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From: jbrunton@esk (Jason Brunton)
Subject: Re: McMouse!
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 05:25:59 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.122830.407@cs.yale.edu>, rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
>
>In article <1992Apr10.115705.4701@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au> jbrunton@esk (Jason Brunton) writes:
>> [6 LINES OF QUOTED TEXT DELETED]
>Hmm....It's this sticking thing that surprises me....
>Meat shouldn't stick that well to hot metal. Certainly, my hand didn't
>stick too well when I thought it would be good to grab my motorcycle header
>pipe.
>
>Ekr "too stoopid to be alive."
>-Ekr
>
>
>
>-- 
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Eric Rescorla, DoD#431, Honda CM400 rider          rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu
>Yale University Department of Chemistry            We hack anything.
>My mind is now for rent: C/Unix,Vacuum Tech,Machining,P-Chemist. Hire me, eh? 





In reply to the hand not being able to stick to the grill,......
   You are quite correct in saying that HIS HAND would not stick to the
grill.
  As a matter of fact all people working at Maccas and are cooking are
required to wear plastic gloves by health regulations.
HIS HAND did not stick, it was HIS GLOVE that melted to his hand and to the
grill as well which merged them togethher making it painful for him to remove
his hand. So a grill spatula was used so his hand was not torn when removed.



Another story from McDonalds.....
    Somebody working the early morning breakfast shift on a Sunday had a BIG
NIGHT out the night before and she was not feeling too well the next day.
 Seeing those eggs and sausages that morning did not turn her on...
  She uncontrollably puked all over the grill .....EEEK
No jokes about it not making any difference to the food----
They managed to clean up the mess, but business was slow for the next couple
of days...
The girl was later sacked for making the breakfast tasting better...Ha Ha
    This gives a whole new meaning to the Franchise Name..

                              McChucks...



Did you know that French Fries are made from Leper's Dicks???
And they make the lettuce by blowing their noses on the grills and letting it
   fry crispy????
Only 1% of a McD's meat pattie is actually made of 100% beef.
The pickles are really snot flavoured condoms (But Condoms taste better!).
The onion is actually dandruff.
The special sauce is special because it CUMS from a special type of cuCUMber..

   Well enough of the special peversion...

         McDonald can't be all that bad ... Millions of burgers are sold a year.

    But, come to think of it, Millions of tonnes of manure (sp) is distributed
    a year....But surely a Big Mac couldn't taste as good as a cow pat!



Any other stories out there in Mac Land!!!!

Jason McBrunton.................................................................                             |:-)

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From: forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,misc.kids
Subject: Re: Walla walla bing bang (was Re: Worm song?)
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:14:25 GMT
Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA

From article by jch@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (jeffrey.c.halle):
> From article <92094.085253ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET>, by ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET:
> (re: The Witch Doctor)
>> David Seville, yes; the Chipmunks, no.  This was a minor hit in the late
> 
> The Chipmunks did record it.  Whether it was a single or only on their albums
> I don't know.  It was later done (but probably not released outside the
> New York area, fortunately for the rest of the world) by Marc Gastineau,
> the former NJJets linebacker.
> 
> BTW, Seville's real name is Ross Bagdisarian, or something like that.

Really?   I had heard that the original "David Seville" was dead, so that
the modern day Chipmunks are made by his son.   (But I've never known what
either of their real names were before.)

An interesting point:  All the original Chipmunks _were_ David Seville.
I found this out one day when I played one of their 33 rpm records on the
now long obsolete 16 rpm.

Suzanne.
From: dternes@duke.cdc.com (David Ternes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ask Marilyn Again
Keywords: Marilyn
Date: 8 Apr 92 21:47:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: shamash.40639
Reply-To: dternes@mips.COM (David Ternes)
Organization: Advanced Product Development

In article <1992Apr8.000205.18741@Cadence.COM> vince@cadence.com (Vince Gibboni) writes:
>
>    Could someone _PLEASE_ explain this one to me. (Perhaps I've just
>    never heard the thing fully specified). Does Monty know which 
>    door the prize is behind ? Will he never intentionally reveal the
>    prize ? If Monty will intentionally avoid revealing the prize
>    then obviously it is better to switch (as there is a 2/3 chance
>    that the prize is behind one of Monty's two doors - and he has
>    ruled one out for you) - but this seems too simple for anyone
>    to argue with.

How about this?  If Monty shows you the prize, the game is over.  No
advantage to switching, you've already lost.  You've already given the 
explanation for it being better to switch if Monty reveals a goat.  There
was a 2/3 chance that the prize is behind one of Monty's two doors - and
he has ruled one out for you.  I believe the original Monty Hall problem
asks "Is it better to switch after being shown a door without the prize?".
The question "Is it better to switch after being shown the prize?" really
doesn't mean much.

-david
From: mikkelson@breakr.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Geronimo!
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:45:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: PA.1992Apr13.204539.25135
Organization: Still waiting for the snuff films . . .


In article <10APR199218471700@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu>, 
  ae313406@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu (Vance Kochenderfer) writes...

>  Sorry to inject some facts into this newsgroup (AFU motto), but here's
>the calculation:

>Symbols:
>    D=Drag force on body           CD=Coefficient of drag=D/(.5*d*V^2*S)
>    W=Weight of body               l=length of body
>    d=density of air=1.23kg/cu.m. at sea level
>    dl=density of lead=14000kg/cu.m. just about anywhere
>    S=characteristic area of body
>    V=speed of body                r = radius of body
>    Vol=Volume of body

I was told we wouldn't have to do any math in this newsgroup.

- snopes

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Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Monday, 6 Apr 1992 11:35:41 MST
From: <ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Origins of Syphilis
 <1992Apr4.163441.23541@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
 <1992Apr5.012415.1577@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>

In article <1992Apr5.012415.1577@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>,
egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) says:
>
>The author notes that diseases tend to start off very virulent and
>very lethal, killing large parts of the population.  Then, the
>disease more or less evolves: either it kills everyone (this is
>bad for the disease, since it runs out of "food"), or both the
>disease and humankind make an accommodation (the disease becomes
>an "endemic": it's found mainly as a childhood illness in cities,
>for instance.  The adult population has become immune.  It'll take
>some children now and then, but the disease is no longer serious.  Look
>at chickenpox.).
>
This is the premise for "The Andromeda Strain" by Michael Crichton (sp?).
As a matter of fact, he refers to syphilis as an example.  As a matter of
fact, my major criticism of the book was that, once he introduced that
thread, all suspense was removed.  I knew what was coming.
Loyd Means
Phoenix AZ
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Non-Alcoholic Drinks Folklore
Organization: Hewlett-Parkard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 00:15:45 GMT

: If you compress the sides of the bottle with the top off the pressure 
: is _still_ atmospheric pressure so should have negligible effect on the
: CO2 coming out of solution faster. The deformation of the sides may
: slightly increase the surface area of the bottle and any lines or creases
: created would produce a point for the bubbles to form on and would increase
: the production of bubbles. if you watch the bubbles in a glass they often
: stream up from one point where there is probably an imperfection in the 
: glass. This is something to do with the initial pressure on an 
: infinitesimally small bubble being infinately large. The imperfection 
: reduces this and allows the bubble to form.
: 
: If the pressure was greater than atmospheric the CO2 would come out of 
: solution more slowly. 

The point was - when the cap was screwed back on and the hand pressure
removed from the bottle, it would try to resume its old shape, thereby
producing a negative pressure in the bottle. This would cause some of
the CO2 to come out of solution until the pressure was again somewhat
equalized.

: If you squeeze the bottle until there is no air left and screw the top
: on the CO2 will have nowhere to go and will therefore remain in 
: solution. With a little air left in there will be a smaller volume of 
: air for the CO2 to come out of solution into enter so a greater percentage
: of CO2 will remain in the drink. Maybe the friend has a point after all.

Sorry, doesn't work that way. If that was the case, then pop would not bubble.
All the CO2 would be released at the surface. This can be shown to be false
by simple observation of an opened bottle.

: I always reckoned that the moment you open the lid most of the pressurised
: CO2 would come out of solution and whatever you did subsequently would
: make very little difference to the amount of fizzy CO2 in the drink.
 
Nope - if it did that, it would shoot out of the neck of the bottle and all
over the place. Very little more CO2 comes out of solution when you open
the bottle - at least not immediately. Most of what does is the bubbles of
carbonation that you see. Give the pop a place for bubbles to form, and
more CO2 will come out of solution - if equilibrium has not already been
reached.

Bill
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: highways and fascism
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 22:28:18 GMT

Found this on sci.econ (!):

In article <68857@ut-emx.uucp> baylor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Baylor) writes:
>> 
>>> >- one of the creepiest underground fascist organizations in the US (Freight
>>> >  Riders of America, or something like that) makes a specialty of random
>>> >  killings on trains.
>>> 
>>> Never heard of these guys. Got any more info on 'em?
>>
>>They're just hobos who have apparently formed a Manson-style family.  
>>They reportedly engage in random thrill-killings of people they 
>>encounter while riding the rails.  Usually the victims are other hobos with 
>>the occasional railroad worker mixed in.  
> 
>	Actually, they are the hobos (if that's the term were using). They 
>are essentially white guys who lived in homeless camps. They were somewhat 
>mean spirited. You're right, they are like manson, or how biker gangs get
>depicted. They have titles if i remember correctly, were mostly in the 
>south and midwest, raped their camp wives, sold cocain (i don't know if
>it's crack), got drunk alot and avoided the law by crossing state lines
>often.
>	I never heard that they caught any of them, although they 
>seem to know names; one of the higher ups was intervied in a homeless
>shelter in alabama i think.

No word on whether any of the killings were filmed...
-- 
Ted Frank          + "He wanted to be the car rather than the thimble or the
1307 E 60 St, #109 +  hat."  -- District attorney explaining Marc Cienkowski's
U o' C Law Skool   +  murder with bow and arrow of Michael Klucznik in
Chi, IL 60637      +  Doylestown Borough, PA over a game of Monopoly.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Subject: Glow, little glow worm (was: Today's conspiracy theory
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:45:49 GMT
Organization: My Daddy, My Doggy, and Me
X-Bytes: 

 
              [radiation "horror" stories deleted]

  In Kentucky there is a local low-level nuclear waste disposal site that 
  was ruled unfit for further use until they lined the thing with a very
  thick Hefty bag type material. We also burn coal here with radioactive
  material in it far more dangerous than anything released at Three Mile
  Island.  And the Fernald processing plant up near Cincinatti has
  "lost" tons and tons of uranium to the air over the last 20 years.
-- 
Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu>  
You know, there's many a damned fool woulda swallered that.
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Lemurs
Date: 15 Apr 92 18:51:15 GMT
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway

In <9204150701.AA26772@mail.cis.ohio-state.edu> FURRJK@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu (Joel Furr) writes:

>Where is the FAQ list, we are asked?  Perhaps the Lemur Liberation Army
>has hijacked it.

Are lemurs legal in California?
Are wombats?  Is wombat wrestling legal anywhere?

Warren "never wrestle with a lemur" Burstein
-- 
/|/-\/-\          The entire kitchen is		Jerusalem
 |__/__/_/        still full of strange hamantaschen
 |warren@         And the custodian
/ nysernet.org    is starting to get worried.
From: pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Falstad)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Such a deal!
Date: 5 Apr 92 18:18:45 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: League For Fighting Chartered Accountancy
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU

djohnson@gamma.is.tcu.edu (Darryl Johnson) wrote on Sun, 5 Apr 1992 05:36:00 GMT:
>Everyone ON this list must have SOME minimum knowledge of
>computers.  This is an empirical question.  Write a short
>program built around the Monty Hall situation, run 5000
>iterations of it, and check your own results.

I started to do this, but by the time I finished coding, it was obvious
just by looking at the program I had written that switching is
the correct strategy.  My program looked something like this:

main() {
   for (i = 0; i != 5000; i++) {

      /* car is behind this door */
      car_door = rand num 1 to 3;

      /* door you pick */
      your_first_choice = rand num 1 to 3;

      /* door monty shows you */
      do
         monty_shows = rand num 1 to 3;
      while monty_shows != your_first_choice && monty_shows != car_door;

      /* determine whether it's best to switch or not */
      if (car_door != your_first_choice)
         best_to_switch = TRUE;
      else
         best_to_switch = FALSE;
   }
}

Well, just by looking at it, you can tell that there's no point in even
calculating which door Monty shows you, so you can throw out that code.
So, basically what you're testing is whether or not car_door and
your_first_choice are equal.  Obviously, they'll only be equal 1/3 of the time.

-- 
Paul Falstad, pfalstad@phoenix.princeton.edu | 10 PRINT "PRINCETON CS"
[Your blood pressure just went up.]          | 20 GOTO 10
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Ask Marilyn Again
Organization: Hewlett-Parkard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 23:44:41 GMT

moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:
: 
: |>chance of hiding the prize.  The other one has a 50% chance of hiding
: |>the prize.  It does not matter whether you switch or not, but if you
: |>miss the prize either way it is going to bug the hell out of you for
: |>quite a while.
: 
: If the odds were initially 1/3 that you were correct and revealing the goat
: reveals no new information, how could the odds jump to 1/2 that you were
: correct?  Either revealing the goat reveals some information about the
: other 2 doors, or the odds you guessed correctly initially remain at 1/3,
: in which case the chance the prize is behind the other unopened door is 2/3
: and therefore, you should switch.
: 
: -Mike

It does reveal new information. It reveals that the prize is behind one of
the two remaining doors.  Make of this what you may.

Bill
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Hoover Dam (was The wacky, flakey State)
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:40:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: e2big.1992Apr8.184032.12251
Reply-To: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1992Apr8.172537.18867@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, w3wes@edison.gsfc.nasa.gov (William E. Smith) writes:
|>    I seem to recall an UL about some of the construction workers, who died
|>while building the dam, being entombed in the massive structure.

This is mentioned in one of the urban legends books I have.  There are no
dead bodies entombed in the dam. Even if someone died and fell into the
cement, leaving the body would weaken it too much.  There *is* a plaque
on the dam honoring those who did die while working on the dam, many people
interpret the plaque as a tombstone.  It isn't, the people were removed and
given a proper burial.

-Mike
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From: robin@aus.intel.com (robin rosenbaum)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,misc.kids
Subject: Re: Walla walla bing bang (was Re: Worm song?)
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:42:43 GMT
Organization: Development Tools Operation, Intel Corp.

In article <1992Apr06.193141.2232978@locus.com> judy@locus.com (Judy Leedom Tyrer) writes:
>
>...  ANd you left out my personal favorite - 
>"He wore tan shoes, pink shoelaces, a polkadat vest and man-oh-man
>He wore tan shoes, pink shoelaces, a big panama and a purple hat band."

Of course, when the song was written that outfit would have been considered
unusual.

Robin "no you aren't wearing that plaid with that stripe to school." Hilp
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Cable TV cheater spotters (was Re: FCC Call letters)
Organization: Hewlett-Parkard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 19:09:48 GMT

weaver@castor.cs.uga.edu (Mike Weaver) writes:
: 
: Not only is jamming police radar illegal,but:
: 
: 1) Doesn't work. The jammer will make the radar go nuts, sure the cop won't notice that.
: 
: 2) Can kill or brain damage you or someone else. The frequency of a jammer
: would cause a microwaving effect on your brain or eyes should you get at the
: right angle to the jammer. (this is from my roommate, DJ and Ham dude)

This is mainly a "crock of bull". The frequency has little to do with anything.
You are exposed to microwaves all the time - unless you live in the middle of
the desert and, even then, you are periodically exposed when a plane flies
over or a policeman uses his radar unit.

The intensity of the signal and the duration of the exposure are are two
operative conditions. The output signal from the "jammer" would be very low,
less than that of the police radar unit. I doubt if a person would leave the
unit turned on all the time, only when they received a radar signal, so the
exposure duration would also be low.

More to the point, these signals are usually generated by a "Gunn" diode
which has a horn antenna connected. The output signal is very directional.
It would be rather hard to mount the unit where it could affect your eyes
or brain and still affect the police radar unit. Such a mounting would be
counter-productive.

: The FCC fairly well controls all transmissions. You will get nailed.

Wrong. The FCC sets the rules, they do a minimum of enforcement - they do
not have the staff or budget for thorough enforcement. They rely on other
users of the frequencies to inform them about persistent violators. As an
example, the FCC pretty much ignores 11 meters (the CB frequencies) - it
is now basically an unlicensed/unpoliced anything goes band.

Bill "On my way to 20 wpm" Nelson
From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Polio immunizations
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:00:29 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.153848.2088@sunova.ssc.gov>, chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov (Chuck Adams) writes:
> The Sabin vaccine was supposed to be a "killed" virus, where solutions of 
> the virus were treated with formalin to kill the virus.  The problem was 
> that a batch or two of the Sabin vaccine didn't get properly "killed", and 
> live virus was given to a number people, many of who came down with REAL 
> polio.

No, the Sabin vaccine uses a live, but weakened, virus.

> The Salk vaccine used pieces of the virus, which could not give polio to 
> the recipient.  Salk found out that the pieces were just as effective at 
> creating antibodies as was the killed Sabin vaccine.

The Salk vaccine used an inactivated virus.  It came first.

> There was apparently much animosity between Sabin and Salk due to these 
> differences, with Salk getting the Nobel prize for his efforts and Sabin a 
> black eye for giving some people exactly what his vaccine was supposed to 
> protect against.

I believe that that's correct.  Salk still thinks his vaccine is better.
The references I checked make no mention of any Nobel Prizes for either
of them, though.

> ObUL:  My brother-in-law got polio because he wasn't vaccinated since the 
> vaccine wan't yet invented.  His was a very mild form, with no lasting 
> effects.

I just check on this.  Apparently, most cases of polio are all but
subclinical; it's only if the virus enters the central nervous system
that you're likely to notice this.  Even in such cases, about 50% of
the patients recover fully, though there's a ``post-polio'' syndrome
that's starting to be noticed and studied.

In an earlier posting, I mentioned that polio was a disease of developed
countries.  Here's what the article I checked said on that question:

	Poliomyelitis has sometimes been considered a disease of
	developed nations, where improved hygiene has reduced the
	chances of contact with the virus during infancy and hence also
	reduced the protection provided by maternal antibodies to the
	disease, but in fact poliomyelitis's worldwide rates of
	occurrence show no such selectivity.
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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (99E99)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: TV 'buzz' when graphics are on screen (was:Re: FCC Call letters)
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:58:02 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing


In article <1992Apr9.013551.22041@e2big.mko.dec.com> moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:
}Clarifying somewhat:  The VHF TV station groups 2-6 and 7-13 are widely
}separated in frequency, and in the old days of TV the difference in the
}abilities of the standard TV set to receive the high VHF band was rather
}worse than the low band, much like the ability of some older sets to receive

	Unrelated question.. (this group seems to have become an open forum
for any question..Sort of a worldwide Straight Dope.. so here goes)

	WHY do TVs, even new TVs, put out an audible (irritating!) buzz 
when graphics are shown on screen?  I mean like "typed text", and pictures
and such.

	New TVs don't seem to do it as much as old TVs, but it still happens
on occassion.
-- 
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