HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mc3d+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mary Rose Campbell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Red Heads
Date: 29 Jul 92 02:01:25 GMT
Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

brian@zooid.guild.org (Brian Misiaszek) writes :

>  I was wondering if anybody knows of trivia, facts and fancies surrounding
>persons with red hair.
 
>  I know that in medieval Holland to see someone with red hair was a sign of
>bad luck.  Levi in his "Satanic Bible" says that red-heads make the best
>witches.  Common perception has it that people with red-hair are
>tempermental and passionate.  But what other stories and mythology surrounds
>people with red hair?


In Irish tradition, if the first person to enter your house in the New
Year is a red haired woman, it is supposed to be bad luck.  (My mom was
ready to physically prevent me from entering my house first if necessary
when I had red hair.)  If the first person to enter the house is a dark
haired man, it is supposed to be good luck.  (She either uses my dad or
calls a neighbor.  This year, she told my boyfriend to stand outside for
a minute, knock, and reenter after midnight.)  She says that when she
was growing up, her Aunt Letitia was very unpopular on New Year's
because of her hair color.

Actually, my mom's not superstitious.  She just keeps this tradition up
for fun.

mrc

p.s. This is probably my last post.  I graduated in May and am moving
back to Philadelphia and won't have access anymore.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: matt@cray.com (Matthew Marchese)
Subject: Re: Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 24 Jul 92 04:14:03 CDT

In article <1992Jul24.030222.2452@geovision.gvc.com> pt@geovision.gvc.com writes:
>matt@cray.com (Matthew Marchese) writes:
>
>>	"He was insecure because of his weight. I think he compensated
>>	 because of that. He was very loving in the bedroom. The only
>>	 odd thing was--at the moment of climax, he'd throw his head
>>	 back and go "Woo! Woo! Woo!" I think that's where he got it
>>	 for the act. He was real good in the garden, too."
>
>Yes, but did he go 'Woo! Woo! Woo!' when he climaxed in the garden?
>
Depends on your definition of "good in the garden", obviously...

>(Sorry, somebody had to ask)
>
It's okay as long as you don't start making cracks about "Curly using
'Cheap Hoes' in between the rows of rutabagas".

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From: bam@bang.uucp (Bret A. Marquis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Price is Right T & A?
Date: 21 Jul 92 01:28:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: bang.1992Jul21.012835.3986
Reply-To: bam%bang@trout.nosc.mil
Organization: Marquis Property Development Co., San Diego
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

: In article <1992Jul19.130735.2966@desire.wright.edu> thayes@desire.wright.edu writes:
: >
: >I am told that other game shows have had there share of problems.
: >For example, one excited contestant on "Price is Right" managed to
: >extricate one of breasts accidently from beneath her tube top while
: >she was "comin' on down!".  Or so I'm told...?
: >

I've seen this tape.  Unedited.  She pops out of her top while running
right at the camera.  She rather nonchalantly 'straightens' her
clothes.  The crew and audience are laughing hysterically.  The host
eventually figures out what happens but is almost the last to know.

I do not know whether it actually made it on the air.  The tape I
saw was shown to me by a Hollywood insider..


Bam
From: hsr4@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ed Nilges and Snuff Films...
Date: 23 Jul 92 21:11:40 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAXcluster

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

>datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
: >You've been reading too much MacKinnon.  No such thing as snuff films.
: >At least, none have ever been documented.
: 
: It may be a stretch, but I recently saw a program on a local public station
: that included explicit footage from the Holocaust.

>Yes, there is no relationship. Please read the FAQ. The subject has been
>thrashed many times. We are still waiting for more info from our most hopeful
>lead in England - HRS4. Unfortunately, he has been silent on the subject for
>months now.

>Bill

Silent by virtue of being snowed under with work (15-16 hour days - and cheesed
off).  I get time to thrash through AFU and a couple of others, and that's about
it (oh, and moan and gripe to a certain person in Arizona who has good ears).

Ditto on (dare I say it) the belgraning of the Sinko...

When I get time to breathe, you'll hear me.

Peter "Not so much snuffed out as shagged out" Brooks
PS. I reckon DOS 5 VERIFY may well be crap.  Allegedly.  Pass it on.
PPS.  My friends call me HSR4 but you can call me HSR6...
PPPS. Summat funny going on with NETNEWS: I can't followup to anything in AFU...
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From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Subject: Re: Bear eats child's face
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:51:06

Okay, i can't resist.  I have to tell the musk oxen story again.  You
guys made me do it with this thread.

The local paper reported this last summer.  Working from memory now:

Driving over the plateau portion of the Dovre mountains, a Dutch
tourist saw a musk ox walking not far from the road.  (The musk oxen
usually stay some distance away from the road, so this fellow was
quite lucky to see one.)  He pulled over in a little picnicking area
by the side of the road, determined to get a picture of this animal.

Those of you who don't know what a musk ox looks like, picture a big
black shag carpet walking around, with horns sticking out of one end.
They're also fairly strong.

There was also a family - for some reason i think it was a German 
family - having a picnic beside their camper in the same area where
the Dutch tourist had parked his car.

Our hero decided to try for a close-up.  He walked right over to the
animal, crouched down in front of it, and started fiddling with the
camera.  The ox, apparently regarding the camera as a serious threat,
started charging.  The tourist hot-footed it out of there.
Fortunately for him, the family saw what was going on and ran into
their camper, and held the door open just long enough for him to get
in.

The ox saw the camper and knew he'd been licked.

The tourist was taken to the Regional Hospital in Trondheim and
treated for some minor injuries.  He was released the same day, as
far as i remember.

The moral of the story is: Next time, bring a telephoto lens.

(I'm not sure if a person could outrun a musk ox, no matter how scared
they were.  However, true or not, it makes a good story - right?)

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway
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Subject: Re: "Eat the rich"
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 07:00:02 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand
Keywords: n

In article <6m8fia8@Unify.Com> perry@Unify.Com (Perry Clarke) writes:
>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?


There was indeed a movie called Eat the Rich.  It would have come out about 
4 Years ago,  well thats when it got to New Zealand.  It stared Lemmy from 
Motorhead,  Many of the Comic strip people ( Rik Mayall aka the young ones ) 
Robbie Coltrane I think, Fiona Richmond? and a triumph vitesse convertible. 

I don't think this has anything to do with the 'T' shirt in question.




-- 
Derek Tearne  derek@icl.co.nz or derek@fivegl.co.nz --Fujitsu SDC,Auckland,NZ

My 'self aware' .signature file failed his Turing test.  
It turns out he was just a chess playing midget in a decorative box.
From: dolf@echo.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Kilroy
Date: 23 Jul 92 11:00:44 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, E.C.H.O. development department

mc3d+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mary Rose Campbell) writes:

>ian@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk (Speed Freak) writes:
>>Does anybody know where the phrase 'Kilroy was here' originated ?  I have
>>been told that Kilroy was a dock worker who inspected crates at night at
>>some port in America.  He wrote KWH on them and because they then got shipped
>>all over the world he became a superstar!  Is this correct ?

>Actually, the phrase originated in 1983 when Styx released the album
>"Kilroy was Here."  

I myself have read "Kilroy was Here" on walls, bridges, in tunnels etc long
before 1983.

I remember reading an article about KWH that in the 60's it was so
popular to write KWH that it even appeared at the top of the Eifeltower in
Paris and on (in ?) the head of the Statue of Liberty in New York.

The same article also stated that there were serious bets with some British
bookmakers that the first man (i.e. Neil Amstrong) on the moon would read
somewhere on a rock "Kilroy was Here".  So that bet must have been made before
1969.

Another origin (mentioned in the same article) of KWH is supposed to have
been an army sergeant (soldier?) who got lost in Vietnam and he wrote this
so his friends could find him.

NewUL: "Kilroy was here" is used to confuse the police as it means:
       "Kill Roy Here" as part of making a snuff movie.

Dolf
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88  |_\  There is no use in denying that you've just read this line :-)
From: dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Bucher)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Eat the rich"
Date: 22 Jul 1992 01:59:12 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: avalanche.berkeley.edu

In article <54700@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> gfritz@sage.cc.purdue.edu ("Happy Fun Ball") writes:
>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".
>

Eat The Rich was a SF Bay Area punk band about ten years ago. I guess the
name of the band was more popular than the band itself, because their logo
got bootlegged on a bazillion t-shirts and buttons, while the band itself
slid into oblivion. I don't think they ever even released a record.

Another Bay Area punk band, Fang, had a cool logo that was a little bit
similar, it had a skull whose teeth spelled "FANG" and around the skull
were the words "WE ARE COOL / GIVE US MONEY". 
-- 
s/ Daniel Bucher  dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu  Cognitive Science, Class of '94
			    G O   B E A R S
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From: dwight@locus.com (Dwight Tovey)
Subject: Re: A Man, A Woman, A Bed, and Handcuffs (was Anyone heard this one?)
Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:02:49 GMT

In article <24814@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>Incidentally, I heard an interview with Stephen King on National 
>Public Radio's _Fresh Air_ yesterday where he notes that his new 
>novel (entitled _Gerald's Cabin_ or something like that) uses a 
>similar motif.  He said that it begins with a couple who lives in 
>a remote cabin in the woods.  They like to engage in bondage, though
>the woman begins to tire of it.  One day, the woman is handcuffed to
>the bed and the husband somehow croaks, so there she is, bound to a 
>bed in a cabin out in the woods.
>

My wife is in the process of reading this one.  They try the bondage 
thing for a while, but then she gets bored with it.  He handcuffs her
one night, she demands to be released, he takes it as part of the game
and starts to slap her around.  She gets pissed and kicks him hard in
the balls - hard enough for him to have a heart attack.  The rest of the
story deals with her trying to survive while still handcuffed to the bed.
	/dwight

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From: jarnot@kin.lap.upenn.edu (Kevin J. Jarnot)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: 2/3's of the Three Stooges
Summary: Larry's birthplace in Philly
Keywords: Manny Moe Jack Curley Larry among others
Date: 22 Jul 92 15:18:23 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Language Analysis Center

In article <brrane.1m6@wang.com> dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong) writes:
>ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin) writes:
>>}Larry:  Lawrence Fineberg
>          ^^^^^^^^  ^^^
>That was Louis Feinberg (10/5/1902-1/24/1975) according to "The
>Three Stooges Scrapbook" (Lenburg/Maurer/Lenburg), Citadel Press (c) 1982

And for all of you lucky enough to live in Philadelphia (lucky? :-), you
can visit Mr. Feinberg's birthplace right over on South Street.  It is
now "John's Bar and Grill" (very good food, btw), and has a wall with
several pictures/plaques/etc of the 3 Stooges...

Kevin

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From: jimb@tsdiag.ocpt.ccur.com (Jim Blakey N2MQE)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Boating on the left side (was Re: Driving on the right side)
Date: 22 Jul 92 23:23:41 GMT
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp. Oceanport NJ

In article <6924.2A69A7D7@psycho.fidonet.org> jra@f160.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jay Ashworth) writes:
-bill nelson, to All on Wednesday July 15 1992:
-
- bn> From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- bn> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1992 23:48:10 GMT
-
- bn> Student pilots sit in the left seat, also. Since the right hand is often
- bn> busy handling flap switches, throttle, radio, navigation gear,
- bn> transponder etc - you quickly learn to use the left hand. It was easy
- bn> for me, since I have always driven a manual transmission automobile -
- bn> thus, I steer with the left hand (primarily). On the airplane, all I had
- bn> to do was learn a second degree of freedom - forward and backward for
- bn> changing the pitch of the airplane. It was harder to learn the use of
- bn> the rudder pedals.
-
-Yes, but most student pilots are flying aircraft with yokes, which means that the motions they are making come from their arms and shoulders...a much easier thing for a right handed person to exercise dexterity with than their left _hand_...
-
OK, lets throw some more confusion in here. When I fly a normal plane,
I sit in the left seat with the left hand (actually, fingertips) on the
yoke. When I fly a stunt plane (i.e. Pitts etc..) I sit in the middle and
grip the stick with my right hand. (Hmmm, maybe 'grip' isn't the correct
term. How 'bout "Clutch with all my white knuckled might, screaming 'Oh jesus,
Oh jesus' loudly while trying my hardest not to toss cookies". Yup, That
much more accurate.) ;-)


Jim "flying 'cause I like it" Blakey

-Cheers,
--- jra

-- 
                       
              Jim Blakey    jimb@tsdiag.ccur.com
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: cumbers in commercials
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Date: 30 Jul 1992 19:07:00 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com



In article <Bs7FLI.F5M@news.udel.edu> derf@ravel.udel.edu (the Greatful Fred)
writes:

>How many people took paricular notice of the car commercials
>all deciding to change the commercials?  Starting a little over a 
>year ago,the no longer tell you how many cylinders a car has, but rather
>the number of valves.  Since there are two valves per cylinder, this 
>gives you no new information, but it is a larger number, so sounds
>better.


Well, there's a reason for that, but it's not what you think.

Since fuel economy is of greater concern than it was in times past, it 
makes sense not to build as many models with big V-8 engines, but to 
design smaller cars with four- and six-cylinder engines offering lower
fuel consumption.  Performance models often compensate for this with 
twincam, multivalve engines having four valves per cyliner instead
of the traditional two.  (In fact, there's a home-market Honda model with
a *five*-valve engine.)  

You might've noticed that the most common number in such advertising is 
*16* valves: four-cylinder engines (for economy) with 4 valves per cylinder
(for performance).  You never hear any commercials raving about cars with
eight-valve engines.



Geoff


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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Moxie, submarines (was: Re: Prince Albert in a can?!?)
Date: 24 Jul 1992 15:42:34 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

In article <1992Jul24.001051.15098@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> 
	Robyn.C.Reed@dartmouth.edu (Robyn C. Reed) writes:
  +In article <39465@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
  +kgg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Kees Goossens) writes:
  +
  +> >Does McDonalds DARE to break local tradition????????
  +
  +Not entirely.  In Hawaii, on Kauai, Burger King offers a breakfast with
  +scrambled eggs and either bacon or Portugese sausage and rice.  I had
  +never heard of Portugese sausage till I visited Hawaii, so that must
  +have been in keeping with local tradition.  But that was Burger King.

But McDonald's does have portugese sausage, eggs, and rice as a breakfast
dish (great combo, lousy at McDs).  They also serve saimin, a Japanese-
inspired noodle soup with a couple of small slice of spam, a slice of
kamaboko, and a bit of chopped green onion.  A poor imitation.
  
  +Robyn "But no poi on the menu...." Reed

Yeah, could you imagine what the kids might do with it?

Terry "Poi dog" Chan
--
Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov                           I disclaim all disclaimers.
From: cizrc@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (Roy Candler)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: offensive phrases ("Rule of Thumb")
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:33:21 GMT
Organization: South Notts Alternative Folklore Unit (SNAFU)

Enough of this.  The phrase *Rule of Thumb* does indeed mean a
rough or approximate measure, as in using one's thumb as a rough-
and-ready unit of one inch.  That's the way I've always heard it,
and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable confirms it.  
Supposed origins in medieval wife-beating practices should be
treated with scepticism.

cizrc@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (JANET)
The public prefers bunk to debunk (Now who said that?)
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject:  out of 5 doctors (was Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising)
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 19:05:39 GMT

With all of this 4 out of 5 doctors recently, remember those important
facts:

4 out of 5 doctors is 80 percent.

Also the alternate comedy version:

4 out of 5 doctors we bribed actually recommend our product, etc.  (I guess
one doctor in five can't be bought.)

Any other 4 out of 5 examples used in advertising?

Any why is it always 4 out of 5?  Arent' there any better numbers?

How about 99 and 44/one-hundredths out of one hundred doctors recommend
our product.

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

In bad neighborhoods policeman travel in pairs.  Do doctors travel in
groups of five?

cjl
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From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Re: Jimmy the Greek
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:13:59 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.061309.9591@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
> In article <R0UHDII@taronga.com> arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva) writes:
> >Gads.  Talk about a story mutating into your proverbial UL.
> 
> Apparently what we have here is a coincidence.  The Tex Antoine incident is
> verifiable; it happened in the '70's.  You can contact the networks; Tex
> Antoine was a very well known figure; since the networks often pick the 
> New York owned-and-operated station's weatherman for the network AM 
> weather spot, etc.  I assume this political thing we have mentioned here 
> is from only a few years ago ('80's.).

Well, I knew Clayton wasn't clever enough to have come up with a comment
like that entirely on his own.  Had to have gotten it from somewhere.

Still, with all the press that the Clayton remark received, why didn't 
anyone make the obvious comparison to the alleged Tex Antoine incident?
(If they did, I must've missed it....)

Stephanie "Partly cloudy and hot with a 60% chance of thunderstorms" da Silva
-- 
Stephanie da Silva                        Taronga Park * Houston, Texas
arielle@taronga.com                           568-0480   568-1032   
 "If I had to be a breakfast roll, I'd rather be a cheese danish!" -- Monty
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Sanity
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:59:17 GMT

And then there's the famous *actually happened* incident of the airport
that, during the height of the airjacking scare of the 1970's, hiring
two shrinks to walk around the airport looking for suspicious people.

Guess what the very first arrest was....
-- 
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                      ted frank | thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
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From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: Chelsea Clinton Fan Club
Keywords: continental drift, get me?
Organization: Between a rock and a type specimen sheet, Boston.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:08:19 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.024943.4601@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>Well, let's hope those braces work.  She'll be legal sometime in
>Bill's second term.  (Assuming, of course, that Kibo doesn't have
>a bodacious female relative to unleash upon the unsuspecting voting
>public to take the country by storm.  Look out for the flashing red
>light on the Hancock Tower!  Woo! Woo!)

That's nothing.  Boston's Hancock Tower is better than *yours* because
it throws windows at people, and the adjacent Hancock Hall has a DEADLY
MIND-CONTROL BEACON on the roof!  Not to mention that Christina
Applegate is my sister.

							-- K.

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