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From: N.W. Choe <nwc1@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: Cuttin' the Rug
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A78A122442017491@sl-mac-17.rh.uchicago.edu>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 25 Jan 93 03:54:44 GMT
Organization: Beaver Consulting Co.
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:03:09 GMT

In article <TTj=8f=@engin.umich.edu> Laurence Doering,
ldoering@engin.umich.edu writes:
>Dancing.  Specifically, swing dancing.  This phrase originated,
surprisingly
>enough, in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.  I don't remember offhand when it
was
>made or who directed it, but it's the one where Elmer Fudd buys
Bugs at
>the grocery store and takes him home, intending to make a rabbit
stew,
>but is foiled when Bugs convinces Elmer he has a deadly disease
called
>"rabbititus."  Anyway, in one scene, Bugs grabs Elmer and starts
dancing
>with him, saying "C'mon, Jackson, cut yourself a slice of rug."

In "Bugs Bunny- Fifty Years and Only One Grey Hare" by Joe Adamson,
there's a Filmography- written for another book "Looney Tunes and
Merrie Melodies". (blah blah...)

Anyhow, the cartoon alluded to is "Hare Tonic", Nov. 10, 1945. Dir.
Charles M. Jones, Story by Ted Pierce; [other info]. Available on
MGM/UA video "Starring Bugs Bunny!".
N.W. Choe    Beaver Consulting Co.- Chicago
5454 S. Shore Dr. #318
Chicago, IL 60615     312.702.4605
"Embarking upon the obvious to stumble upon the truth."
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz)
Subject: Re: starting a car takes more gas that idling
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:49:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.210843.269@gems.vcu.edu>, hleaves@gems.vcu.edu
writes:
> People have always told me that it takes more gas to start a car than to
> leave
> it running. That, suppposedly, is why you shouldn't turn off your engine
> for a
> brief stop. I can believe that this is true for a very brief idling
> period, but
> not for any longer times. What would be considered the crossover point,
> where
> it is better to stop your engine than leave it running? 


I've read figures around 1-3 min from the environment minister in Mexico.
But those figures do consider things like wear and tear...


Alex

-- 
Alex Lopez-Ortiz                              alopez-o@maytag.UWaterloo.ca
Department of Computer Science                      University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario                                                   Canada
From: carolo@cse.ucsc.edu (Carol Osterbrock)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Snipers at Stalingrad
Date: 24 Jan 1993 07:21:51 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
NNTP-Posting-Host: arapaho.ucsc.edu

In article <1993Jan20.212531.13607@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:

>>    Also, John Denver ( Yes the Singer ) was a sniper in Vietnam, and I believe
>>that he had 70+ confirmed kills.

[...]

>>Can any other readers out there
>>verify that John Denver was a U.S. Army sniper?

Gee, back in, ummm, mumble, when I was a teenybopper and John Denver
first became a star, I remember reading in 16 Magazine about him, and
he *was* in the army.  It would have been in the early-mid sixties,
I think, coz he got started in show biz around 1968 or 9 or so, so
he *could* have gone to Vietnam.  I vaguely remember that he had some
kind of mighty revelation on a mountain in Colorado and changed from
whatever he was before that into a peace-loving songwriter, and also
changed his name to John Denver in commemoration of the event.  This
could very well have been all hype (16 is about as reliable as the
Weekly World News), and my memory is somewhat hazy after all these
years.  At any rate, it is not blatantly impossible.

-carol "remembers white lipstick" o



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From: awpg1@cl.cam.ac.uk (A.W.P. Guy)
Subject: Re: Airline Interrogaters!!
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:04:57 GMT

> jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker) writes:
>> <MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>> Every time I fly out of Scotland's International Airport outside of Glasgow
>> (name?) I am fascinated by the skill of the interrogaters that question
>> suspicious passengers before checking their luggage.
>>  ...
>
>I'm sure this is a joke of some sort, but if not, maybe you should
>have a chat with Gary Stollman over on alt.alien.visitors...

When I traveled pan-am last summer I was interrogated in a similar
fashion. Mainly questions to establish that I knew the contents of my
luggage and that it had not been tampered with, but also questions
about where I lived, who paid for the ticket, etc.

Andy.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Snapple
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 13:12:37 GMT

In article <106274@netnews.upenn.edu> mrice@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Matt Rice) writes:
>In article <93022.140916WCE2@psuvm.psu.edu> WCE2@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>>A serious inquiry:  does anyone have a copy of the flier that the NYT says
>>circulated about Snapple?  If so, I'd appreciate having a copy for FOAFtale
>>News (as comparative material for the Tropical Fantasy/KKK flier).
>
>Because this seems to be dying (and we can't _possibly_ allow that), I
>have a new related story.
>
>A "reliable source" told a friend of mine (RSOAF?) that L.L. Bean is
>financially supporting the movement to uphold the ban on homosexuals
>in the military.  She heard it on the radio in Chicago.
>
>It was news to me.  Any one else know of this?

I know one of the old Beans is running for some sort of political office.
They were either very right-wing or very left-wing, thus upsetting the
opposite number.
-- 
ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
From: CSD108@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Coors rumors (Re: Snapple linked to KKK, Operation Rescue?)
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:48:55 GMT
 <1993Jan19.214125.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu> <r9h3-zn@rpi.edu>
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Penn State University

Hmm. You know, the Snapple drinks are very popular here at PSU (New Ken
campus). Come to think of it, we didn't get MLK day off either.

Double Hmmmmm.

--Craig D.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Johnny Carson
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:24:35 GMT

RE
  +_Newsweek_:
  +
  +  About as far as Carson ever went was to ogle a starlet's cleavage and
  +  crack:

linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:

  +How hilarious that the journalist/copy editor managed to get that
  +entire phrase into print!    If you need this explaining to you,
  +tough.

twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:

  + What I was wondering was did Carson do this simultaneously, and if
  + so, how did he do it?

Mirrors.  Reminds me of the Benny Hill skit where they panned
back from some cleavage, until it was obviously a chicks butt.

Jon "Still Right" Papai
From: phs@cassiopee.cosmos (philippe schnoebelen 303v)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: It's true ! [Re: Epileptics and computer games]
Date: 26 Jan 93 09:14:08 GMT
Reply-To: phs@lifia.imag.fr (Philippe Schnoebelen)
Organization: Institut Imag, Grenoble, France


   >> I remember somebody posted an article claiming that this was a
   >> rare event. What's the background for the above story? Are there
   >> any US reports on this? If not, is that due to the US using 60 Hz
   >> and Europe using 50Hz? Is this just another stupid newspaper UL.

Anyway, the rumor is being taken seriously.

This morning the radio said that the EEC Parliament has just commissioned
an investigation on this. Also, France's Ministry of Consummation
commissioned her own investigation for which Nintendo officially offered
its help.

--
Philippe SCHNOEBELEN,  LIFIA,  46 Av Felix VIALLET,  38000 Grenoble,  FRANCE
						     email: phs@lifia.imag.fr
"Algebraic symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about."
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.discordia,alt.slack
From: pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey)
Subject: Re: Jesus' name (was Re: Late breaking potential UL!)
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
	<1jfr9dINNgjf@news.umbc.edu> 
	<1993Jan19.192926.1257@midway.uchicago.edu> 
	<H.eg.QXZFGT3GDys@harvee.billerica.ma.us>
Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:09:25 UTC

In article <H.eg.QXZFGT3GDys@harvee.billerica.ma.us> 
scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us writes:
>In <1993Jan19.192926.1257@midway.uchicago.edu>, Ted Frank writes:
>>Is anyone else related to someone famous, or knows someone who is?
>i know mel gibson's cousin.

And now you know - the *rest* - of the story.
Good - day!
From: chapman@u.washington.edu (Bruce L. Chapman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Cuttin' the Rug
Date: 22 Jan 1993 03:28:22 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.95.35.14

In article <3093.2b56f75d@vger.nsu.edu> j_manes@vger.nsu.edu writes:
> Supposedly, when an authentic Oriental rug is crafted in whatever little
> village they make them in, the threads are too 'new' looking and rug that
> looks too new won't sell.  I've always heard that new rugs are put out on
> the sidewalks or the street to get some wear and look more like what 
> customers expect to buy.
>  
> Anybody know if this is true?
>  
>                                 -------------------------------------
>                                 ^    I don't do no drugs, man.      ^
>    Jean Manes                   ^      I'm hooked on phonics.       ^
>                                 ^-----------------------------------^
> 
The story I had (from a rug vendor in Tehran in the late Seventies) was that  
they did this to tighten up all the little knots that hold the threads in  
place, and that the newest innovation in this process was to throw the rug in  
the street so that passing cars could *really* tighten the sucker up.

Evidently the quickest way to destroy an Oriental rug is to hang it on a wall.  
The knots loosen in a few years and the thing falls to pieces, while a rug in  
steady use will last generations.

Bruce Chapman
chapman@u.washington.edu (maybe)

ObUL (as if the above wasn't enough): the best Oriental rugs were made before  
child labor laws were enacted, since children could make smaller knots. 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Kid impaled on grill, etc.
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:28:44 GMT

In article <11836@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>Don't know if this one gets a regular airing on AFU, but in Aus there
>were a couple of kids that died in the Ickiest way.  There was a particular
>type of swimming-pool filter that just happened to look just like one
>brand of potty. Newly potty-trained kid sits in pool-filter and has intestines
>sucked out and sliced into little bits.  Yeuch.

The same story here is about a fat lady whose buttocks made a tight fit
with an airplane toilet.  The result was the same, albeit larger.  Thanks
for the new variant on the story.  That's what the group is about when
we're not swapping the same old in-jokes.

Come up with names and dates, and you're a hero.

Phil "And remember that JVB reads this group" Gustafson
-- 
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|        Satirical matter is not necessarily identified as such.            |
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Jesus' name (was Re: Late breaking pot
Date: 22 Jan 1993 23:53:02 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 16738@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu, PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
> Mel Gibson is Aussie, isn't he?

Obfact: Although he was raised in Australia, Mel was born in NYC (which
makes an interesting pattern when written in the Dingbat font, BTW).

---
Brian Scearce                                           bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
              The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
                  "You can't fit the truth on a t-shirt, man."
                                 "That'd fit."

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: moscoso@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Innocuous Punch)
Subject: Re: Aids in pizza
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:36:40 GMT

walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh) writes:

>From article <16B5AEE3D.ISDF400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU>, by ISDF400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (Stephen Dea Fultz):

[...nurses with HIV pizza deleted...]

>Gee Wally, how do you give a pizza an AIDS test?
>I have never, ever met an HIV positive pizza.

That's just it.  You see, pizzas with HIV don't look any different.  They
don't have antennas growing out of their heads.  How could you tell?  How
could ANY of us! (eerie music beginning)

>And this reminds me:  Does anybody remember the
>advertisements for a diet candy called "AYDS"
>about ten years ago?  It went something like
>"Why go hungry when you can have AYDS!"

Yes, in fact, there was, I recall, a period of crossover, where AIDS hit
the pop presses, and the said product was still on prime-time ad spots.
  ..anyone remember what "AYDS" stood for?

--
-ivan  "And You Die Slowly" moscoso
		DISCLAIMER:  I do not represent CCSO's opinion of a model
			     worker, so therefore, my opinions are not
			     representative of model oh whatever...
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: The Ultimate Circumcision
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:04:07 GMT

hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za (Steve Hayes) writes:
: 
: 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. 

Yeah - right. Since when did Witches start practicing animal sacrifice?

There have been many claims of such sacrifices, from around the world. So
far, none have been shown to have occurred.

Bill "Who Do the Voodoo?" Nelson
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:34362 rec.food.cooking:25705 rec.food.restaurants:2585
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking,rec.food.restaurants
Subject: Re: The Big Pot of Grease (was: Re: Furr's Cafeterias (Was: Re: Who Kresg
Date: 21 Jan 93 01:05:15 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

>>reason the burgers taste so good is that the big pot of grease they
>>fry them in hasn't been changed out since they opened eighty-odd years
>>ago. So it's full of "flavor."
>
>I've heard there are restaurants in Europe with "500 year old stew".

I heard this one as peasant kitchens in France, with
500-year-old pot-au-feu.  Same general principle: scoop some
out, put in some more water, toss in some more kitchen scraps,
and keep that fire burning for 500 years, uninterrupted by
war, famine, and natural disaster.

--
  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

"Every now and then, a big rock falls out of the sky, and everyone has 
a *very bad* day."  --from the PBS "Dinosaurs" special.
From: mrice@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Matt Rice)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Snapple
Date: 23 Jan 93 06:06:07 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <93022.140916WCE2@psuvm.psu.edu> WCE2@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>A serious inquiry:  does anyone have a copy of the flier that the NYT says
>circulated about Snapple?  If so, I'd appreciate having a copy for FOAFtale
>News (as comparative material for the Tropical Fantasy/KKK flier).
>.

Because this seems to be dying (and we can't _possibly_ allow that), I
have a new related story.

A "reliable source" told a friend of mine (RSOAF?) that L.L. Bean is
financially supporting the movement to uphold the ban on homosexuals
in the military.  She heard it on the radio in Chicago.

It was news to me.  Any one else know of this?

matt rice
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: 54-40..what does their name mean?
Date: 28 Jan 1993 02:35:50 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article <1993Jan25.220739.1686@netcom.com> hatunen@netcom.com (David W Hatunen) writes:
> It would have been kind of nice to have Vancouver BC in the States
> though.

Well, Seattle's just about the same as Vancouver.  Only Rainier.

---
Brian Scearce                                           bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
              The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
                  "You can't fit the truth on a t-shirt, man."
                                 "That'd fit."

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: esther@verdix.com (Esther Lumsdon)
Subject: Re: parking meter nun smash
Organization: Verdix Corp
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:22:02 GMT

thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:

>In article <1993Jan24.040208.21633@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>>I went to high school with Ogden Nash's grandson, Nicholas Eberstadt,

>I lived in the same college dormitory as Bernie Goetz's lawyer's son.

>Has anyone else gone to school with a famous person's progeny, or knows
>someone who has?

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.
-- 
-- Esther Lumsdon, not speaking for Verdix.   esther@verdix.com
Q: How many user support people does it take to change a light bulb?
A: We have an exact copy of the light bulb here and it seems to be
   working fine.  Can you tell me what kind of system you have?
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: AFU WEST V - TAKE II
Date: 24 Jan 1993 08:38:15 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Expires: 19 February 1993
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117
Summary: alt.folklore.urban gathering;


Here's an update on AFU WEST V, the next meeting of afu
mimes^H^H^Hnds:

DATE:  

   The date has been changed from Friday, February 19 to
   Saturday, February 20.

TIME:

   The time has been set for 7:00 pm.

PLACE: 

   Still not finalized, but there's talk of a Polish restaurant
   where the proprietor supposedly knows the Pope in Los Altos
   (down near Mountain View, Sunyvale, Palo Alto and all those
   other rinky-dink towns in the valley).  At any rate, it won't 
   be far from there if it's not.

SOME CONFIRMED LUMINARIES:

   Terry Carroll          
   Joe Chew
   Phil Gustafson         
   Nolan Hinshaw (well, maybe this is the wrong category for him).
   Bill Nelson
   Bob O'Brien
   Brian Scearce
   snopes
   Peter van der Linden 

SOME POSSIBLE VIRGINS:

   Brian Leibowitz
   Bill Maccauley

SOME FOLKS WHO PROBABLY TASTE LIKE CHICKEN:

   Ted Frank

I will personally bring a can of sardines with a picture of 
either Haakon or Phil's ancestor on it as a gesture to our 
transatlantic neighbors, and perhaps an effigy of Bruce
Tindall we can burn.

Again, all are invited for an evening of discussion as we
attempt to communicate and make bad jokes without the assistance 
of a keyboard.

Please RSVP by the 19th so we can reserve adequate space.  But 
if you want to drop by anyway and take your chances,  do so.


Terry "Hmmm...sounds good.  I might even show up this time." Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Yeah, right.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman)
Subject: Re: death of a mime
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:45:22 GMT

>> episode of Different Strokes had a mime who sufferred from epilepsy,
>> with predictable results.
>> ---
>    From what I remember that episode didn't actually have anything
>similar to the UL.  It was predictable, but only in that it was a Thinly
>Disguised Public Service Message (tm) episode.
>
Oh, you mean a "very special" episode.  I thought everyone knew that was what 
those were called, as the networks have used that same term at least since DS 
was on, and they used it as recently as last month for an abusive-boyfriend 
episode of Roseanne.

-Neal Whitman
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From: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: PA system mishaps
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:58:49 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo

In article <1993Jan26.232901.19842@husc3.harvard.edu>,
rocher@husc8.harvard.edu (Jean-Marc Rocher) writes:
> 	In the larger auditoriums here the professors wear wireless microphones
> that clip onto ties, shirts, etc.
> 	Earlier thi semsester, as I was sitting in the auditorium waiting for
> class to begin, the professor of the previous class, instead of removing
> the microphone and leaving on the table for the next professor, walked
> out
> of the room still wearing the mike pinned to his tie, unaware that it
> was
> still on and was broadcasting the conversation he was having out in the 
> hallway to everyone inside the lecture hall.
> 	In this instance, nothing embarrassing or 'juicy' was said, but I
> was wondering, is there anyone out there who has been witness to such a
> mistake
> in which the professor _did_ say something that he or she would probably
> not have wanted broadcast over a loudspeaker?

What about "The Evil-empire" bits from Mr. Reagan....

Alex
> 
>   Jean-Marc "would like to see something posted to alt.folklore.college
> other than roomate/professor/architecht suicides" Rocher

-- 
Alex Lopez-Ortiz                              alopez-o@maytag.UWaterloo.ca
Department of Computer Science                      University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario                                                   Canada
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