify a freshman
Date: 16 Oct 92 14:23:22 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Originator: kjc7435@ultb

Here at RIT we had a "fake" fire alarm drill a few weeks ago that
definitely sorted out the freshmen from the rest of us.

The freshmen were the ones who ran around crying about how the
building was burning down and about how they could see the smoke.

The rest of us toasted marshmellows and pelted the freshmen with them..

..........
From: comjohn@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Mr. John T Jensen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Computer centers, leaving oneself logged in
Keywords: heh
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:26:29 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.

mancuso@pilot.njin.net (Tina Mancuso) writes:

>Did anyone else ever have a customer try to get you to tell them how
>to do something illegal?  Tonight I got a call from a student whose
> ... example deleted
>out for himself, once more warning him about software pirating.

Do we ever!  We have here about 150 student machines distributed amongst
half a dozen labs.  I cannot remember the number of times I have had
students ask me how they can copy Lotus/WordPerfect/SAS/younameit off our
system so they can put it on their machine at home.  You understand, they
are not thinking of themselves as doing something wrong.  They just don't
know where the software is on the network and just quite innocently want me
to give them a copy.  Explaining about copyright tends merely to bewilder
them.  Come to think of it, some of them are fairly easily bewildered.

jj

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From: davison@unity.ncsu.edu (John Davison)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Computer centers, leaving oneself logged in
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:49:42 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University Project Unity

In article <00961C83.E83CF180@vms.csd.mu.edu>, 2429oconnorw@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
|> 
|> Same here, we have WordPerfect and other word processing programs on a
|> server and students try to copy the programs on to their disks.  I don't
|> know which act is dumber, trying to get a program from a server which
|> keeps telling you that you can not get the program or thinking that 
|> one can fit WordPerfect on one 5.25 DD disk.
|> 
But that doesn't match the ones who think they can logon with their 1200 baud
modem and run interleaf from the X-windows system here on their little Macs or
PCs. Over the phone lines. Without a Unix box. In their lifetime.
Or the ones who want to copy Interleaf or SAS onto a diskette so they can use it
at home.

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From: 10u6070@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Stupid college sports
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:37:21 +1000
Organization: University of New South Wales

A stupid sport for you: Mattress Football.  Find a nice long corridor (20
metres is about enough) and get two mattress and a football.  Get as many
people as possible, and form into two teams, then place the football in the
middle of the corridor.  The teams then go to opposite ends of the corridor and
stand facing towards the football, with the mattress vertically in front.  When
someone calls go, the aim for each team is to get the football on their side of
the mattresses.  After a few games the football is often discarded.  This game
beats studying any night, and I find it very relaxing (Then again I also play
Prop Foward in Rugby).
	Grant Weckert
	10u6070@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: moore@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Hall Moore)
Subject: Re: Computer Lab Operator Geeks
Organization: University of North Carolina
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:08:56 GMT

In article <37240@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> jma@reef.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes:
>Did michaelb@cse.fau.edu really type:
>}  I've worked in retail I'm use to being helpful to customers (which is what 
>}  students are).
>
>No no no... students are peons to the University!  Customers are the
>corporations and the government that pay big money for such things as
>SDI programs and such!  (UF-CIS is nicknamed 'baby-killers from outter
>space.')  Undergrads are peon-wanna-bes.  Grads are peons!
>
>}  A friend of mine went thru a training session they had here
>}  for lab assistants (I missed it), and said the attitude of many of them was
>}  that the 'students were the enemy'.
>
>You mean they aren't?  Seriously - most of the questions I heard as a
>lab ass was "How do I do..." instead of "This is how I tried to solve
>the homework - will you show me where I went wrong."  This is why most
>of us ex-lab asses know that students are the enemy.
>
>}     Heck, I'm always having to straighten out students who were mis-informed by
>}  lab assistants from other labs about our lab.  See, I work in the only Unix
>}  lab, the other labs have vt-100 terminals or PCs.
>
>See, we didn't want those students using our terminals!  :)
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> _ //   Where:  jma@cis.ufl.edu -or- jadams@coral.senod.uwf.edu
> \X/    Why:    "Every moment of pleasure in life has to be
>                   purchased by an equal amount of pain."

No kidding.  Students *are* the enemy.  Here is an actual exchange between
my college roommate (the lab assistant) and a luser.

luser:  Can you help me?
lab a.: What do you want to do?
luser:  I don't know...

I rest my case.


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jage@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (I like redheads.)
Subject: Re: Computer centers, leaving oneself logged in
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:24:55 GMT

The other day I was sitting in lab next to a friend of mine.
She told me about a really idoitic computer user.  It seems
this person she observed had a really easy password.

She said, "It was all X's."     

I laughed for about 20 minutes.
She still dosen't know.




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From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Nasty Computer Tricks ( was Re: Hmmm. )
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 17:26:45 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

In DOS, the interrupt that is used to 
display the prompt will not print a 
dollar sign.  So to confuse newbies
to no end, add this to their autoexec.bat:

PROMPT=$
CLS

This will clear the screen and generate a
prompt that is invisible.  Watch them run
for the lab super ("I don't get a prompt, it
must be locked up!")  It's best to wait
a few weeks with jokes like these since 
the newbies need to start to understand the
normal function of the machine to think that
something has gone wrong!

My second undergraduate year at UND had a
highpoint I will never forget.  The local
computer center decided that the passwords
for all of the beginning Programming I 
students would be their first names.  These
peoples logins were easily identifiable in 
the system directory because they had no
information other than their names.  So
a group of us changed as many of them as
we could find, and then sat in on the lab
portion of that class the next day.  When
the lab instructor asked how many people
were unable to login, about 80% raised their
hands!!:)


There are also escape sequences that will
remap the PC keyboard (allowing you to set
return=anything you want!!) but I don't have
them here. 

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From: 2429oconnorw@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Computer centers, leaving oneself logged in
Date: 8 Oct 1992 16:19:12 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2429oconnorw@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

In article <1992Oct7.192629.7413@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>, comjohn@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Mr. John T Jensen) writes:
>mancuso@pilot.njin.net (Tina Mancuso) writes:
>
>>Did anyone else ever have a customer try to get you to tell them how
>>to do something illegal?  Tonight I got a call from a student whose
>> ... example deleted
>>out for himself, once more warning him about software pirating.
>
>Do we ever!  We have here about 150 student machines distributed amongst
>half a dozen labs.  I cannot remember the number of times I have had
>students ask me how they can copy Lotus/WordPerfect/SAS/younameit off our
>system so they can put it on their machine at home.  You understand, they
>are not thinking of themselves as doing something wrong.  They just don't
>know where the software is on the network and just quite innocently want me
>to give them a copy.  Explaining about copyright tends merely to bewilder
>them.  Come to think of it, some of them are fairly easily bewildered.

Same here, we have WordPerfect and other word processing programs on a
server and students try to copy the programs on to their disks.  I don't
know which act is dumber, trying to get a program from a server which
keeps telling you that you can not get the program or thinking that 
one can fit WordPerfect on one 5.25 DD disk.


Bill O'Connor               | In the course of human events, there is
Marquette University        | always one person who will screw things
Milwaukee, WI               | up.
2429OCONNORW@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU |
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