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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Documented mass cannibalism?
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 23:27:30 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1993Jan11.020526.24039@ulysses.att.com> smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
>
>Btw, the claims against cannibalism are stronger than Bruce has indicated.
>``William Arens of the State University of New York at Stony Brook argued
>that no researcher had ever actually witnessed an instance of cannibalism,
>and the practice probably did not exist except as a last resort to stave
>off starvation.''

That's because the average anthropologist in a position to witness cannibalism
was subsequently eaten.  

Imagine the research method.

Anthro: "Excuse me ignorant aboriginal savage.  Do you practice cannibalism?"
Indigini: "Well I could tell you, but then I'd have to eat you!"
Anthro: "Jolly good"

ObUL: The New Zealand Maori were known, from documentary evidence and their
own legends, to eat members of other tribes killed in battle.  Considering 
they had already eaten to extinction the only large meaty creature available 
(the Moa - a large bird with a chicken like flavour) this is hardly surprising.
The only other mammal available was the polynesion rat brought to New Zealand
by the Maori as a food item.

ObYummyNZFood: Pakeha is a well known and very tasty New Zealand delicacy.  
Surprisingly it doesn't contain any lamb or dairy produce. If you know any
New Zealanders you should ask them to prepare some for your next dinner party.

Derek "One KatiKati fried Pakeha to go" Tearne


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From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: Kresge auditoria
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:08:31 GMT

pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu  writes:
> I'm curious about this, too, now.  There is no KA at Ohio State, nor is there
> one at the University of Texas at Austin.  The live recording on my CD "Tom
> Lehrer Revisited" was made, according to the notes, in the Kresge Auditorium
> on some campus, but gee, y'know, I'd have to go all the way upstairs and
> actually _look_ at the thing to enlighten you, and besides, this is AFU, after
> all.  Maybe I'll do it tomorrow.
> 
> -Neal Whitman

I would bet that it is the MIT KA, as he earned his degree from one of the 
universities in/near Harvard (Mathematics, I believe).

BTW, the MIT KA is usually included in most Architecture courses, and should 
be pictured in most archtecture books.  Architecturally, MIT has some of the
best buildings of any campus in the U.S.

And while we're discussing MIT architecture, is there a FAQ for the various 
objects placed on the classical dome?  I've heard about the VW bug that was
left running, and about the telephone booth.  When the security guards went 
onto the dome to remove the booth, the pranksters called the booth!

Lost money on the MIT-Caltech Rose Bowl

Torsten at Omaha
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Subject: Re: Amusing signs 
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 09:46:52 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

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.
> 
Obviously you leave it in you unlocked car and hope someone steals it (the
bag, not the car). Backs of pick-up trucks are preferred.



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From: dbsjwb@Edm.Arco.COM 
Subject: doggie doodoo
Originator: dbsjwb@doofus
Reply-To: bielak@arco.com
Organization: Fridays at 16:00
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:16:10 GMT


Years ago, we got a golden retriever puppy. Now, these critters are not
exactly noted for their intellegence (nor voracity).

Mandlebrot (his name) would occasionally be found "snacking" on some of
his Texas sun-dried turds out in the back yard. MMMmmmmmm! The vet told
my wife that (get this) putting Adolph's meat tenderizer in the dog food
would solve the problem. He said that the meat tenderizer would make them
turds "taste bad". Seriously.

Several questions come to mind: 

   Taste bad? Worse than what?

   Who has the job of taste testing? What are they teaching vets these days?

   Could it be true?

BTW, Mandlebrot more or less grew out of the habit. And no, I have absolutely
no interest in participating in experiments.

jwb

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From: davew@willow03.cray.com (Dave Wagner)
Subject: Re: Celestial Seasonings
Originator: davew@willow03
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 6 Jan 93 10:57:00 CST


In article <1993Jan6.012055.15914@pony.Ingres.COM>, bobm@Ingres.COM (Bob McQueer) writes:
> In <C0EE26.2w6@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>,
> 	dated Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:25:16 GMT,
> 	jkshapir@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Kivi Shapiro) writes:
> > What was the deal with Celestial Seasonings tea again?  Some weird
> > religious sect?
> 
> What I want to know is what they have against putting strings on their
> teabags ...
> 
> Tired of steeping my fingers as well as my Red Zinger.
Of course, if you'd make tea the right way[tm], you'd use a teapot and wouldn't
have that problem.
-- 
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davew@cray.com , uunet!cray!davew          just an earth-bound misfit, I"
(612) 683-5393                                  -- Pink Floyd
From: mccoy@cayman.com (Michael McCoy)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Phone Calls at 2/3 the Speed of Light
Keywords: phone, telephone, speed
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:24:10 GMT
Reply-To: mccoy@cayman.com (Michael McCoy)
Organization: cayman.com

pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin) writes:

>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.

Significantly slower, I would imagine.

Michael "Typing faster than the speed of light through copper" McCoy

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From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Driving too slow, stopped by cops
Keywords: legend
Date: 5 Jan 93 11:48:23 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <1ht0ohINN2b9@network.ucsd.edu> mbreen@sdacs.ucsd.edu (Michael Breen) writes:

>I played in a band many moons ago whose drummer was an extremely strange
>person.  One of his many quirks was his inability to think and drive at
>the same time, which resulted in a few tickets for driving too slow.
>Apparently, they'd just think he's drunk, and were then unwilling to not give
>him a ticket even when they find him sober.

>Michael Breen
>singing and philosophizing
>(and having no problems driving fast enough)

Some old git in England (or was it Wales?) was not just stopped but also 
busted for driving too slow back in 92 (91?).  Caused a 12 mile tailback.


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From: smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Subject: Re: Trademarkability of personal names (Was: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:54:22 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

In article <1993Jan10.190058.24035@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
> [As a side note, does anyone know what allows the production of Richard
> Nixon masks?]  

My assumption is that they're considered to be political satire,
and hence protected by the First Amendment.
From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mother Lifts Car Off Child. Uh huh.
Date: 4 Jan 93 16:31:07 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:

>pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
>: 
>: I thought cars only burst into flames on TV.  Isn't it just a UL?
>
>No - it actually does happen once in a while.  It is not a common
>occurance.

Yes.  Several years ago the "Nice Old Lady Across the Street" from my former
residence locked her keys in her idling Ford, then called the fire department
to come and SlimJim it open.  The nice firefighters did so, and just as they
opened the door there was a loud "FWOOOOSHHHH" and the entire car went up in
flames due to a fuel leak near the manifold.  Sloppy luck, if you ask me...

The untrue bit is when cars *explode* upon impact.  You'd need quite a bomb
in the trunk to make this happen.  It makes a nice effect on film, though.

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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dick "driving to disaster" Joltes			joltes@husc.harvard.edu
Hardware & Networking Manager, Computer Services 	joltes@husc.bitnet 
Harvard University Science Center

"Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ilaine@panix.com (Liz Stokes)
Subject: Re: Light--but White?
Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:52:13 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.151140.18103@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <6284.434.uupcb@ehbbs.gwinnett.com> curt.tucker@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Curt Tucker)  writes:
>>I seem to remember hearing something in the last few days about a
>>Michael Jackson commercial (British documentary?) being produced
>>(by Pepsi?) which features a young actor playing Michael as a
>>child. The young actor was alleged to be white.
>>
>>The makers of the commercial/film/whatever responded only that
>>the actor was chosen as having the best likeness to the young
>>Jackson, or something like that.
>>
>>Can anyone comment on the accuracy, truth, or falseness of this
>>account? I don't remember where I heard it.
>
>This is a more recent event than the UL in the FAQ.  There's some
>discussion on it in soc.culture.african.american, with the wire
>story reposted.
>
>Allegedly a black had already been picked for the (non-American)
>commercial, but MJ vetoed it to have a white play the role.
	according to the New York Post (a thoroughly reliable newspaper)
They were originally going to use clips of Michael himself as a child, but
he nixed that because it would make it obvious to everyone that he had 
had plastic surgery and skin bleaching.
					-Liz


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From: obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB)
Subject: Re: Norman Travels??
Summary: Baked beans are off!
Keywords: spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:04:46 GMT


Bloody Vikings!

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: std_fleming@hg.uleth.ca (John Fleming)
Subject: Pygmy in zoo.
Reply-To: std_fleming@hg.uleth.ca
Organization: University of Lethbridge
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:01:12 GMT

 Today in a Psych lecture (the course is Human Sexuality), my professor told  us that in 1904 an expedition to Africa captured a Pygmy tribesman.  This unfortunate individual was brought to America, where he was exhibited in a cage in the Primate House of the Bronx Zoo.  My professor brought this up as part of the 
point that, despite some opinions to the contrary, all somatic variations of
H. Sapiens are just that - variations on one species.  I didn't get the 
chance to inquire further about the poor pygmy.  Has anyone else heard of 
this?

                                      John Fleming(std_fleming@hg.uleth.ca)
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Unmasking of the Faux Cindy
Date: 11 Jan 93 13:55:06 GMT
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In <H.eg.Xe2rI8HsjBM@harvee.billerica.ma.us>, S. Mudgett aka little gator writes:
>
>>cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf) writes:
>>  +Steinar, of course, is my husband, and Stein is a troll (not of the
>>  +stuffed variety).
>then what variety is he?
>if he isn't "stuffed", then he isn't a nonbio or taxidermed.  is he
>biological, fictional. or what?


oops.  francesco tortellini, my husband's plastic penguin, reminds me
that not all nonbios are stuffed.
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From: de@moscom.com (David Esan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Date: 6 Jan 93 20:55:48 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corporation, Pittsford NY

In article <1993Jan5.191741.26982@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> 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.?

Sticking just to US cities, Rochester, NY does not have a street named after
MLK.  As a matter of fact, I am not sure we have anything named after him.

And who is this pope Malcolm the Tenth?


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From: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker)
Subject: Re: google??
Originator: jlpicard@woofer.austin.ibm.com
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:33:13 GMT
Reply-To: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Object Technology Products


tomj@monster.apd.saic.com (Tom Johnson) writes:
> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
> 
> >davew@willow03.cray.com (Dave Wagner) writes:
> >>I remember hearing once that a 'google' is 10^100 or something like that.  Is
> >>this for real?  If so, says who?  If not, has anyone else heard this?  Does
> >>it have any mathematical use?
> 
> >1) yes
> >2) generally accepted
> >3) lots of people
> >4) Expressing big numbers, such as ((2*5)^2^5)^2^5. Had trends continued,
> >it would have been a useful number for price of bread in Weimar Germany.

The story I heard was that some mathematician asked his daughter (age ~3-5yrs)
to name the biggest number she could think of, and she said "a googol!"

> >ObUL: The Mexican Peso is being revalued by a factor of 1000.  Now about
> >pi Pesos/US$.

Fact, not a legend...I believe it already happened. Sorry.

Craig
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From: cep@taligent.com (Christophe Pettus)
Subject: Re: The shifty-eyed shifty-shaped Odo
Organization: Taligent, a little subsidiary of two really big companies.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:48:03 GMT

In article <C0pGpG.32u@NeoSoft.com> arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva) writes:
>The thing that bugged me about that scene is when he reshifted, he
>shifted back to his usual self.  I mean, like, really.  Let's smuggle
>ourselves aboard an enemy spacecraft and wander around and be as 
>consipicuous as possible, eh?

... as well as shuttlecraft that measure their velocity in kilometers
per _hour_.  Ah, well, the bad technology is one of ST's pleasures.
--
-- Christophe

"Bad analogy!  No biscuit!"
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Subject: Re: Ring in the New Year with Some FAQs
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 20:55:15 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <ciu5wB4w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
>derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>
>[Newspaper report of possible UL about cats and washing machines deleted]
>
>> Derek "I still maintain the fire engine and cat story is true" Tearne
>
>here we have it folks, both Derek and Kibo admit
>that they are responsible for MAINTAINING urban legends. Here is the source.
>"I still maintain the fire engine and cat story" is true ...

Allright I missed out the word 'that'.  However in my defence the statement
'I still maintain _that_ the green goddess fire engine and cat story is 
true and should be marked as such in the FAQ'.  

Is too long and unwieldy for a middle name.  

>                                       ... - possibley[sic] indicates
>that others moderate other urban legends.
             ^^^^^^^^

There _were those who would try to moderate urban legends.  But this puppy 
was voted down!  

>ObLemur: Any lemur is welcome to have an account on my BBS. See below for
>phone number.
 
Lemurs are not an indigenous species and should not be allowed in New Zealand.
So Wayne would probably have a hard time importing one.

ObUL: Much of New Zealands native flora and fauna have become endangered due
to nasty introduced plant and animal species - Rabbits, Possums, Gorse, Privet,
Sheep, Homo Sapiens...

ObUL1: There are _no_ snakes in New Zealand - not even in Zoos.

Derek "The only good Possum is a dead Possum" Tearne.


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From: tomj@monster.apd.saic.com (Tom Johnson)
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Organization: SAIC, Reston, VA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:38:15 GMT

cba@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Brian Abernathy) writes:

>There is a bridge in East Tennesse which goes over a small body of water 
>called "Greasy Creek".  Once, while paving, they posted a sign warning of
>slippery conditions due to the paving materials.  The combination of signs
>was quite amusing.  They were:  "Greasy Creek" - "Fresh Oil".
In the same vein, there used to be a sign on Route 29 in Virginia between
Fairfax and Charlottesville that said

       PEPSI COLA
       Bottled Gas
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: google??
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:58:31 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <1993Jan11.172213.2886@hemlock.cray.com> davew@willow03.cray.com (Dave Wagner) writes:

>I remember hearing once that a 'google' is 10^100 or something like that.  Is

10^100, absolutely correct.

>this for real?  If so, says who?  If not, has anyone else heard this?  Does

Oh yes.          Mathematicians in general.

>it have any mathematical use?

Not really.

A googleplex is either 10^google or google^100 or google^google
Anybody?

        Never believe an experiment until it is confirmed by theory 
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From: arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Re: The shifty-eyed shifty-shaped Odo
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:56:02 GMT

In article <lks17nINNk2g@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:
> 
> How did the Cardassians carry Odo aboard disguised as a sportsbag
> without noticing his weight?   Or does he shift weight as well as
> shifting shape?

The thing that bugged me about that scene is when he reshifted, he
shifted back to his usual self.  I mean, like, really.  Let's smuggle
ourselves aboard an enemy spacecraft and wander around and be as 
consipicuous as possible, eh?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.sport.baseball
From: djcoll04@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: Trademarkability of personal names (Was: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:42:22 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

In article <1993Jan11.085947.2470@tc.cornell.edu>, kutcha@eos.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski) writes:
> In article <1993Jan11.054625.29384@athena.mit.edu> cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok) writes:
>>i believe that this (or a related) law doctrine is the reason why you
>>rarely see players' real names in computer sports games. the players'
>>associations own the rights to the use of the names. so you can't
>>just write a baseball game and put as oakland's firstbaseman "M. McGwire".
>>
>>i *did* however once see a football game where all the players' numbers 
>>were accurate, so i guess that is fair game. seriously, i wonder if
>>that would be a problem for some of the big names who have distinctive
>>numbers. a "#99 bar" might sell pretty well, especially north of the
>>border... what do you legal eagles think?
> 
> Well, I'll at least second the example and cite one in particular: "John
> Madden Football" (the "second edition" or something, I think) for the Super
> Nintendo. It was very weird because all the players were referred to only
> by number, yet the game came with a rather LARGE book of stats which were
> perfect match-ups to the players stats as of the end of last year (we
> decided this was the case becasue one guy in the room was a MAJOR football
> geek and could quote the stats and we'd look in the book and he'd be right
> EVERY time).
> 

Well, one baseball example where they use REAL names and REAL stats
is Tony Larussa'a Ultimate Baseball.  On the "classic" mode, the names
include Ted Williams, not T. Williams or T. Willims.  Further, one can 
purchase recent team rosters and stats.  The '90 and '91 disks have been
out for awhile and the '92 disk should be out in the summer.
All 26 teams are included and the rosters are about 90% complete.  Unnamed
players fill out the rosters.  The stats and ratings are, to my knowledge,
accurate.  There are about 25-30 stats and ratings per player.

                                           P. Tierney