HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: A Tip for the Groom (was: Tip Waitress, Not Cows
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:19:33 GMT
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited

In article <1993Jan20.163034.9405@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu
(Ted Frank) writes:
>
> You don't have an accurate control group -- couples that don't live
> together before marriage are more likely to be religious and not believe
> in divorce and stay together even when they can't stand each other.
>
> Comparing couples that live together with equally-religious couples
> that don't live together finds that the former have more stable
> marriages.

Oh yeah, but an unhappy marriage is not a divorce. We didn't discuss
happiness, nor stability. That's another cup of tea.

---
YuNoHoo  "happiness is not being haunted by a divorce lawyer"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Subject: Re: Coca Cola dissolves meat?
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:59:17

Thomas Gerber writes:
>   Maybe it's another old hat, but, hey, I'm relatively new to the
>U.S.:
>there was a "story" I repeatedly heard in the 60's that was meant to
>illustratethe allegedly harmful effects of Coca Cola on the mucous
>membranes of your
>stomach.

Not that i'm trying to claim Coke is good for you... but i'd be
interested to know the pH of Coke versus the pH of the digestive
juices that are present in the stomach.  My guess is that the stuff
that naturally occurs in the stomach is more acidic than the soda.

Now, the story i heard is that it dissolves teeth.  This is at least
plausible, since saliva is only mildly acidic so teeth don't have to
be able to withstand acid.  But your stomach is made of stronger
stuff...

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
Subject: Discovering America (was British Constitution)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:49:43 GMT


In article <1993Jan21.200126.4494@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz
(Derek Tearne) writes:

>I suggest you read your history books.  Columbus didn't discover America!
>
>Apart from the Native Americans who wandered over there _way_ before Columbus
>was a gleam in his very great-grandsires eye, There was this viking got 
>there too - Leif Ericson I think his name was.  Or was it Steinar?

There is some evidence to suggest that there were "old world" interactions
with the Native Americans long before that.  Check out the book AMERICA
B.C. by Barry Fell.  I know that his position is pretty controversial, but
he presents a lot (I mean a *lot*) of interesting archeological and
linguistic evidence that suggests that all sorts of people from Europe and
the Middle East were popping in on Pocahontas's ancestors for many hundreds
of years before either Columbus or Erikson arrived here.


Barth "will discover new continents for food" Richards

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From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.discordia,alt.slack
Subject: Re: Jesus' name (was Re: Late breaking potential UL!)
Date: 26 Jan 1993 10:45:24 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
NNTP-Posting-Host: carina.unm.edu

In article <haley.728034862@husc.harvard.edu> haley@husc11.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) writes:
>=------------------THE-AUTHOR-OF-THIS-SIGNATURE-IS-A-GERBIL!----------------=
>=The author of this letter is a fabulously intelligent person and is very   =
>=Silly. She is also remarkably well loved, by the author of this signature. =
>=---------------------------haley@husc9.harvard.edu-------------------------=

How'dya teach your gerbil (properly pronounced like (grrrbull) to type?
Mine just wants to pee on the keyboard.
r.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese AFU's about the US
From: f67709907@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:31:27 MST
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
Nntp-Posting-User: f67709907

In alt.folklore.urban article <SCHNIZER.93Jan23172009@hakobe.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>, schnizer@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Schnizer Ansgar) writes:
>  Japanese know a lot of stories about the US. A good one
> I heard yesterday from a Japanese girl who went
> to NY last summer was about a drunken driver in Harlem
> who stopped for a red traffic light late at night. He stopped
> apparently in the middle of a 5 lane street and because it
> took very long and the light still hadn't changed to green,
> he fell asleep.
>  He woke up when the sun was already shining into his car
> and when he wanted to drive on (the engine was still running)
> his car didn't move. He got out of the car and found that
> all 4 wheels had be stolen!
> 
>  Ansgar "why nobody stops for a red light in NY" Schnizer

Yep, this is a good one.  Of course, the Japanese appetite
for this type of story is fed by the real-life misfortunes
(like the Yoshi Hattori shooting) that happen to Japanese in
the U.S. and that the Japanese media cover in great detail.

(P.S. if you are reading this in scj, this is not a restart
of THAT thread.  :-(  It's merely an invitation to post some
common Japanese urban legends, if you have them.)
-- 
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin     "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate
f67709907@ccit.arizona.edu      things." -- Dan's advice to Pres. Clinton

   Delightful Things
     A love unknown to others.
     To have solved a riddle.
     A real bargain at a shop.
     A letter from one's sweetheart.
     When something one has ordered turns out well.
	-- from _Inumakura_ (The Dog Pillow)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: tcg@mayo.edu (Thomas Gerber)
Subject: Re: Terrifying Twinkies (was Re: The Big Pot o
Reply-To: tcg@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Clinic/Foundation Rochester MN Campus
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 20:09:06 GMT

In article 727735941@mcl,  c-chan@mcl.ucsb.edu (Christina Callihan) writes:
>In <1993Jan19.162034.2345@acuson.com> lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson) writes:
[...]
>>Drew "have some 1000 year old twinkies, still soft" Lawson
>
>A biology teacher at my high school tacked a Twinkie to a bulletin board
>many years ago.  That Twinkie is still there, and the _only_ change it
>has undergone was to turn a little greyish from the dust it's been
>collecting.
>[...]

Twinkies seem to have some very interesting properties and effects.
I couldn't find it anywhere in Brundvand's books and I don't remember seeing it
in the FAQ;
Is anything true about the story concerning somebody pleading "temporarily diminished
responsibility" due to "twinkies intoxication" in a murder case?

          - Thomas "haven't read the FAQ list very thoroughly" Gerber




Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: parking meter nun smash
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:33:08 GMT

In article <esther.728083322@sarge> esther@verdix.com (Esther Lumsdon) writes:
>The wife of one of my co-workers worked as a vet technician at the
>veterinary hospital where Millie (the wealthy dog of Barbara Bush) got
>her grooming and health care.

ObQuiz:  Barbara Bush once called someone "the six million dollar bitch."
It would have been literally true if she had been referring to Millie,
but she wasn't.  So of whom was our oh so kind and gentle former first
lady speaking?  

ObHint:  Not Genevieve Bujold.

Bruce "M-I-L-L-I-E.  Wow, publishing is easy" Tindall

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From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: doggie doodoo
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:49:03 GMT
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited

In article <C16q3q.EK9@rahul.net>, phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>
> If YuNoHoo's gender is for some reason important to you, this might be a
> hint.

It's fairly important to me. Few others seems to care unless I walk into
the wrong room.

---
YuNoHoo
From: klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Darkie (was Re: Peter Norton, son of Betty Crocker)
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:41:51 GMT
Organization: Duke University, Nuclear Medicine

In article <1993Jan21.001628.18209@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu+ PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
+rct@fulcrum.co.uk (Richard Taylor) writes:
++In article <1993Jan14.045705.22337@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu+ PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
+++
+++ObUL: T. Cows have only upper teeth in the front of their mouths.
+++
++
++You've obviously never met my Grandma.
+
+Is your Grandma is a cow with both upper and lower teeth in front?
+
+Jon "Curious" Papai

  No, no, it isn't that one - she's the udder one.

-- 
Kim L. Greer                       
Duke University Medical Center		 klg@orion.mc.duke.edu
Div. Nuclear Medicine  POB 3949		 voice: 919-681-5894
Durham, NC 27710  		         fax: 919-681-5636
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Jesus' Birthday
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 23:49:39 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand - Software Development Center

In article <1993Jan28.005210.21978@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) (Me) writes:

>: 
>: Unless I get a lucrative offer of work + green card in the next couple of 
>: weeks of course.  You are surrounded by fault lines, computers, tar pits 
>: full of gooey animals and rock musicians.  There must be a niche for a 
>: computer programming, bass playing geologist somewhere around there! 
>
>Hm, what do we do if the ball falls into a fault fissure? 

If the ball falls into an open fissure the next poster who fits the following
criteria must go and fetch it.  We shouldn't have to wait long.

Ball newbie criteria: Posts without reading FAQ or reading AFU for more than
a month. Has a signature file which is > than 4 lines long and contains 
complex ascii graphics and/or tabs.  Quotes the whole of the previous 
article but adds no new text other than a .signature file of the type 
described above.  Comments like "I don't usually read this newsgroup - 
please e-mail" also qualify.

>The tar pits are
>way South of here - are they in the playing field? What do we do if we end
>up with a tar ball? How about a fur ball? Do we have a gerbil retrieve it?

That would be a tarry furrfu ball in the butt Bob.

I guess the tar pits are a way away but, hey, this is a fast moving game!

>Maybe one of us will win the $10M PCH "lottery". Then we could hold an
>AFU West session in NZ and fly everyone over.

That would be AFU REALLY REALLY WAY SOUTH.  Look forward to seeing you here.

Derek "Watch out for the tar p... yeeow gross" Tearne


-- 
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The only good quote is a dead quote.  (D.R.Tearne Jan 1993)
The only good Injun is a deaaagh (General Custer  overheard during Last Stand)
From: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:03:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Bambi meets Godzilla.
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

And don't forget the jokes buried in the credits.  Right after

	Produced by John Doe

	Directed by John Doe

	etc.

you see:

	John Doe produced by Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Doe

A marvelous piece of film.

-- Ray
From: hilp@hfglobe.intel.com (Robin Rosenbaum)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: THINKING CAPS
Date: 28 Jan 93 21:33:05 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation

What is the origin of the term "thinking cap"?  (as in, "Let's
put on our thinking caps")

Appropriate nuggets of (dis)information are needed for inclusion
in a short verbal presentation next week.

obUL: (This is true according to a local veterinarian) You can
skin the end of a cat's tail in one go by grabbing and yanking
just right.  The cat need not be dead (ew).  Evidently, doors
and fences do this kind of thing fairly often (the cat performs
the actual yank).  In most cases, the nerves are damaged in such
a way that the cat feels no pain from the injury.

Robin "but are fish ticklish?" Hilp
rosenrob@ccm.hf.intel.com or hilp@hfglobe.intel.com
Opinions, attitudes, and beliefs expressed herein are mine and
do not necessarily represent those of my employer.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: That'd be in the butt, Bob (Was: Re: Mnemonics (was Hippos (was Mnemonics)))
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:25:32 GMT

In article <C0wtFK.9wq@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel Furr) writes:
>In article <1993Jan15.080309.24869@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>In article <9301081831.hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil> hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey) writes:
>>>What is approximately as well known is that observation of Hippos led
>>>to Native Americans discovering bathing (which they taught to Leif
>>>Ericson).  In fact, the very word ``wash'' arises from the mnemonic
>>>hippos use to remember which way to migrate: ``West in Autumn; in
>>>Spring, Home''.
>>
>>And on whose shows do hippos puke upon?
>
>Well, I dunno, but they DEFINITELY don't do it on the Newlywed Game. 
>Bob Eubanks has $10,000 if you can prove that a hippo ever puked on his show.

But on whose *shoes* would they puke while on the show?

cj "Hippos R' us" l
From: hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za (Steve Hayes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Ultimate Circumcision
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:38:45 GMT
Organization: University of South Africa
NNTP-Posting-Host: pchayest.unisa.ac.za

In article <930125221902.12b4@VAX.CSUN.EDU> VBCSC03L@VAX.CSUN.EDU (snopes) writes:

>>I Recall reading about a medical mishap back in the late 70s (I think).
>>A doctor slipped up during a circumcision of a bouncing baby boy, and
>>recommended to the parents that he should have a sex change operation
>>and be rasied as a girl. Seems that the kid's fledgling manhood was
>>beyond repair.
>
>  Alright, somebody enlighten me:  Why is it "better" to be a woman with no
>  breasts, ovaries, or vagina (and still with such undesirable male
>  characteristics as facial hair, a deep voice, and testicles), than to be
>  a man with a damaged penis?  Wouldn't it be more sensible just to resort
>  to some sort of prosthetic and/or reconstructive surgery than to undergo
>  a complete sex change?


Something similar happened here last year, only it wasn't a circumcision. 
Some guys into witchcraft cut of the genitals of a male child about 2 years 
old. Normally the kids are killed, but this one survived. The doctors who 
treated him recommended a sex-change op, and after some heistation the 
parents agreed. 

============================================================
Steve Hayes, Department of Missiology & Editorial Department
Univ. of South Africa, P.O. Box 392, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa
Internet: hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za
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          stephen.hayes@f20.n7101.z5.fidonet.org
From: prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Upside-down burglar
Date: 24 Jan 93 07:31:20 GMT
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM

In article <5507.55.uupcb@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us> bill.duetschler@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Bill Duetschler)  writes:

> BN > : >Indeed, the E-sharp over middle-C string is a crucial component for    
> BN > : >exercising the infamous and shadowy New York Method.  
> BN > :   
> BN > : There is no such note as E-sharp.  One half-step above E is F.
> BN > : Sometimes you will see an E-sharp written on a piece of music, but
> BN > : it's to be played as an F.  There is no key called E-sharp on a piano.
> BN >
> BN > Since the note is written, it does indeed exist. As you state, E-sharp
> BN > is the same as F natural. In the same manner B-sharp is C natural.

> For the umpteenth time in this interminable thread, NO.  It depends on
> what tempering system you're using.

   [ ... explanation deleted ... ]

While the temperament is an issue, the citation from BN was not, if I remember
correctly, arguing for the identity of E-sharp and F-natural, but only for
the existence of E-sharp.  And, even in an equal-tempered world in which
E-sharp has the same pitch as F-natural, they are still not the same note
harmonically, any more than "there" and "their" are the same word.
--
                                   Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com)
From: kubo@zariski.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Divorce Rates
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:36:50 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Math, Harvard Univ.

In article <930126192733.22cb@VAX.CSUN.EDU> 
VBCSC03L@VAX.CSUN.EDU (snopes) writes:
>
>  Sorry, but we operate in the real world here, not some fanciful statistical
>  wonderland.  We don't have 1000 years' worth of data.  We don't have
>  enough reliable data compiled over a suitably long period of time to be 
>  able to make any sort of an accurate statment about the divorce rate
>  without knowing more than just the raw numbers of divorces and marriages
>  per year.

Methinks you miss the point -- it's not that we need 1000 years of
data to say something, only that one can in fact draw conclusions
on the net divorce rate from the annual statistics.  You seemed
to dispute this last point, also bringing in red herrings like
the "backlog" of marriages.  I think that 15-20 years' recent 
annual data (as was posted), or even less than that, is more than  
enough to be convincing.  It might not allow you to make a precise 
statement like "53.978% of marriages end in divorce" but it can
substantiate something like "over 45%".

Tal    kubo@math.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: Bambi meets Godzilla.
Keywords: apres ceci le deluge
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:20:38 GMT

In article <C1HH0L.4sE@rahul.net> phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>Phil "For extra credit, what does Genevieve Bujold have to do with
>all this? cjl responses don't count." Gustafson

I can't legally answer, because Phil and I discussed this in e-mail,
but I can try to come up with an acceptable secondary answer, such as:

"Because she's the only person in the world whose diodes are already
arranged just as Phil likes them?"

Bruce "now where can I get an effigy of G. Bujold" Tindall
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From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Thumper)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Bungee Lynching in NJ!
Keywords: Has anyone else heard this one?
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:50:27 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Amos Tuck School
Disclaimer: I don't represent Dartmouth and Dartmouth doesn't represent me.

In <Jan.26.19.10.53.1993.13052@romulus.rutgers.edu> moakler@romulus.rutgers.edu (bam!) writes:

[Stuff about some fool killing himself while bungee jumping deleted]

>Naturally, the park management hush-hushed the whole affair, so the
>cause of death never really got out.

Ah ha! A conspiracy theory! Always a vital part of any enduring UL.

If they were bungee jumping on their own time I see no reason why the
mamangement would care to hush it up. Now, if they were bungee jumping off
a roller coaster and knocked a patron out of the car so they fell to their
death or something. That would be worth covering up!

-Geoff, who never defies gravity

ObBungeeDeath: Anyone else see the video of the guy who bungee jumped off
               the crane but didn't tie the end of the cord to the top of
               the crane first??? SPLAT!
--
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	 hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water,
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.rap
From: pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey)
Subject: Re: Break dancing (was Re: Cuttin' the Rug)
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
	<1993Jan25.014850.27857@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> 
	<1993Jan26.040309.4269@midway.uchicago.edu> 
	<26JAN199309093375@csa3.lbl.gov>
Date: 26 Jan 1993 19:47:47 UTC

In article <26JAN199309093375@csa3.lbl.gov> 
jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:
>> Dancing.  Specifically, swing dancing.  This phrase originated,
>> surprisingly enough, in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
>Speaking of etymologies, where did "break dancing" come from?

New York City, of course. Bronx crowd roar!

>(You remember:  the extremely acrobatic cross between disco
>and sadomasochism that was a fad among the young and supple
>in the early 80s.)  I've heard two hypotheses.
>A) Street gangs developed it as a way of settling territorial
>borders, or "breaks," without warfare.

Wrong.

>B) It was developed in dance clubs and took its name from
>the way DJs would identify the "break," or rhythmic climax,
>of a record and jump to the kinetically interesting part of
>the next one rather than play the whole thing.

Right, more or less. The break is where the DJ skips the rekkid. These
are the breaks, break it up, break it up, break down!

>Theory (A) was widely circulated in the US, but always struck
>me as the concoction of somebody who saw "West Side Story"
>one time too many.  I first saw (B) the other day, mentioned
>in passing in an article about trends in pop music. 
>Any of you disco hounds know the truth?  Perspiring behinds
>want to know.

Disco! Try Hip-Hop or Rap.
B-boys decoys will try to destroy deploy the truth in black hoods and
black boots, caps get knocked only when they're fitted, lyrics get
dropped only when they're lifted, so swingtime is one up the vo-chords
run amuck, war's a factor, we'll perspire and someone in the crowd yells
fire! fire!, we don't need no water let it burn yo! we don't need not
water let it burn! So it burnt! Learn your lesson well if I don't then I
guess you get jelled, swell heads go down like the sun hon, and here it
comes! So the troops are pulled out and the tolls are paid set and done,
here it -comes! Hit it off! Kick it off! Set it off! Here it - comes!
And you'll thought I was coming back with some old R&B huh?