HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Doggone (was: Ring in the New Year with Some FAQs
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 23:17:10 GMT
Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy, Houston, TX

fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis) writes:

> In article <28203@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
> >  "I'm not making this up. I've seen a wargame of the battle of Stalingrad
> >     which includes an optional counter for mine dogs, so it must be true.
> 
> My son got a book about Dog breeds for Christmas which mentions the
> story of Russians training dogs to carry explosives into enemy personnel
> carriers. I don't have a clue to the story's value, but for you
> afficianados of Dog Shows, the breed descriptions of this book are
> straight out of the USA network broadcast of the Westchester (Westminster?)
> Dog Show. Catch it if you can this year. 
> -- 
> Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> One never knows, do one?


I remember reading this story years ago, but I forget the source.
I do recall that the Russians had supposedly trained dogs to run under 
German tanks and stay there until the explosives went off.  Unfortunately 
the dogs never did learn to distinguish between German and Russian tanks 
so the experiment was called off.  So went the story i read.  Not sure I 
believe it.


pope Charles  Subgenius Pope Of Houston   "Bob" loves you!

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Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:32916 talk.politics.medicine:520
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,talk.politics.medicine
Subject: Re: Why care what percentage?  (was: Gay Likelihood)
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 09:01:55 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:

> Then how come all the hemophiliacs getting cryoprecipitates prior to
> the advent of HIV testing of the blood supply got AIDS?  And now
> that we do test, they aren't getting it anymore.  And before the
> epidemic, none of them got it.  Duesberg is an idiot.
> 
Does testing of the blood supply involve testing for the virus itself or for 
antibodies to the virus? The reason I ask is that blood testing was introduced
before there was a test for the virus itself. I understand that testing
directly for the virus is still not cheap and I imagine that on the scale
required for testing the blood supply, it could be quite expensive.

My concern is that if someone has the virus before developing antibodies, 
then that won't be detected if only the presence of antibodies is tested.

I've asked lots of doctors, etc, and no one can give me a straight answer.

Someone care to relieve my paranoia?

ObUl or fact? To save the costs of test, blood is tested in binary chops.
Eg 100 samples are tested. If there is no response, its all accepted. If there
is an positive reading, then two tests are performed breaking the samples into
50 and 50, and so on. (Hmmm, would be better to start with 128 samples....).
Obviously, fresh extracts would be taken from each "donor pile" and
presumably the quantities would be so small so that you wouldn't use up the
whole blood in testing.

I know that this is done in one small rural hospital in a third world
country for antibody tests. Is it common or widespread? I would imagine that
it would be a productive technique in western countries where we would still
expect no result from testing 100 people. (At this rural hospital, over 50%
tested positive for AIDS - community based testing showed 35% positive).


Wayne "O Rh- Kell- Duffey-  THE UNIVERSAL DONOR" McDougall


Will give blood for food.


-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU

"I hate quotations." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,talk.politics.medicine
Subject: Re: Why care what percentage?  (was: Gay Likelihood)
Date: 10 Jan 93 23:26:27 GMT
Followup-To: talk.politics.medicine,alt.troll.stein
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <1993Jan7.230606.11791@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.224454.19887@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dsegard@nyx.cs.du.edu (Daniel Segard) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan6.185944.15328@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> wvhorn@magnu
>>.acs.ohio-state.edu (William VanHorne) writes:
>>>>       I guess I haven't been paying attention to the public service
>>>>broadcasts....   Please explain how those of us who don't fool around w
>>>>anyone and don't do drugs, etc are going to contract AIDS?  Or has ther
>>>>been a news release that I missed announcing that AIDS is carried by
>>>>misquito bits or something?
>>>>
>>>No, AIDS is only carried by the naughty bits.
>>>
>>>Sorry.

Please take this thread OUT of alt.folklore.urban and into
talk.politics.medicine or some other poor, defenseless group.  
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: catstyle@cathouse.aiss.uiuc.edu (Jason R. Heimbaugh)
Subject: Re: African-American-top
Reply-To: jrh@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:29:47 GMT

In article <CINDY.93Jan7213834@solan10.solan.unit.no>  
cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf) writes:

> How often do i have to post so people know i'm not dead?

Preferably more than Babak Sehari (and to more newsgroups).

--
Jason "My next cat's name" Heimbaugh (CatStyle)
jrh@uiuc.edu
"If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?" --Ronnie Van Zant
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: AFU person of the year?
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 13:20:49 GMT

In article <joshm.726289905@crash.cts.com>, joshm@crash.cts.com (Josh Mercer)
writes:
> [er, no - he just quotes Jonathan Papai and nothing more]

Hello? Is there an echo in a.f.u? Or, is it just Josh posting his
own nomination as the "AFU person of the year?"

---
YuNoHoo
From: tmcbraye@thor.ece.uc.edu (Tim McBrayer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: FAQ These DIFFS
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:20:44 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

In article <28204@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
|> 
|> 990,991c990,992
|> < F. Someone never gets tickets because his plates say "NONE".
|> < U. Freon can be used to break Kryptonite locks.
|> ---
|> > F. Someone never gets tickets because his license plates say "NONE".
|> > Tb.Freon can be used to break Kryptonite locks.
|> > Tb.No self-respecting car thief would use it though.

Of course not!  But a bicycle thief might, though.

-- 
Tim McBrayer                                tmcbraye@thor.ece.uc.edu
Computer Architecture Design Laboratory     (513) 556-0904
University of Cincinnati
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Phone Calls at 2/3 the Speed of Light
Keywords: phone, telephone, speed
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:16:56 GMT
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario

krajnatg@infonode.ingr.com (Tom G. Krajna) writes:

>While watching the traditional wintertime pigskin fest today, I noticed
>an AT&T commercial that showed three red sports cars and listed their
>speeds in miles-per-hour.  Next came a red phone (cute, eh?) and listed
>its speed: 440,000,000 mph (if I remember correctly).

>Doing the ol' 186,282 * 3600, though, I get more like 670,615,200.  So
>what gives?  Is AT&T using slow lines?  Is my math bad?  More importantly,
>will Sprint or MCI run ads touting a 50% speed increase over AT&T?

3x10^8 m/s (or 186,262 mph) is the speed of light in a vacuum.  Light
travels slower in other media, such as copper wire.  I'm suprised it's that
high, actually.  I suppose that the speed would be higher for international
calls because they go by waves in the ether up to satellites, rather than
through cables.  (But then they have to go further...)


-- 
Paul Tomblin (I don't make or state policy for this company)
"Well, this looks absolutely brilliant and completely unmarketable."
"Thanks.  I'm technology driven" - Dilbert
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: African-American-top
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:12:40 GMT

nigel@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca (Nigel M Burnett) writes:

>Yup, seen it, and the retraction too.  I think I was business travelling
>at the time and there's no way I'm gonna remember where.  Anyway,
>"The xyx times/standard wish to apologize ... article in the business
>section regarding "companies getting back into the African-Amercican".
>This should have read "... back into the black"."

I'm reasonably certain (hows that for an a.f.u lead off) that I saw this in
that bastion of good research, the National Lampoon True Facts Issue.  I'm
also reasonably certain that it was attributed to a Southern Ontario area
paper, either the Toronto Sun or the K-W Record.

Hang on while I do a quick grep of my bookshelf....

Found a correction from the Nashville Banner, where they apologize for
attributing statements to Mary White, when it should have been Mary Black.
(The article was about discrimination) (NL True Facts Aug 88)

Can't find the one I'm thinking of, however...

-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@compass.gvc.com
"Her love was like a wave-division multiplexor" - Dilbert
(This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: leecr@microsoft.com (Lee Crocker)
Subject: Definitive "Baby Ruth" answer
Date: 08 Jan 93 20:58:58 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

According to a spokesman for Nestle foods, the maker of Baby Ruth
candy bars, they were named after Grover Cleveland's daughter
Ruth, not the ball player.  They were first marketed in 1893.

Nestle foods can be reached at 818-549-6000 for those who care
to verify this.

How about a FAQ addition:

F: "Baby Ruth" candy bars are named after George "Babe" Ruth
T: "Baby Ruth" candy bars are named after President Cleveland's daughter.

-- 
Lee Daniel Crocker    | Free minds; free bodies; free trade.
leecr@microsoft.com   | Libertarian Party  1-800-682-1776
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: reid@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Robert Reid)
Subject: Re: origin of which side of the road to drive on
Organization: Applied Research Labs, University of Texas at Austin
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:00:56 GMT

Otto Heuer #3 <ottoh3@cfsmo.honeywell.com> writes:


>I've now heard two different explanations for why half the  world drives on
>the right side of the road and the other hald drives on  the wron...er left
>side of the road.  Just curious if anyone knows which (if either) was true.
>Or if anyone has heard a DIFFERENT reason...

>An old GF was trying to tell me it traced back to the days  of the knights.
>When they approached each other on a road, they'd want to have  a weapon in
>their right  hand,  and  would shake  hands with  their left  hand, so they
>always "drove"  on  the  right  side  of  the  road.    She  didn't have an
>explanation for  why  Brits,  et.al.  drive on  the left  (unless the whole
>country is filled with southpaws).  :-)


A long time ago I heard (with that beginning this must be the correct
group) a knight-related reason for 'driving' on the left side of the
road. Suppose that you

	- are right handed
	- are wearing a scabbard (it will be on your left hip)
	- want to get on your horse

If you start with your horse on the left then you will have quite a
difficult time getting onto it (at least that's what I hear). So you
start with the horse on your
right. Now you don't want to walk out into the street to get on the
horse, you want to stand on the curb. In the end this means that you
end up 'driving' on the left side of the street.

>                --Otto "HACK-MAN" Heuer     Quayle/Limbeau '96
>--
>C, Pascal, Fortran, BASIC, Assembly Language, Snobol, Ada, APL, Prolog, LISP
>Unix, MS-DOS, ProDOS       .  .   .   .... .  .   .   .   .   .   . Audio/Video
>ottoh@cfsmo.honeywell.com  :..: .:.:. :    :.' .. :`.': .:.:. :`. :   Star Trek
>hackman@pnet51.orb.mn.org  :  : :   : :... : `.   :   : :   : :  `:  Apple IIgs

Robert
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: "Paul Purdom" <pwp@cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Etymological matters (was Re: African-American-top)
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:44:02 -0500

cel@nsscmail.att.com (clayton EDward LEIHY iii) writes:

>If I can trace at least once of my ancestor as being Egyptian,
>can I call myself an Afro-American??  (for the geography-impaired,
>Egypt is in the north(eastern) part of the African continent.

During the Carter administration there was a ruling that any one
who thought of himself as an Afro-American could call himself one.
(I sure that if I have oversimplified this ruling someone will
fill in the details.)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: kasprj@sage4a.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:23:01 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.211940.12605@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>, derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
|> Dave Budd writes:
|> 
|> >Mornington Crescent
|> 
|> But can you remember the rules?
 
 Is it anything like Foggy Bottom? I was once told that it was a variant
of a London-based game with some weird name, and Mornington Crescent does
ring a bell.
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From: fred@page6.pinetree.org (Fred Ennis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: terry awards
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 09:16:36 -0500
Organization: Page 6, Ottawa, Ontario +1 613-729-9451

> That does it.  I don't want to hear this line again, until I hear it from
> someone who can tell it right.

OK...here goes. One indian couple slept on a hippopotamus hide, while two 
other couples slept on otter hides.  After a few years, they noted the 
couple who slept on the hippo hide has as many sons as the total of
the folks sleeping on the otter hides.  That lead to the following rule
of thumb:

"The sons of the squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the suns of the 
squaws on the two otter hides."

NOTE: The use of the word "squaw" is not politically correct, and the 
nomenclature is used only for the sake of illustrating a rather elderly 
play on words as a glimpse into the way jokes used to be told.

--
Fred Ennis, fred@page6.pinetree.org

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From: turnerbl@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college
Subject: Kresge, was he really Ross Perot?
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:16:35 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati


<stuff deleted>

 
> Oh yeah, one more--are there any other Kresge auditoria out there?

Indeed, we here at the University of Cincinnati, posessing not only one of the
finest schools of architecture in the land, are also complemented with a Kresge
auditorium too.  College of Med uses it.  Nasty little hall, but it's paid for!

"Views are all my own, like my bosses would want them, and nasty flamers will be
giggeled at and made fun of."

Brian Turner
Admissions Officer
College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning
University of Cincinnati.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: rogers@rosencrantz.osf.org (Andrew Rogers)
Subject: Re: Cars Bursting into Flame
Organization: HICAM/OSD
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 03:44:06 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.062927.14218@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
>And be thankful that Ford never built that nuclear powered car they
>were designing in the 50's!

I refer interested readers to "Meltdown on Main Street: The Unfulfilled
Promise of the Atomic Car", in _Automobile Quarterly_ 31-1.  You can see
a photo of Ford's styling study for their proposed Nucleon, among many
other pre-Space Age flights of fancy...

AWR
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The flywheel on the jeep goes round and round
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 22:36:39 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1993Jan5.211514.437@ultra.com> hayes@ultra.com (John Hayes) writes:
>
>>Having no experience with column-mounted shifters, I imagine it 
>>would have to have some mondo synchromesh to achieve such an 
>>effect.
>
>For all of the three-speed manual trannys I know of, reverse is NEVER
>synchronized.  That's why you can occasionally grind the gears a bit
>when standing still trying to put it into reverse.

For all four and five speed manuals I know of reverse is never synchronised 
either.  I believe there are a couple of recent 6 speed gear boxes with 
synchro on reverse.  After all how often do you want to change smoothly from
forward motion to reverse without coming to a standstill? 


-- 
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From: krajnatg@infonode.ingr.com (Tom G. Krajna)
Subject: Phone Calls at 2/3 the Speed of Light
Keywords: phone, telephone, speed
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Distribution: alt
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 04:49:09 GMT

While watching the traditional wintertime pigskin fest today, I noticed
an AT&T commercial that showed three red sports cars and listed their
speeds in miles-per-hour.  Next came a red phone (cute, eh?) and listed
its speed: 440,000,000 mph (if I remember correctly).

Doing the ol' 186,282 * 3600, though, I get more like 670,615,200.  So
what gives?  Is AT&T using slow lines?  Is my math bad?  More importantly,
will Sprint or MCI run ads touting a 50% speed increase over AT&T?

I suppose they could be trying to account for some switching time...but
assuming a typical one or two second delay between end-of-dialing and
beginning-of-ringing causes calling speed to drop way down (to only a few
million miles-per-hour).

Oh, I guess we need an urban legend-based explanation.  How about this
one: super-sophisticated voice-recognition software monitors all phone
calls and provides a report of every questionable conversation to a
super-secret government agency, but causes a slight-but-measurable
reduction in phone call transmission speeds.

ObUL: Kooshballs are mutant tribble offspring.

--Tom K.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Re: Mother Lifts Car Off Child. Uh huh.
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 20:08:40 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

In article <1993Jan4.113107.18986@husc3.harvard.edu>, joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes) writes:
|> I had a great time with my old Ford Pinto, though (N.B.--the Pinto was famous
|> for bursting into flames when hit in the rear due to a poorly-designed gas
|> tank/rear axle arrangement that practically guaranteed the tank would be
|> punctured in a collision).  I hung a black-and-orange "DANGER--FLAMMABLE"
|> sign in the rear window and chuckled as drivers read the sign, figured out
|> what I was driving, and backed off about 100 feet immediately.

Wasn't there a problem with GMC trucks that were exploding in
slow ( <30/mph ) side collisions?  I recall seeing it on 20/20
or 60 minutes.  Something about gas tanks mounted outside of
the frame...

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From: andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Holyer)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Organization: University of Sussex
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:06:07 GMT

In article <28233@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes:
>
>  +>Can anyone identify a major city for me that does not have a street named
>  +>after Martin Luther King, Jr.?
>
>derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>  +
>  +Johannesburg?
>
>Sure there is.  It crosses  Cuomo Drive.
>
Presumably at Steven Biko Plaza.
-- 
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Computing Studies, University of Sussex, |  nothing, which exploded."
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Shamen
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:15:27 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.113122.5031@ulysses.robots.ox.ac.uk> neil@robots.ox.ac.uk (Neil Townsend) writes:
>Ted Frank asked
>
>>Didn't the lead-singer of Shamen drown or something?
>
>Mr. C. Shamen is the new/current lead singer of the Shamen. True
>`experimental dance music' lovers here will tell you that the Shamen
>have gone downhill/populist since he joined to replace their previous
>lead singer who did indeed die. The two possible causes I've heard are
>`bizarre gardening accident' and `drowned', which are not mutually
>exclusive.

It was some other rock star who died in a bizarre gardening accident
from an allergic reaction to pesticides.  Go know.
-- 
ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
never shout movie in a crowded firestation
From: presley@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Joe Presley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:37:12 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <254swB2w165w@page6.pinetree.org> fred@page6.pinetree.org (Fred Ennis) writes:
 : In Ottawa we have green signs with a line drawing of a dog, a pile of 
 : dogshit, and a bag.  Arrows go from the dogshit to the bag.
 : 
 : The pictograms are designed to tell you that it is OK for your dog to 
 : shit if you put it in a bag.  The sign neglects to tell you what to do to 
 : the bag.

You giftwrap it and put it on your car seat or a park bench.
-- 
	Joe Presley
	j.h.presley@att.com
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From: leecr@microsoft.com (Lee Crocker)
Subject: Re: Baby Ruth Candy Bar
Date: 10 Jan 93 04:45:12 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1993Jan8.213043.7416@photon.com> jbn@photon.com (Joe Naiman) writes:
>Allegedly the Baby Ruth bar was named for President Cleveland's daughter,
>but since Cleveland was out of office for decades, it's popular belief
>that the Curtis Candy Company wanted to avoid paying the Yankee slugger
>royalties and claimed that it was named after the President's daughter.

I certainly wouldn't put it past the company to use GHR's fame to
sell their similarly-named candy bar, but if they created it, and they
say it's Cleveland's daughter, and it's specifically spelled "Baby"
rather than "Babe", I don't think there's any reason to say it is any
other than what they claim, even if they originally wanted to name it
"Babe" after GHR, the fact remains that they didn't, and there's no
other authority better than them to doubt their claim.

--Lee "run-on sentences are my life" Crocker
-- 
Lee Daniel Crocker    | Free minds; free bodies; free trade.
leecr@microsoft.com   | Libertarian Party  1-800-682-1776
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