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From: hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Wild Chicken Flocks
Date: 10 Sep 92 04:13:18
Organization: Computing and Telecommunications Services, UCSC
	<1992Sep9.200111.1738@acuson.com>
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In-reply-to: lawson@acuson.com's message of 9 Sep 92 20:01:11 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.200111.1738@acuson.com> lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson) writes:
|In article <26174@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
|>No drugs or hormones but how about crap like lead and other automotive
|>by-products?
|
|Terry, Terry, Terry. . .  There hasn't been lead as a gasoline additive
|since when, 1988?  Most chickens don't live so long, except perhaps as
|pets.

Well, as for lead additives, they were finally banned only this year,
as I recall, in California.  However, local areas (such as Santa Clara
County and perhaps others) have banned it for years, perhaps since
1988 as you suggest.
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From: cafer@etek.chalmers.se (Tommy Vaske)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Notorious Toothpaste Skit
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:06:55 GMT
Reply-To: cafer@etek.chalmers.se (Tommy Vaske)
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, SWEDEN

In article <1992Sep10.172818.8887@unislc.uucp>, dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright) writes:
(edited)
|> 
|> On a small table are a glass of water, a toothbrush, and a tube of
|> toothpaste.  The first performer comes on, squeezes some toothpaste onto
|> the brush, and proceeds to brush his teeth.  He then rinses with the
|> water, spitting it back into the cup.  The next performer comes on,
|> squeezes more toothpaste onto the brush, brushes his teeth thoroughly,
|> then uses the dirty water to rinse, again spitting it back into the cup.
|> The audience gets more grossed out and groans more loudly as two other
|> performers come on and further dirty the water in their turn.  The cup
|> is looking positively sickening when the last performer comes on.  For
|> this role Mr. McGrew would chose the prettiest, most dainty girl he
|> could find.  After brushing her teeth, this girl does the unthinkable:
|> she raises the filthy cup to her lips and drinks it all down, swallowing
|> several times, till every last drop is gone.
|> 
(edited)
|>  
|> Have any of you seen a similar trick?  Do any of you know of some other
|> device or explanation for this skit?
|> 
|>   -- Dan Wright

That's quite a common filthy skit around here. Also, we have the
Egg Toddy (performed by some friends of mine last night); Four persons
needed, lined up at the stage or whereever. The first takes one or two
raw eggs in his mouth, shakes his head, bulges his cheeks in and out,
etc, until the eggs have the right fluffy consistence. This he spits
into a glass. The second one puts some sugar in his mouth (last night
they used sugarcubes, so he had to chew on them for quite a while) adds
the contents of the glass, shakes his head, spits. The third one takes
some liquor in his mouth, adds the contents of the glass, shakes, spits.
And the fourth one consumes this deeeeelicious drink - yummm!

Breakfast is another example. One guy gets down kneeling, mouth wide
open with the back of the mouth "shut". Another guy sits or stands in
front of him, making his breakfast in the kneeling guys mouth. The guys
I know of used sour milk and cereals (very common for breakfast in Sweden)
which the guy then ate with a spoon right out of the same container in
which it had been blended... This show also featured orange juice, which
was sipped out of the mouth through a straw.

--tommy
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From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: there's a WHAT in my head?
Date: 8 Sep 92 19:58:14 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <bakc.128.715957551@giraffe.ru.ac.za> bakc@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR KR COMAN) writes:
>>
[lots of extremely gross-out stuff deleted]
>up.  Then there's a famous type of worm that you pick up by going bare-
>foot.  These burrow thu the skin and sort of hatch out into little worms.  
>Male and female they then move around just under the skin in search of true 
>love and fulfillment.  Their antics cause intense skin irritation and 
>ultimately huge ulcers.  These latter also have cousins in the Far East. I 
>remember reading of an Indian soldier in WW2 in Burma who had got one of 
>these in him.  At the hospital its little head (or whatever) had popped out 
>thu his skin.  This extremity was then carefully wrapped around a stick, and 
>day by day another couple of inches would emerge to be teased out and "
>sticked" -- the idea was not to pull it out in one full go 'cos then it 
>would die and cause immediate infection.    Quite an idea for a pet, I'm 
>sure animal rights activists would've given their blessing! 


Hmmm.  Where did you read about this Indian soldier?  The African variety
(sand fleas, I think) like to lay eggs just under your toenail.  It
doesn't take too long to figure out you've been zapped -- you get a
lovely little swollen bump, and it's tender.  So you take a hot needle
and very carefully dig out what ends up being a large egg.  (Large
in comparison to the sand flea that laid it, that is)  If you goof,
the egg (which is probably actually an egg sac) pops, and you end up
with lots of junk in your toe and very likely a nasty infection.  

If you don't dig it out, you end up with fleas hatching out of your
toes, and that is *not* pleasant, particularly if you're trying to
impress a date.  

If your story about the Indian soldier is true, there's another whole
realm of yuckiness going on there.  Can't imagine what critter that is.

  

-- 
Lauren Crawford  //  crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu

I believe we are on the irreversible trend toward more freedom and
democracy -- but that could change.   -- J. Danforth Quayle  
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 22:54:24 GMT

csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~) writes:
: In article <1992Aug28.221733.23961@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:

: >Yep. It would be interesting if he could - seeing that none of the policeo
: >forces in the world have been able to do so.
: 
: Hold on a second, Bill. The response you are quoting was a mild dig at snopes
: for his perpetual "that's what *you* say" method of debunking. The subject
: thread had nothing to do with snuff (it was about eskimo words for snow by
: then), and was entirely immaterial in any case: I just couldn't resist it.
: Apart from which, it was weeks ago...

Sorry, I should have read a little more closely. As for the time frame, I
have been away for several weeks until recently - I returned to find several
thousand postings to wade through.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Please help a dying young boy...
Organization: Just put everything on the floor; I can find it.
Date:  5 SEP 92 23:26:25    


In article <1685310647.IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU>, 
  IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (macphil) writes...

>Not-OBUL:  Bob Greene ran a story last year about a college student who
>wanted everyone to send him a penny to help pay for college.  Never
>mind these poor saps would spend a factor of many times more just on
>postage.

 So what?  The postage costs were undoubtedly cheaper than delivering the
 pennies in person.

 - snopes

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From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Viruses: was(Re: aids started by cia?)
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 22:01:21 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.211759.13809@acuson.com> lawson@aldia.UUCP (Drew Lawson) writes:
>In article <1992Aug25.160703.10475@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>>the small pox virus is now extinct.
>
>Only because all its victims are dead.

Actually, it's not extinct.  Smallpox cultures are maintained at Atlanta,
Georgia, and someplace in the former USSR, just in case they have to brew up
a vaccine again.

Massive vaccination programs in the 1950's and 1960's, largely run by the
WHO, were so effective that nobody has to be vaccinated any more.  And
nobody has to die of smallpox any more.   It's rare that our species handles
a problem so well, and we shouldn't spare the kudos to the people who
did it.

Phil
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Xref: sparky alt.folklore.college:2190 rec.skydiving:2246
From: katbea@auto-trol.com (Kathy Beatty)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:49:41 GMT
Organization: Auto-trol Technology Corporation -- Denver, Colorado
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pratta@rpi.edu (Anthony Edward Prattico) writes:
: In article <1992Sep13.050932.13547@panix.com> jhawk@panix.com (John Hawkinson) writes:
: >
: >   All this falling stuff has got me wondering: what's the best
: >   way to fall (w/o a parachute, to all you people reading this
: >   from rec.skydiving) in order to minimize damage?
: >
: >   --
: >   John Hawkinson
: >   jhawk@panix.com
: 
: Falling is the easy part. Landing is the problem. From what I have heard, the
: record jump without a parachute was over deep(?) snow, which broke the fall
: wothout causing serious injury. I imagine this would have to be done in a place
: where the snow is not very wet, and is not packed together so it will form a 
: crater and not fall in on the person.
: 
I remember reading about this maybe 25 years ago. The story was about a Soviet
pilot. The claim was that he landed on a slight incline, so he got a "slide
factor" which slowed him down enough to survive.


Kathy
From: Jane.R.Deering@dartmouth.edu (Jane R. Deering)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Suicide 4.0? and Elevator Surfing
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:36:36 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

In article <c8922369.715779377@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au>
c8922369@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Leon James Garde) writes:

> >Being a student at Penn State, we were amused by the policy that states
> >that if your roomate commits suicide, you will automatically receive a 4.0
> >GPA for the semester.
> 
> 
> Thats an urban legend in a nearby news group !!!
> You tell them its true that you have a suicide grading policy at Penn State ???

I remember reading about the suicide 4.0 in a book about Urban Legends
- can't remember the title/author, but since this is the alt.folklore
hierarchy I'm sure some of you out there know what I'm talking about. 
Anyway, if you (Hans Masing) can find documentation of this policy in
an official university publication, the people who work on this book
would be delighted to see it!

I grew up in Amherst, MA, and one of the most popular 'sports' around
UMass is (was?) 'Elevator Surfing'.  One of the residence halls is
quite tall, over 20 stories, I believe, and every now and then people
would climb into the elevator shaft and leap from elevator to elevator
as they zoomed up and down.   There was something of a scandal,
however, when a drunk student died while 'surfing'.  Anyone else heard
of this at their schools?

Jane Deering
fury.eyes@dartmouth.edu
From: Hall.Moore@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Hall Moore)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:14:06 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1992Sep04.130449.9178@rchland.ibm.com> jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
>In article <186v71INN1bu@agate.berkeley.edu>, robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:
>|> It has been a very persistent rumor at U.C. Berkeley, that about 10 years
>|> (20?) ago, a frosh boy fell off a 7th-floor porch on Unit II's Ehrman
>|> Hall.  He fell onto the roof of a VW buggy in a TOTALLY intoxicated state,
>|> so that all his muscles were relaxed, so he walked away from the fall with
>|> only a few bruises.
>|> 
>|>     Not surprisingly, Ehrman Hall is also where the University (surreptitiously)
>|> puts all the most rowdy students.
>|> 
>|> 
>
>  My neighbor at UND (North Dakota) fell out of his second story window
>while adjusting his tv antennae.  His intoxicated roomies (who were keeping
>him from falling )decided that it would be funny if they let go of his 
>feet.  He was fine...
>
>  I was also there the night a FRESHMAN climbed out his 4th floor window
>to go back to a frat party.  His buddies had blocked him in, cause he
>was obnoxiously drunk.  The wing I lived on was directly opposite his 
>window, and several of my friends saw him plunge.  He fell into some
>bushes and bounced, but was fine.  LOTS of people lost it when they
>saw him fall, though. 
>
>Jared "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH...THUD" Dahl
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>Opinions expressed are mine, not IBM's.

When I was a soph at Mt St Mary's College (near Gettysburg, PA), a student
fell out a fourth floor window in my dorm.  He was _completely_ drunk by
all accounts, but he was by no means all right.  He suffered lots o' broken
bones and some internal injuries.  Had to be flown out by helicopter.  He
survived without any permanant damage, but definitey disproved the `if you
are relaxed, you'll be all right' myth.  Granted, he did fall on to a 
concrete sidewalk.

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From: ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:15:52 GMT
Organization: NC Microproducts, Inc.

katbea@auto-trol.com (Kathy Beatty) writes:
}:jhawk@panix.com (John Hawkinson) writes:
}: >
}: >   All this falling stuff has got me wondering: what's the best
}: >   way to fall (w/o a parachute, to all you people reading this
}: >   from rec.skydiving) in order to minimize damage?
}: 
}I remember reading about this maybe 25 years ago. The story was about a Soviet
}pilot. The claim was that he landed on a slight incline, so he got a "slide
}factor" which slowed him down enough to survive.
}
So, perhaps you should aim for the nearest playground, and try to hit the
slide?

Better yet, try for a "Wet-and-Wild" style water park and aim for those
big water slides.

I wonder if those evaporation towers at Three-Mile-Island would work?
Of course, I'd hate to miss the side and go down the center.  :-)


Of course, If I ever do find myself in this situation, I'd concentrate
on flapping my arms all the way down, just in case I hit a pocket of
Toon-physics on the way.



Lance

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: schottd@ucs.orst.edu (Derek Schott)
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Organization: University Computing Services - OSU
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 17:01:36 GMT

About 3 months ago, a man jumped off the top of Parker Stadium
here at Oregon State. It is a fall of 72 feet from where he jumped.
Landed feet first; interesting thing was that he was now 5 inched
shorter than he normally was. Died sometime between 2200 and 0700
the next day. One of the cleanest suicides I've ever seen....

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From: WJS112@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Dont walk on me?
Date: 11 Sep 92 20:03:03 GMT
 <27792@life.ai.mit.edu>
Organization: Penn State University


    Thought you might like the following little tale I was told. I visited
Longwood College in VA. and they have these frat.(etc.) clubs design, if you
will, on the sidewalks.  After I walked on one, I was told not to, because
if you walk on these paintings on the sidewalk, you will have a blue baby.
What this means, i do not know, and neither do the people who told me this.
All I know is that they avoided the paintings like the plauge.  Kinda makes
me glad to go to P.S.U.
                       fuzzy.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 16:50:27 GMT

dunker@octel.com (Mike Dunker) writes:

>In article <186v71INN1bu@agate.berkeley.edu> robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:
>>It has been a very persistent rumor at U.C. Berkeley, that about 10 years
>>(20?) ago, a frosh boy fell off a 7th-floor porch on Unit II's Ehrman
>>Hall.  He fell onto the roof of a VW buggy in a TOTALLY intoxicated state,
>>so that all his muscles were relaxed, so he walked away from the fall with
>>only a few bruises.
>>
>>Not surprisingly, Ehrman Hall is also where the University (surreptitiously)
>>puts all the most rowdy students.
>
>This actually happened.  It happened during the '85-'86 school year.  I
>believe he was on the drug Ecstasy and fell (jumped?) out the window.  A couple
>of my good friends lived across from him on 7th floor Ehrman, but I can't
>remember his name.
>
>What I heard at the time (but can't substantiate) is that the parking lot
>was fairly empty, so he was lucky to "find" a car to land on.  I also heard
>that his injuries were very minor (a broken rib or something).  I am also
>pretty sure he did NOT walk away though...

Last year, a guy jumped off the top of the car park near where I
worked, but only fell two stories before his fall was broken by landing
on the roof of a car. Apparently he did manage to walk away, because he
got off the roof of the car and then jumped the remaining six stories
to his death.

The secretary at work was really piqued at the damage to the roof of her
car...

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From: jim@fuji.eng.yale.edu (James J. Szinger)
Subject: Re: symbols
Organization: Yale University, Intelligent Sensors Lab, Elect. Eng.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:10:36 GMT

In article <BuJsGH.Ln4@acsu.buffalo.edu>
v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (BILL S. PRESTON, ESQ.) writes:

>also, here at the university of buffalo, in our new student union
>there is a giant seal of the school on the floor. over the summer
>the rumor began that it was 'bad luck' to walk on it.

Kids have it so easy today.  When I was at UB, we didn't have a
student union.  I bet that rumor was start by someone the
provost's office so that it will last longer and they won't have
to buy a new one so soon.  Here at Yale, there's some stuff
carved into a stone floor which has almost totally disappeared.
Is the seal the new-fangled gender-neutral version or is it the
one which is definitely a bull?

Jim			ECE '88
--
James Szinger                        jim@fuji.eng.yale.edu

"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."
From: ENVIRON@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Date: 11 Sep 92 21:01:39 GMT
 <1992Sep04.130449.9178@rchland.ibm.com>
 <1992Sep9.191406.26037@samba.oit.unc.edu>
 <1992Sep11.184251.23771@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

In article <1992Sep11.184251.23771@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>,
Jane.R.Deering@dartmouth.edu (Jane R. Deering) says:
>There's a good deal of truth to the relaxation theory, although you'd
>be silly to think that it would necessarily save you in a fall from a
>window.  The truth is much more apparent in drunk-driving statistics,
>which show that drunk drivers tend to get less badly injured (note:
>less badly injured - NOT uninjured) in driving accidents than their
>sober victims. For statistic mongers, I apologize that I don't have any
>on hand, but I have this info both from nurses who gave a presentation
>on drinking and driving from my old school, and my father who is a
>doctor at the emergency room of a large hospital.

     If the drunk drivers were the ones who caused the accident (logical),
then wouldn't the fact that they are plowing *into* the other vehicles be a
better explanation for the injury statistics?  For instance, assuming I
broadside a sedan with my truck, I'd probably come out better with an entire
front end between me and the accident than with just a side door... Just a
thought.

Brett
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From: pratta@rpi.edu (Anthony Edward Prattico)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Date: 13 Sep 92 18:03:23 GMT
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	<1992Sep12.210707.25004@news.columbia.edu>
	<1992Sep13.050932.13547@panix.com>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

In article <1992Sep13.050932.13547@panix.com> jhawk@panix.com (John Hawkinson) writes:
>
>   All this falling stuff has got me wondering: what's the best
>   way to fall (w/o a parachute, to all you people reading this
>   from rec.skydiving) in order to minimize damage?
>
>   --
>   John Hawkinson
>   jhawk@panix.com

Falling is the easy part. Landing is the problem. From what I have heard, the
record jump without a parachute was over deep(?) snow, which broke the fall
wothout causing serious injury. I imagine this would have to be done in a place
where the snow is not very wet, and is not packed together so it will form a 
crater and not fall in on the person.

-Anthony
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