HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: 13r43@math.ucrf.edu
Subject: Re: How many ways to make a Whopper<r>?
Organization: McGill University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 06:19:35 GMT

> > |>n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:
> > |>
> > |>>A girl I worked with once told me her other job was at
> > |>>McDonalds (or BK? this was years ago), but she wouldn't eat there
> > |>>because there was a cook there who spit chewy mucous-flaps on the buns
> > |>>and the burgers whenever he was not happy about having to work late or 
> > |>>what have you.  I was horrified.  She never ratted on him either, so it
> > |>>went on for years as far as I know.  I told everyone I knew not to
> > |>eat there.
> 
This isn't nearly as interesting, but I bet it happens more often...
A friend of mine says (so it must be true ??) stopped at a Mickey Dee's in  
Connecticut to use the bathroom. Now, the employees are obviously told to wash  
their hands if they go to the bathroom. While my friend was in the bathroom,  
some guy on the Mickey Dee crew walked in , washed his hands, used the toilet  
and walked out, in that order... 
(The only potential flaw  can see in the story is that my friend seems to have  
been in that bathroom for a rather long time, because he was in there before  
the employee, hung around to witness said events and stayed after the employee  
left.)

Has anyone else heard this, making it a (rather dull) UL, or is it a one-off >

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From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Re: NetNews/CD - USENET News Available
Keywords: locksmith door
Reply-To: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:00:17 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.012649.25775@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>In article <2328@israel.nysernet.org> warren@nysernet.org writes:
>[nice description of the cutout of the CD case deleted]
>
>I assume they serve the same function as cutout records.  Now can someone
>explain the business reason why both records and CD's are cut at all?
>Apparently, the mechanism that qualifies this is fairly consistent.  Are
>any other media cut out for this specific reason?  (45's, Laser-discs?, DAT?
>DCC?, sheet music?)
>
>cjl


Not a music example, but I vaguely recall some book stores having
"clearance" type paperbacks with one of the corners chopped off.  It
serves the same function in preventing anyone from saying they paid
full price.


Which reminds me of one of my books form my freshman english class.  It
was a paperback and had a big (4" x 4") sticker saying something like
"Great Value Used Book" on the cover.  I eventually pealed the sticker
off to find a gold imprinting of, "Evaluation Copy.  Not for Resale."

-- 
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From: dolf@echo.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Sanity
Date: 23 Jul 92 11:21:20 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, E.C.H.O. development department

st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER) writes:
>I have heard of how a couple of Psych Grad students decided to see how long
>it would take a mental hospital to determine that they were not insane, once
>they were committed. To this end, they fake the symptoms of schizophrenia (sp)
>and are commited. Once in, they act perfectly normal. The institution does
>not deem them sane. They finally get out 6 monthes later, after several
>friends come forward to tell the hospital that it was an experiment.

Related UL: a woman was put in a mental hospital in the USA for 30 years (or
            so) because she behaved a little weird and only spoke using
            strange sounding syllabuses. Turned out the woman was from abroad
            and behaved according to which is normal to her and spoke the only
            language she knew but was a very unknown language.
            Nobody ever noticed that she was perfectly in order. The one which
            released her was either from her country or has been there on
            a holiday.

Other UL: during a visit to a jail, someone walks into an empty cell after
          which the door slams in the lock. Unfortunately the guards refuse
          to free this new prisoner, and as they do not know his release date,
          the unlucky new prisoner has to wait till death:
              "Yes Sir, everyone wants to go home here".
              "Yes Sir, everyone is a visitor here"
              "Yes Sir, everyone is not guilty of anything here"

Dolf
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From: gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler)
Subject: Re: "Green Death" Beer
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:33:06 GMT

jimj@cleanplate.EBay.Sun.COM (James D. Jones) writes:

>My drink of choice, years ago, was Rainer Ale in the nice green
>bottles.  Kind of an acquired taste.  Everybody'd look at me funny and
>say, "He's drinking Green Death."  Hyuk, hyuk.  Well, _I_ liked it.  No 
>wimpoid Henry's for me.

>Anyway, apparently there are/were several regional beers with the nickname
>"Green Death."  Heffenreffer's, a Rhode Island beer, also went by that
>nickname.  Does anybody know any others? 

I had heard Dr. Pepper refered to as "Black Death" because it contained high
amounts of caffine and other unhealthy chemicals.  It would supposedly turn
you innards black.
From: dlyons@necis.UUCP (Dave Lyons)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: NetNews/CD - USENET News Available
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:26:29 GMT
Organization: NEC Information Systems, Acton, MA

In article <1992Jul27.184718.20440@acuson.com>, lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson) wrote:
> In article <1992Jul26.192735.18501@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>
>>Can anyone explain the mechanism regarding the so-called "cutout" applied
>>now to CD's that apparently originated with vinyl.
> 
> The "cut out" LPs were usually slow movers or groups that didn't have
> enough popularity to justify space in the normal racks.  They were
> "reduced for clearance."  The "cut out" itself was a small cut in the
> corner of the jacket, 1/2" to 1" deep usually.
> 
> The purpose for this was to prevent people from being too dishonest
> with returns.  Cut outs were usually non returnable (unless blatantly
> defective).  Without the cut, you could but a $2 album, strip off
> enough of the pricetag to make the price uncertain and come back.  "I
> got this as a birthday present and want to exchange it."  Then you grab
> a $15 new release.

Not sure where you came up with this one.  Cutouts were albums
designated as promo items for radio stations and retail outlets.  We
used to get loads of demos of bands the record companies were
promoting and most had little notches cut out of the sleeve near a
corner or sometimes a hole punched out of the sleeve rather than the
notch.  I'm pretty sure that these were called cutouts not because of
the identifying notch or hole but because they were "cut out" of the
regular production run of LPs.  Anyway the marking was to identify
albums that were originally given out for free and therefore shouldn't
be sold at retail.  Most of the cutouts that appeared for sale were
extras that weren't given out during the promotional run for the band
and were sold by the record companies to wholesalers or liquidators.
Cutouts were (perhaps still are) sought after because they usually had
extra pictures or colored vinyl or some other unique feature that was
only available from the first pressings that the cutouts were cut out
of.
                                   -- Dave --
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From: wlamonac@handel.helios.nd.edu (william lamonaca)
Subject: Re: How many Grooves on an LP?
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 01:29:38 GMT

In article <bugs002.712109307@bugs> bugs002@bugs.mty.itesm.mx (Ing. Andrew Stevens) writes:
>
>chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim) writes:
>
>>ian@raven.Centric.Com (Ian Macky) writes:
>
>>>I once had a Monty Python LP that had one groove on one side, but two on the
>>>other.  Depending on where you dropped you needle on the weird side, you'd
>>>get one of two different routines...
>
>>Two! What about the Mad Magazine record that had *eight* grooves on one
>>side. (I think it was the song "It's a Super Spectacular Day.")
>
>Well, apparently this is a thread I started (although my original
>posting never appeared, the responses have) so I'll throw this in: on he
>record "Penthouse and Pavement" by the Heaven 17, the listed duration of
>the final song is <infinite>. This song, "We're going to live for a very
>long time" is placed so that the final phrase, which lasts exactly one
>revolution, doesn't activate tha automatic return of the tone arm. When
>you play it you get "for a very long time" and a cyclic snippet of music
>playing forever. Or until your mother comes in to see what in hell has
>happened to your record player.
>
>Andrew

2 other records that also have infinite grooves are the Beatnigs' first (and
only) album- the last song on the second side goes on forever, and a single
by Duck Hunt called "Vacation" does it also.
From: gaea@zooid.guild.org (Mother Nature)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Cat colouration (was Re: Egg Creams)
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:21:58 GMT
Organization: The Zoo of Ids

Mary Rose Campbell <mc3d+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>ObUL: All 'calico' cats are female
>
>Actually, 99%+ of calico cats are female.  One of the coloration genes
>is on the X sex chromosome.  In females, one of the X chromosomes in
>each cell will curl up and become a barr body.  If you have a white
>female cat with a gene on one X chromosome for orange patches and a gene
>on the other X chromosome for black patches, since the barr bodies are
>randomly arranged (i.e. 50% are from the 'orange' chromosome, 50% from
>the 'black' chromosome), you will get a cat with patches of color. 
>Occasionally, you will see a male calico due to some sort of mutation.

Correct, however male calico cats are very very rare, and are always 
sterile. I haven't seen one yet, and I work in the veterinary field. 
Also, about 95% of orange cats are male, I've only seen 1 female 
orange cat.  

White cats with blue eyes are quite often deaf. I'm not sure of the
percentages for this one.

Gaea
gaea@zooid.guild.org (Mother Nature)
From: kaszeta@crs.cl.msu.edu (Richard Kaszeta)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:01:30 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University

dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright) writes:
>Now just a minute.  Hold yer horses.  Utah and Arizona are both Mountain
>time, so 9:00am Utah equals 9:00am Arizona.  I agree 9:00am is unreasonably
>early, but the hotel cannot help it if your bodies just flew in from
>Central time.

Sorry I don't know where you're writing from, but WRONG. Utah follows
Mountain time normally, I.E. MST during part of the year, MDT during
another part. In Arizona (lived there most of life), we DON'T have 
Daylight Savings (Yeah- its stupid anyways- who wants to save Daylight?).
Therefore, during the summer-half of the year, we are still MST, and have
the same local time as California and the Pacific time zone.

Thus, during tourist season (Summer) if it is 9 AM in Utah, it will be
8 AM in AZ.

Thank you.
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From: jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth)
Subject: Re: Canadian Government Prostitutes
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 22:11:24 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

robcruic@intacc.uucp (Robert Cruickshank) writes:
>couple of days in the same newspaper. BTW, since prostitution is legal here, I
>suppose prostitutes *could* work the Parliament buildings, but I'm sure the
>Mounties would find some excuse to make them go away...
>
No, I think that some of the Mounties will be looking for ways to fullfill
their nicknames....


From: jeffa@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jeff Alley)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:14:19 GMT
Subject: Bear eats child's face
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban


Okay, time to be a contributor rahter than a lurker.

I heard this one several years ago and I don't remember where so I guess
we'll say it's from a FOAF to give it the qualifications it needs to be
posted to this group.

Supposedly there was a family that was traveling through Yellowstone park
and they had a young child with them.  Several people were stopped feeding
the bears along a road. The father of the child wanted to get a picture
of his kid with a bear. He wanted a special picture so he got the brilliant
idea that if he smeared honey on the kid's cheek, the bear would come up
and lick it off and he'd get a great picture of a bear licking his son's
face. The bear had other idea though, and bit instead of licked and the
child lost a good portion of the side of his face.

This sounds plausible, although exceedingly STUPID!  Anyone else hear
this or did I start an UL?

Jeff
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From: kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: Moxie, submarines (was: Re: Prince Albert in a can?!?)
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:27:59 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.142018.14344@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, cldavies@nyx.cs.du.edu (cindy davies) writes:

|> When I was in Germany a few years ago it wasn't the food the "drove" me
|> to McD's and BK's.  It was the Coke.  Served WARM <blech> and with a lemon
|> slice <double blech>  Where is the Hard Rock Cafe when you need one?  If your
|> going to serve American food, you must prepare it correctly.  1. Put 3 large
|> cubes of ice in glass. 2. Open bottle. 3. Pour from bottle into glass...And   
|> AVOID contact with Citrus at all times.
 
 Well, I'll agree with you about the citrus. But what's so bad about warm 
Coke? I keep a case or two in the closet and drink it at room-temperature,
even if the room temperature is 95F. Straight out of the bottle or can, 
warm Coke makes a nice drink. Besides, the ice cubes dilute it as they melt.
 
 Mind you, I wouldn't try this with anything larger than a half-liter bottle
(small enough to drink in one serving). Warm, _flat_ Coke is utter glop.
 
 I've crossposted to alt.food.cocacola in case the diehard Cokeaholics 
(or should that be Cocacolics?) want to jump in on the argument.
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From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
Subject: Re: "Eat the rich"
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:51:43 GMT
Organization: Right Bleedin' Church of Libertine Obfuscatology

In <1992Jul22.045842.23503@news.eng.convex.com> datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) writes:


>I'm almost certain that the movie postdated at least Krokus.
>-- 

You are all forgetting that Motorhead had a song "Eat the Rich" on the _Rock
and Roll_ album (circa 1989).

Perhaps someone is confusing Krokus with Motorhead, or Krokus has their own
song.  

Nevertheless, the film "Eat the Rich" stars Lemmy of Motorhead and features
the Motorhead song in its soundtrack

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From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Subject: Re: Red Heads
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Date: 31 Jul 92 04:49:18 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Version: Rodney's UUCP modules 02/11/90 V1.18

In article <10103@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> imcc@cs.strath.ac.uk
> : Have you ever noticed that the Hero/Heroine in fairy stories/soap operas
> : are always blond.  This was originally because the ones writing the stories
what about the fairy tale heroine (may have been snow white), who has skin 
white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as a raven?
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From: perry@Unify.Com (Perry Clarke)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Eat the rich"
Keywords: n
Date: 23 Jul 92 02:37:08 GMT
Organization: Unify Corporation

gfritz@sage.cc.purdue.edu ("Happy Fun Ball") wrote:
>Hello, folklorists.
>
>I have this T-shirt.  It's solid black, and on the front there is a skull and
>crossbones (done in flat white).  Except where the bones should be, there is 
>a knife and fork instead.  Underneath is the phrase "Eat the rich".
>
> [stuff deleted]

Several years ago there was a movie called Eat The Rich.  I believe that
it was made in the UK.  I cannot remember what the marketroids picked
as a logo, though.  Nor can I remember who was in it or what it was about.

How's that for a vague recollection?  Is there anybody who was paying
attention at the time who can elaborate?

Perry "Worse Than Useless" Clarke
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 03:10:59 GMT

In article <brriqs.6mc@wang.com> dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong) writes:

>>As it was related to me years ago, the point (no pun :-) of the needles
>>was to penetrate the epidermis and present the battery's voltage to the
>>highly-conductive "inner" layers of the person's body; if, say, one
>>needle pierced each arm, the current would pass through the heart causing
>>fibrillation leading to death.

Bzzzt! (no pun intended)

Can't be fibrillation - fibrillation requires AC.

Could be either burning or some form of cardiac arrest.

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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Jimmy the Greek
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:34:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.154617.28108@cs.yale.edu> smith-jeff@CS.YALE.EDU (Jeff Smith) writes:
>I'm sure you all remember Jimmy the Greek, the odds-maker for
>CBS (NBC? who cares..) sports.  And of course, you all recall that
>he was fired because of an on-air racist slur.  Recently, some friends
>and I were trying to remember what he said, and we all remembered
>radically different versions of this career-ending quote, so I guess
>it has sort of achieved the status of urban legend.  My question, 
>then, is what *exactly* did he say to get him booted? 
>
>And it wasn't "That'd be in the butt, Bob."

In the New York area, we have had at least two similar incidents:

There was a local weatherman who was a quick-drawing artist called Tex
Antoine for many years.  He is alleged to have said something like "if
rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it" as some parable relating to some
impending bad weather.  He got a chance to appear on the air again and
give a public apology, but was subsequently fired.

A local DJ named Bob Dayton used some patter referring to that day being
the Nth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and then saying "Happy
Birthday, Hiroshima" and then playing Happy Birthday Baby by the Tune Weavers.
He was removed immediately with no opportunity to retract or apologize.

cjl
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From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: Re: Mandatory negatives (was Re: Agnostics and Athiests)
Date: 30 Jul 92 07:20:56 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <1992Jul27.042232.21973@clarinet.com>, brad@clarinet.com (Brad 
Templeton) writes:
> The agnostic when asked, "is there a god?"  might say "I don't know,"
> rather than "I think not."   SO WHAT?   That's about the only difference.
> The agnostic does not go to church, or follow any moral code because it was
> handed down by some god.  The agnostic does not worship or have specific
> plans for the afterlife or any of the things that distinguish the faithful.
> 
> She is 99% the same as the athiest when it comes to everything but how
> a few questions and answered and how a few points are argued.  Big deal.
> I was just in opposition to the statement that the agnostic is halfway
> between the theist and atheist.   When it comes to examining your life, your
> morals, almost everything that matters, the agnostic is the same as the
> atheist.   Not halfway at all.

Same logic at work:  A fundamentalist Iranian Moslem is 99% identical to an 
Epicopalian, or a Jew, or a Bhuddist, or a Mormon.

Put another way: there is only one meaningful distinction: devout belief in 
god and !(devout belief in god).

Sorry, don't buy it.

ObUL: Keep this crap out of alt.folklore.urban.

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
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Subject: Re: out of 5 doctors (was Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising)
From: mcirvin@husc10.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 26 Jul 92 20:06:10 GMT

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:

>Beer-drinkers preferences are rated in percentages, but doctors are always
>4 out of 5.

Which reminds me of that Coors Extra Gold commercial in which the guy
hears some statement like "64 percent of Bud drinkers surveyed preferred
Coors Extra Gold" and says, pointing to himself and his buddy, "Better
make that 65 and 66!"  or some similar set of numbers.  Perhaps he
knew that there were exactly 100 people surveyed!

Coors Extra Gold:  the official beer of inarticulate guys!

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