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From: clueless@bradley.edu (Mark Kristie)
Subject: Re: Snoball fight and nudes
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 08:59:35 GMT
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John Brainerd (johnb@sage.cc.purdue.edu) wrote:
:   Or has this caught on all over the country??????????

My roommate was telling me that SAE's run naked around the parking circle
thing (from SAE to the Library, to Bradley Hall, to Jobst, to Baker, to 
Sisson, to the SC, to Hartman, to Olin, to the Library and finally back
to SAE) here at Bradey in Peoria, IL....

They do it while drunk out of their minds of course... 

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban,alt.fan.lemurs
From: jlong@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (John Long)
Subject: Re: lemurs!
Organization: Purgatory Embassy
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:01:54 GMT

In article <H.ea.r4QrkRIw51k@harvee.billerica.ma.us> scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us writes:
>In <1992Dec1.183233.11877@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, JKF writes:
>>
>>How do you spend your time when the baby lemurs came out to visit?  Did
>>you exchange primate tips?  Compare opposable thumbs?  Hug them?
>the humans(alias the gators) said dumb things of the "aww, isn't that cute?"
>variety, and the baby lemurs barfed on our shoes.  or was that disraeli?
>-- 
When I lived in Madagascar, I used to pull their hind legs off.
Then, I would remove the big bone.
Then, I would drill 5 holes into the marrow.
Then, I would cook out the marrow, and drill out the ends of the bone.
Then, I would blow into it with my nose, while fingering the holes.

It made music.

It was called a madagascar lemur femur five note nose flute
From: kwix@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: flinging and catapaults
Date: 12 Dec 92 14:53:39 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Cornell University

hi,

i have seen many posts here about flinging and catapaulting water ballons
and other objects, and that got me thinking.  Has anyone out there
seen the Northern Exposure episodes when they fling things? (a coffin, and 
a piano)  I think that this was also in Car and driver where they flung a
small british car.  It is something that was developed in the middle ages
for seiges.   Could this be effectively adapted to a waterballoon, or small
fruit projectile size.
The basic idea is that there is a big weight on one end of a beam, and 
the object to be flung is attached to the other end by a cable.
as the weight falls, the object is pulled up really fast, since that
end is much longer than the end with the weight. 
it seems that this arrangement would be better for the balloon, since 
the acceleration is much more gradual than a catapault or elastic.

later 
eric

-- 
kwix@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Snoball fight and nudes
Date: 15 Dec 92 23:30:20 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Dec15.214929.10807@oswego.Oswego.EDU> Boncek@Oswego.edu (Lou Boncek) writes:
>
>	Over this past weekend I heard two rumors:
>1) that at some NorthEastern college that there 
>was a major snowball fight and that
>at least 7 or more persons were seriously injured.

Michigan State.  It must be true, they showed someone throwing a
snowball on CNN.
-- 
ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Brandeis Fight Song
Date: 15 Dec 92 02:01:13 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Dec14.222208.24249@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>Actually, they installed one last year that used to play the Brandeis
>Fight song when that happened. 

The Brandeis Fight Song?

[insert generic fight song joke here]

One of my fondest memories of Brandeis athletics (other than the soccer
team dismantling Scheffries and destroying the entire second-floor men's
bathroom, or the time two soccer players were arrested for breaking into
Busch Stadium in St. Louis, or the time that -- okay, I guess it's not
one of my fondest memories, but it's up there) was that the entire 
coaching staff of the physical education department had matching polo
shirts embroidered "Brandies."  

>The racket got so loud, they took it down.

It depends on who you talk to.  Cecil Adams in one of his Straight Dope
books cites Brandeis for excessive virginity.  On the other hand, Newsweek
commented on the rash of urinary tract infections resulting from long-chaste
women resuming sexual relations after exam week at Brandeis. 

And then there was the infamous _Absolute Brandeis_ survey that determined
that the average Brandeis male had twice as many one-night stands as the
average Brandeis female.  Chyeah, right.

>And Ted, you'll be happy to know that two years ago, you defeated
>the entire frat system singlehandedly in College Bowl. 
>
>Adam "I'll never be cool enough to have a legend at Brandeis" Levin

I was regularly confronted with completely false urban legends while
I attended Brandeis.  I can only imagine what's being said now that I'm
not even there....

But, yeah, that was definitely a highlight moment.  I still have the
souvenir t-shirt. 
-- 
ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jim@fuji.eng.yale.edu (James J. Szinger)
Subject: Re: College Libraries Funded by the Trivial
Organization: Yale University, Intelligent Sensors Lab, Elect. Eng.
	<1992Dec12.211326.10263@midway.uchicago.edu>
	<1992Dec13.025333.20653@midway.uchicago.edu>
	<1992Dec14.022412.19178@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:13:34 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.022412.19178@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>
derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:

>Wasn't Yale funded by a lock manufacturer?

Nope, Elihu was a wool merchant.  His donation was worth about
40,000 pounds.  These days you need like $1M just to name a
classroom.

>Derek "You can always pick them" Tearne

Most of the buildings here have either Best or Sargent locks.

Jim
--
James Szinger                        jim@fuji.eng.yale.edu

"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: Experiment
Keywords: experiment, gullible, and user friendly.  Kibo is an option.
Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:29:03 GMT

In article <Bz6pFx.G00@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki) writes:
> Keywords: experiment, gullible, and user friendly.  Kibo is an option.
[...]
>I left a recent "Keywords:" line in it and a reference to someone
>who I don't think was involved in the "Great Omar Debate".

Was too.  I was militantly neutral.

						-- K.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: popiels@foss.Colorado.EDU (POPIEL STEPHANIE LYN)
Subject: Re: Snoball fight and nudes
Reply-To: popiels@foss.Colorado.EDU (POPIEL STEPHANIE LYN)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:53:21 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.214929.10807@oswego.Oswego.EDU>, Boncek@Oswego.edu (Lou Boncek) writes:
>
>	Over this past weekend I heard two rumors:

....

>	2) that maybre at the same place (?) a bunch of students decided that it would be 
>great fun to run around nude.  I futher heard that one of them got arrested for 
>shop-lifting (how ever that is possible).
>	Much thanks.
>	Lou Boncek
>	Boncek@Oswego.edu

FYI - there is a guy at UC Berkley who goes to all of his classes nude - it was written up in PEOPLE this week.
From: v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (L'Angelo Misterioso)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Inventor dudes
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:22:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


	Our last president Steven Sample, now president at USC, 
holds the patent for the keypad on microwave ovens. He was a
a better engineer than a president................

mike
From: on@husc10.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Enough with the Omar postings!!!!
Keywords: innertube hudson water balloons
Date: 13 Dec 92 23:40:55 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center
Originator: on@husc10.harvard.edu

In article <Bz7L9r.9Mx@acsu.buffalo.edu> v115maec@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Mikey) writes:

>Sheesh... we were done! there hadn't been Omar shit for a few weeks already...
>read all the way through before posting this shit. Eek. what newsgroup is this
>guy reading?
>Not that I don't miss the Omar shit, mind you, but It has been laid to rest 
>already, pal.
>-Mike
>(BuffaloChip)

Bingo!  We have one... and counting...
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Wind-Powered Fantasies
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:42:42 GMT

In article <35510003@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates) writes:
>This is dangerous folks!
>I believe the common term for this is BlueFlame.
>
>A kid died from this a few years ago.. I think it was in the SJ Mercury News..
>
>There is a certain position you can get the body in where you can create 
>enough vacuum to suck in air into your lower colon...  if you are 
>in this position (I wouldnt know...but it was an interesting effect to 
>see someone else act like an idiot spouting blue flames) and ignite any
>highly flamable and stinky methane, you can cause hemmoraging(sic?)
>because of the explosion etc...  
>
>It is not very common, but it happens.  I would not recommend anyone
>do it after hearing about the kid croaking....

Definitely don't do it after eating Alka-Seltzer.

Ted "11 or 12 years old after the latest birthday" Frank
-- 
ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
From: tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: NI3
Date: 15 Dec 92 01:00:41 GMT
Organization: the HP Mtn.View Resp. Cntr.

Yes! Be Careful!   

When I was in High School, some jerk brewed up about a half a litre of
the stuff and left it in a cabinet.  Someone, a janitor or somebody
found it and the whole school was evacuated.  It was sitting there
waiting to blow half the classroom... If used sanely, you can have
lots of fun!  We would spread it out in front of the principal's 
office and watch the amazing scene unfold!  I have stepped on this
stuff barefoot and the pieces were small and didn't really hurt, but
I can see how you wouldn't want to over-do it.

"Turn unit on, insert coin, have fun!"-the Flanagan brothers.
From: Boncek@Oswego.edu (Lou Boncek)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Snoball fight and nudes
Date: 15 Dec 92 21:49:29 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Oswego State College


	Over this past weekend I heard two rumors:
	1) that at some NorthEastern college that there was a major snowball fight and that
at least 7 or more persons were seriously injured.
	2) that maybre at the same place (?) a bunch of students decided that it would be 
great fun to run around nude.  I futher heard that one of them got arrested for 
shop-lifting (how ever that is possible).
	Much thanks.
	Lou Boncek
	Boncek@Oswego.edu
From: v115maec@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Mikey)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Enough with the Omar postings!!!!
Keywords: innertube hudson water balloons
Date: 13 Dec 92 17:44:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <Bz6p6J.FIq@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki) writes...
> 
>Enough with the Omar postings allready!  God, if it bothers you that much just take it to mail or something.  Geesh, you'd figure that some people would figure out what a joke is.                                                                           

Sheesh... we were done! there hadn't been Omar shit for a few weeks already...
read all the way through before posting this shit. Eek. what newsgroup is this
guy reading?
Not that I don't miss the Omar shit, mind you, but It has been laid to rest 
already, pal.
-Mike
(BuffaloChip)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: NI3
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:21:39 GMT

kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov  writes:
> In article <92350.213416DEY101@psuvm.psu.edu> <DEY101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
> >>OK. I don't know about the brown stuff, but I do know of a fairly easy
> >>to produce contact explosive (I'm gonna get it right this time, 'cause
> >>i've made it.)  Here's what you do:
	(Recipe deleted.  Read the previous posts) 
> This will produce silver fulminate.  This is extremely nasty stuff, much
> nastier than ammonium triiodide.  It's also damnably expensive (due to
> the cost of the silver nitrate).  You would be much better off with
> mercury fulminate, which is a lot cheaper a lot more stable too.
> --scott

Is this the same thing as fulminate of mercury?  In the play/movie Mr.Roberts,
Ensign Pulver makes a firecracker out of this and blows up the laundry.  A very 
funny movie!

Torsten at Omaha
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: kaminl@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Matt Garretson)
Subject: Re: re* lighting farts
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:53:36 GMT

In article <92349.13014434I5VXB@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Don Dangler <34I5VXB@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> writes:
>I've never done it, but a friend of mine spent an afternoon at my house lightin
>g them through his jeans.  he simply laid back, put the soles of his shoes toge
>ther and flicked his bic when the moment arose.

If we're not careful, this may replace baseball as America's favorite pastime.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: fuzzy@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Fuzzy)
Subject: Re: Snoball fight and nudes
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:27:18 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.231545.10337@news.unomaha.edu> torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:
>There is one university in the eastern Midwest (east of Mississippi, west of 
>Philadelphia) that holds a nude race each year.  The participants must run 
>nude around a quad.  The police usually catch quite a few.  I read this in "U",
>so it must be true.

this could very well be Purdue...we have something called the Nude Olympics
here, where folks get naked and run around the courtyard of one of the 
dorms...Cary Quad...this year's wasn't that great...only about 20 ran....
19 guys and 1 girl...last year we had something like 18 guys and 6 girls...
apparently this tradition has been around since 1955.  The university 
mis-management frowns on this type of activity, but they still haven't 
managed to completely stop it from happening...

Fuzzy
--
Sleep comes like a drug...
                          ...patching me up for another week.

fuzzy@sage.cc.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper)
Subject: Re: Snoball fight and nudes
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:01:27 GMT

In article<1992Dec15.214929.10807@oswego.Oswego.EDU>, Boncek@Oswego.edu
(Lou Boncek) wrote:

        >Over this past weekend I heard two rumors:
        >1) that at some NorthEastern college that there was a major
>snowball fig
>ht and that
>at least 7 or more persons were seriously injured.
        >2) that maybre at the same place (?) a bunch of students decided
>that it
 >would be
>great fun to run around nude.  I futher heard that one of them got
>arrested for

>shop-lifting (how ever that is possible).

Ahem, allow me...

The first snowfall at Princeton heralds the Nude Olympics, where
hundreds of sophomores (men _and_ women now--YEAH!!!) get drunk, get
naked, and run around Holder Courtyard (which borders on Princeton's
main road, Nassau Street) and surrounding areas. Last year, (when I
was a sophomore, and no, I did not participate :-( ) a plate glass
window in a Palmer Square restaurant got smashed, there were undercover
police with cameras, and several students got called in to the police
station. A friend of mine who didn't participate either got called in
as well. It seems the police got hold of a fuzzy videotape and tried
to get him to confess. The _Daily_Princetonian_ even reported that
Hard Copy, the tabloid show, tried to get a copy of said tape. (Don't
know if they were successful or not.)

But that was last year. This year, as far as I know, a sophomore and
a freshman went by the local convenience store, snatch the Class of
'95 banner, shoplifted some stuff, and did some damage that caused
the store to close for several hours.

This is no legend, bub. This is glorious FACT!!! ;-)

        >Much thanks.
        >Lou Boncek
        >Boncek@Oswego.edu

Sure thing, Lou. Just try to keep your lines under around, oh, 75
characters long in the future.

ObLegend: Alexander Hall, the building which holds concerts and
whatnot, was given by an architecture major as revenge for flunking
out of Princeton. I'm talkin' UGLY, folks!

Tep

-- 
Did you really think I spoke for anyone else? Boy, you're gullible!
From: norbert@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy James)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Snoball fight and nudes
Date: 16 Dec 1992 16:07:20 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

In article <1992Dec15.214929.10807@oswego.Oswego.EDU> Boncek@Oswego.edu (Lou Boncek) writes:
>
>	Over this past weekend I heard two rumors:
>	1) that at some NorthEastern college that there was a major snowball fight and that
>at least 7 or more persons were seriously injured.
>	2) that maybre at the same place (?) a bunch of students decided that it would be 
>great fun to run around nude.  I futher heard that one of them got arrested for 

You might be refering to the annual University of Mass. vs. Amherst college
snowball fight...  Th first big snowfall of the season hundreds of
students engage in trying to pelt the crap out of eachother...
Usually some people get hurt, and the cops (lots of them) have to try and
break it up... usually doesn't work though...
They also have a Bowl streaking tradition, but that is another story...


-- 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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(Tim The Lemur)             Whoooooo!"                   -- Joey the Lemur
norbert@wpi.wpi.edu        "I just know that I'm RIGHT!" -- Guinen
From: v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (L'ANGELO MISTERIOSO)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: UB snowbrawl
Date: 16 Dec 92 18:39:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


	I was witness to this snowball free-for-all last Thursday
night. It took place in the Ellicott Complex, which is a residence
hall complex comprised of six separate residence halls (this was 
discussed a while back in the Biggest Dorm thread). Anyway, from
what I saw, it started outside Red Jacket Hall when a fire alarm
went off. Public Safety showed up for the fire alarm, and the people
(10 or 15) thought *they* were in trouble. They went upstairs to
the terrace (a walkway connecting all the dorms from the outside) and
continued outside RJ. At this point it grew to about 50 people, and
was taking place below my RA's window. People from Wilkeson and 
Spaulding Halls showed up, and the conflagration moved down to 
the 'bowl', a central open are next to Lake Lasalle. At this
point, most of Ellicott saw what was happening, and they all joined in.
Mike's estimate of 300 os proabably pretty close. The battle went on 
for about 2 or three hours, and Res Life staff couldn't stop it. 
Public Safety claimed to have 'other things to attend to', and
didn't do anything. 
	I think around 2 or 2:30 is when it started to turn into a
real fight. I don't know how it started, but that's when Public
Safety came to the rescue and preserved law and order for us, our
children, and our children's children :)

mike
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: mds@iastate.edu (Mark D. Smucker)
Subject: Re: NI3
Organization: Iowa State University of Censorship and Repression
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 21:31:43 GMT

In article <Bz7MGy.1wr@cs.uiuc.edu> stangel@cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Stangel) writes:
>A while ago (perhaps a year?) someone posted a recipe for making
>Nitrogen Tri-Iodide.  (At lease, I'm pretty sure that's what it
>was -- the brown crystals; many of you know what I'm talking about)
>Does anyone still have that?  Wanna repost it?
>
>Mike

If I rember correctly, this was dangerous.  But here are some posts
from that past discussion.

Article 1069 of alt.folklore.college:
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From: rlbrinkl@eos.ncsu.edu (RAY LATHAM BRINKLEY)
Subject: Re: those wacky chemicals
Reply-To: rlbrinkl@eos.ncsu.edu (RAY LATHAM BRINKLEY)
Organization: Project EOS - North Carolina State University
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1992 19:39:10 GMT

It sounds like you're talking about Nitrogen Triodide.  Although I don't know 
what color it is, your description seems to indicate that.  As a solution in 
water it is perfectly stable, but if it is allowed to dry it forms crystals 
which will explosively decompose at the slightest touch.


Ray. 




Article 1075 of alt.folklore.college:
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: osicoop@bwdls138.Berkeley.EDU (Coop for Alex Brown)
Subject: Re: those wacky chemicals
Reply-To: osicoop@bwdls138.Berkeley.EDU (Coop for Alex Brown)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1992 21:22:55 GMT

In article <1992Apr2.014913.21018@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>,
bart@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bart Gold) writes:
> 
>     One quick question for all you intrepid chemical pranksters-
> 
>     Can anyone tell me the name of the substance that is first made as a
> brown liquid, then, when poured on the floor, turns into an (mildly)
> explosive brown solid?
> 

I used to be in chemical engineering...the substance of which you speak would
be pottasium iodide. Quite harmless, and works very well if spread around
in small quantities. Someone stepping on it will hear a <crack> and there is
basically no residue.

Ashley Buratynski			email: osicoop@bnr.ca
University of Waterloo		"So this is the sword of immortality, huh?  			 
Electrical Engineering           What's it doing in a crypt?"




Article 1088 of alt.folklore.college:
Organization: Freshman, Drama, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA